• Struggling India wary of grass cover on pacy Wanderers pitch

    JOHANNESBURG: The Indian team's struggles started right here at the Bullring a couple of weeks back, with a humiliating defeat in the opening One-dayer ; it has only been a downhill journey since then but Wednesday will provide its real challenge when the first Test gets under way at the same dreaded venue.

    JOHANNESBURG: The Indian team's struggles started right here at the Bullring a couple of weeks back, with a humiliating defeat in the opening One-dayer ; it has only been a downhill journey since then but Wednesday will provide its real challenge when the first Test gets under way at the same dreaded venue.

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  • Virat Kohli's technique is suspect: Daryl Cullinan

    JOHANNESBURG: Daryl Cullinan was one of South Africa's best batsmen following the team's readmission in international cricket

    JOHANNESBURG: Daryl Cullinan was one of South Africa's best batsmen following the team's readmission in international cricket

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  • Eight dead, several feared trapped in Latvian supermarket collapse

    RIGA: Rescue workers pulled two more bodies out of the ruins of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital, Riga, early on Friday, bringing the death toll to eight amid fears that more people may be buried in the rubble.

    RIGA: Rescue workers pulled two more bodies out of the ruins of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital, Riga, early on Friday, bringing the death toll to eight amid fears that more people may be buried in the rubble.

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  • US tells Karzai to sign security pact soon

    WASHINGTON: The United States said Thursday that Afghanistan should sign a new security pact as soon as possible, but warned it had not yet decided on a post-2014 troop presence.

    WASHINGTON: The United States said Thursday that Afghanistan should sign a new security pact as soon as possible, but warned it had not yet decided on a post-2014 troop presence.

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  • Alabama pardons 3 'Scottsboro Boys' in 1931 rape case

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Alabama granted posthumous pardons on Thursday to three of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of black teenagers whose fight against false charges that they raped two white women in 1931 helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Alabama granted posthumous pardons on Thursday to three of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of black teenagers whose fight against false charges that they raped two white women in 1931 helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.

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  • Kin of snoopgate victim derived power from Modi

    AHMEDABAD: "Many many happy returns of the day to Shri Narendra Modisirji. Look forward to see you leader of India. P.M. God bless you," writes Pranlal Soni on his Facebook page on September 17. Soni, 65, is defending Modi in the allegedly illegal snooping on his daughter ordered by former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah at the behest of his 'saheb'.

    AHMEDABAD: "Many many happy returns of the day to Shri Narendra Modisirji. Look forward to see you leader of India. P.M. God bless you," writes Pranlal Soni on his Facebook page on September 17. Soni, 65, is defending Modi in the allegedly illegal snooping on his daughter ordered by former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah at the behest of his 'saheb'.

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  • Helen changes course, to hit Krishna district

    Vijayawada: Changing its direction fast, severe cyclonic storm Helen is now veering towards Krishna district and it is expected to cross the coast near Machilipatnam sometime around Friday afternoon. The second highest danger warning signal No. 10 has been hoisted at Machilipatnam and Nizampatnam and No. 9 signal at Kakinada port. Incidentally, signal No. 11 stands for "devastation and no communication links".

    Vijayawada: Changing its direction fast, severe cyclonic storm Helen is now veering towards Krishna district and it is expected to cross the coast near Machilipatnam sometime around Friday afternoon. The second highest danger warning signal No. 10 has been hoisted at Machilipatnam and Nizampatnam and No. 9 signal at Kakinada port. Incidentally, signal No. 11 stands for "devastation and no communication links".

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  • Strike partially affects normal life in Manipur

    IMPHAL: Normal life was partially affected in Manipur by a general strike called by underground Maoist Communist Party ( MCP) in protest against alleged allocation of land for erection of wooden border fencing in undemarcated areas along the Indo-Myanmar border in Chandel district.

    IMPHAL: Normal life was partially affected in Manipur by a general strike called by underground Maoist Communist Party ( MCP) in protest against alleged allocation of land for erection of wooden border fencing in undemarcated areas along the Indo-Myanmar border in Chandel district.

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  • I always found it hard to train: Sachin Tendulkar

    NEW DELHI: It's not even a week since Sachin Tendulkar called time on his international career but the one thing that the Little Master will not miss is getting up for training every day!

    NEW DELHI: It's not even a week since Sachin Tendulkar called time on his international career but the one thing that the Little Master will not miss is getting up for training every day!

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  • Zidane better than Lionel Messi: Pele

    SAO PAULO: Football legend Pele has said Lionel Messi does not yet deserve to be rated ahead of former France midfielder Zinedine Zidane.

    SAO PAULO: Football legend Pele has said Lionel Messi does not yet deserve to be rated ahead of former France midfielder Zinedine Zidane.

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