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Sports Minister Ajay Maken has promised government help to cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States to recover from lung cancer. "Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and nature of help required. Government should & will help him," Maken tweeted. Yuvraj, who played ... Read More

England are in pursuit of an unlikely 324 to win the final Test against Pakistan and avoid a humiliating 3-0 whitewash in Dubai. Day One Recap: Azhar's painstaking career-best 157 spanned six sessions and almost nine hours, before the number three was ninth out in Pakistan's 365 all out on the third ... Read More

The rupee moved up by 9 paise to trade at 48.60 against the dollar on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market in early trade today on increased foreign fund inflows. Dealers said increased foreign funds inflows and euro's gains against the US currency in the overseas market supported the rupee. The rupee had ... Read More

Western and Arab states voiced outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, and Washington vowed harsher sanctions against Damascus. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the veto a "travesty". It ... Read More

President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and al-Qaida targets within Pakistan -- operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged. When asked about the use of drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama said "a ... Read More

Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani today left for the US after the Supreme Court eased travel restrictions that were imposed on him after he was implicated in the memo scandal. Haqqani travelled from the Prime Minister's House, where he was living for the past few weeks, to the ... Read More

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday further eased tension in the country's worst crisis in civilian-military ties since a 1999 coup by lifting a travel ban on a former envoy to Washington, who angered the generals after the emergence of a murky memo. Husain Haqqani was barred from leaving the country in ... Read More

It has been a nightmarish series for England, the recently-crowned No.1 team in Test cricket. Since the coronation, they have been humiliated and exposed in their very first away series by a resurgent Pakistan. The annihilation of the English side is indicative of the fact that no side in today’s ... Read More