ICC's chief pitch consultant Andy Atkinson on Monday expressed satisfaction over the efforts being made to improve the Ferozeshah Kotla pitch, which was banned for one year from hosting international matches after the abandoned India-Sri Lanka game last year.
After men's Olympic Champion Usain Bolt, women's Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser has also decided to opt out of this year's Commonwealth Games.
The 85th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners.
Burglars made off with seven replicas of the golden World Cup trophy after breaking into FIFA's offices in South Africa, police said on Tuesday.
Scott McDonald was one of three players cut from Australia's preliminary World Cup squad by coach Pim Verbeek on Tuesday.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn last week honored Captains Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi and Tejdeep Singh Rattan, the first turbaned officers in two decades to complete the US Army's basic training, at the City Hall.
The West Bengal government has handed over the first tranche of 533 acres to Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL) for setting up a new airport city project. This is to come up in the Durgapur-Asansol region, of Bardhaman district, at an estimated investment of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
Indian pugilist Dinesh Kumar beat Bejenaru Constantin of Romania 11: 4 to enter the quarter-finals of the 81 kg category in the World Boxing Championships in Milan on Monday.
Jai Bhagwan pulled off a come-from-behind victory over Ireland's Eric Donovan to enter the pre-quarter-finals on Friday after Thokchom Nanao Singh pummeled Azerbaijan's Elvin Mamishzade in his opening bout at the World Boxing Championships in Milan. While Jai (60 kg) beat his opponent 11-6, Nanao (48 kg) demolished Mamishzade 21-6 late Thursday night to make it to the second round of the mega-event.
Jai Bhagwan pulled off a come-from-behind victory over Ireland's Eric Donovan to enter the pre-quarter-finals on Friday after Thokchom Nanao Singh pummeled Azerbaijan's Elvin Mamishzade in his opening bout at the World Boxing Championships in Milan. While Jai (60 kg) beat his opponent 11-6, Nanao (48 kg) demolished Mamishzade 21-6 late Thursday night to make it to the second round of the mega-event.
World number one and new dad Roger Federer is set to resume his rivalry with Rafael Nadal at the Montreal Masters next week, as the Swiss makes a bid for his third triumph at the Canadian event. Wimbledon champion Federer announced on Friday that despite his wife giving birth to twins last month, he will play at the event which also features Nadal's return to action after a two-month lay-off due to injury.
Changi saw attractive returns on investment in the medium and long term from the Andal airport-city project.
South African police used pepper spray to stop scuffles on Thursday and a pensioner died in a queue as thousands of fans rushed to buy 500,000 World Cup tickets being sold over the counter for the first time.
Shah and Kankariya, the prosecutors say, sought to use the December 31, 2008 daytime robbery of their money-losing jewelry business, hoping to collect $ 7 million from insurance. The court papers say the dealers were six months behind on rent and had a $ 1 million debt.
Captain Mike Okoro helped Mohammedan Sporting salvage a 2-2 draw against Chirag United SC who wasted chances galore in their Round 18 ONGC I-League encounter at the Vidyasagar Krirangan in Barasat on Saturday.
East Bengal came back from a two goals deficit to draw against Mohammadan Sporting 2-2 in their round 17 encounter of the ONGC I-League at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan (YBK) at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Saturday.
James Singh's early goal enabled Mohun Bagan beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 and keep the top place in the I-League football championship table.
A struggling Kolkata side Mohammedan Sporting came from behind to hold local outfit Air India 1-1 in a scrappy I-League match at the Cooperage ground, in Mumbai on Sunday.
Here's looking at the winners of the 84th Annual Academy Awards
Golden Globe winners The Descendants and The Artist lead with maximum number of nominations.
Girondins Bordeaux ended the unbeaten Champions League run of surprise package CFR Cluj with a 1-0 win over the Romanian side.
Chelsea, last season's beaten finalists, are taking nothing for granted in their first match against Romanian opposition despite Cluj's lack of European experience.
Jamaican 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell has withdrawn from all competition until late June so he can recover from a pulled chest muscle, his manager told Reuters on Monday. His race with American world champion Tyson Gay is expected to be one of the highlights of the Olympic Games, which begin on August 8.
The advertisement highlights NCP chief Sharad Pawar's accomplishments as Union agriculture minister and thanks the UPA government for its support. While the Congress said it was unaware of the advertisement, the NCP claimed it was not issued by the party.
Bengal Aerotropolis Projects, a special purpose vehicle, which is developing India's first airport city, or aerotropolis, in the Asansol-Durgapur region, today entered into a technical services arrangement with Singapore-based Changi Airports International.
The study showed that the higher your level of social interaction, the better your cognitive functioning. The relationship was reliable for all age groups, from the youngest through the oldest.
CFR Cluj will create the upset of the season if they avoid defeat against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday and help stop last season's beaten finalists advancing to the last 16 of the Champions League. Chelsea have already failed to beat Cluj in the competition having drawn 0-0 in their first meeting in Group A in Romania in October.
VfB Stuttgart squandered the chance to lift themselves further away from trouble when they conceded a late penalty to draw 1-1 at Mainz on Sunday.
Noted Hindu Chaplain Rajan Zed recited Gayatri Mantra and other verses ending with Om Shanti at the funeral service of Head Bishop of International Community of Christ Douglas Eugene Savoy on Wednesday.
Substitute Lionel Messi scored two late goals, including one in stoppage time, to lead 2006 winners Barcelona to a 2-1 victory at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Wednesday. Last season's runners-up Chelsea were held to a 0-0 draw at surprise packages CFR Cluj, who were playing in Romania's third division just six years ago.
We can only calculate the probability of change in prices just like the probability of outcomes from the toss of an unbiased coin.
Brazil's Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa set a new men's doubles record at Wimbledon in terms of games played and most games played in the deciding set.
A tantalising maiden world title rather than another world record is Asafa Powell's priority this year, according to the Jamaican sprinter's manager.
A US federal court in Gatlin's hometown of Pensacola, Florida, held a one-day hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction that would allow the 26-year-old Gatlin to take part in the trials in Eugene, Oregon. Gatlin, who attended the hearing dressed in a brown suit and was accompanied by family members, was suspended for four years after testing positive in 2006 for the male sex hormone testosterone.
Sam Zygmuntowicz works 15-hour days to make just six instruments a year.
There are hundreds of learned papers and books on why markets drop precipitously. Recalling how the Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman had helped explain the Columbia disaster in 1986, in the last few days, I have read more than a dozen research papers to see whether economists would be of any help.
Justin Gatlin's coach accused that the masseur applied a mysterious cream to the sprinter on the day he failed a doping test.
The Olympic and world champion said he still considers himself the fastest man in the world.
The Indian long jumper could manage only 6.43m to finish a lowly seventh at the IAAF Super Tour in Doha.
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