India’s top 120 amateur golfers will participate in Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Challenge to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from October 15 to 19. This is the fourth edition of the international tournament which is played in a team format.

Japan began switching off the nation’s last working nuclear reactor Sunday for a routine inspection, with no immediate plan to restart it due to to public hostility towards atomic power.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the Centre plans to construct over 15 lakh houses for the urban poor. Inaugurating a `2,400-crore housing project for slum-dwellers on the outskirts of the city, he said he hopes Chandigarh would soon become India’s “first slum-free city”, as he handed over keys to newly-built flats to slum-dwellers.

Fast bowler Tendai Chatara took five wickets as Zimbabwe pulled off a dramatic 24-run win on the fifth day of the second and final Test against Pakistan at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday.

Nikhil Beniwal’s all-round show (69, 5/22) guided Apex School into the semi-finals of the 9th Parmarth U-16 cricket tournament on Saturday with an eight-run win over Vidya Jain School on Saturday.

The first ever study on the income-tax returns and statements filed by six major national political parties — Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Bahujan Samaj Party and Nationalist Congress Party — with the Election Commission, has brought forth startling revelations regarding the massive income of these parties from unknown sources.

The four-day Uttar Pradesh Assembly session, beginning on Monday will give a gruelling time to the Samajwadi government in general and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, in particular.

On a news intensive Friday — what with Narendra Modi being officially named BJP’s prime ministerial candidate amidst much melodrama and death sentences being pronounced for the four guilty of raping the Delhi ‘Braveheart’ — punishments doled out to those involved in match-fixing in the IPL last season became an also-ran story.

Delhi U-16 wicketkeeper Vasu Sharma scored a sparkling 117 to guide Star Eleven into the quarter-finals of the 2nd Mayur Cup U-17 cricket tournament on Saturday against Standford Academy, who posted a competitive 242/5 riding on Karamvir’s 85-run knock.

Central minister of state for shipping, information technology and telecommunications Milind Deora shares his views on the ongoing debate regarding the inclusion of all political parties under the ambit of RTI. He talks to this newspaper about the need for bringing in greater transparency by way of election reforms.