Adil Rashid faced further pressure ahead of his controversial recall to the England Test side for their series opener against India at Edgbaston when it was announced Tuesday he would be the lone specialist spinner in their XI.
Gunmen stormed a government building in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, taking dozens of hostages after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance gate, officials and witnesses said.
An Israeli court jailed an Israeli Arab poet for five months on Tuesday after convicting her of incitement to terrorism for a poem and remarks she posted on social media during a wave of Palestinian street attacks.
Beijing considers democratic Taiwan to be a wayward province of "one China", ineligible for state-to-state relations and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control.
Abhay Singh, one of the athletes in the boat racing squad, had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against the IOA's decision to not send a team of the water sport at the Games as it did not meet the eligibility criteria.
With less than four months to go for the men's hockey World Cup, the Odisha government has launched a 360 degree nation-wide publicity campaign to bring fans closer to the sport.
Reportedly, Amit was tested in Finland during the exposure trip in June. The tests were conducted by Finland's anti-doping agency on the directions of the Athletes' Integrity Unit of the IAAF.
England cannot expect to bully a much-improved India captain Virat Kohli in their five-match Test series that begins at Edgbaston on Wednesday, pace bowler James Anderson said.
Someone who can conquer all conditions is no doubt a complete player. So much talk ahead of the five-Test series has been on Virat's inability to tackle seam and bounce on the 2014 tour, that it's easy to forget that there will be 10 other players playing along with him.
The Indian men's hockey team will round off its preparations for the upcoming Asian Games with an 11-day camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bengaluru starting on Wednesday.
For India to win the series this time around both batsmen will have to turn a corner in form and application. While the team management is singing praises for Pujara, it is believed that Rahul could bat at number three, if the Dhawan-Vijay opening combination is retained.
India's tour to New Zealand early next year, which will comprise five ODIs and three T20 Internationals, will start with the first One-day International in Napier on January 23.
Indian athletes who take part in non-affiliated sports can now breathe easy. The Sports Ministry has stepped in and assured athletes and federations of non-affiliated sports who were selected to participate in the upcoming Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia that all expenses for their uniforms will be borne by the Ministry.
Iranian leadership has previously ruled out one-on-one talks with Trump after his decision to pull the United States out of the deal under which Iran was given relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth notched up comfortable victories over their respective opponents to make an impressive start at the BWF World Championships on Tuesday.
Ratchanok Intanon survived a major scare at badminton's World Championships as the fourth seed battled back from the brink of a shock early exit on Tuesday.
An emotional Andy Murray made a triumphant return to hardcourts Monday in his first match on the surface for nearly 17 months, outlasting Mackenzie McDonald at the ATP Washington Open.
Dale Steyn admits overtaking Shaun Pollock to become South Africa's highest wicket-taker has become something of a millstone around his neck but he is determined to prove he still has lot more to offer than merely claiming a 422nd Test victim.
Japan's Kei Nishikori, back on form after a torn right wrist tendon, returns to the scene of his most recent outdoor title hoping to launch another strong US Open run.
Indian fast bowlers have used the English conditions to produce some memorable displays. TOI lists its top 5.
At the start of the year, the Indian cricket team had three major challenges ahead of them and if they overcame those then they would indisputably be the No. 1 ranked team in the eyes of the whole cricketing world.
Yet to taste a win, India have huffed and puffed their way into the next stage of the Women's Hockey World Cup in London. From here on, though, nothing but a win will take them ahead. To accomplish that, Rani Rampal & Co need to do an 'Italian job' and send the team that has been the tournament's revelation, home.
TOI looks at how the 2014 English summer panned out for India, one in which they promised a lot in the beginning and then lost steam.
If the current prolonged hot weather in England continues, the upcoming series may well be played on dry and dusty pitches, more akin to the surfaces that are found in India, rather than traditional green English seamers.
Former India captain and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar feels that the Indian team is very strong at the moment. At least on paper, they look very good.
Neymar has insisted his on-field antics during the World Cup 2018 were not because he fell too much, but because he "crumbled" as the Brazilian admitted he can be a "brat" and "piss people off ".
Hard work and peak fitness are the major concerns for world number two Caroline Wozniacki as she starts her first run to the US Open as a Grand Slam champion.
In a controversial move, after first selecting non-affiliated sports to be part of the Indian contingent for the upcoming Jakarta Asian Games, the Indian Olympic Association has now asked them to foot the bill of their athletes' ceremonial uniforms and training and competition kits.
"India seem to have got a good variety of bowlers, especially pace bowlers, which is probably unusual. They have strength of depth in their pace bowling," said Cook ahead of the first Test.
"In England, patience is the key. It depends on the weather -- if it's sunny, it's good to bat; but if it gets cloudy, then definitely it's good for the bowlers," India's Test vice-captain said.
Indian football coach Stephen Constantine on Monday "apologised" for his unsavoury comments on the youth team's performance in the FIFA U-17 World Cup last year.
Global footballers' union FIFPro says that at least 15 World Cup players have taken part in UEFA club competitions less than four weeks after returning from Russia, leaving without a sufficient close season break.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with the Commonwealth Games 2018 medal-winning paddlers, including Manika Batra and Achanta Sharath Kamal.
The report released on Monday on the disappearance four years ago of the airliner during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board shed little fresh light on one of the biggest mysteries of modern aviation history.
The evidence obtained this month is the latest to suggest ongoing activity in North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities despite talks with the United States and a June summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
First came record rainfall. Disaster authorities say at least 220 people were killed early in the month by severe flooding and landslides in western Japan, with nine more still missing and presumed dead. That was followed by record temperatures topping 40 degrees Centigrade (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The heat has been blamed for 116 deaths.
More than 500 hikers and their guides have been successfully evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain, an official said Tuesday.
While the main areas of Mueller's investigation are Russia's actions during the 2016 presidential election and any attempts by Trump to obstruct justice, none of those topics are expected to come up in Manafort's trial. In fact, prosecutors said last week they don't expect the word "Russia" to be mentioned at all.
Presiding Judge Aris Bawono Langgeng told the South Jakarta District Court on Tuesday that the network of almost two dozen extremist groups is a "forbidden corporation."
The overture marks a significant shift in tone and comes as Trump and the Iranians have been escalating their rhetoric following Trump's May withdrawal from the landmark Iran nuclear accord.
The number of elderly people committing suicide in Singapore reached a record high last year, a non-government group said today, urging stronger support for the over 60s in the rapidly ageing city-state.
The hashtag, which echoes the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, was created by Ali Can, a 24-year-old journalist of Turkish descent, following the furore over Turkish-German soccer star Mesut Ozil's recent resignation from the German national team.
Before Karman, Sania Mirza, Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao and Ankita Raina had made it to top-200 in WTA rankings.
Indian shuttler HS Prannoy dished out a commanding performance to storm into the second round of the World Badminton Championships at Nanjing, China on Monday.
Bolstered by the campaign-saving draw against a mighty USA, the Indian women's hockey team will fancy its chances against lower-ranked Italy in the cross-over World Cup match on Tuesday.
In a lopsided first game of the five-match series in Colombo on Monday, the Indian colts won by six wickets after bowling out the hosts for 143.
Be angry and challenge Virat Kohli, urged former captain Michael Vaughan to an English side hosting an ambitious India, for long seeking to shed the poor travellers' tag, in a highly-anticipated Test series.