LONDON: The five-wicket defeat to India in a warm-up match ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy will have no significance when Sri Lanka square off against the same opponents in the semifinals, said Mahela Jayawardene.

CHENNAI: In the ninth reshuffle of her cabinet since the AIADMK came to power in May 2011, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday dropped two ministers and inducted two, besides changing the portfolios of three ministers.

MUMBAI: Narendra Modi has chosen Mumbai to begin his innings as the BJP's poster boy for the 2014 general elections. The Gujarat chief minister will visit the city on June 27, his first after his elevation as chairman of the party's poll panel.

YAMUNANAGAR: Seventy-two people, including 20 children and 15 women, stranded on a tract of land for over 12 hours after torrential rains flooded their villages

CARDIFF: England produced a disciplined allround display to register a narrow 10-run victory over New Zealand in their crucial rain-curtailed Group A match to enter the semifinals of the Champions Trophy on Sunday.

RECIFE: World champions Spain got their Confederations Cup campaign off to a winning start on Sunday with a 2-1 win over South American champions Uruguay in the northern Brazilian city of Recife.

NEW DELHI: The bitter falling out between BJP and JD(U) was evident with the saffron party releasing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's 2003 speech in which he praised Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as a leader with a future outside the state.

LOUGH ERNE, (Northern Ireland): US President Barack Obama will seek the help on Monday of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's most powerful ally, to bring Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table and end a two-year civil war.

BIRMINGHAM: If it doesn't rain here on Saturday, and that's a very big 'if', the match between India and Pakistan -- however inconsequential -- will certainly be a 'final' before the final.

CARDIFF: South Africa scraped their way into the semifinals of the Champions Trophy on superior net run-rate after their rain-marred match against the West Indies in Cardiff on Friday ended in a remarkable tie.