Australia's Adam Zampa has heaped praise on Rashid Khan, saying the Afghanistan leg-spinner is a "once-in-a-lifetime" bowler.Zampa, who has been included in the 15-man World Cup squad on the back of his strong showing against India and Pakistan, is now pushing for...

After winning all his previous six Australian Open finals, Serbia's Novak Djokovic clinched a record-breaking seventh title by trouncing Spain's Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 here on Sunday.The world No.1 wrapped up his lopsided victory in just two hours and...

Serena Williams of the US advanced to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Monday after a hard-fought 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Romanian world No 1 Simona Halep.The 37-year-old shone at the Rod Laver Arena to again demonstrate her remarkable longevity...

With just a handful of ODIs to be played ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup, the No.4 slot in the Indian batting order is still up for grabs and with former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni staking a strong claim with a hat-trick of half-centuries against Australia,...

Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has once again proved the critics wrong by establishing himself as a master of close finish when he belted an 87 not out to complete a hat trick of half centuries to help the men-in-blue clinch the third ODI by 7 wickets...

Admitting that suspended all-rounder Hardik Pandya was "crucial" for the team's balance, India opener Shikhar Dhawan on Thursday said the team is  not grappling with a fifth bowler conundrum in the ongoing ODI series against Australia.Dhawan was speaking...

Two-time defending champion Roger Federer overpowered British qualifier Dan Evans in a hard fought game on Wednesday to reach the third round of the Australian Open.The Swiss player, a winner of 20 major singles titles and six-time Australian Open champion, beat...

Spain's Rafael Nadal defeated Australian wild card entry James Duckworth 6-4, 6-3, 7-5, in the first round of the Australian Open here on Monday.Nadal, who won the title in 2009, completed the match against the 238th-ranked Duckworth, four months after his last...

Three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray on Friday announced that he he plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon but fears next week's Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.Murray, who is struggling to recover from a hip surgery, was in...

India defeated Australia by 137 runs in the third cricket Test to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series here at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Sunday.With the fourth Test starting on January 3, the Indians are now in with a chance to register their...

Pacer Pat Cummins doubled up his career-best bowling effort with a stubborn unbeaten half-century to help Australia reach 258/8 and deny India an easy win at stumps on Day 4 of the third Test here on Saturday.Cummins, who starred with the ball, picking up...

Pacer Pat Cummins picked up four wickets in eight balls to reduce India to 54/5 at stumps on Day 3 of the third Test after Jasprit Bumrah's career best figures of 6/33 helped the tourists dismiss Australia for a meagre 151 here on Friday.Opener Mayank Agarwal...

The President of India,  Ram Nath Kovind, reached Melbourne today (November 23, 2018) on the third day of his visit to Australia. He addressed students and members of the academic community at the University of Melbourne. The topic of his address was...

Former Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt has been offered a contract by Australia's Central Coast Mariners soccer club, media reports said.This comes just over a week after a trial game where the 32-year-old Jamaican scored two goals as centre forward for the club...

Cricket Australia (CA) has decided to launch a probe on England all-rounder Moeen Ali's allegations against an Australian player for calling him "Osama" during the 2015 Ashes.Moeen, 31, made the accusation in his soon-to-be-released autobiography, where he also...

Nearly 71 per cent of Australians have been victims of sexual harassment at some point in their lives, a report published on Wednesday by the Australian Human Rights Commission said.One in every three have experienced it at work in the last five years, Efe...

Having Donald Trump as President is a "drastic experiment" and a "sign of despair" for a powerful nation like the US, says Australian filmmaker Geoffrey Wright.Wright's conviction about bringing alive a "Romper Stomper" mini-series 25 years after the cult film...

Manoj Bajpayee, who features in first-time director Dipesh Jain's "Gali Guleiyan" -- the gritty trailer of which came out on Saturday -- says he has always chosen independent movies over big budget entertainers as it is his comfort zone.Just the content is...

Bringing about social change is the onus of every citizen of the world and not just of a handful of those who are in powerful positions, says actress Rani Mukerji, whose films "Black" and "Hichki" have been instrumental in transforming people's outlook towards...

As the #MeToo tide continues to cause waves across the global entertainment industry, Bollywood actress Richa Chadha says the world of cinema is still in a privileged position, especially at a time when newspapers are highlighting children facing sexual...

Two of the Biggest names in the Indian Film Industry have shared their expertise at an exclusive screening of their blockbuster movie Sanju, at La Trobe University, Australia.In their only Australian University appearance, Director Rajkumar Hirani and Writer...

Raw, gritty, intense and flawless in his performances, Manoj Bajpayee, in his over two-decade career, has infused life into many a movies, without feeling the need to leave the audience "happy". That's not my job, says the widely acclaimed actor in his straight...

Vicky Kaushal, who is on a roll with his diverse roles in films like "Raazi" and "Sanju", says working with a good director reduces an actor's effort by half to play a character convincingly.Whether it was as a loving husband in "Raazi", a Gujarati friend...

Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani, setting aside buzz of "problems" around the release of his production "Baazaar", says he is on the lookout for the right day for the Saif Ali Khan-starrer to hit the screens.Advani spoke at a panel discussion on 'Changing Landscape and...

Rajkumar Hirania's "Sanju" on Sunday walked away with the Best Film honour here at the Westpac IFFM Awards night, where Manoj Bajpayee won the Best Actor for his yet-to-release "Gali Guleiyan" and Rani Mukerji was named Best Actress for her performance in "Hichki".Rani,...

Whitewashing, media bashing and glorification. The makers of "Sanju" have been fielding allegations ever since the film on the tumultuous life of actor Sanjay Dutt hit the screens. Now, they have questions of their own."If I start on that, I can talk on it for the...

Actress Rani Mukerji, whose "Hichki" will play at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), says she is always happy about essaying roles of specially-abled characters.Whether it was Rani's portrayal as a deaf and blind girl in "Black" or her role as a woman...

The 15th India-Australia Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) was held on 25thJune 2018, in Canberra, Australia.  The meeting was jointly chaired by Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu and Australian Minister for Trade,...

Four days after they were exposed, Cricket Australia (CA) on Wednesday suspended disgraced captain Steve Smith and vice captain David Warner for 12 months each and opener Cameron Bancroft for nine months over a ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. Subsequently,...

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel took advantage of a virtual safety car to steal the lead from Mercedes' reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton as he won the Australian Grand Prix, the first of the Formula One season, on Sunday.The German, starting from third behind...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday wrote to all school principals in the country urging them to join the fight against bullying.In the letter, Turnbull said he was "profoundly affected by the death of teenager Dolly Everett and implored the...

China is not a threat to Australia because it lacks "any hostile intent", Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said here on Thursday as he embarked on his US visit.Turnbull while speaking to the media, sought to play down a more hostile approach to China by the...

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Monday said India is committed to reforms in health services delivery using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).Addressing delegates from around a dozen countries at the Global Digital Health...

Moments after becoming the first man to win 20 Grand Slam titles by beating Marin Cilic in five gruelling sets in the Australian Open final, an emotional Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer said on Sunday that the fairytale continued for him."It was a long day, waiting...

Swiss ace Roger Federer defended his Australian Open crown by getting past Croatian Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in a rip-roaring men's singles final here on Sunday.This is the 20th Grand Slam title of Federer's career.Federer looked in control in the...

Indian star Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos went down fighting to Gabriela Dabrowski and Mate Pavic in the final of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Sunday.The fifth seeded Indo-Hungarian combination lost...

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki claimed her first Grand Slam tennis title after defeating Romanian Simona Halep in the women's singles final of the Australian Open here on Saturday.Second seed Wozniacki, the former World No.1, prevailed 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4 in two hours...

Oliver Marach of Austria and Mate Pavic of Croatia on Saturday defeated Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 33 minutes, clinching the Australian Open men's doubles title.The European pair has remained undefeated since the...

World No.1 Simona Halep justified her ranking by defeating Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-3, 4-6, 9-7 in a gruelling Australian Open semi-final here on Thursday.The Romanian top seed battled for two hours and 20 minutes to eventually subdue 21st seed Kerber,...

Indian star Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Timea Babos registered a straight-sets victory to enter the semi-finals of the mixed doubles category at the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Wednesday.The fifth seeded Indo-Dutch combination beat the...

South Korea's Hyeon Chung on Monday continued his dream run in the Australian Open, stunning former world No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia 7-6 (7-4), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) and reaching a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time in his career.Chung also became the...

Although it was far from easy, all the big names like Rafael Nadal, Grigor Dimitrov and Caroline Wozniacki made it through to the quarter-finals on Sunday, with the Day 7 action providing some great contests for the 63,000 fans in attendance at the Australian...

Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria on Sunday defeated Australia's Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 7-6 (7-4) in the fourth round of the Australian Open, ending the host nation's hopes for its first men's champion in decades.Dimitrov seemed to be on his way...

Spain's Rafael Nadal on Sunday defeated Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-3, clinching a place in the Australian Open quarterfinals.During three hour and 51 minute match, both players faced 18 break points but world No. 1 Nadal managed to...

Many of the top seeds at the Australian Open tennis tournament struggled through their second round matches here on Wednesday, as young guns put on a show for the 70,000 fans in attendance at Melbourne Park.What was supposed to be a routine match up for women's...

After last year's inspirational five-set victory against Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final, tennis great Roger Federer looked cool, calm and confident when he addressed the media on Sunday, just one day before the 2018 tournament gets underway.But...

Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal has said the bitter disappointment of last year's narrow five-set loss to Roger Federer in the Australian Open final will not give him any extra motivation for this year's opening Grand Slam."It is impossible to be more motivated...

Spain's Rafael Nadal has been top seeded at the Australian Open, above Swiss great Roger Federer at two, followed by Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, Germany's Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem of Austria.Serbia's Djokovic, who is making a comeback after a six month...

India's Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramnathan got through the first match while Sumit Nagal and Prajnesh Gunneswaran lost their matches in the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Wednesday.Bhambri, with an ATP ranking of 121 and...

In his first appearance in six months, Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic on Wednesday defeated Austria's Dominic Thiem 6-1, 6-4 at the Kooyong Classic exhibition here.The 12-time Grand Slam champion seemed to have overcome the elbow injury that ended his...

Australian scientists began a clinical trial of injecting radiotherapy to combat aggressive breast cancer, media reported on Wednesday.Women suffering from the most aggressive types of breast cancer will undergo treatment combining radiation with immunotherapy...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday said it might not be possible to reach a free trade deal with New Delhi, despite his and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempts to revive talks.Turnbull visited India earlier this week, meeting with...

At least five people, including four US tourists, were killed on Tuesday when a small chartered plane crashed into a shopping centre in Australia's Melbourne city, the city police said."It was a catastrophic plane crash that has taken a number of lives....

Roger Federer has won 18 Grand Slam titles. The list:2003 - Wimbledon - Mark Philippoussis - 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, 7-6 (7-3)2004 - Australian Open - Marat Safin - 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-22004 - Wimbledon - Andy Roddick - 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), 6-42004 - US Open - Lleyton...

Roger Federer has won his fifth Australian Open title and 18th overall major crown, defeating Rafael Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 at the Rod Laver Arena here on Sunday.Federer extended his lead over Nadal in the all-time major wins list to four with his first...

Former Test batsman Michael Hussey has urged Australia's selectors not to dismiss the option of employing three specialist spinners to win in India.Australia are set to play four Tests in India starting February 23. They last won a Test in India in the 2000-01,...

A fourth person has died as five others still remain critical after a motorist on Friday intentionally ploughed into a crowd in Melbourne, a media report said on Saturday .A 33-year-old man died in hospital late on Friday night after a minor girl and two...

A man is in custody after a car intentionally hit several pedestrians in Melbourne on Friday, killing three people and severely injuring up to 20.A maroon coloured sedan was being pursued by the police in Melbourne's central business district (CBD) when...

Leander Paes, India's never-give-up tennis star, said he hopes to work well under the captaincy of his former doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi since "we are good friends"."I don't forsee any problem. I will remain calm and collected," he told IANS a few hours...

India's star tennis doubles players, Rohan Bopanna pairing Pable Cuevas of Peru and Sania Mirza pairing with her new partner Barbora Strycova of Czech Republic, advanced to the second round with little difficulty on the third day of the Australian Open.Bopanna...