Besides the excitement of playing in front of home fans, the first leg of ISTAF Super Series event bears greater significance for Indian sepak takraw athletes who seek to garner spectators’ interest as well as attention of the authorities to help them get jobs.

The city of Amritsar has been donned with “missing” posters of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu. Residents of the city were taken by surprise when they woke up to “Missing Sidhu” posters pasted in the city.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday informed Parliament that irregularities to the tune of `230 crore have been found in the farm loan waiver scheme and action is being take in this regard.

Real Madrid made it two wins from two games under Carlo Ancelotti with a 1-0 victory at Granada, but Los Blancos were again made to work for the three points.

Playing their first home game, the Hyderabad Hotshots got off to a roaring start in front of a capacity, decidedly partisan crowd at the G.M.C. Balayogi Stadium on Tuesday as world no. 4 Saina Nehwal extended the lead to 2-0 with a 21-17, 14-21, 11-8 win over Ying Tai Tzu of Chinese Taipei in the women’s singles.

The Lucknow bench Allahabad high court on Tuesday dismissed a writ petition seeking release of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders after the Uttar Pradesh government informed the court that all the VHP leaders detained during the 84-Kosi Parikrama yatra, in and around Ayodhya, had been released.

Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh, speaking to a news channel, pointed out that in 2011 and 2012, only 5 per cent of rape cases registered in the city were by persons unknown to the victim, while 95 per cent rapes were committed by relatives or friends.

Glorious View moved well when the horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course here on Tuesday.

Barcelona will give Lionel Messi every opportunity to prove his fitness ahead of their second-leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram said on Tuesday that the government had approved a raft of infrastructure projects worth `1.83 lakh crores in order to revive the investment cycle and restore investors’ confidence as the rupee fell to a new lifetime low.