The 49-year-old Akram, one of the best left-arm fast bowlers ever to play the game, was on his way to National Stadium where he was to conduct a training camp for young fast bowlers. “A car hit mine, I stopped him and then this guy stepped out and fired at my c ....

 Delhi’s Vani Kapoor and Chandimandir’s Amandeep Drall are buddies off the course but on it their rivalry is as big as their game. And, it was quite evident on the opening day of the 13th leg of the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour at the Coimbator ....

 Gary Hunt of Britain swept to victory in the final of the high diving at the world championships on Wednesday. Going into the last round with a 33-point lead, Hunt was desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2013 worlds, where he blew a 38-point advantage to lose by les ....

The panel of two judges made the decision in response to a petition by Zia seeking cancellation of the trial proceedings. The ruling means the trial will proceed unless it is reviewed. Zia’s lawyers said after the ruling that they would make an appeal. Zia i ....

Obama, at American University in Washington, on Wednesday delivered his most detailed and extensive speech to date on the nuclear pact reached with Tehran in July, two days before going on vacation and as part of his campaign to try and convince lawmakers to support the ....

An opinion poll, commissioned by an independent organisation in Sri Lanka a few weeks before the August 17 Parliamentary polls, has revealed that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe enjoys higher approval rating in seven out of the nine provinces than former president and t ....

The U.S. bomb, “Little Boy,” the first one used at war, killed 140,000 people, and a second bomb “Fat Man,” dropped over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II. Matsui called the nuc ....

Highly placed sources in the government indicated that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj could make a statement in the Lok Sabha on the Lalit Modi row on Thursday or Friday before the Opposition boycott of the Lower House ends. Unlike the Rajya Sabha, where Ms. ....

Two other terrorists managed to flee into the forests on hillocks running along the national highway. Three civilians, who were held hostage by the terrorist caught alive, were rescued by the Army. The terrorist caught alive has been identified as Mohammad Naved, res ....

At least 29 passengers, including 11 women and five children, were killed and 25 others injured when several coaches of two trains, one heading to Mumbai and another to Varanasi, derailed over a railway bridge in Harda district and plunged into the swollen Machak river. ....