Inspite of the recent string of losses, our loyalty towards cricket is unquestionable. But soccer fever has also been rising. And the Barclay’s football premiere league presently on has youngsters glued to the screen in excitement. And city pubs and restaurants are having a ball too.

Following a spate of robberies in the land down under, McDonald’s in Sydney has decided to expand its security system to include a DNA spray system that will douse would-be criminals with evidence.

The Indian women’s football team face a tough challenge when they take on the Netherlands in the two exhibition matches in Kolhapur and Navi Mumbai. Coach Anadi Barua speaks about the challenge, the mood in the team and the Dutch side on match eve. Excerpts:

The Delhi NCR region will witness the second edition of Firestorm on February 24, 2013.
Firestorm 2013, a mountain biking race, is an initiative by Firefox Bikes to test the biking skills and endurance of cyclists in India.

Britain’s iconic music chain HMV is on the brink of collapse and was on Tuesday placed in administration to try and salvage the business.

A British journalist of Indian origin has been chosen as one of the 11 writers “to watch out for” making fictional debuts this year. Thirty-six-year-old Sathnam Sanghera has been shortlisted for his novel Marriage Material.

Soha Ali Khan is all for professionalism. Recollecting her time on the sets of Midnight’s Children. She says, “I suppose we have a method in our madness. Busy film sets, no clear job delineation, last minute hustle bustle — it somehow all comes together. In this international production when someone yelled ‘silence’ you could literally hear a pin drop.

Delhi boy Rashid Khan and former Malaysian Open champion Yeh Wei-tze of Chinese Taipei will be among the leading aspirants at Asian Tour Qualifying School first stage Section B when the race to qualify for next week’s all-important final stage begins in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Wednesday.

IPL team Rajasthan Royals will play a friendly cricket match against a team consisting of leading authors attending the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival starting on January 24.

Markets staged a spectacular rally on Monday to touch their two-year high as a slower than expected growth in December inflation figures fuelled hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)