
Pakistan will not boycott the International Cricket Council (ICC) awards despite registering a protest over the omission of offspinner Saeed Ajmal from the shortlist of candidates. We have our strong reservations over Ajmal's omission from the awards list but have decided not to boycott the ceremony. But we will only be sending some squad members to the event, a spokesman for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Friday. The...

02:31 PM, Jun 26, 2008

Pragyan Ojha is gearing up for his biggest test when India take on Australia in four-match Test series. ...

02:02 PM, Mar 27, 2008

Chittagong: Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez took three wickets each to help Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 58 runs in the third one-day international on Tuesday and sweep the series 3-0. Chasing a winning target of 178, Bangladesh crumbled to 119 all out after 38 overs, with Abdur Rehman and Saeed Ajmal chipping in with two wickets apiece. Malik returned figures of 3-6 from four overs and Hafeez took 3-27 from...

01:10 PM, Mar 27, 2008

Melbourne: Former players, including Australia's ex-captain Allan Border, have thrown their weight behind the embattled Ricky Ponting with one of them saying that the senior batsman is capable of emulating Rahul Dravid's return to form after a prolonged lean patch. The 36-year-old Ponting has been facing calls for ouster due to a slump in form, but he answered his critics well by scoring a half century in the first Test...

12:38 PM, Mar 27, 2008

Visakhapatnam: He is now dubbed as a match-winner in the shorter version and Virat Kohli intends to make hay till the sun shines. A superb 117 by Kohli, together with a 90 not out by Rohit Sharma, scripted India's five-wicket win in the second ODI against the West Indies on Friday, to give the hosts a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. I know you can't continue in good form...

06:43 PM, Mar 26, 2008

'Sachin disappoints again.' 'Tendulkar dashes hopes.' 'Little Master falls short.' It is rather absurd that such headlines could be written about Sachin Tendulkar, who is by far the most celebrated and successful cricketer of our generation, and most likely the generations before that too. After all, this is a man who has given us countless moments of joy through his batting - and at times even his bowling and fielding...

07:43 AM, Mar 26, 2008

A sting operation can become an exercise in trapping an innocent person. ...

09:24 AM, Sep 08, 2007

VK Shashikumar, Editor, Special Investigations of CNN-IBN, fielded readers' queries on IBNLive chatroom. ...

10:53 PM, Jun 01, 2007

An Inter-Services report has concluded that women are unfit for being permanently absorbed in the forces. ...

10:48 PM, Apr 30, 2007
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The Women's Day has brought a bad piece of news for Indian women who are in or aspiring to be in the military services. ...

12:10 PM, Mar 08, 2007

Army's elite commando unit has been operating along Assam-Arunachal border to cut off ULFA's transit route. ...

10:02 PM, Jan 17, 2007

The Govt is likely to table the controversial Broadcast Bill during the budget session of Parliament next year. ...

05:10 PM, Oct 18, 2006

IBM India will hire 3,000 more employees to expand its Kolkata centre operations over the next 18 months. ...

08:46 PM, Sep 21, 2006