Pietersen eyes series whitewash against India
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Birmingham, Aug 15: Former skipper Kevin Pietersen is not satisfied with England's number one Test rankings and said he wants his team to have more killer instinct and become the most intimidating side in world. Leading 2-0, England thrashed India by an innings and 242 runs in the third More
BCCI top brass to take action
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Mumbai, Aug 15: Concerned by India's humiliating series loss against England, the BCCI left it to its president and secretary to decide the future course of action and work out remedial measures to check the team's slide. The BCCI's working committee, which met on Monday barely three days MoreEngland can surpass Aussie team of late 90s & early 2000s: Warne
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
London, Aug 15: Spin legend Shane Warne feels that the world number one England have the capability to surpass the outstanding bunch of Australian players of the late 1990s and early 2000s and dominate the world. "This current group of England players could become better than all those Australian More
Ricky Ponting hails England's rise to top
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
London, Aug 15: Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has hailed England's ascendancy to the top of Test rankings after their recent thrashing of India at Edgbaston. Ponting, who stepped down as captain earlier this year after becoming the only Australian skipper to lose three Ashes campaigns MoreICC mace to be handed to Strauss
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
London, Aug 15: India's nearly 20-month reign as world number one Test side will formally come to an end when England captain Andrew Strauss is handed the ICC Mace after the end of the fourth and final Test of the series. Strauss will receive the ICC Mace in recognition of England's new status MoreSania, Somdev move up in ranking chart
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 15: Sania Mirza and Somdev Devvarman improved their singles ranking by a few places although their poor run just got extended as they failed to make the main draw of the Cincinnati WTA and ATP events.Sania gained a place to be 64 while Somdev moved two places up to 63 in the latest More- Kashmir
Islamabad roads in shambles
‘Successive regimes victimized us’
KHALID GUL
Islamabad (Anantnag), Aug 15: Residents of this south Kashmir town are up in arms against the Government. They allege that successive regimes have ignored the area and they have been victimized. & More
- Srinagar City
Govt prefers traffic policing on VIP roads, forgets others
Mere 80 locations manned by men in blue, 120 other spots unattended
M HYDERI
Srinagar, Aug 15: Believe it or not! The government seems to be concerned about traffic regulation only on the roads frequented by the VIPs, while other busy spots generally used by the Aam Aadmi alone More
- Jammu
Govt pushing state towards chaos, confusion: Mehbooba
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, Aug 15: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Monday lambasted the coalition government led by Omar Abdullah for its “anti-people and anti-youth policies” which she said has More
- South Asia
Bangladesh remembers Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
ANISUR RAHMAN/PTI
Dhaka, Aug 15: Thousands of people, led by President Zilur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, paid homage to Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was assassinated 36 years year More
- World
Obama's approval rating hits record low
AGENCIES
Washington, Aug 15: US President Barack Obama's job approval rating has sunk below 40 percent for the first time, according to a new Gallup daily tracking poll. The survey, made public late Sunday More


