Former Pakistan captain and pace legend Wasim Akram has requested the Indian cricket board (BCCI) to allow Pakistani players to participate in the cash-rich Indian Premier League.

Former couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand are reportedly planning to reconcile their relationship. The 37-year-old funnyman, who was married to the pop star, is said to be nursing the Firework hitmaker through her painful break-up with John Mayer, reported Radar online.

A special CBI court today granted interim bail to former UP Health Secretary Pradeep Shukla and two others in the multi-crore NRHM scam case.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) today released the latest edition of consolidated FDI policy incorporating the changes made in the regulations over the past one year.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today expressed grief at the death of senior Congress leader and former minister Kumud Ranjan Jha.

Rescuers continued to recover more bodies from the debris of the seven-storey illegal under- construction building that collapsed in Shil Phata area, taking the death toll to 72 today.

Senior cricketers Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh were omitted while Jammu and Kashmir all-rounder Parveez Rasool was today named in India’s 30-member probables list for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in England in June this year.

US President Barack Obama has praised Indian-American Kamala Harris for her brilliance and also described her as the “best-looking” attorney-general in the United States, a comment that has created a

Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal, arrested earlier this week at a Florida airport for allegedly carrying drugs, has been released on bond.

Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected the farthest Type Ia supernova ever seen which is believed to have exploded more than 10 billion years ago.