The Pakistan government on Thursday allowed its cricket team to participate in next month’s World Twenty20 in India but has requested “special security arrangements” for the side during the event. Ending weeks of speculation on the matter, Pakistan Cric ....

 A tale of two contrasting halves left the Ranji Trophy final between giants Mumbai and dark horse Saurashtra poised for a close finish after the second day’s play. Shreyas Iyer’s vividness with the willow first gave Mumbai the upper hand but the all-pace S ....

 Riding on the strength of its compact defence U Mumba trounced an off-colour Bengaluru Bulls 39-18 in their ProKabaddi League clash at the Thyagaraj Nagar Sports Complex here on Thursday. U Mumba was favoured to win the contest and it did not disappoint its support ....

Opting to bowl, the UAE bowlers were at the receiving end of a Sri Lankan onslaught in the first few overs as the openers Dinesh Chandimal and Tillakaratne Dilshan piled up 68 in nine overs. In the 10th over, the dismissal of Dilshan, who was caught by Muhammad Usman ....

Sania and her Swiss partner Mirza lost 2-6 6-4 10-5 to Russian pair Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina on Thursday night. The last time the Indo-Swiss pair, who have won three doubles Grand Slams in a row, had lost was way back in Cincinatti last August. After surv ....

He has also opened a coordination centre to which the warring parties can send complaints of specific breaches of the truce. Some armed groups in Syria have already signed up to the truce, according to Russia. Jihadi groups Islamic State and al—Nusra Front are exc ....

The Twin-Otter turboprop aircraft belonging to Tara Air had gone missing minutes after it took off from the airport in the resort town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom, the starting point of people trekking the Himalayas. Its burnt-out wreckage was found in the wester ....

 The police action against JNU students and the conditions leading to Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide are not isolated incidents, but part of a larger project to change India into a "Hindu Rashtra", CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on ....

The transcript of the conversation between Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene Cernan and John Young mentioning the strange sound and the crew’s response to the phenomenon were released in 2008. However, the audio of the discussion and the sounds that the astronauts were ....

 Products from at least seven Indian companies figure in a large supply of components that have ended up in explosives used by Islamic State terrorists, according to a study released on Thursday. The European Union-funded 20-month-long study by the Conflict Armament ....