Pakistan and the International Cricket Council were at loggerheads on Friday after the ICC, in a surprise and decisive move, announced the provisional suspension of three Pakistani players, including two fast bowlers, over allegations of spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test match last week.

Three Pakistan cricketers allegedly involved in spot-fixing on Thursday withdrew themselves from the Pakistan team till their “names are cleared”.

The investigation into the spot-fixing allegations against the Pakistan cricket team took an interesting turn on Tuesday as Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs revealed that it had arrested three person

The main accused in the spot-fixing scandal involving the Pakistan cricket team has been released on police bail after his arrest on Saturday.

The Pakistan cricket team, currently playing in England, has been hit by serious allegations of spot-fixing in the fourth Test match at Lord’s in London on Sunday.
The spot-fixing allegations involve Pakistani fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, who have been accused of deliberately bowling three no-balls during the Test match at Lord’s last Thursday and Friday.

MERICAN ROCK legend Jimi Hendrix and German-British composer George Frideric Handel would not have much in common at first glance.
Hendrix, the rock icon who revolutionised music in 1960s, died at a very young age of 27 and his peripatetic lifestyle meant that he kept moving for music gigs and concerts, never calling a place home for long.

A British archivist has uncovered papers that reveal that the tragic hero of French writer Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, could be a French government sculptor hired to work on the 19th century restoration of the famous cathedral.

Indian-born British businessman Sanjiv Mehta, who bought the East India Company in 2005, is relaunching the world’s first multinational firm more than 400 years after it was set up by opening a flagship store in Conduit Street, near Regent Street, in London on Saturday.

British scientists on Wednesday issued an urgent warning against the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which is widespread in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This superbug is so closely linked to the Indian subcontinent that it has been named New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1).

Antony Froggatt, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, works on international energy security and climate issues.