New Delhi: Maldivian government has agreed to release the 11 Indian fishermen apprehended by its Navy for allegedly crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line. "With timely intervention from the High Commission of India, the government of Maldives has agreed to release the 11 Indian fishermen," an official in the Ministry of External Affairs said. MEA Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin had on Thursday promised a "swift and quick" resolution to the issue....
06:17 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Chennai: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of DMK leader and former minister Suresh Rajan in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts on charges of possessing disproportionate assets. Six places in Kanyakumari district and one in Tirunelveli came under the vigilance scanner this morning, sources said. Rajan, who held the Registration and Tourism portfolio, is the sixth former DMK minister against whom action has...
10:54 AM, Oct 08, 2011
Kanyakumari: After it supported the ruling DMK and its allies overwhelmingly in the 2006 Assembly elections, this southern-most district in Tamil Nadu is witnessing a triangular contest in many constituencies with the BJP candidates giving a tough fight to the DMK and AIADMK nominees. In the last elections, the AIADMK-MDMK combine drew a blank in this district and this time the party is contesting in four constituencies and leaving one...
12:14 PM, Apr 11, 2011
Winds speed may reach 55-65 kmph along the coast in the next 48 hours. ...
11:48 AM, Dec 13, 2009
Dubai: The possibility of converting the 2013 Champions Trophy to a Test Championship and its Presidential nomination and election process will top the agenda when the ICC's Executive Board holds its fourth and final meeting of the year in Dubai on Monday. At the June meeting in Hong Kong, the ICC Executive Board had confirmed an Independent Governance Review and later appointed Lord Woolf of Barnes as chairman of the...
10:56 PM, Mar 07, 2008
Islamabad: The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed chief selector Mohsin Khan as the interim coach for the series against Sri Lanka. The PCB has been looking for a full-time coach after Waqar Younis quit due to personal reasons soon after winning one-off Test, three ODIs and two Twenty20s against Zimbabwe last month. The Test series against Sri Lanka begins in Abu Dhabi on October 18, followed by five one-day internationals...
12:58 AM, Mar 06, 2008
Chennai: Veteran New South Wales pacer Stuart Clark on Saturday said his team's openers David Warner and Shane Watson are due big knocks in the Champions League Twenty20 and is hoping that these innings come in their remaining two group matches. New South Wales are placed fourth in the five-team Group A in the Champions League Twenty20 with two points and have to win their remaining two group games to ...
05:09 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Jaipur: The Parthiv Patel-led Rest of India start as firm favourites against a disjointed Rajasthan outfit as the two teams square up for the Irani Cup match at the Sawai Mansingh stadium starting here on Saturday. The start of India's first-class season is pretty significant with as many as seven players who are likely to feature in the Rest of India's first XI have been selected to play against England...
12:54 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Chester-Le-Street: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday questioned the third umpire's controversial decision to rule Rahul Dravid out even though television replays did not show any edge off the bat during his side's first ODI against England here. There are quite a few things (about that dismissal). There was no mark on the Hot Spot, no visual deflection and the umpire had given not out. The benefit of doubt...
05:23 PM, Feb 26, 2008
London: Jade Dernbach is not a clean-cut cricketer and is known for his body art, his moniker and studs in his ears, but the English speedster plans to cover his left-arm with tattoos if selected for the upcoming five-match ODI tour to India in October. Dernbach was adjudged man-of-the-match for his four for 22-run spell during England's six wicket win over India in the lone Twenty20 game on Wednesday and...
01:58 PM, Feb 26, 2008
New Delhi: English fast bowlers once again ruthlessly ran over India's batting lineup and became the number one Test side in the world, first time after 1979. England stamped their authority over the Indians right from day one of this series. Team effort and the desire to win is what this Team India lacks and except Rahul Dravid's two centuries, it's hard to find any other positives on this so...
01:50 AM, Feb 21, 2008
London: Ian Bell's controversial "non-dismissal" during the second Test between England and India subverted the laws of the game and had nothing to do with the Spirit of Cricket, former England captain Michael Atherton said on Monday. Bell was run out in farcical circumstances off the last ball before Tea on the third day of the second Test at Trent Bridge, when the England batsman walked off assuming partner Eoin...
02:25 AM, Feb 17, 2008
Lahore: Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail has called on the ICC and member boards to enforce the use of the Decision Referral System (DRS) in Tests and One-day Internationals. Sohail insisted that the controversies surrounding the DRS in the ongoing Test series between India and England made it obvious that it must to be used in every international match. The system is not 100 per cent accurate as we have...
01:05 AM, Feb 17, 2008
The former Indian captain said Dhoni was helped by the 20-minute tea break to take his decision. ...
11:16 PM, Feb 16, 2008
Nottingham: England's Graeme Swann was passed fit following an X-ray after being struck on the hand while batting against India on the first day of the second Test at Trent Bridge here on Friday. Swann, on his Nottinghamshire home ground, had made a valuable 28 when he was out after being struck on the left hand by a rising ball from Praveen Kumar he could only glove to Abhinav Mukund...
01:21 PM, Feb 16, 2008
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