In transport as in many things in India, the old exists alongside the new, providing tourists with numerous entertaining ways to travel in bygone style.
Reigning champions Australia eased into the quarterfinals of the World Cup with an 60-run win against Group A makeweights Kenya on Sunday.
New Zealand booked their passage from Group A in to the World Cup quarterfinals on Sunday after Brendon McCullum set up a 97-run victory.
Champions Australia should book their spot in the quarterfinals with a win over Kenya in a World Cup match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.
South Africa, needing 13 runs off the last over, broke the hearts of a partisan Indian crowd by pulling off a thrilling three-wicket win.
Dale Steyn led South Africa’s fightback with a maiden five-wicket haul to restrict India to 296 in a key World Cup match on Saturday.
Familiar foes India and SA will clash in a World Cup Group B match on Saturday with the aim of proving their World Cup credentials as favourites.
Fifty-six pilots working for Indian airlines have failed alcohol tests in the last two years, according to a list issued by the civil aviation ministry.
It’s an understatement to think cricket is big in India but to see how it trumps matches between any other teams is an all-consuming reality.
South Africa’s narrow six-run defeat against England last weekend has had many jumping on the choking bandwagon and writing off the Proteas’ chances.
The 21st century finally caught up with the village of Taiyan in Indian Kashmir this week. It took the Cricket World Cup to do it.
India’s Essar Group will take over Zimbabwe’s state-owned Zisco steel in a $750-million deal to revive production at the defunct firm.
Injured SA leg-spinner Imran Tahir is set to miss the rest of the World Cup group stage to nurse a fractured thumb, but he is still in the tournament.
SA paceman Dale Steyn and his Indian counterpart, Zaheer Khan, have already left a mark at the World Cup with their intelligent bowling.
The exiled Dalai Lama announced on Thursday that he planned to formally step down as political leader of the Tibetan government in exile.
South Africa suffered a World Cup injury scare after it was discovered in-form leg-spinner Imran Tahir had fractured his left thumb.
India Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday sympathised with the fans who were baton-charged by police as they queued for tickets.
Ticket-hungry fans, desperate to see India’s World Cup clash against South Africa on Saturday, were baton-charged by police as they queued.
India will hope to negotiate the underdog threat of Netherlands in the Group B match at the World Cup on Wednesday with as little fuss as possible.
Mike Hussey is back to bat in the World Cup after a call up to Australia’s 15-man squad as a replacement for injured fast bowler Doug Bollinger.
Victorious Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said Ireland had given his team a tough battle in their World Cup clash on Sunday.
A resilient England produced an amazing comeback to pip a shell-shocked South Africa by six runs in a low-scoring World Cup thriller on Sunday.
England could not recover from a dreadful start and folded for 171 in 45.4 overs in a World Cup Group B match against South Africa on Sunday.
With their World Cup hopes hanging in the balance England made a disastrous start against South Africa on Sunday.
A fire in a Mumbai slum destroyed the one-room shack of <i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> child actress Rubina Ali, leaving her family homeless, Ali said.
Unbeaten openers Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum hit half-centuries to guide New Zealand to a crushing 10-wicket victory over Zimbabwe.
Overwhelming bureaucracy seems to trump everything else but <b>Firdose Moonda</b> finds there is a way through it which reveals the true India.
The ICC’s decision to limit the show to just 10 countries will undo 120 years of progress.
India’s homeless are being counted as part of the country’s mammoth 10-yearly census in an exercise that could help shape future housing policy.
Following the Cricket World Cup via Twitter updates may provide an ideal way to do so, but it is not without its pitfalls.
Tatenda Taibu just missed a maiden World Cup century while Raymond Price grabbed three early wickets as Zimbabwe crushed Canada on Monday.
Ruthless Australia compounded the miseries of rivals New Zealand by notching up a seven-wicket victory in their World Cup match on Friday.