Miserly Negi strangulates Pune Pawan Negi is by no means a prodigious turner of the cricket ball. Instead, he relies more on pin-point accuracy and subtle variations in pace to plot his dismissals. On Saturday, at the MCA Stadium in Pune, the left-arm spinner failed to hit the straps against the

BEIJING: The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to strengthen trade links

* Kashif Hassan Khan, a Mumbai resident, was planning to marry his Turkish fiancee Ruqayya before she was jailed for downloading Bylock, a messenger app that was allegedly used in Turkey by plotters of the foiled coup last July. * Salman, a Turkish businessman, is in India for treatment but cannot

HOURS AFTER Prime Minister Narendra Modi broached the issue of triple talaq and urged Muslims not to view the issue from a political perspective, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said Modi has been the “biggest champion of politicising” the issue. He also asked the BJP not to

A Kerala resident who along with 21 others fled to Afghanistan last year to join the Islamic State (IS), was killed "during battle with American forces," a senior NIA official said. Bestin Vincent, a resident of Palakkad, who converted to Islam and assumed the identity of Yahya had escaped to Afg

Government officials said on Saturday they are almost certain that a man who turned up at the Delhi airport a day earlier and identified himself as a hit man of Pakistan’s ISI is not a spy but had cooked up the story to gain asylum in India. Ahmed Mohammed, 38, arrived on a Dubai-Kathmandu Air In

The Allahabad High Court has suspended Lucknow’s Additional District Judge Om Prakash Mishra, who had granted bail to former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati and his two aides on April 25 in a case where a woman was allegedly gangraped and an attempt was made to molest her minor daughter. A departmenta

Bhatkallys News Service/ I. Zaorez Shabab Bhatkal 29 April 2017: Month after an illegal drugs nexus was busted by local police with the help of youth in Gulmi area of Bhatkal another youth has been arrested by the Bhatkal town police again with the help of local youth at Public park located on Bu

Bhatkallys News Service/ I Zaorez Shabab Bhatkal 29 April 2017: The locals of Bhatkal woke up to an shocker, with the news of a ghastly road accident on Sagar road killing one on the spot and seriously injuring another one who later succumbed to the injuries at a private hospital in Udupi. The

Former Pakistan T20 skipper Shahid Afridi has declined Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Executive Committee chairman Najam Sethi's offer to give him a farewell upon his retirement from international cricket. On Friday, Afridi took to Twitter to thank Sethi for meeting him last Sunday and offering to ar

Melbourne: The long-standing pay dispute between Cricket Australia and its players continue as the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) has rejected the new pay offer from the game's governing body, saying the proposal will be a win for cricket administrators but a loss for the game. The major

Raipur (Chhattisgarh): The Dand Karanya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed in an audio clip on Thursday that the massacre of 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans in Sukma on Tuesday was a response to sexual violence by security forces aga

AHMEDABAD: Even as alleged key Indian Mujahideen member Ahmed Siddibapa alias Yasin Bhatkal was remanded in two days of police custody in the Danilimda blast case, which was one of the place where the bomb had exploded in July 2008 serial blasts, the crime branch is all set to escort him back to Del

BENGALURU: Weeks after the BJP lost two crucial by-elections in Karnataka, the party is not exactly comporting itself with politically correct behavior. Two rival camps, each headed by a formidable leader, have asked party president Amit Shah to penalize the other. Karnataka will elect its new go

A group of 13 persons allegedly thrashed three youths belonging to the Koraga community (Scheduled Tribe) accusing them of slaughtering two oxen for a beef meal at an engagement function in Ganadamakki at Trasi village in the early hours of April 25. Harish, one of the three persons, who was alle

Ten years ago, Venkatesh Hogibandi was a police constable. He is now a Deputy Superintendent of Police after having come out with flying colours in the examination conducted by the Karnataka Public Service Commission. Apart from his dogged determination and hard work, what helped this young man f

New Delhi : After the Bombay High Court rejected the appeal filed by Lt Col Purohit against the special court order rejecting his bail in 2008 Malegaon blasts, he has moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking bail. On April 25, the Bombay High Court had in its order refused to grant bail to Puroh

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has initiated a “ghar wapsi” campaign to de- radicalise “misguided” persons and 25 youth from various districts are being counselled after a tab was kept on their online activities. The initiative comes after the ATS recently arrested four sus