NEW DELHI: NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday slammed as "completely mischievous" and "baseless" a media report about his meeting with BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi here.

SRINAGAR: Normal life in Kashmir was partially affected due to a strike called by moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference to protest the Army's decision to close the Pathribal fake encounter case.

KARACHI: Reinstated Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohammad Zaka Ashraf has said that the Indian cricket board offered to play against Pakistan in a bilateral series at a neutral venue if PCB agrees to sign up to the ICC proposal by the Indian, Australian and the English cricket boards.

HYDERABAD: Two swords cannot be placed in one sheath. And two opponents cannot become good friends. Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu may train under one roof and with one coach but it is hard to imagine that they can become good friends.

WASHINGTON: Declaring that 2014 can be the "breakthrough year" for America and the US is "better-positioned for the 21st century than any other nation on Earth", US President Barack Obama warned the country's lawmakers on Tuesday that he would use his executive powers to boost economic recovery and narrow the gap between rich and poor if they did not move on critical legislation.

ATLANTA: Icy chaos gripped the US south on Wednesday after a rare winter storm that killed at least six people, stranded children in their schools overnight and paralyzed travel in several states, including hundreds of flight cancellations at the world's busiest airport.

KIEV, Ukraine: Ukraine's Parliament has passed a measure offering amnesty to arrested protesters, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy.

NEW DELHI: The NCP, a Congress ally, on Wednesday said any judicial pronouncement on Narendra Modi's alleged involvement in the post-Godhra riots should be accepted and should not be questioned further.

RAMESWARAM/COLOMBO: Thirty-eight Tamil Nadu fishermen were today arrested by Sri Lankan navy for allegedly crossing the International Maritime Boundary line, three days after fishermen representatives of India and Sri Lanka met to discuss the vexed fishing issue.

GUWAHATI: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday had to contend with angry protests against the nomination of the Raja of Amethi Sanjay Singh as the party's Rajya Sabha candidiate from Assam. Hundreds of activists of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity, an organization of farmers, held a dharna outside the hotel where Sanjay Singh is camping, demanding he withdraw his candidature on grounds that he is an "outsider".