Liverpool owner John W. Henry has dealt a major blow to Luis Suarez’s hopes of escaping Anfield after the unsettled Uruguay striker was told he won’t be allowed to leave at any price.

In an attempt to curb tension in the troubled hill district of Darjeeling, the state government on Friday blocked airing of three news channels by the local cable TV operators even as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)-sponsored “indefinite bandh” entered the seventh day.

Seeking to negate the Supreme Court order on immediate disqualification of convicted legislators, the government is considering enactment of a constitutional amendment for which it will try to bring all political parties on board.

In a bid to unearth alleged large-scale irregularities in beach and sand mining running up to several hundred crores in Thoothukudi district, the TN government has constituted a special team headed by revenue secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi to inspect and verify whether there is illicit mining by six lessees of minerals in the district.

The first day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday could not have been better organised, with two of the biggest stars lined up for action after a doping-tainted run-up to competition.

The controversy related to the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal refuses to die down.
Senior UP minister Azam Khan has now defended the statement made by his colleagues about running the state without IAS officers.

Credible information gathered by Indian intelligence agencies has revealed that the Pakistan Army’s elite commando unit, Special Services Group (SSG), has been running a fully operational training camp in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, for operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Ashes newcomer Jackson Bird captured the prize scalp of England captain Alastair Cook as Australia took charge of the first day of the fourth Test at Chester-le-Street on Friday.

Australia’s Adam Scott answered an early challenge from countryman Jason Day and England’s Lee Westwood on Friday to seize command of the PGA Championship at rain-soaked Oak Hill.

Over 105 officers have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh in the past two decades from 1993 to 2013 and no evidence was found against 100 officers who were quietly reinstated.