London: England all-rounder Ben Stokes, accused of involvement in an altercation outside a nightclub that cost him his place on the Ashes tour, pleaded not guilty to a charge of affray in court on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old, who missed the trip to Australia after being suspended from playing for England, appeared at

New Delhi: India's top gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been forced out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games owing to the career-threatening knee injury she picked up last year, her coach Bisweshwar Nandi said today.

"She is not yet ready for a tournament like the Commonwealth Games. So, the target is to make her

Islamabad: Pakistan has quietly amended its anti-terror laws to ban those listed as terrorists by the United Nations, a move which paves the way for Islamabad to proceed against suspected masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The change was made by President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday, and published by the law mi

Agartala: Tripura has never seen a campaign like this, at least he cannot recall, says Mithun Ghosh, a government employee in his 40s, of the BJP's relentless, star- studded electioneering to breach this Left bastion of over 25 years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the north-eastern state last week a

Chennai:  Devotees thronged Shiva temples across Tamil Nadu today on the occasion of Mahashivarathri.

Special prayers were held in Shaivite shrines in various parts of the state, including Chennai, Tiruvannamalai, Kancheepuram, Chidambaram and Viruthunagar.

People turned up in Shiva temple

Srinagar: Two holed up LeT militants, involved in a failed terror bid on a CRPF camp here, were killed on Tuesday in a nearly 30-hour-long gunfight, police said.

"While one was gunned down as he came out of the under-construction building to get into another adjacent building, the other was trapped and killed

Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan paid a visit to Bollywood veteran Dilip Kumar at his home.

Shah Rukh had last dropped by the legend's residence when he was discharged from the hospital last August following treatment for dehydration and urinary tract infection.

Faisal Farooqui, a family fr

Washington: China is coercing its neighbours to reorder the Indo-Pacific region, the Pentagon told Congress in its annual budget proposals for fiscal 2019, beginning October 1 this year.

Trump administration today released their proposal for the fiscal year 2019 budget.

Fiscal years are different from ca

Sydney: A British warship will sail from Australia through the disputed South China Sea next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing.

China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets into islands and ins

Port Elizabeth: Pacer Andile Phehlukwayo today said South African batsmen will go into the fifth ODI as a more confident unit, having learnt from their mistakes against the Indian spinners.

For the first time in the series, the Indian wrist spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav took a beating and proved