Defending Champions India will host the 3rd Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship from October 24 to 29, the organisers said on Thursday.

Food inflation reached 15.10 per cent for the week ended September 4 as cereals, select vegetables and milk became costlier after rains disrupted the supplies.

British energy firm Cairn Energy Plc on Thursday said it would pay all taxes due, both in India and the United Kingdom, on the $8.48 billion it will gain from selling a majority stake in its Indian ar

Taking stock of the situation 25 years after inception of Saarc, external affairs minister S.M.

The ICC on Thursday made it clear that it would not tolerate corruption in cricket and warned of stern action against players found guilty in the spot-fixing scandal which has rocked world cricket.

Will next month’s high-profile Common-wealth Games, already beset by numerous other problems, get swamped under heavy rain? Given the deluge Delhi has faced this extremely wet September, some climatologists feel the city might experience a wet October as well.

With the recent spot-fixing scandal exposing the futility of its anti-corruption code, the International Cricket Cou-ncil is now planning a wide-ranging overhaul of its regulatory system in order to avoid future embarrasments.

The moment weightlifter Sanamacha Chanu tested positive for the banned substance methylhexaneamine (MHA), her hopes for avoiding a life ban hinged on the results of the “B” sample test. With her second sample also coming out positive Tuesday, the lifter’s fate is now in the hands of the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP).

A consensus appears to be slowly building up against the continuance in office of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah a day before a crucial all-party meeting is held here on Wednesday on how to tackle the situation in the state.

The JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Tuesday criticised government’s decision to hold caste census in 2011 in place of incorporating the exercise in the ongoing census. Mr Yadav also stated that the Narendra Modi issue between the JD (U)-BJP is now behind them.