Mumbai, April 27 (IANS) Mumbai Indians made 194 for seven in 20 overs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Wankhede Stadium here Saturday. Dawyne Smith was the top scorer with 50, while Dinesh Karthik made 43.

Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry Saturday said that doctors are working hard to revive Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who remains unconscious on a ventilator after an attack in prison. It said that the home department of Punjab and jail authorities are investigating the matter. The ministry [...]

New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Delhi Police Saturday said they have cracked an “international cartel” of drugs and fake currency dealers, arresting seven Nigerians and a Burmese woman. “The arrested include a Nigerian couple and a pastor, along with four other Nigerians and a Myanmarese woman,” said Sanjeev Yadav, deputy [...]

New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) World No.1 shuttler Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia lauded Indian national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand and ace shuttler Saina Nehwal here Saturday. “India has improved a lot. They have a good coach in Gopichand, who won the All England title. Saina is very famous and [...]

Ramallah, April 27 (IANS) A senior Palestinian official said Saturday that Israel has proposed holding a four-way summit to sponsor the resumption of the stalled Mideast peace talks with the Palestinians. US Secretary of State John Kerry had briefed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Turkey last week [...]

Port of Spain, April 27 (IANS) A new multi-million dollar stage has been added to Monument Garden, a memorial site for the ancestors of Guyana’s ethnic Indians in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago capital, Georgetown. The stage has been built by the Indian Commemoration Trust (ICT) with general contributions [...]

Bathinda (Punjab), April 27 (IANS) Two hardcore criminals who had escaped from custody after killing a police official were killed Saturday in a gunfight with police, an official said. The duo was among the three prisoners who had escaped from custody while being taken back to Bathinda prison after a [...]

Hyderabad, April 27 (IANS) Elected unopposed for the seventh consecutive term as president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), K. Chandrasekhara Rao Saturday urged people of Telangana to give 100 assembly seats and 15 to 16 Lok Sabha seats to his party to achieve separate statehood to the region. Predicting polls [...]

Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) A social security panel Saturday demanded that West Bengal immediately seal offices and confiscate assets of all the fraudulent companies operating in the state, and demanded a ban on chit fund firms. The Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS) is a Mumbai-based group and raises, discusses [...]

Bhubaneswar, April 27 (IANS) Well-known Odia film star Anubhav Mohanty Saturday joined Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal, the party said. He joined the party in a simple function at Naveen Niwas, the official residence of the chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik. The development will help the party, Patnaik [...]