Mahesh Bhupathi and his American partner Liezel Huber have been given the top billing at the mixed doubles event of the French Open, while Leander Paes and Cara Black are seeded second.

Gearing up its soldiers for future warfare, the Army feels there is an “urgent need” to replace the indigenously developed and manufactured Insas series of rifles.
“There is an urgent need to develop rifles, carbines and light machine guns of 5.56 mm calibre to replace the existing Insas class of weapons,” it said in the defence ministry’s Technology Perspective and Capability Roadmap’ document.

A DGCA official shows the black box of the Air India Express plane after it was recovered from the crash site in Mangalore on Tuesday. Investigators recovered the black box three days after the crash on Saturday that left 158 dead. The data recor-der could give vital clues to what caused the country’s worst air crash in a decade. The instrument was damaged on one side but DGCA officials said it was intact with the “main memory”.

The three-member judicial panel headed by Supreme Court Judge V.S. Sirpurkar, which is going into the issue of impeachment of Karnataka chief justice P.D. Dinakaran, has undergone a change.

A lot of upcoming shooters from the hamlets of Uttar Pradesh, including Seema Tomar, silver medal winner at Dorset World Cup, owe their success to Mr Rahul Gandhi as the young Congress MP donated his pistols for their training.

Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chadrasekhar is likely to get an extension of one more year. Papers in this regard have already moved to competent authorities for approval, official sources said.

A 25-year-old man, who allegedly kidnapped a six-year-old girl to repay his debts and later killed her, was arrested here, the police said on Tuesday. Sanjay was apprehended on Monday night from his rented house in Alipur area of northwest Delhi.

Amid speculation that it is likely to sign a deal in a day or two to take over electric car maker Reva, Mahindra & Mahindra’s shares fell 2.48 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
According to sources in the know of the development, the two companies may sign an agreement in a day or two and an announcement could be made thereafter.

Karun Chandhok gained in confidence with his eventful 14th place finish in the Monaco Grand Prix and the Hispania driver now wants to carry forward the confidence to Sunday's race in Istanbul.

The ICC has stopped investigating the Australia-Pakistan Sydney Test after finding no evidence of match-fixing, a Cricket Australia spokesman said.
The Test, which Pakistan lost from an advantageous position, was under the scanner as the then coaches Initkhab Alam and Aaqib Javed suspected match-fixing by their players, particularly stumper Kamran Akmal.