St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda: West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite will miss the upcoming T20 international series in Pakistan over security concerns, while wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was given a recall on Thursday.

The 29-year-old Brathwaite, who famously hit four consecutive sixes off England's Ben Stokes

Benghazi: At least eight people, including civilians, were killed late Thursday in a suicide car bombing of a security barricade in the east of Libya, the second such attack in less than a month, local security and hospital sources said.

A suicide attacker exploded his vehicle at a barricade manned by forces loyal

Miami: Sloane Stephens battled into the WTA Miami Open final for the first time here Thursday, recovering from a set down to beat former world number one Victoria Azarenka for the second tournament in succession.

It was an impressive display by the reigning US Open champion, who booked her place i

Mumbai: The domestic banking sector reported a total of 12,553 fraud cases worth Rs 18,170 crore in fiscal 2016-17, with state-run Bank of Maharashtra registering the highest number of such cases, says a report.

While Bank of Maharashtra reported 3,893 cases of fraud, private sector lender ICICI Bank came a close

New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare today called off his hunger strike on the seventh day of his protest here, saying the government has assured him of steps "soon" towards appointing Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in the states and addressing agrarian issues he flagged by him.

At the venue at Ra

New Delhi: Senior-most Supreme Court judge, Justice J Chelameswar, has shot off a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) asking him to consider convening a full court to take up the issue of alleged executive interference in judiciary.

Justice Chelameswar, in his letter written on March 21, cautioned that &quo

New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will announce the new exam dates in the next couple of days.

The re-examination has been necessitated after the papers of the Economics exam of class XII held on March 26 and

Sydney: Steve Smith started crying as he reflected on the effect his involvement in a ball-tampering plot had on his parents, and he apologised for the pain he's brought onto them and to the Australian public.

In an emotional news conference shortly after touching down in Sydney following his 12-month ban from

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The 27-hour countdown for Thursday's launch of an Indian rocket carrying strategic communication satellite GSAT-6A was progressing smoothly, an ISRO official said.

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation, the real time systems check operations have been completed.

The c

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a rare move, imposed a penalty of 589 million rupees ($9.04 million) on ICICI Bank Ltd, the country's third-biggest lender, for failure to adhere to held-to-maturity (HTM) guidelines.

The penalty is for non-compliance with directions issued by the Reserve