Out-of-favour players Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Gautam Gambhir were on Tuesday handed a lifeline for staging a comeback to the national team as they were included in the India A squad for two four-day games against visiting West Indies A next month.

India’s leading squash players Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa will look to make a mark in the main round of the $50,000 CIMB Malaysian Open at Petaling Jaya on Wednesday.

Kathmandu, Sept. 10: Having notched up a morale-boosting semi-final victory over the Maldives, defending champions India will try to maintain their supremacy in the Saff Football Championship when they take Afghanistan in the summit clash here on Wednesday.

India will host the 2015 edition of the Saff tournament, it was decided in the executive committee meeting of the South Asian body here on Tuesday.

Ace shooter and former Olympic Silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today decided to take a shot at politics as he joined the BJP after taking voluntary retirement from the Indian Army.

Pakistan today said it has decided “in principle” to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, to facilitate the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.

Pakistan Tuesday said it has decided “in principle” to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, to facilitate the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.

Cutting across party lines, political leaders today demanded death penalty for the four convicts in December 16 gangrape case, saying the punishment should set a precedent so that nobody dares to even think of committing such an act.

Delhi police Tuesday came in for special praise for using scientific investigation techniques in the probe into the December 16 gangrape case by a city court which convicted the four men after a fast track trial.

After three days, curfew was relaxed Tuesday for two hours in violence-hit areas of the district where communal clashes have left 38 people dead.