
Mumbai: After playing a cop in Ab Tak Chappan, Nana Patekar returns in another cop avatar. Nana plays the character of ACP Hanumant Singh in Shagird which is believed to be based on the life of ACP Rajbir Singh of Special Operations Squad, Delhi Police. Rajbir Singh was apparently shot down by a property dealer in Gurgaon in 2008. The film was shot after an extensive research on the life...

01:02 PM, Apr 28, 2011

CM during Babri Masjid razing isn't joining any party yet. ...

04:05 PM, Jan 21, 2009

ACP Rajbir Singh had carried out 56 encounters until he met a bloody end. ...

04:06 AM, Sep 02, 2008

CBI says Bhardwaj, who had confessed the crime, was only taking the blame. ...

10:21 AM, Jun 10, 2008

ACP Rajbir Singh was shot dead by Vijay Bhardwaj on March 24 in Gurgaon. ...

03:07 PM, Jun 03, 2008

Islamabad: The Federation of International Cricket Associations has criticized the International Cricket Council for its stance on Bangladesh's proposed tour of Pakistan. The ICC is prepared to allow non-neutral umpires to oversee the matches so as not to compromise the safety of ICC match officials, but it says it is up to teams to decide whether a tour goes ahead. FICA represents several national players' associations, including Bangladesh. Chief executive...

09:47 PM, May 01, 2008

Talking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Harsha Bhogle looks ahead to the Boxing Day Test. ...

12:48 PM, Apr 03, 2008

Centurion: South Africa captain Graeme Smith describes Sri Lanka as a pretty crafty team. But the tourists will likely need all their guile to deal with the Proteas pace attack on a fiercesome-looking pitch when the first Test starts on Thursday. Smith said on the eve of the series-opener that the Sri Lankans would be targeted by his fast bowlers in helpful home conditions. A very green wicket at SuperSport...

03:26 PM, Mar 30, 2008

Johannesburg: Unpaid for nine months, without a Test series win in over two years and now hit by injury, Sri Lanka's cricket team has a list of problems to overcome in its search for an elusive success in South Africa. Sri Lanka has never won a Test in its three previous series here and probably arrived for this three-match tour in worse shape than ever. Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan has said...

03:25 AM, Mar 30, 2008

New Delhi: "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." This oft-used quote by an American professor in the 1960s has been bandied about by sports hacks an uncountable amount of times. If there are any defenders of the Australian cricket team, either in the media or public, who believe that their teams disgraceful performance in Hobart is not cause for alarm, then...

09:21 AM, Mar 29, 2008

New Delhi: South African Johan Botha is set to join Australia's domestic Twenty league Big Bash after the South African signed a contract with the Adelaide Strikers. The limited-overs specialist will be part of a spin trio in the Adelaide franchise, which also has legspinners Bryce McGain and James Muirhead. The Strikers' coach Chuck berry termed Botha's inclusion a value addition to his team that boasts of T20 experts Kieron...

08:07 PM, Mar 28, 2008

Hobart: Shane Watson has suffered a setback in his bid to regain fitness in time for Australia's Test series opener against India but he is still expected to recover in time for the big clash. Watson, already sidelined from Australia's current series against New Zealand with a hamstring injury, is still on course to play in the first of four Tests against the Indians, Australia skipper Michael Clarke said on...

11:43 PM, Mar 27, 2008

The former Aussie wicketkeeper says whichever bowling unit settles with ease will have an upperhand. ...

09:43 PM, Mar 27, 2008

New Delhi: There can be a lot of positives drawn from India's performance so far in the ongoing series against West Indies - R Ashwin's Man-of-the-Series effort in his debut Test series and Rohit Sharma's coming of age in the ODIs, to name a couple. However, it is the inability of the experienced opening firm of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir to fire consistently that could well be one of...

04:13 PM, Mar 27, 2008

Mumbai: It was a late cut (a tight slap) from his beloved sir Ramakant Achrekar after missing a match, that made Sachin Tendulkar realise the importance of hard work. On Saturday, Tendulkar along with another 100 students of Sharadashram Vidyamandir celebrated their beloved guru's 79th birthday at the Bandra Kurla Complex. Obviously, the centre of attraction at the reunion was none other than Tendulkar as Achrekar's students fondly recollected the...

02:31 AM, Mar 27, 2008