Pune: Unheralded left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe today grabbed a sensational match-haul of 12 wickets as a sloppy India slumped to a humiliating 333-run defeat inside three days in the first cricket Test against Australia here. Australia set a daunting target of 441, riding on skipper Steve Smith’s batting masterclass onRead More

Marseille: Nick Kyrgios kept on course to defend his Marseille Open title with a 6-3 6-3 quarter-final victory over Slovak qualifier Norbert Gombos on Friday. But he will have to overcome two home players if he is to retain his crown. The 21-year-old Australian fired down 15 aces and lostRead More

New Delhi: India made a rousing start at the sixth Asian Para-Road Cycling Championship, bagging all three medals in the 12.8 Km Individual Time Trial on the opening day of the tournament at Bahrain today. Abhishek from Chandigarh won the gold medal, Divij Shah from West Bengal won silver andRead More

New Delhi: India’s senior off-spinner Harbhajan Singh predicted that India will continue with their unbeaten streak of 19 Test matches and will beat the Aussies 4-0. But with Steve O’Keefe’s brilliant 12-wicket haul in the match and Steve Smith’s century brought an end to Virat Kohli & Co’s unbeaten run.Read More

Pune: Indian skipper Virat Kohli today hardly minced words in criticising his team’s shambolic show in the 333-run loss to Australia, saying it was easily the side’s worst batting display in the last two years. India today slumped to a humiliating loss inside three days in the first match againstRead More

Berlin: Angela Merkel’s conservatives have formally nominated the German chancellor as her party’s top candidate for the September parliamentary election in the region where she has her political base. The dpa news agency reported that Merkel won the support of 95 per cent of delegates at a convention of theRead More

Los Angeles: Actress Jodie Foster was among the “United Voices” that spoke up against US President Donald Trump at United Talent Agencys (UTA) rally outside its Beverly Hills office here. The rally took place on Friday, reports variety.com. According to the Beverly Hills Police Department, more than 1,500 people, includingRead More

Manila: Ex-Philippine leader Benigno Aquino joined thousands of people on the streets of Manila today as protests broke out against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. Demonstrators amassed near the national police headquarters, with some warning the Duterte crackdown foreshadowed a repeat of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, which wasRead More

Baghdad: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was in Baghdad for talks on Saturday, the first such visit by a chief diplomat from the kingdom in years, Iraqi officials said. He met his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a foreign ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another government official saidRead More

Mexico City: Mexico has warned the US against imposing a unilateral tax on Mexican imports to finance a border wall, saying it could respond in kind. Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said the government could place tariffs on selected goods from US states reliant on exports to Mexico, BBC reported onRead More