Spain did not need their best players to beat India but then they are taking the World Group Davis Cup play-off tie very “seriously”, bringing a strong 20-member contingent to tackle the lower-ranked home players. Led by World No 4 Rafael Nadal, the Spaniards landed in New Delhi on Monday morning and hit the courts in the evening. After watching Read More

In an escalation of their confrontation, the ICC on Monday disclosed that it has refused to bail out the BCCI in its tussle with the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee over implementing the reforms. ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson said the BCCI had sought a letter from the world body, stating that it will disaffiliate the Indian Board if there is Read More

The Constitutional Court rejected Hewitt’s challenge on the grounds that “it lacks prospects of success”, meaning that the former tennis great has exhausted all legal avenues of appeal. Prior to lodging his appeal at the Constitutional Court, Hewitt, 76, had a similar application rejected by the Supreme Court of Appeal in June. He was convicted in May last year after Read More

Perez, who left Deportivo La Coruna last month, netted 17 La Liga goals as his side finished sixth from bottom last season. The 28-year-old Spaniard was handed his English top-flight debut in the 2-1 win over Southampton on Saturday. Defender Shkodran Mustafi also made his first appearance for the London club in the same game. “It is not easy to Read More

Manchester United expect profits to fall back from last season’s record levels after the club splashed out on new players to try to regain its place in Europe’s soccer elite. The English club paid a world-beating 89 million pounds ($118 million) last month for French midfielder Paul Pogba and has brought in other big name players including Swedish striker Zlatan Read More

Ullhas P Revankar is eerily familiar with the surroundings of the New Ashok Nagar police station in New Delhi. He has never committed a crime but visits to this cop shelter, tucked away in a clamourous corner of the eastern part of the capital, are alarmingly frequent. Officers greet him with coy smiles and unsure glances — for them, Revankar’s Read More

The Kashmir Valley has hogged newspaper headlines for nearly two months now for all the wrong reasons. Everyone wants a solution to the Kashmir problem but are phrases like Kashmiryaat,Insaniyat and composite Sufi culture the solution? The author first visited Kashmir Valley in 1988, followed by a 2,000 km drive through Jammu region and the Valley in 2014 and extensively Read More

November 2014, 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, the true spirit of America earned a new emblem when the felled Twin Towers were reincarnated as the impressive Freedom Tower. Today, two years later, the 1,776-foot glass and steel monolith, with its unique shining eight-isosceles triangle finish, adds magic to New York’s distinctive skyline. “It is good to see the gaping Read More

Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, facing the allegation of ‘radicalising’ youths, on Saturday asked the government what exactly has he done to get the tag of ‘Dr Terror’ and sought ‘logical answers’ to charges levelled against him. In a four-page ‘open letter’ released in Mumbai, Naik posed five questions to the government as to what he has done to earn Read More

Though many of those left behind in the 9/11 tragedy have moved on, even married again, Narasimha Kumar Sattaluri remains an exception. He remains devoted to the memories of his wife Deepika, one of four Wipro employees who died that day. She was working as a Wipro consultant for Marsh McLennan when the plane hit the first tower, where she Read More