Melbourne: Stung by a prolonged losing streak in what has turned out to be a nightmarish tour, a hapless India will now look to avoid a Twenty20 whitewash when they lock horns with Australia in the second match here today....

Dubai: England captain Andrew Strauss disagreed the lucrative Indian league was a distraction for his team which faces a 3-0 defeat against Pakistan in the third and final Test starting from Friday. ...

KOCHI: Doubles will be top priority for the next few months for Sania Mirza as she focuses on the 2012 Olympic Games, where she hopes to win a medal for India in mixed-doubles. Sania, who returned to competition in January, expressed doubt about whether her body could take on the weight of a full-scale singles and doubles schedule at this point, because of which she has decided to train her guns on the team campaign...

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court will not direct the Nanavati-Mehta commission to summon chief minister Narendra Modi and question him about the 2002 Gujarat riots. Civil rights organization Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) had filed an application demanding that Modi be called by the commission for cross-examination...

New Delhi: The body of Balraj Singh Gill, a Deputy Superintendent of Police of Punjab Police, has been recovered at a farmhouse near Ludhiana...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear final arguments in the objectionable online content case. Several social networking websites, including Google and Facebook, had approached the court requesting it to quash the trial court's order, which summoned them earlier....

Washington:  Noting that India is increasingly getting concerned about China's posture on its border, a top US intelligence official on Wednesday said that the Indian Army is strengthening itself for a "limited conflict" with China....

London: Four al-Qaeda inspired Britons today pleaded guilty to plotting a Mumbai-style attack on the London Stock Exchange, the American embassy and other targets during the run up to Christmas in 2010.....

Washington, Feb 2 : The US on Wednesday  said it has “long standing concerns” over ISI’s links with the Taliban and wants Pakistan to “cut-off” those ties, hours after a NATO report blew the lid off the intelligence agency’s “manipulation” of Afghan Taliban’s senior leadership....

LONDON: McLaren vowed to avoid a repeat of last year's troubled winter testing as they unveiled the car which will carry the hopes of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button into the new Formula One  season on Wednesday....