India’s two prominent Islamic helplines are discouraging young callers, especially women, from creating profiles and posting pictures on popular social networking websites Facebook and Twitter on the ground that it is unIslamic.

Being afflicted by polio that left both legs crippled at a tender age might mean end of active life for most, but not for 42-year-old D. Ravi who has set his eyes on a gruelling 24-hour drive to Delhi from here in a modified SUV to focus on mobility issues of differently abled.

Controversial Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie believes his time in hiding following a “fatwa” against him spurred him to write more novels.

Almost 64 per cent men believe that women should pay their share on a date, even though majority of males feel guilty accepting money from a lady, a new study has found.

The rising tension at the Line of Control has left the Pakistan Cricket Board worried about the participation of their team Faisalabad Wolves in the qualifying round of the Champions League Twenty20, to be played in India from September 17.

Australia A produced a clinical all-round performance to beat India A by 25 runs, which ensured them a place in the final of the tri-series involving A teams here on Sunday.

Former India captain Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that cricket’s influence in his life was such that the game made him a better person.

Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan has finally opened up on the Oval Gate scandal and has blamed ex-captain Inzamam-ul Haq for letting the PCB and Pakistan cricket down.

Even as controversy involving suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal refuses to die down, UP minister Azam Khan on Sunday criticised country’s bureaucrats for “behaving with people like kings”, and said civil services should have been abolished immediately after the independence.

A revenue official, posted in Hingoli district, had a narrow escape when the suspected members of a sand mining mafia allegedly tried to mow him down in Patonda village, over 200 km from here, the police said on Sunday.