India qualified for the semifinals of the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championships despite suffering a 41-67 drubbing at the hands of Malaysia here on Wednesday.
The hosts started off on a decent note winning the first quarter 13-12, reports our correspondent. But Malaysia tightened their defence and never let the Indian girls p

Retiring Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan said among the current crop of slow bowlers, only Harbhajan Singh could match his record of scalping nearly 800 Test wickets.

Aamir Khan is okay with censor board’s “A” certificate to his upcoming production Peepli Live, which hits theatres on August 13.

A Bollywood battle erupted Tuesday on the Twitter social networking website, with filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and the husband-wife duo of Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi crossing swords over profit-sharing in Hindi films.

The Congress leadership on Tuesday again warned Andhra MP Jaganmohan Reddy not to undertake his planned odarpu yatra from July 8, the birth anniversary of his late father Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, but it looks highly unlikely that he will bow to this demand.

The UPA government looks to be aggressively pushing those reforms which, due to their controversial nature, have been stalled for years.

Agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who set off speculation about being divested of one of his portfolios after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to seek a reduction of his workload, may retain his existing responsibilities, but get one or two ministers of state to share his burden. He is in charge of three critical departments: agriculture, consumer affairs, and food and public distribution.

Twenty-seven persons who were to catch flights to Dubai were detained with fake visas at the international terminal of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday evening after a call was made to the call centres of two airlines that two groups of Bangladeshis would try to hijack aircraft from Delhi.

A 19-year-old boy and his uncle, who had picked up an accident victim on the pretext of taking him to hospital and then dumped him at a desolate place to die, have been arrested by the outer Delhi police. The young boy was driving a Maruti van, which had hit the bicycle, and, in order to avoid people’s anger, he and his uncle picked up the victim claiming that they were taking him to a hospital and later dumped him.

Wrong policies of the government have been responsible for the prevalent food insecurity in the country, alleged activists. They also said the proposed National Food Security Act ignores the root causes of hunger and it deliberately leaves untouched the structural roots of the malnutrition crisis.