The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an alliance partner in Bihar’s Nitish Kumar government, retained the Purnia Assembly seat in the state on Wednesday, defeating the Congress.

China on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of French finance minister Christine Lagarde as the new chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Indian batsman Suresh Raina was fined 25 per cent of his match fee for a Level I breach in ICC’s Code of Conduct on the first day of the second cricket Test against West Indies here on Tuesday.

The number of Syrian refugees taking shelter in tent cities in Turkey has decreased to 10,757 after several hundred people turned back home, Turkish officials said on Tuesday.

Under fierce criticism from associate members, the International Cricket Council (ICC) made a U-turn on Tuesday and decided that 14 teams will participate in the 2015 World Cup, a change from the earlier ten-team format announced earlier in 2011.

The recent uprisings in the West Asia have been an “inspiration” to the people of military-dominated Myanmar, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said.

Neither retired nor planning to take up coaching once that happens, but that has not stopped Pakistan’s senior batsman Younis Khan from completing a level two coaching course at the National Cricket Academy.

With questions being raised over its activities, the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust on Tuesday said the over Rs 35 lakhs seized recently was money given by a devotee for a consultant tasked with construction of a memorial for Sai Baba.

At least nine people were killed and four others injured in a landslide at an iron ore dressing factory in China’s northern Shanxi Province, local government sources said on Monday.

With the 2015 cricket World Cup causing some scheduling headache for Australia, they are set to play back-to-back Ashes series against England in 2013.