The Bharatiya Janata Party remained a house divided as the party went ahead and named Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general polls in the meeting of its parliamentary board on Friday evening.

The life ban slapped on promising Mumbai left-arm spinner Ankeet Chavan has left his longtime coach Satish Samant shocked. Chavan has also brought a bad name to Mumbai Cricket Association considering its rich heritage and impressive past record.

Having spent sleepless nights ever since his name cropped up in the IPL spot fixing scandal, young left-arm spinner Harmeet Singh finally heaved a sigh of relief on Friday with the disciplinary committee of the BCCI deciding to close the case in the absence of evidence against him.

Losing power was like being “hit by a fist”, Australia’s first female prime minister Julia Gillard said Saturday, recounting the pain of being dumped by her party.

The four men convicted of the gruesome gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student inside a moving bus last December were awarded the death sentence by a city court on Friday. The court had held all four guilty on Tuesday and reserved the order on the quantum of punishment for Friday.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed that Gareth Bale will make his long awaited debut for the club against Villarreal on Saturday night.

One of the defence lawyers in the December 16 gangrape case has courted trouble with his remarks that he would have burnt alive his daughter had she been having premarital sex and moving around at night with her boyfriend.

With the anointment of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, saffron corridors are agog with speculation over the fate of BJP patriarch L.K. Advani — the man who fought till the last to prevent the inevitable.

Mallesh Narredu-trained Javelin holds a thin edge over rest of the contenders in the Fourth Estate Trophy (Div-I), the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said BJP was on the path of destruction, a day after Narendra Modi was anointed as its prime ministerial candidate, and asserted that India will never accept a “divisive” figure.