While onion prices continue to remain high, the government appears not sure when it would again become affordable. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Monday stated that he would not be able to say when onion prices would come down. He stated that the rains have hit supplies from key onion growing states.

After the clean sweep against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this year, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is now plotting another powerful performance when the latter come here during October-November for a limited-over series.

An all-round display by Narayan Bisht (51, 3/23) and Raghav Sharma’s 40 helped Peter cricket Academy beat Master Juggler Academy by 10 runs in the Swastik Cup Open cricket tournament on Monday.

Targeting the BJP and AAP for their attempts to use spiralling onion prices to their advantage in the upcoming Assembly election and their bid to garner vote by selling onions on cheaper rates, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday hit out on the opposition for “politicising” the issue and resorting to “gimmicks”.

A city doctor entered the Limca Book of Records for aborting a heart attack and performing the fastest angioplasty in straight 16 minutes as against the international standard of 90 minutes.

England spinner Monty Panesar, who was contracted with the Sussex County Cricket Club, will be leaving the club at the end of the season days after being fined by the police earlier this month for allegedly urinating on bouncers of a club in Brighton.

Man of the match Archit Malik scalped three wickets while Mahender Singh scored 47 as Radhika Cricket Academy beat Baba Hari Das Academy by four wickets in the 1st Gyan Sagar Under-14 cricket tournament on Monday.

Prior to giving final shape to its invasive “Dastak” poll campaign, the BJP studied various styles of campaigns, including US President Barack Obama’s, where it found that despite focusing on the social media battle, Mr Obama campaign team gave a lot of importance to the conventional campaigning style.

Even as defence minister A.K. Antony has warned Islamabad that “our restraint should not be taken for granted,” the facing armies have once again exchanged fire at a few places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. The latest skirmish, the Army said, was triggered by yet another violation of November 2003 ceasefire by Pakistani troops in Poonch district.

Irfan Pathan, one of India’s brightest all-rounders of the modern era and once tipped to be the next Kapil Dev, is optimistic of regaining his spot in the Indian team which he lost prior to the tour of the West Indies owing to a hamstring injury.