ICC scraps Champions Trophy, schedules back to back World T20s...

Kolkata: The Afghanistan cricket team will not engage in Test matches against India in the new Future Tours Programme (FTP) for 2019-2023 but will take on top teams like England and Australia in the next four years, its Cricket Board CEO Shafiq Stanikzai ...

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with leaders of other Commonwealth nations in London. Photograph: Press Information Bureau of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday joined other heads of government for the leaders' retreat at Windsor Castle, which will conclude the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the United Kingdom. The closed-door meetings comprise the informal segment of CHOGM, where the leaders meet without any pre-set agenda and without the presence of ...

[United States], April 15 (ANI): United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Saturday said that the US is "locked and loaded" in an event of a chemical attack by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. While addressing a United Nations Security ...

"I want to let the world know that the hijab is never an obstacle for a woman who wants to achieve the impossible.""I want to start a sports academy for children. I want to continue what I am doing and make my husband, parents and country proud." Majizhiya Bhanu reveals the inspiration behind her journey and her plans for the future. Majizhiya Bhanu was awarded 'the strongwoman of Kerala 2017' by the Kerala State Powerlifting Association.All photographs: Kind courtesy Majizhiya Bhanu A ...

Pipped by Poland in the race to host the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, India is "thinking" of placing a bid for hosting the 2023 AFC Asian Cup and a Woman's World Cup in the near future.India's bid to host the next U-20 tournament ended in disappointment after ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the ban's lifting on stadiums in Basra, Karbala and Erbil at the FIFA Council Meeting in Bogota on Friday. IMAGE: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Photograph: Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/via Reuters Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi welcomed a decision from soccer's world governing body FIFA to lift a ban on hosting competitive international soccer matches at stadiums in three Iraqi cities.Abadi congratulated the Iraqi people and the ...

About a quarter century ago there was a heated debate inside the World Bank if it should invest in telephone poles in India, the banks current president Jim Yong Kim has said as he spoke about the challenges before the global lender to find new models of ...

The International Cricket Council on Friday appointed PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi as the ICC board's first independent female director. Nooyi will join the world cricket governing body in June 2018 to align with the term of the ICC Independent ...

It has been two-and-a-half centuries since Adam Smith laid down the foundation of free-market economic theory in his 'Wealth of Nations'. And in comes Surjit Bhalla, member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Economic Advisoty Council, to tell us that ...