Karachi: Zulqarnain Haider, Pakistan's runaway wicketkeeper, insists that the punishment handed to three of his former mates for 'spot fixing' is just the start of cricket's clean up. Haider, who is seeking asylum in Britain after claiming that match-fixers were after his life, believes corruption is still prevalent in international cricket. Earlier this month, the International Cricket Council (ICC) banned three Pakistani players - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad...

06:48 PM, Dec 13, 2007
Bangalore: After Praveen Kumar's elbow injury ruled him out of the World Cup, the Indian team management seemed to be extra cautious and careful about the players who are coming back from injuries. No wonder that coach Gary Kirsten paid special attention to the Delhi duo of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir who have recently recuperated from shoulder and elbow injuries respectively, during the first day of India's short pre-World...

10:59 PM, Dec 11, 2007
New Delhi: Ahead of the cricket World Cup, the ICC on Tuesday said it is ready to tackle ambush marketing to protect its sponsors, although it does not plan to add new companies to the existing list of over 10 partners. The International Cricket Council (ICC) also said it has seen a substantial increase in the total sponsorship revenues for the upcoming mega cricket event to be held in the...

03:59 PM, Dec 11, 2007
New Delhi: With the 2011 Cricket World Cup just a few days away, a Mumbai-based sports journalist tells the story of 11 cricketers from small towns who made it to international cricket with style. The story is about Indian players whose sparse means did not deter them from starting to play the game with a mere notebook or a flat piece of wood as a bat and a round something...

06:56 PM, Dec 10, 2007

After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh it is now Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterji’s turn to hit out at the judiciary. ...

01:24 PM, Apr 27, 2007

Pointing at the rampant use of PILs, the PM said a thin line separating judicial activism from judicial overreach. ...

10:13 PM, Apr 08, 2007

The middle-class has been known for having little appetite for taking risks, but not a 73-yr-old in Chennai. ...

08:03 AM, Jan 23, 2007

Information is power and the great Indian middle class has a new tool to wield it - the Right to Information act. ...

08:50 AM, Jan 17, 2007

CNN-IBN celebrates the spirit of the middle-class activism in a special series - The Rise Of The Radical Middle. ...

10:03 AM, Jan 15, 2007