Brisbane: Team manager Richie Richardson says the West Indies, dominated by a crop of young players, must maintain a strong and positive outlook as they confront mighty Australia in a three match Test series starting next week. The largely inexperienced and lowly ranked West Indies test team, led by 23-year-old captain Jason Holder, are considered the underdogs against the top ranked...
Mumbai: Director Sanjay Gupta has confirmed that for his next project, he is collaborating with Hrithik Roshan and Rakesh Roshan, but said the "lead actress" for the film is not yet finalised. "Ok guys its true that I am working on my next with Hrithik and Rakeshji. But we have not confirmed the lead actress as yet. We will soon," Gupta...
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president V.M. Sudheeran said on Wednesday that Hindu Ezhava leader Vellapally Natesan, the general secretary of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam, should quit his post. "The way he speaks and the way he conducts himself is against the teachings and ideology of the revered social reformer Sree Narayana Guru. He should immediately step down...
Kobe (Japan): World No.1 Novak Djokovic has pleaded fatigue for his decision not to compete in the second edition of the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) starting here on Wednesday and his franchise Singapore Slammers announced that Britain's Andy Murray and Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka will join them. Djokovic, the 11-time Major singles champion, played for the United Arab Emirates Royals...
New Delhi: Delhi Dynamos will aim to utilise their Indian Super League (ISL) match against Kerala Blasters here on Thursday as a tune-up for their semi-final preparations, having qualified for the play-offs. Dynamos finished fifth last year and missed qualification for the semis but became the second team after defending champions Atletico de Kolkata to secure a spot in the...
New Delhi: Tata Sons and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have formed a long-term partnership, under which ICBC will become a strategic banking partner to the Tata Group, an official statement said here on Wednesday. A team of Tata executives, led by chairman Cyrus P. Mistry, met with ICBC chairman Jiang Jianqing and his team to formalise the...
New York: Women trust dating advice from a gay male friend more than from straight colleagues or friends because gay men have fewer ulterior mating motives, a significant research has revealed. Also, women are more likely to trust and befriend gay men when they are in a highly competitive dating environment, such as a university with more female students than...
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that the Narendra Modi government was well aware of the hardships Indian labourers faced in foreign countries and was working for their betterment. Answering a question on the issue in the Lok Sabha, Swaraj said the Indian embassies in countries accounting for the majority of labourers from India have been...
Madrid: Real Madrid head coach Rafael Benitez has responded to the statements of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who said on Tuesday that if an athlete is not "exemplary" then he has "no place within the France team" in reference to forward Karim Benzema, whom the Spanish football giants' tactician believes is "crucial" for them. "I think he is crucial...
New Delhi: The government and the opposition locked horns in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday when the treasury benches contradicted Congress member Kumari Selja's claim that she faced caste discrimination at a temple in Gujarat, citing what she wrote in the visitor's book there. The upper house, on the first day of the session when it was to transact business, faced three...
