New Delhi: Ishant Sharma has been added to India's ODI squad for the ongoing series against West Indies in place of pace bowler Mohit Sharma.

New Delhi: Rohit Sharma, on the sidelines after he sustained a finger injury during India's tour to England, is hopeful of returning to the Indian team ahead of the important tour of Australia in late November, with an eye on slotting back as opener for the 2015 World Cup.

TOKYO: Japan and the United States are revising their mutual defence guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades to respond to China's military expansion and increase Japan's role in regional defence.

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Islamic State (ISIS) fighters launched a renewed assault on the Syrian city of Kobani on Wednesday night, and at least 21 people were killed in riots in neighbouring Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin.

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Jihadists fighting to take the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane advanced on Wednesday despite intensified US-led air strikes, as deadly protests over the fate of its Kurdish residents shook neighbouring Turkey.

LUCKNOW: Veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav was re-elected unopposed national president of Samajwadi Party for a record ninth consecutive term on the inaugural day of the party's national convention that began at Janeshwar Misra Park in Gomtinagar on Wednesday morning. Though Mulayam's re-election was a given, it was the election process that turned out to be interesting affair.

MANIPAL: Former chairman of Prasar Bharati and veteran journalist Madhav Vittal Kamath, popularly kmown as MV Kamath, died at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal on Thursday. He was 93.
Kamath was the Washington correspondent of the Times of India from 1969 to 1978 and was also the editor of Illustrated Weekly of India.

BHUBANESWAR: An approaching cyclone will cross Andhra Pradesh and adjoining Odisha coast by Sunday noon and preparations have been made to meet the situation, authorities said on Wednesday.

The ongoing tussle between the West Indies players and their board had taken the spotlight away from the Indian team before the first ODI at the Nehru Stadium in Kochi, but a heavy 124-run defeat following the drama on Wednesday morning brought out the familiar frailties plaguing MS Dhoni's team at the moment. After conceding 321 runs to the West Indies, who were led by Marlon Samuels' sixth one-day hundred, and helped to an extent by some wayward bowling that leaked 30 extras - including 17 wides - India collapsed to 197 all out in conditions expected to help the side chasing with heavy dew in the outfield.

LONDON: The world's most expensive hamburger is here and it could cost you as much as a luxury holiday to the Maldives