London: Virat Kohli will on Tuesday step out onto the field at The Oval in his 100th one-day international (ODI) appearance when India play West Indies in the ICC Champions Trophy. This will mark the 30th instance of an Indian cricketer reaching the landmark. Kohli, 24, has played 99 ODIs from which he has scored 4085 runs at an average of 49.21 inclusive of 13 centuries and 22 half-centuries. In...
05:37 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: The BCCI confirmed the Indian cricket team's tour of the West Indies starting later this month for a tri-series as well as a series against Zimbabwe following that in its emergent working committee meeting on Monday. The tri-series, also involving Sri Lanka, will be held between June 28 and July 11. The Indian team will also tour Zimbabwe in July-August for a Test and ODI series. The other...
04:44 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Jakarta: Three-time champion Saina Nehwal will look to fashion a turn around when she returns to her favourite hunting ground at the Indonesian Super Series Premier badminton tournament to defend her women's singles title from Tuesday. The World number two Indian has been going through a lean patch this season. Though she reached the semifinals of the All England and Swiss Open earlier this year, Saina has not been able...
04:37 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Tuesday's ICC Champions Trophy match at The Oval contains a number of head-to-heads that could prove pivotal; here, Cricketnext takes a look at the five big ones. Chris Gayle v Bhuvneshwar Kumar The last time Bhuvneshwar bowled to Gayle marked one of the tightest spells in Twenty20 cricket. Opening the bowling for Pune Warriors in IPL 6, he conceded just eight runs in his first three overs and finished his...
03:54 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: Beleaguered Air India's fortunes seem to be shoring up with the airline estimating that its total revenue would go up 20 per cent by the end of the current financial year. The national carrier's total revenue is expected to go up from Rs 16,130 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 19,393 crore in 2013-14, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said at a function to celebrate completion of Air India's 65...
03:02 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: 9:14 pm: BJP chief Rajnath Singh says party's Parliamentary Board has rejected its patriarch LK Advani's resignation and has asked him to withdraw the same. "We have rejected Advani's resignation unanimously. As the party president, I would not accept the resignation letter at any cost," he says. "All Parliamentary Board members were consulted on phone and personally. All members have requested Advani to take back his resignation. He...
02:53 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: West Indies have the bowlers to counter India's batting line-up when the two teams meet at The Oval seeking to outdo the other in a race to the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals, according to their captain Darren Bravo. Both teams pocketed two points after winning their tournament openers respectively, and now go head-to-head on Tuesday. Reflecting on his team's two-wicket defeat of Pakistan at The Oval on Friday and...
02:44 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: The FIH Hockey World League has reached its penultimate stop - the semi-finals. But calling these semi-finals bigger than the finals won't be wrong. Finishing among the top three here guarantees a place in the World Cup 2014 to be held next year at The Hague, Netherlands. So in one word, it's big. Sixteen teams will play the two semi-finals, each of which will be an eight-team competition....
01:47 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: Coming off contrasting wins in their previous matches, West Indies and India will face-off at The Oval on Tuesday looking to move ahead of each other and nearer to securing a place in the ICC Champions Trophy knock-out stage. With their fellow Group B teams Pakistan and South Africa having lost their opening matches last week, victory for either side will move them to four points and thus on...
01:17 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Montreal: Sahara Force India celebrated their 100th race in style, scoring seven points with Paul Di Resta and Adrian Sutil finishing in seventh and 10th position respectively at the Canadian Grand Prix here. Starting 17th on the grid, Di Resta drove a magnificent race and climbed to 7th position which he managed to maintain to pocket six points at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Sunday. His team-mate Sutil, who started 8th,...
11:19 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Cricket Association President Ravi Sawant is likely to be appointed as the new BCCI Treasurer at the board's emergent working committee meeting on Monday, say sources. The post of the Treasurer was vacant after Ajay Shirke had resigned with the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal hit the board's credibility. More key decisions are on the cards in Monday's BCCI meet. According to sources, the BCCI is considering suspending...
10:58 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Chennai:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said she is happy for 'good friend' Narendra Modi, who has been made the chairman of the BJP's Election Campaign Committee for the 2014 polls. However, Jayalalithaa declined to comment on the development, insisting it was that party's internal matter. "Politically I do not think it would be proper for me to make a comment on what has happened in another party,...
10:50 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: India on Sunday night offered to train judges and judicial officials from the Maldives in formulation of rules and regulations. This was conveyed by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to the Chief Justice of Maldives Ahmed Faiz Hussain, who is on a five-day visit to India. Hussain is in New Delhi at the invitation of the Chief Justice of India Altmas Kabir and will participate in a Roundtable...
10:14 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New York: A popular New York restaurant has unveiled in its menu a new dish Arvind mini knaidel, named after the 2013 National Spelling Bee winner Arvind Mahankali. Indian-American student Arvind won first place in Scripps National Spelling Bee competition by correctly spelling the word knaidel, the German derived Yiddish word for matzo ball, a small mass of leavened dough that's a kosher delicacy. This was announced on Monday at...
09:48 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: A unique newspaper called 'Balaknama' is brought out by street children. It publishes heart felt stories and editorials by children who work on the streets and in factories. Jyoti lives under a bridge at a bus stop in Delhi. A rag picker in the morning, she works as a journalist with the unique newspaper by street children during the day. After her photograph was published in 2012, she...
09:45 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Indian rupee hit a new record low of 57.37 on Monday morning trade, after opening at 57.25 per dollar on Monday as against Friday's closing of 57.06 a dollar. Earlier, it had hit touched an all-time low of 57.32 per dollar in June 2012. Agam Gupta of Standard Chartered Bank feels strong non farm payroll data could further support dollar strengthening. According to him, there is an expectation of RBI...
09:24 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: In more trouble for the Indian Premier League, the BCCI's emergent working committee meeting will be held in Delhi on Monday and sources have told CNN-IBN that some key decisions are on the cards. According to sources, the BCCI is considering suspending Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra pending an inquiry after the Delhi Police claimed he had confessed to betting. Sources also say the BCCI might set up...
08:38 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Panaji: Goa has a special place in my life, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, shortly after being appointed BJP party's chairman of the election management committee. The appointment makes Modi the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, for which he credits Goa and the luck which the coastal state seems to accord him. "Goa has a special place in my...
08:25 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has now officially become the man who will pilot the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral fortunes in the next general election. But a big question being asked after Modi's elevation is whether Modi's anointment means a retirement call for BJP patriarch LK Advani. The BJP insists that Advani is still the party's guiding force. Allies, however, indicate that he is out of the PM...
07:50 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Jodhpur: Two additional coaches have been attached to the Thar Express that runs between India and Pakistan to meet the summer-holiday rush of passengers, a railway official said on Sunday. This was done in view of the demand made by Pakistan considering the increase in the number of people from that country arriving here. "The number of coaches in Thar Express has been raised from 7 to 9 for two...
11:10 PM, Jun 09, 2013
