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Ahmedabad: India's dreams of winning a third World Cup title lay in tatters after an inexplicable meltdown saw them crash to a six-wicket defeat against an indefatigable Australia here Sunday, plunging the cricket-obsessed country into deep mourning. Australia thus won a record-extending sixth World Cup...

Ahmedabad: KL Rahul and Virat Kohli made gritty fifties but Australian bowlers produced a clinical show to bowl out India for a below-par 240 in the World Cup final here Sunday. Sent in to bat on a slow and dry pitch, skipper Rohit Sharma once...

Ahmedabad: Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the World Cup final here Sunday. Both India and Australia fielded unchanged sides. The Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav,...

Male: Less than 24 hours after taking oath as the President of Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu Saturday formally requested India to withdraw its military personnel from his country, saying the Maldivian people have given him a "strong mandate" to make this request to New Delhi. Muizzu's...

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand):  With time running out, officials Saturday began preparations to drill a vertical hole from the top of the hill under which 41 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel for seven days with limited food and communication. As the sun slipped behind...

Uttarkashi: The operation to rescue 40 labourers stuck in the partially-collapsed Silkyara tunnel in this Uttarakhand district has been suspended since Friday, when a US-made auger machine deployed to drill and push in pipes developed a snag. Another high-performance drilling machine airlifted from Indore in...

Srinagar/Jammu: Six terrorists were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir Friday, officials said. While five Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists were killed following an overnight encounter with the security forces in Kulgam district in the valley, one ultra was neutralised in...

Kolkata: Five-time champions Australia excelled on the big stage yet again as they pulled off a scrappy three-wicket win to shatter South African dreams and reach their eighth ODI World Cup final here Thursday. On a testing turner, David Miller absorbed extreme pressure on way...

Uttarkashi: Three special aircraft of the Indian Air Force Wednesday brought a 25-tonne heavy auger machine to speed up efforts to rescue 40 labourers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, part of which collapsed after a landslide Sunday. The auger machine, having...

Mumbai: Making the big stage his own, Virat Kohli added more lustre to his larger than life persona with a historic 50th ODI century that extended India's bullish World Cup run to the title clash even as New Zealand threatened to spoil the home team's...