Ahmedabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Gritty knocks from Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar on the fifth and the final day took India to the threshold of a draw in the first cricket ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Opener Gautam Gambhir's fine century on the fifth day raised India's hope of saving the first cricket Test and prevent Sri Lanka from winning their first Test ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 19 (IANS) India are fighting hard to prevent Sri Lanka from winning their first Test on Indian soil by giving themselves a fair chance of batting out the fifth ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday asked the government to convene an all-party meeting on the sugarcane pricing policy in the wake of opposition to the centre's ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 19 (IANS) Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir gave a good start as India made 77 for no loss in the second innings at tea after Sri Lanka declared ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 19 (IANS) A record stand of well over 300 runs between Mahela Jayawarnede and Prasanna Jayawardene took Sri Lanka to a mammoth 708 for five in the first innings ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 19 (ANI): Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene has become only the seventh batsman in Test cricket to score six or more double hundreds. He made 204 not out against India ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Tillakaratne Dilshan continued his impressive run with a fine century that guided Sri Lanka to a commanding 275 for three, in reply to India's 426, at the ...

Sydney, Nov 17(ANI): Tasmania has signed England all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas as a replacement for Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga as the team's international signing for this summer's Twenty20 Big Bash ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Tillekaratne Dilshan cracked an unbeaten half-century to put Sri Lanka in the comfort zone against India at tea on the second day of the first cricket Test ...

Ahmedabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Sri Lanka did well to restrict India to 426 in the first innings and reduced the lead to 389 by the lunch break on the second day ...

Jakarta, Nov 16(ANI): The Indonesian Government is reportedly planning to deport 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, whose boat was detained on its way to Australia last month and remains moored at the ...

Ahmedabad, Nov. 15 (ANI): Ahead of their first test match against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad, Indian cricket squad spent a couple of hours practising hard at the nets on Sunday. The match ...

Colombo, Nov.14 (ANI): Days after General Sarath Fonseka resigned as Sri Lanka's Chief of Defence Staff, his resignation letter reveals that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was so afraid of a military coup ...

Colombo, Nov 11 (IANS) Sri Lankan trade unions Tuesday decided to go ahead with their planned three-day strike to protest against the delay in pay hike. The trade unions of port, fuel, ...

By M.R. Narayan Swamy New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Tamil Tigers are finished as a military outfit but a small group of their feared suicide bombers still remain in Colombo, a top ...

Canberra (Australia), Nov.8 (ANI): Sri Lankans are using the civil war as an excuse to seek asylum abroad, the country's high commissioner to Australia has claimed.Senaka Walgampaya said many Sri Lankan asylum ...

Hyderabad, Nov 6 (IANS) The central government was not carrying out any operation against Maoist guerrillas but was only assisting states in counter-insurgency measures, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here ...

Chennai, Nov 1 (ANI): Three Malaysian teenage girls will soon be interrogated by the Interpol over their links to an international fake credit card syndicate based in South India. The teenagers have returned ...

Bhopal, Oct 30 (IANS) Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake would Saturday inaugurate a Buddhist prayer centre at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, officials said Friday. The Rs.84-million (Rs.8.4 crore) centre ...

Melbourne, Oct. 29 (ANI): Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and fast bowler Lasith Malinga are doubtful starters for Victoria and Tasmania respectively in the forthcoming Australian Twenty20 competition. Both are being ruled out ...

Luxembourg, Oct 28 (IANS) The European Union (EU) foreign ministers have expressed concern over the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and called for "an independent and credible enquiry" into alleged violation ...

Adelaide, Oct 27(ANI): South Australia have signed Pakistani all rounder Shahid Afridi as the replacement for Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis for the Twenty20 Big Bash this summer. Southern Redbacks said that Afridi ...

Kuala Lumpur, Oct 23 (DPA) At least six Sri Lankan refugees at a Malaysian detention camp have been on a hunger strike for more than seven days, demanding that they be allowed ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct 22 (IANS) Six Sri Lankan fishermen were taken into custody by marine police in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district Thursday for fishing in the Indian waters, police said. The men were fishing in ...

London, Oct 21 (ANI): Experts have raised concerns over the alcohol use in Indian men living in the UK. Although men born in India reportedly drank less than the general UK population, they ...

Toronto, Oct 21 (IANS) Even as Canada has promised to act tough with 76 Tamil asylum seekers who were seized in a ship off the Vancouver coast Saturday, reports say each man ...

New York City, Oct 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After being released from federal custody, accused insider trader Raj Rajaratnam arrived at work this morning. Earlier on Friday Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the ...

New Delhi, Oct.18 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said that India takes a long-term perspective of its relations with China and efforts are being made to narrow down differences and ...

NATIONAL 32 die in Tamil Nadu firecracker tragedy -- Lead moved at 1202 Jammu and Kashmir cricketer held in Bangalore, let off -- Lead moved at 1741, Second Lead by 1845 Two killed ...