India seamer Zaheer Khan announces his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He will, however, continue to play in the IPL for one more season.

The influence of the Islamic State group extends well beyond the land it controls in Syria and Iraq, reaching recruits around the world, including the Asia-Pacific region.

Terming former enclave dwellers as the sons, citizens and, near and dear ones of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assures them that her government would do whatever necessary for their overall welfare.

This is not the first time the cow has become mixed up with politics. Conflicts over cow slaughter sparked religious riots in India.

Margaret Atwood and Stephen Fry are among the authors who will be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival.

The news of a mob in Dadri, a UP village in India of beating to death an individual suspected of cow slaughter would have been normally viewed just as another communal incident.

India beat South Africa by 22 runs in the second ODI in Indore and level the 5-match ODI series 1-1.

Customs officials confiscate Indian currency worth over Rs 68 lakh at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong.

An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.

Brazilian football legend Pele has named Lionel Messi as the greatest footballer of the last decade, as he also paid tribute to Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo.

South Africa captain AB de Villiers is fined 40% of his match fee for maintaining a slow over rate during the first ODI against India in Kanpur, while his team-mates are docked 20% of their match fees.

Right-wing Hindu protesters in the Indian city of Mumbai douse a political activist in black ink to protest at the launch of a book by a former Pakistani foreign minister.

The whisper is now growing louder that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is no more the middle-order finisher who could single-handedly get India over the line.

The legislator was full of outrage when he arrived in the north Indian village days after the killing of a Muslim farmer who was rumored to have slaughtered cows. A Hindu mob had smashed through the heavy wooden door to the man's home, then beat him to death with his wife's sewing machine.

South Africa beat India by five runs in the first ODI of the five-match series at Kanpur of India.

Rangana Herath says he won't make any decision on how long to carry on playing until after the end of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India.

Lawmakers from India's ruling Hindu nationalist party in Kashmir kicked and punched an independent member of the state assembly on Thursday for hosting a party where he served beef.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troopers have gunned down a Bangladeshi man near Fatehpur frontier in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj.

An Indian court dismisses allegations against a former Delhi minister's pet dog, Don the labrador.

Indian car designer Sudhakar Yadav has attempted to set a second Guinness record by building what he hopes will be the largest car in the world.