Celebrated Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is all set to lend his aura to the cause of women’s rights by reciting a Marathi poem for director-actor Farhan Akhtar’s Men against Rape and Discrimination campaign.

The exercise to rope in block Congress committees to shortlist candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections has proved futile. The Congress has now asked aspirants to submit their applications in a prescribed proforma introduced by the AICC.

In a unique faceoff on the international border in Sikkim, the Indian and Chinese troops tried to calm things down with a friendly exchange of beer and rasgullas.

Joining the debate on who among Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar is a greater batsman, Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi said he considers the West Indian a cut above the best of his era.

Fearing a third consecutive power drought in Madhya Pradesh, which is set to go to the Assembly elections by the year-end, the Congress leadership has recently insisted on the need for unity in the state unit of the party at a meeting, which was attended by all the Union ministers from the state besides functionaries of the PCC.

Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Friday led Eid prayers at the famous Gaddafi stadium here, hours after Jamat-ud-Dawah chief tweeted that “time is near when those oppressed in Kashmir, Palestine and Burma will celebrate Eid in the air of freedom.”

India’s tough talk on Thursday on the killing of its soldiers prompted Pakistan to strike a conciliatory note after its initial belligerence, but an early resumption of the bilateral composite dialogue is no longer on the cards.

The prices of both precious metals gold and silver extended gains for the second straight day in the national capital Friday on festive buying amid a firming global trend.

Delhi Development Authority FA (A) and Conscient FA emerged champions in the U-17 and U-14 categories respectively at the 2nd Delhi Soccer Association inter-academies football tournament for Delhi United Cup on Thursday.

At least nine worshippers were killed and 20 others injured as unidentified gunmen opened fire outside a Sunni mosque in the Pakistani city of Quetta, a day after suicide bomber killed at least 38 people in the same city.