Chandigarh, Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan has nominated Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal as a member of the committee of presiding officers of the Lok Sabha, along with speakers of various other assemblies. Atwal has also been nominated as a regional representative from India on the executive committeeRead More

Mansa, The Mansa police have claimed that the woman who alleged gangrape by four men here on Monday has given fake details in the FIR. The 33-year-old woman had earlier complained that she was a nurse working in Safdarjung hospital in Delhi and had come here to treat a patient knownRead More

New Delhi,Indian tennis stars Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna will skip the Asian Games being held in the South Korean city of Incheon from September 19 to October 4, to focus on the professional circuit. The participation of these players had remained a big question mark after top singlesRead More

A new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry has revealed the reason behind the tendency of obese people to overeat food. According to the study, differences in brain chemistry makes obese individuals to have stronger pull for food triggers. The study involved 43 men and women having varying amountsRead More

Dhaka,Paceman Al-Amin Hossain has become the second Bangladeshi bowler to be reported for a suspect action on the team’s disastrous tour of the West Indies, cricket’s world governing body said on Wednesday.  A day after Pakistan’s top off-spinner Saeed Ajmal was suspended over his action, the International Cricket Council saidRead More

Defending champions Mumbai Indians head coach John Wright today said that skipper Rohit Sharma will not play in the Champions League T20 tournament. Sharma sustained a fracture in the middle finger during the second ODI against England at Cardiff and missed the remaining 3 ODIs and the one-off T20 thatRead More

The ICC is cautiously optimistic that wearable sensors can provide the technological breakthrough needed to stamp out illegal bowling actions but does not expect them to be ready for trial in matches before mid-2015. Geoff Allardice, the International Cricket Council’s general manager of cricket, told Reuters in an interview onRead More

Karachi,Banned Pakistani off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has vowed to correct his illegal bowling action and return to cricket before next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The International Cricket Council (ICC) banned the 36-year-old earlier on Tuesday after biomechanic tests revealed all his deliveries breached the permissible limit forRead More

Mumbai, Actress Parineeti Chopra, who is often known as one of the most bubbly actress in Bollywood, says she finds the title ‘Bubbly’ very disrespectful. “When people call me bubbly, I find it very disrespectful. I have done four films and there was nothing similar between ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’, ‘Ishaqzaade’,Read More

Kolkata, Describing as a “very tough experience” the shooting of her forthcoming film Creature 3D which brings to Indian audiences a fresh genre of cinema, Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu on Tuesday hoped Indian viewers will appreciate the work of indigenous technicians. The movie, slated to release 12 Sep, is aRead More