Mahindra United bid adieu to professional football in style, defeating JCT 2-1 in their final I-League encounter at the Cooperage here on Thursday. First half goals from Sukhwinder Singh (33rd minute) and Paresh Shivalkar (43rd) gave the Mumbai outfit a 2-0 advantage at half time.

With Jharkhand reeling under another spell of political uncertainty, the top leadership of the Congress from the state on Thursday called on AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and apprised her about the latest situation there. They also discussed issues relating to Rajya Sabha nomination from the state.

Despite India’s underwhelming performance in the World T20 Championships in West Indies recently, Sachin Tendulkar feels that the current bunch are more than adequate to make amends, and that there was no need for him to turn out for India in the shortest version of the game.

The Delhi government and the Common-wealth Games Organising Committee on Thursday finalised a series of events to be staged across the city to offer a taste of country’s folklore, music and dance to the visitors during Games. The Delhi government has selected 15 venues in the city where cultural festivals will be held regularly during the course of the event to be held from October 3 to 14.

Newly-appointed British foreign secretary William Hague, who met foreign journalists in his first press conference on Thursday, made it clear that the new coalition government will not interfere in th

The southwest monsoon has not advanced much in the last few days because of lack of speedy winds but the Indian Meteorological Department is sticking to its prediction that it would set in over Kerala

The searing heat in the capital abated to some extent on Thursday even as the maximum temperature reached 43.8 degrees Celsius. Dust haze and partly cloudy sky accompanied with wind marked the latter part of the day.

A major collision between a Jet Airways plane and an IndiGo aircraft was averted on Wednesday night. The Jet Airways pilot aborted landing on seeing the IndiGo aircraft on the runway. The DGCA, however, said it was not a “near miss” but a “runway incursion”.

The file pertaining to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition is likely to be sent to Union home ministry by lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna within a week.

The Armed Forces Tribunal has severely indicted the former head of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt. Gen. Kishan Pal (Retd), for his biased annual confidential report in which he denied due credit for the Kargil operations to the then head of the 70 Infantry Brigade, Brig. Devinder Singh (Retd), and ordered that it be expunged.