Pakistan's disgraced former Test captain Salman Butt is to be released early from prison in Britain, his father claimed on Wednesday.

Pakistan's top court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from holding office, two months after convicting him for contempt for refusing to ask Swiss authorities to reopen corrupt

A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the a

Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand today retained the World Chess Championships title, his fifth crown and fourth in a row, after beating Israel's Boris Gelfand in a tense rapid game tie-breaker here today.

The rift within the Opposition BJP in Rajasthan widened on Monday as a group of senior leaders, backed by the RSS, assembled at former BJP president Ramdas Agarwal’s residence and expressed concern over the situation.

You just missed that 10.15 local by a whisker and are already running late. You try to calm down and convince yourself that “all is well” despite these minor hiccups. And once you reach the desired station, all you want to do is get into that autorickshaw across the street. But that is not meant to be — the autowallah refuses flatly. What do you do?

With the Congress playing its cards close to its chest, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, widely regarded as a frontrunner for the presidential candidate, Sunday said he was “in the dark” over the issue while the Left parties said they would back a candidate with “wider acceptance”.

The French turned out Sunday in fairly large numbers for a vote tipped to make Nicolas Sarkozy the latest European leader ousted by economic crisis and Francois Hollande the country’s first Socialist President in nearly two decades.

With the Congress playing its cards close to its chest, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, widely regarded as a presidential front-runner, said Sunday he was “in the dark”.

The battle for chief ministership has begun in the Rajasthan BJP even though Assembly polls are still over a year away, with former chief minister Vasundhara Raje trying to block attempts by opponents to secure political mileage.