Scores of fans queued up at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Sunday morning for the day-night India-England World Cup cricket match. But with the sun playing hide and seek, the hot topic of discussion was - would rain play spoilsport?

India won the toss and elected to bat against England at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against England in their Group B match of the cricket World Cup here on Sunday.

A six to reach his fifty and a four to reach his century, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has made it up to Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy crowd for all the hardship they had to go through before this blockbuster clash between India and England on Sunday.

Sachin Tendulkar smashed a record fifth World Cup century with a breath-taking display of strokeplay as India rattled up an imposing 338 all out in their Group-B league match against England on Sunday.

Crowd frenzy for Sunday’s India-England World Cup match led to a mild lathicharge before the Chinnaswamy stadium Thursday morning as the Bengaluru police tried to bring some order among the thousands of fans lined up for tickets.

Indian police baton-charged thousands of World Cup cricket fans queuing for tickets for India's weekend clash with England on Thursday amid scenes of chaos outside Bangaluru stadium.

The BJP central election committee that met in New Delhi on Friday finalised Ms Hema Malini’s candidature for the byelection to the Rajya Sabha, due next month, committee secretary and Bangalore South MP Ananth Kumar said. Ms Malini will have a tenure of one year. The election was necessitated after the death of JD(S) Rajya Sabha member M. Rajashekhar Murthy.

Feb. 15: Indian space scientists have left it to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to take a “political call” on dumping the contract for allotment of high-value and scarce airwaves to Devas Multimedia Ltd, but have also provided him “potent” particulars which could well send relations between the Congress and the DMK into a tailspin.

Indian space scientists have left it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take a “political call” on dumping the contract for allotment of high-value and scarce airwaves to Devas Multimedia Ltd, but have also provided him “potent” particulars which could well send relations between the Congress and the DMK into a tailspin.