May 19, 2013

Brief Scorecard: Sunrisers Hyderabad 132 for 5 (Parthiv 47, Dhawan 42, Abdulla 3-29) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 130 for 7 (Yusuf 49*, Steyn 2-24) by five wickets

Darren Sammy finished the game off with two consecutive sixes, but there was much tension before that

May 19, 2013

LONDON: NRI steel baron Lakshmi Mittal on Sunday said he was able to prove his principal wrong when he topped Saint Xavier's College in Calcutta even though he was earlier denied admission for not being fluent in English.

May 19, 2013

NEW DELHI: In the wake of controversy over spot-fixing in IPL matches, the sports ministry has started holding consultations with the law ministry to draft a new law to deal with betting in sports.

"Yes, I talked to (sports minister) Jitendra Singh.... We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law minister Kapil Sibal said on Sunday.

May 19, 2013

Raha Moharrak, 25, was joined by 34 other foreigners and 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides who made the treacherous climb from the highest camp to the peak of the mountain, at 29,035 feet.

May 19, 2013

SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said.

The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating.

On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when cross-border tensions remain high.