Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina struck impressive centuries as India A reached a commanding 489/6 against South Africa A at tea on the second day of the first unofficial four-day Test on Sunday.

Trying to bring back the focus on the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, the government is working hard to push the legislation for consideration and passage in the current session of Parliament.

In 2011, when he hacked the Kolkata traffic police’s website and claimed his responsibility, senior cops at Lalbazar, the city police headquarters, initially ignored his talent.

It’s not often that one witnesses players spanning generations come together, with mastery being the common binding factor between them. Batting legends G.R. Viswanath, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly got together on Saturday to talk shop.

Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Shukla said that the government will try its level best to ensure passage of the landmark food bill on August 20. “We will try to resolve the matter through talks... We will push it (the bill) hard on the 20th,” he said.

In a couple of days, the two female rhinoceros at the National Zoological Park at New Delhi will have a new mate in Shiva, the solitary male one-horned rhinoceros at the Byculla zoo. Following an agonising wait of five days, Shiva finally stepped into the transport cage on Sunday. He would be shifted to the New Delhi zoo by Wednesday.

With change in technology, technique and formats, it has become increasingly hard to classify players as complete all-rounders. But in the 1980’s when international cricket was played under just two formats, the traditional Test being more favoured, the men who led the pack of complete performance belonged to four different parts of the world.

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday questioned the Orissa government’s wisdom to focus on the mining sector instead of agriculture to achieve faster economic development.

Top arrested Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Abdul Karim Tunda has exposed the flourishing anti-India terror network of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He has spilled the beans on the ISI-Lashkar-Babbar Khalsa (BKI) network where more than a dozen Sikh militants are being given shelter, funding, training in weapons and explosives for unleashing terror strikes in the country.

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has defended banned spinner Danish Kaneria, questioning the evidence of spot-fixing against him by claiming that the alleged Indian bookmaker suspected to be close to the bowler has been Pakistan Cricket Board’s official guest on several occasions.