Pakistan reserved their best cricket for the most inconsequential tie of the Asia Cup. After scoring their highest score of 385/7, Shahid Afridi’s men kept Bangladesh down to 246 to win by 139 runs. Batting records tumbled thanks to a rampant Afridi (124, 60b, 17x4, 4x6) as Pakistan bettered their previous best of 371/6 scored against Sri Lanka at Nairobi in 1996.

The Railway Board on Monday granted permission to the CBI to probe the role of suspended chairman of Mumbai Railway Recruitment Board, S.M. Sharma, in connection with a recruitment scam fo-llowing the arrest of his son and seven others.

When Dinesh Karthik joined the practice session on Monday, his team mates joked that he was already been in Sri Lanka waiting for a regular member to get injured. The script is becoming frequent and this time, he replaces Virender Sehwag, has had injuries following him like a faithful dog.

If you are a 10-year-old in Kerala wanting to own a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or Philip Pullman’s latest adventure yarn, here is an easy way.
All you have to do is switch off lights at your home, turn off the TV when it plays to an empty room and see to it that the iron box plug is unpinned when not in use. Kids who h

Shares of Maytas Infrastructure fell on Monday after the price of open offer — to be made jointly by IL&FS and Binladin Group — came out below expectations.
The offer price has been fixed at Rs 195.7 — a discount of over 7 per cent to Friday’s closing price. The stock price of Maytas was down 3 per cent and closed at Rs 204.5.
On Saturday, the Binladin group had acquired a 20 per cent equity stake in Maytas via a preferential allotment. The transaction has brought in around Rs 300 crore on the Maytas balance sheet.
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The Panaji bench of the Bombay high court refused to grant anticipatory bail to former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco and his right-hand man Lyndon Monteiro on Monday in the culpable homicide case of Pacheco’s girlfriend Nadia Torrado.

The Union petroleum minister, Mr Murli Deora, has written to the chief ministers requesting them to bring down VAT on petrol and diesel so that the common man can get these products at cheaper rates.

Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni has sought the early establishment of the National Film Heritage Mission. Sources stated that the minister made this assertion at the consultative committee meeting where this issue was discussed at length.

Ahead of the G20 meet in Toronto, India has made its stand clear that it favours tighter norms rather than taxes on banks to prevent future failures of the financial institutions.

The DGCA on Monday issued a proposed draft regulation that stipulates compensation to be paid to passengers by airlines in case of them being denied boarding on flights, and in case of flight cancellations without notice to passengers but appears to have lowered the proposed compensation by about 60 to 66 per cent compared to its first draft regulation issued two years ago.