Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to chair a Cabinet defence committee meeting next week to discuss the ongoing tension with India, officials said.

Altamas Ahmed-trained An Acquired Taste has the best credentials to win the Eve Champion Trophy, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday.

The Supreme Court has upheld its earlier verdict commuting to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to a man, for beheading a person in Assam, whose mercy plea was earlier rejected by the President.

Forty-eight more bodies were extricated from the heaps of rubble in Uttarakhand’s worst flood-hit Kedarnath area by police and NDRF personnel, even as four persons were feared dead when their jeep fell into the swollen Mandakini river.

Top-seeded Serena Williams advanced to the Rogers Cup quarter-finals on Thursday, beating 13th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-0, 6-3.

A 17-year-old daughter of Bommanahalli constituency’s BJP MLA M. Sathish Reddy hanged herself at their residence in Hongasandra on Begur Road on Thursday night. The girl was upset after being reprimanded by her mother over a trivial matter.

With the claim that its probe into the conspiracy leading to the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter was complete, the CBI is ready to file a supplementary chargesheet naming former Intelligence Bureau officials as accused.

Following are the acceptances for the races to be held here on Sunday.
1. The Indiscretion Plate 1400m 2:15 pm: Kallu Mama 61, Kohinoor Punch 59, Staminoizd 59, Dazzling Empress 51.5, Paying Guest 51.5, Pakat Pakat Pakat 51, Half Moon Bay 50.

The prices of both the precious metals, gold and silver, maintained an upward march for the third straight day in the national capital Saturday on increased buying by stockists and jewellers to meet the festive season demand amid a firm global trend.

Controversial police sub-inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was allegedly assaulted in the state Assembly after he fined an MLA for over-speeding, has been transferred out of Mumbai.