The 35-year-old left-armer, who has served Sri Lanka at the top level for 15 years, will, however, still be available for One-day and Twenty20 cricket, the official said.
The third cut off list for admissions in Delhi University was released but may leave many aspirants disappointed as most of its colleges have closed admissions for popular courses.
The crucial two-day Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo meeting specifically for Kerala party affairs will start at the AKG Bhavan, the CPI-M national headquarters, in Delhi at 10 am on Saturday.
A ship carrying aid for victims of war ravaged Sri Lanka, which had anchored off Chennai for more than a fortnight, has been permitted to berth at the Chennai port.
The Amarnath yatra was today suspended from here due to snowfall in some places along the Pahalgam route to the cave shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas.
The stock markets remained bullish past week as the key indices Sensex and Nifty gained one per cent each amid high expectations about sops to the industry and economic reforms in the Union Budget to be presented on Monday.
All 26 security personnel aboard a Pakistani military helicopter were killed in a crash in the country's restive tribal belt even as the Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for downing it.
The gunbattle broke out at Wadderbala forest in Zachaldara, 90 km from Srinagar, when a joint search party of police and Rashtriya Rifles confronted hiding militants.
Thespian Dilip Kumar, who was admitted to Lilavati hospital in suburban Bandra last Sunday after suffering from malaria, is likely to be discharged today.
"Nowhere in the world is this threat greater than in Pakistan. Pak authorities have a dismal track record in thwarting insider threats," a former US intelligence offiical said.
A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the charge by a judge of the court that a Union minister had called him trying to influence him in a pending criminal case.
You may be sitting with a laptop in your Noida apartment, surfing the net in a New York library, or just browsing in a Cape Town cybercafe - anyone anywhere can attend this book fair.
Michael Jackson's close friend and 'Thriller' producer Quincy Jones claims that the singer lied about his skin condition as he just "didn't want to be black".
Marcus North has urged detractors of Phillip Hughes not to make too much into the Australia opener's failures against England's back-up bowlers ahead of next week's first Ashes Test.
India beat the West Indies by six wickets with one ball to spare in the third one-dayer via the Duckworth-Lewis method and took an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
Pakistan's top leadershipon Friday, asked the US to help prevent infiltration of militants and drug trafficking from Afghanistan and to boost the civilian security apparatus so that it could effectively combat militancy.
In a revolutionary judgment, the Delhi high court legalised gay sex among consenting adults, stating that the law making it a criminal offence violates fundamental rights. What are your views on the judgment?
The government has extended the deployment of its paramilitary forces for two more weeks in the Kandhamal, which witnessed communal riots last year, an official said.
A truck carrying 850 boxes of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 30.11 lakh was seized from National Highway-8 on Friday afternoon. Two occupants the driver and cleaner were arrested.
In a unique community development effort by Surat Municipal Corporation, the urban poor and slum dwellers living in EWS housing colonies built under JnNURM scheme will get important lessons on raising the standard of living and quality of life.
The much-awaited showers on Friday brought some relief from the scorching heat. It was cloudy for most part of the day before the city got rain in the afternoon.
Budget flyers could soon be spoilt for choice. Cash-strapped Air India has been asked to start low-cost domestic operations as part of its overall restructuring - and survival - strategy.
Despite the state not getting much from the railway budget, people here have a reason to be happy. Cuttack railway station is among those that will be developed into model stations.
The high court on Friday dismissed the petition filed by Empire Hotels, challenging the May 19 order of the police commissioner fixing midnight as closure deadline.
The owner of the nightclub where Michael Jackson first performed professionally with the Jackson 5 wants to sell the building to fans of the King of Pop brick by brick.
The website set up to process applications for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service received more than half a billion hits in less than two hours, officials said Friday.
The organisers of Michael Jackson's London concert hope to recover their losses through the insurance cover, if the pop star died accidentally, including of a drug overdose.
Minister of state for home Amit Shah informed the state Assembly that the class VIII student, a resident of Tanka-na-Bhewada in Panchmahal, was not raped.
At least 36 people were injured following clas-hes between protesters and cops over Shopian and Baramulla incidents in Srinagar and Anantnag in south Kashmir on Friday.
In a move shrounded in secrecy for a month, the Narendra Modi government has appointed a commission to map and study migration and polarisation of religious communities in Gujarat since Independence.
The commerce and industry ministry has proposed a marginal hike in the FDI limit in FM radio from 20% to 24% and raising the limit in infrastructure-related activities of the broadcasting sector .
Air India financial crisis could soon reach a flashpoint with lower-rung employees striking work for two hours to protest against delayed payment of salaries and the management threatening action against them.
For the second successive day, three police teams in Orissa and one in Kolkata were busy tracing Athagarh Independent MLA Ramesh Rout, whose whereabouts are not known since he resigned on June 20.
The government may exempt exporters from paying taxes on services utilised for export purposes and allow them to file an annual service tax return on the exemption enjoyed.
Russia said it will allow the US to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters US military operations but potentially gives the Kremlin leverage over critical American supplies.
An ACB raid on the office and Habsiguda residence of AP Vikalangula Co-operative Corporation MD S Amruthaiah on Friday unearthed assets with a market value of over Rs 20 crore! The Vikalangula MD is on the run.
Foreign exchange reserves rose by $932 million during the week ended June 26, partly due to cross currency revaluation and the central bank purchasing dollars to prevent the rupee from rising too sharply.
The dreams of the residents of Kalva and Kopri of getting relief from so-called atrocious long hours of Planed Load Shedding (PLS) in their region may soon turn into reality.
Riding high on her “ma, mati, manush” slogan that made her the railway minister eight years after she quit the ministry, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has tried for an image makeover through the budget.
Even though railway minister Mamata Banerjee has tried to please the common man happy by not increasing fare and freight, she has given no special cheer for people in Vidarbha.
Mamata Banerjee may have a been a little partial to her home state, Bengal, but Rajasthan also got a fair deal in her railway budget, getting nine new trains and the promise of converting Jaipur into a world-class station.
In a surprise move, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Friday she was stepping down and would not seek re-election, fueling swift speculation of a possible 2012 White House bid.
In a move that promises to have a far-reaching effect on the movement of students from varsities in India and abroad, UGC has started the process of evolving an ‘Indian equivalence assessment and credit transfer system’.
Over 136 passengers, including Kerala CM V S Achuthanandan, when an Indian Airlines flight from Thiruvananthapuram to New Delhi made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport after one of its engines failed.
Boating in Nakki Lake or enjoying the sunset point at Mount Abu is set to become more fun with the environment ministry declaring the hill station an eco-sensitive zone.
The Fee Regulatory Committee appointed by the Andhra govt has said that private urban schools can't charge more than Rs 24,000 per annum as tuition fee for Classes I-V and not more than Rs 30,000 for Classes VI-XII.
In yet another incident of crime against women, a married woman was tortured with hot iron and molten polythene by her in-laws, who accused her of being possessed by evil spirits.
After a 15-year legal battle against English as medium of instruction in primary schools, Karnataka government on Friday was told in no uncertain terms to comply with the high court order.
The city has much to cheer about in the railway budget presented by Union railways minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday as, among the several other goodies, it has been offered a non-stop Duronto' AC train between Pune and Delhi.
Mamata Banerjee has tried for an image makeover through the budget. Apart from showering bounties on West Bengal, she has packed her budget speech with new infrastructure and industry proposals.
Railway ministers, through the decades, have used the ministry to favour their states and people of their constituencies. A glance at the railway budgets.
A Delhi-bound passenger train hit a goods train loaded with petrol near Ghaziabad railway station tonight, injuring several people and disrupting rail traffic on the route.
In an 85-hour drive from the Western tip Koteshwar to Eastern fringe of Tezu, three city youths drove a distance of approximately 3,941 kms in a sports utility vehicle.
While Mamata too has followed the principle of political exigency, just like Lalu, in framing the budget, it's what they have done in their respective home state which probably deserves special attention.
Consumer goods major Hindustan Unilever has done away with its earlier system of annual planned purchases of commodities in the wake of increasing volatility in input costs.
She walked into the LS nervously clutching a blue bag and walked out an hour later to thumping desks, appreciation from the PM and an affectionate pat on the back from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The fall in the London Interbank Offered Rate; the world's most widely used reference rate for short-term lending — has come to rescue of two prominent Indian cos which have recently breached their overseas loan agreements.
The media rush to snatch an exclusive pose or a byte seemed to grow more by the hour, once Mamata Banerjee had finished her budget speech and stepped out of the House.
Congress on Friday rode on Mamata Banerjee's Railway Budget to convey that the split with Lalu Prasad was for good, triggering anticipation among the partymen that it was a strategic move in its Project Bihar.
Former railway minister Lalu Prasad's Tatkal scheme was sent for a toss in the railway budget as his successor announced major changes in the scheme on popular demand.
Congress on Friday sung praises of Mamata Banerjee's railway budget terming it as a major step to extend the benefits of development to the underprivileged while the CPM struggled to find fault.
Over 2.5 million books will be available for free at a virtual book fair — the fourth eBook Fair sponsored by a number of e-libraries including Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library and Internet Archive.
In a move to reduce the burden on judiciary as well as address the increasing number of environment-related litigation, the govt has proposed to set up a National Green Tribunal along with benches in different regions.