Toronto, Aug 16 : Top ranked women’s doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis suffered a shocking semi-final defeat against fourth seeded pair of Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.Mirza and Hingis endured a 3-6, 2-6 blow against the French-Slovenian duo in a contest that lasted almost an hour.The […]
Dubai, Aug.16 : Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has moved three places to ninth in the ICC Test Rankings for bowlers, while Shikhar Dhawan vaulted 15 places to a career-high 32nd in the rankings for batsmen, despite India losing the opening Test match against Sri Lanka by 63 runs in Galle.Ashwin claimed match figures of 10 for […]
Attock, Aug. 16 : Punjab Home Minister Colonel (Retd.) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack on his political office in Shadi Khan village near Attock today.Dr. Syed Elahi, advisor to the chief minister of Punjab, confirmed his death, the Dawn reports.Khanzada, who assumed charge of the Punjab Home Ministry in October last year, […]
Bangkok, Aug.16 : Authorities in Sri Lanka should ensure that voters have safe and secure access to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections on August 17, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today.Local monitoring groups have reported numerous incidents of election-related violence and campaigning irregularities in the month leading up to the nationwide polls.The Centre […]
Bhopal, Aug. 16: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to register its victory in all 16 municipal corporations in Madhya Pradesh today.BJP’s Mukesh Tandon won from the Vidisha municipal corporation. BJP’s Meena Jonwal from Ujjain has also registered victory.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan expressed his delight with the BJP’s splendid show in […]