The exposure-starved Indian football team will take on higher-ranked Tajikistan in an international friendly here on Wednesday, in what will be their first show of strength in more than six months.

Amid a spurt in tensions over incidents along the LoC, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a “new beginning” in ties with India so that all outstanding issues can be settled in a “friendly manner.”

Suspected Islamic militants wearing Army uniforms gunned down at least 44 worshippers at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a string of attacks blamed on radical extremists.

Heavy exchange of fire erupted on the border as Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire yet again Tuesday morning — the eight in the last four days — targeting Indian Border posts in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi, the first Indian to win two back-to-back World Cup gold medals, was Tuesday recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, while star cricketer Virat Kohli was among the 14 sportspersons picked for the Arjuna award by the selection committee here.

Upping the ante on Robert Vadra’s controversial land deals in Haryana, BJP Tuesday termed it as a “serious case of fraud with a nationalised bank.”

Rahul Dravid and G.R. Vishwanath are among the 12 Karnataka players picked by former India wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani in his personal list of the state’s greatest ever in Test cricket.

A 32-year-old married woman allegedly committed suicide on Monday morning by jumping from her seventh floor apartment at a residential complex in Vijay Nagar area here, the police said.

The mass extinction of big animals in the Amazon region 12,000 years ago is behind loss of soil nutrients, Oxford scientists say, warning of further damage if gigantic creatures like elephants disappe

The Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over Russia earlier in 2013, injuring more than 1000 people, was not a one-off, there are 20 more lurking on a similar path, Spanish astronomers have warned.