Liverpool: Liverpool swept Manchester City aside with a three-goal blitz in 19 first-half minutes to take a commanding 3-0 first leg lead in their Champions League quarter-final.

Champions-elect City lead Liverpool by 18 points in the Premier League, but their only league defeat this season came in a 4-3 thriller

Gold Coast (Australia): Gururaja bagged the first medal for India at the 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games with silver in the men's 56 kilogram category here on Thursday.

Gururaja had a best attempt of 111 kg in the snatch and 138 kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 249 kg.

Izhar Ahmed of Ma

Barcelona: Barcelona can start planning for the Champions League semi-finals but their 4-1 win over Roma on Wednesday will not necessarily have rivals quivering in their boots. 

Two own-goals, from Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolas, and a close-range finish from Gerard Pique, presented the Catalans with a f

Washington: Facebook said Wednesday the personal data of up to 87 million users was improperly shared with British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, as Mark Zuckerberg defended his leadership at the huge social network.

Facebook's estimate was far higher than news reports suggesting 50 million us

Tiruchirapalli: The Centre is committing a "blunder" by not forming the Cauvery Management Board, Tamil actor and Makkal Neethi Maiyam president Kamal Haasan said today.

Haasan said the centre and various political parties were diverting the attention of the people from the main issue of forming the

Brussels: Britain and Russia accused each other of duplicity and untrustworthiness today, with London rejecting any possibility of a joint probe involving Moscow into the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in England.

At a special meeting to discuss the case at the Organization for the Prohibition of

Patna: The opposition RJD in Bihar today attacked the Nitish Kumar government for failure to check communal tensions and charged the Chief Minister with having "surrendered" before his ally, the BJP.

Releasing a 72-page "charge sheet", the leader of the opposition in the state assembly Tej

New Delhi: Jet Airways will purchase 75 narrow body Boeing 737 planes worth nearly USD 8.8 billion as the airline seeks to bolster its presence in the fast growing domestic aviation market.

Already, the full service carrier has an order for 75 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and their delivery is scheduled to start b

Jodhpur: A Jodhpur court will tomorrow pronounce its verdict in the 1998 black buck poaching case against actor Salman Khan and others.

Final arguments of the case were completed in the trial court on March 28, after which Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri had reserved the judgment.

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Islamabad: The UN Security Council's updated list of terrorists and militant groups has 139 entries from Pakistan alone, including outfits like Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed's Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to a media report.

The list, headed by Osama bin Laden's heir apparent Ayman al-Zawahi