Cibulkova won the last eight games in a one-hour, 6-3, 6-0 quarterfinal rout of No. 11-seeded Simona Halep of Romania at the Australian Open.

Federer has hired Edberg, twice a winner at Melbourne Park, to help him win more slams and the new partnership began successfully on Tuesday.

Currently, Sachin is playing his last Test match at the Wankhede stadium against the West Indies.

A visibly moved Myanmarese leader Aung San Suu Kyi received the European Union's 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights finally on Tuesday from the hands of European Parliament speaker Martin Schulz.

A Block Education Officer (BEO) was on Wednesday arrested by vigilance sleuths for allegedly taking a bribe from a man seeking attestation on a certificate of his wife in Bihar's Bhojpur district, an official said.

While Querrey will take on Melzer in the semi-finals, Dolgopolov will meet Monfils for a place in the final.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday appointed Sukhdeo Singh as his principal secretary. A 1987 batch IAS officer, Sukhdeo Singh, who is also the principal secretary with the finance department, will continue with his other posts as well till...

The 2010 Tamil film 'Singam' was remade in Hindi as the Ajay Devgn-starrer 'Singham'.

The realty sector index suffered the most by losing 5.95 per cent to 1,784.56 followed by capital goods by 5.19 per cent to 9,436.96.

The team of Ramandeep and Palak defeated the team of Mohit and Anirudh to make it to the last round.

Sociedad lacked inspiration and were fortunate not to concede a third goal when a shoot from Angel Lafita went wide.

Shakuntala Devi found a slot in Guiness Book of World Records for her outstanding ability and wrote numerous books.

Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath said the EC has decided to advance the poll timings by an hour.

Reacting to Modi's speech, the Prime Minister's Office also tweeted that funds were allocated to states as per mutually agreed formula.

Sources said the Finance Minister is likely to ask banks to increase lending to productive sectors to prop up growth.