'India must include Laxman for World Cup'
If India is keen to pick the hints from the drawn third Test against the West Indies , they need to keep V V S Laxman in the mix for the World Cup. I know his fielding and mobility does not meet...- in Recreation n sports
Angelina Jolie has finally given birth to her twins -- a girl and a boy in the French Riviera maternity clinic, according to reports.
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'India paid the price for dumping 5-bowler theory'
I would have thought it hurts India when it is not winning Tests abroad. But if it was so, they would have picked five bowlers for this Test. They have taken two steps backwards from the days in ...- in Recreation n sports
India vs England, Mohali Test, Day 5
Yuvraj Singh in action on the last day of 2nd Test between India and England at PCA Stadium in Mohali on Tuesday.
Resuming at the overnight score of 134 for 4, India declared at 251 for seve...- in Recreation n sports
Congress may be repeating BJP's error of 2003
The year 2008 has withered away. Shall the Congress party follow suit?The year has ended with two sets of elections, full-fledged assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and a set of eight by-elect...- in Politics n government
What 'business as usual' means in India
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.' W B Yeats's line from his poem The Second Coming seems eerily prophetic in the present time.
Take a look at the state of India's three largest parties ...- in Politics n government
Success doesn't require any skill, except passion
At 60, Professor Ray Umashankar, who has an artificial hip, climbed the 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, to honour his son Naren, who killed himself following a bout...- in Bussiness
The Bernard Haykel interview
Bernard Haykel, an expert on Islam, told Sheela Bhatt in the first part of an exclusive interview that the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008, will be the basis for similar st...- in Bussiness
Taliban spreads into Pakistan's heart
The bombing of a Shia mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan and an armed assault on a police checkpost in Mianwali by the Taliban in quick succession (February 5 and 7) could indicate the armed group's plans t...- in Politics n government
'I will offer a corruption-free government'
Omar Abdullah is all set to take over as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir -- the youngest in India. In his hour of glory, Onkar Singh caught up with the National Conference lea...- in Bussiness