Top seeds Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black breezed into the semifinals of Wimbledon’s mixed doubles event with a facile straight set win over 11th seeded Andre Sa and Ai Sugiyama on Thursday.
The Indo-Zimbabwean duo needed a little over an hour to swamp the Sa-Sugiyama pair 6-3, 6-3 in the lop-sided quarterfinal match.
In the semifinals, they will …
Security concerns has once again come to haunt 20-20 World Champions, as Pakistan’s home series against New Zealand is all set to be held at neutral venues.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where Pakistan staged their one-day series against Australia in May this year, have emerged as favourites to host the series against New Zealand.
”Pakistan would be playing three Tests and …
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee began presenting her ministry’s budget for the current fiscal shortly after noon Friday with the promise of addressing the concerns of average passengers.
“People all over the country have high expectations from the railway budget,” Banerjee told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, switching between English and Hindi.
She started with a question if Indian Railways, …
A suspected US drone aircraft fired three missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan’s restive tribal district of South Waziristan on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 15 people, an intelligence official said.
The missiles reportedly hit the house of a Taliban sympathiser in Kokat Khel village of the district’s Ladha area at around 10.45 a.m. (0445 GMT), demolishing the …
Major rivers in north Bihar, especially the Kosi, Gandak, Budhi and Bagmati, are in spate following heavy rains in their catchment areas and are posing a threat of floods, officials said Friday.
With heavy rainfall recorded in the catchments areas in neighbouring Nepal, the water levels of these rivers have been rising to dangerous levels for the last two days.
“The Bagmati …
Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat who played a key role in strengthening the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in bordering districts of India’s West Bengal state has been arrested, the police said.
He operated for two-and-a-half-years in Murshidabad, Nadia and Malda districts of West Bengal on the instructions of JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his deputy, Siddiqul Islam …
The World Bank Group committed US$6.6 billion in fiscal year ended June 30 to South Asia, where India is the largest borrower, much of it focused on helping the countries there cope with the impact of the global economic crisis.
Key to the Bank’s strategy in South Asia is scaling up existing programmes that are delivering results, the group said Thursday.
In …
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s supermodel girlfriend Bar Refaeli appeared nude in an online video promotion for an art exhibition in Israel.
The 24-year-old Israeli model writhes around on a sofa with a sheet barely covering her body parts in a new black and white video, reported dailystar.co.uk.
Hollywood star George Clooney has ended his long-standing business partnership with Warner Bros and has inked a new deal with Sony.
Clooney found fame after starring in hit medical drama “ER”, a TV show produced by Warner Bros in 1994. He went on to set up his production firm, Smokehouse Pictures, with friend Grant Heslov in 2006, but after three years …
Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has been dubbed “ridiculous” by her “Transformers 2″ director Michael Bay after she slammed the movie in an interview.
Fox took a swipe at the sequel in an interview, describing it as “not a movie about acting”, reported contactmusic.com.
After the interview, Bay claimed that Fox has “growing to do”.
“Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very …
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