A humdinger of a contest is on the cards as NorthEast United FC take on Sachin Tendulkar co-owned Kerala Blasters FC in the second match of the Indian Super League(ISL) on Monday. The Ricki Herbert-coached home side will bank on the support of a fanatical home following and a potentRead More

If you thought current cricketers earned more than former cricketers in India, think again. It’s not Mahendra Singh Dhoni or Virat Kohli to whom the BCCI pays the most annually. The biggest pay cheques from India’s cricket body goes to former players Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri — over Rs.6Read More

Hong Kong, Hundreds of Hong Kong police used sledgehammers and chainsaws on Tuesday to tear down barricades erected by pro-democracy protesters near government offices and the financial centre, reopening a major road for the first time in two weeks. Traffic flowed freely along Queensway Road after the protesters’ obstructions wereRead More

JOHANNESBURG, West Africa will be enduring 5,000 to 10,000 new cases of Ebola every week by the end of next month, the World Health Organization says.The worrisome new forecast was issued on Tuesday by the WHO’s deputy director-general, Bruce Aylward, in a press briefing in Geneva. He predicts a dramaticRead More

Washington: President Barack Obama will hash out a strategy to counter Islamic State on Tuesday with military leaders from some 20 countries including Turkey and Saudi Arabia amid growing pressure for the US-led coalition to do more to stop the militants` advance. Some three weeks before US congressional elections viewedRead More

London: British police on Tuesday said they had arrested six people on terrorism charges in an investigation linked to the conflict in Syria, where hundreds of British jihadists are fighting. The three men and three women were detained in Farnborough and Portsmouth in Hampshire, southern England, and in Greenwich inRead More

London:  A man charged with terrorism offences at a trial so sensitive that prosecutors sought to have it heard entirely in secret might have been planning an attack on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a court heard on Tuesday. Erol Incedal, 26, was arrested in October last year with another man, MounirRead More

Kabul: Afghanistan`s new government should take urgent steps to combat sexual harassment of women in education, employment and public life, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. There are no laws in Afghanistan that specifically prohibit sexual harassment or protect victims, the US-based rights body said. Government institutions lack effective policies toRead More

London: The UK today started screening for Ebola virus at Heathrow airport by testing the temperature of the passengers arriving from countries at risk in Britain, the first European Union country to begin such screenings. UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said a “handful” of cases were expected to reach theRead More

London: The family of British photojournalist John Cantlie being held hostage by the Islamic State has appealed to the dreaded terror group to re-establish “direct contact” with them. 43-year-old Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and has recently appeared in a series of videos as well as an articleRead More