New Delhi : The HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is set to feature a galaxy of international talent – including Twenty20 heavyweights Francois “Faf” du Plessis, Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum, Kumar Sangakkara and Shane Watson – who have all been confirmed into the Player Draft which is set to take place in Barbados on Thursday, […]
Johannesburg : World number two Andy Murray has revealed that he will not be watching his brother Jamie’s Australian Open men’s doubles final on Saturday, saying that he finds his brother’s matches ‘pretty stressful ‘ to watch.While praising Jamie for his consistent performance, brother Andy said that it was incredible to see both of them […]
Washington : A Senior United States General John William Nicholson, nominated to head US and NATO troops in Pakistan, has said that it is important to ‘enlist’ Pakistan for defeating terrorists in Afghanistan.Nicholson said that Pakistan’s military operations in Fata were ‘critical to defeat insurgency’, reports Dawn.Nicholson acknowledged that Pakistan’s ongoing counter terrorism operations in […]
London : Campaigners, urging Latin American governments to reconsider their policies on contraception, fear that the spread of Zika virus will lead to rise in women’s deaths from unsafe abortions as well as the predicted surge in brain-damaged babies.According to The Guardian, several governments in the region have advised women to postpone getting pregnant for […]
Kochi : Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, AVSM, VSM, took charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command ( FOC-in-C, South) here on Saturday. Vice Admiral Luthra, who was serving as Deputy Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (DCIDS – Operations) at the Naval headquarters in Delhi, took over the charge from Vice […]