IM terrorists learnt bomb-making in Mumbai

Judge Vyas observed that it was for the first time that a dozen persons were being convicted for conspiring in a terror attack before they could do any damage.Prakash Bhandari reports. Kindly note......

What a future India-Pakistan war may look like

'Any conventional conflict could trigger a nuclear war with results that neither India nor Pakistan could survive easily.'A revealing excerpt from Shuja Nawaz's The Battle For Pakistan: The Bitter......

Pakistan's dangerous obsession with nuclear weapons

For the world and India, one of the most enduring challenges of the times is for Pakistan's nukes to be neutralised, before they are ever used by the State, their sponsored non-State actors or any......

Kalam made us believe the sky was never too high

'As a nation we came up short, but that did not deter Kalam. He made it his life mission to exhort the young to greatness,' says Mohan Guruswamy. A P J ABDUL KALAM. RIP. Kalam had little in common......

Legendary umpire recalls how he survived 2009 Lahore attack

IMAGE: Simon Taufel was part of the umpiring team in 2009. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images The 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan team's bus in Lahore not only changed his life, but......

Former spy chiefs want Indo-Pak cricketing ties resumed. Do you agree?

Two former spy chiefs of India and Pakistan, Amarjit Singh Dulat, the former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), and General (retd) Ehsanul Haq, the former director general of the Inter......

PCB rejects proposal to relax ban on tainted umpire Ghauri

'No leniency should be shown to any umpire if he is found even remotely connected to unethical or corrupt practices.' The Pakistan Cricket Board rejected a proposal to relax by six months the......

Two Sri Lankan umpires suspended for match-fixing

Sri Lankan umpires Sagara Gallage and Maurice de La Zilwa, who were caught in a television sting operation willing to fix cricket matches for money, have been suspended for 10 and three years......

Everybody is susceptible: ICC CEO on corruption

ICC CEO Dave Richardson says that cricket's world governing body is facing a "war" against corruption right now in which "everybody is susceptible", including the curators and the groundsmen. -ICC......