Adelaide: Iron-willed Usman Khawaja batted out the entire day to tilt the third day-night Test towards Australia with a masterful century against South Africa on Friday. At the close on the second day in Adelaide, the Australians were 307 for six in reply to the Proteas` 259 for nine declared,Read More

New Delhi: Celebrated Indian boxer M C Mary Kom is all set to add another honour to her glittering career when she receives the ‘Legends Award’ from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on its 70th anniversary on December 20. An Olympic bronze-medallist and a five-time world champion, Mary Kom isRead More

New Delhi: Mariamma Koshy has taken charge of Hockey India (HI) as president with immediate effect, replacing Narinder Dhruv Batra who was recently elected as the first ever non European chief of the sport’s governing body FIH. HI announced that Koshy will head the national body in the 41st HockeyRead More

Istanbul: Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, threatened to throw open Turkey’s borders to illegal migrants, after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara. “Listen to me. If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened, bear that in mind,” ErdoganRead More

New York/Melbourne: Neil Prakash, Australia’s most senior ISIS recruiter has been arrested in the Middle East, a media report said on Friday, months after the US and Australia said, he was killed in an American air strike in Iraq this year. The New York Times reported that, Prakash had beenRead More

Tehran: At least 31 people were killed in Iran early on Friday when an intercity express was hit by another train while stopped at a station, the provincial governor said. “The bodies of 31 dead have been identified and more than 70 people hospitalised,” Mohammad Reza Khabbaz, governor of SemnanRead More

Teknaf (Myanmar): The brutal gang rape that Habiba and her sister endured is a story that is becoming depressingly familiar among the thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to escape the violence of Myanmar’s soldiers. “They tied both of us to the bed and raped us one by one,”Read More

Japan has told Russia, the deployment of missiles on disputed islands in the Pacific is “deplorable”, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, ahead of talks aimed at resolving a decades-old territorial spat. The positioning of coastal defence missiles on two of the four islands in contention was reported byRead More

Washington: Donald Trump will have to embrace “unilateralism” against Pakistan as President Barack Obama did when it hunt down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a former Pakistani diplomat has said, arguing that USD 33 billion of US funding has failed to change Islamabad’s policy on terrorism. Husain Haqqani, a formerRead More

Singapore: A 29-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for over three years for printing fake Singaporean currency notes here, according to a media report. Sasi Kumar Lakshmanan decided to print fake currency notes of SGD 100 and SGD 50. Deputy Public Prosecutor Magdalene Huang said Lakshmanan decided to print someRead More