It may have needed the intervention of the Prime Minister’s Office to ensure the Faislabad Wolves would travel to India for the Champions League in the first place, but Pakistan’s domestic T20 champions have found their troubles are far from over.

Maintaining that the nomination of a “divisive” leader like Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate will help the UPA to return to power for a third term, the Congress on Sunday accused that the saffron poster boy is “desperate” to grab the top job in the country.

The government’s move to fill up vacancies in the Indian Police Service appears to have got stalled after the Limited Competitive Examination to laterally induct young police, paramilitary and Army officers into the force has run into rough weather.

Prasad Raju-trained Dandelion, who won two races this season, is well prepared to claim the K. Srinivas Reddy Memorial Cup, the main event of the races to be held on Monday. False rails are up.

The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s speech at a massive rally at Rewari in Haryana on Sunday — where he heaped praise on the secular ethos of the Army, criticised the policies of the UPA government that he said had resulted in Pakistani cross-border raids and Chinese transgressions, as well as raised the ex-servicemen demand for one-rank-one-pension (OROP) — has drawn praise and applause from a large section of ex-servicemen.

Israel on Sunday categorically stated that it would not supply weapon systems and military hardware to Pakistan and asserted that its policy with to regard to that was clear and strict. India is the largest purchaser of Israel’s security equipment.

Ananta Vatsalya-trained Kohinoor Wish was well ridden by S. John to win the AP Chief Minister’s Cup, the main event of races held here on Sunday.

Shares of Ranbaxy Laboratories today nosedived by over 30 per cent, making investors poorer by Rs 5,855 crore, after the US Food and Drug Administration issued an import alert on drugs produced by the company at its Mohali plant in Punjab.

The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex today erased a strong early start to close just 10 points up after inflation soared to a six-month high, leaving investors concerned the RBI has little room to cut interest rates.

The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s speech at a massive rally at Rewari in Haryana on Sunday — where he heaped praise on the secular ethos of the Army, criticised the policies of the UPA government that he said had resulted in Pakistani cross-border raids and Chinese transgressions, as well as raised the ex-servicemen demand for one-rank-one-pension (OROP) — has drawn praise and applause from a large section of ex-servicemen.