Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is considering initiating a dialogue on issues related to the present mechanism of pricing TV channels after broadcasters raised their concerns about “flaws” in the system.

With the BJP projecting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the party’s prime ministerial candidate, the issue of secularism appears to have come into the spotlight. Congress leaders maintain that there would be sharp polarisation, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where there are 80 Lok Sabha seats at the stake, and the party could benefit in the end.

Even though the Supreme Court had on Thursday postponed a hearing on a BCCI special leave petition by at least two weeks, self-exiled BCCI president N. Srinivasan decided to chair the disciplinary committee meeting here on Friday in an apparent bid to lay the groundwork for the September 29 annual general meeting.

A Taliban suicide bomber killed three civilians in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when he detonated explosives in a failed attempt to target foreign forces fighting the Islamist insurgents, officials said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party remained a house divided as the party went ahead and named Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general polls in the meeting of its parliamentary board on Friday evening.

The life ban slapped on promising Mumbai left-arm spinner Ankeet Chavan has left his longtime coach Satish Samant shocked. Chavan has also brought a bad name to Mumbai Cricket Association considering its rich heritage and impressive past record.

Losing power was like being “hit by a fist”, Australia’s first female prime minister Julia Gillard said Saturday, recounting the pain of being dumped by her party.

The four men convicted of the gruesome gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student inside a moving bus last December were awarded the death sentence by a city court on Friday. The court had held all four guilty on Tuesday and reserved the order on the quantum of punishment for Friday.

Having spent sleepless nights ever since his name cropped up in the IPL spot fixing scandal, young left-arm spinner Harmeet Singh finally heaved a sigh of relief on Friday with the disciplinary committee of the BCCI deciding to close the case in the absence of evidence against him.

One of the defence lawyers in the December 16 gangrape case has courted trouble with his remarks that he would have burnt alive his daughter had she been having premarital sex and moving around at night with her boyfriend.