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In a series of tweets, Modi said he called up leaders of the four South Asian nations participating in the quadrennial tournament Down Under and wished them the best. Besides India, Pakistan, Sri Lanja, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are taking part in the 14-team tournament kicking off on Saturday. Narendra Modi also spoke to the President of Afghanistan, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the President of Sri Lanka. Taking to micro blogging site, in a series of tweets, Narendra Modi tweeted, "Spoke with Presidents Ashraf Ghani, PM Sheikh Hasina, PM Nawaz Sharif and President Sirisena. Conveyed my best wishes for the Cricket World Cup." He further added, "5 SAARC Nations are playing and are excited about the World Cup. Am sure World Cup will celebrate sportsman spirit and will be a treat for sports lovers." Stating that the Cricket connects people in our region and  promotes goodwill, he added, "Hope players from SAARC region play with passion a

The study led by McGill University additionally found that stopping smoking helps to restore at least part of the cortex's thickness. The team of researchers explained that cortex was the outer layer of the brain in which critical cognitive functions such as memory, language and perception take place. Dr Sherif Karama, lead author and assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University said that current and ex-smokers with average age of 73 had many areas of thinner brain cortex than those that never smoked. Whereas, the ones who stopped smoking seemed to be partially recovered with the cortical thickness for each year without smoking. The study suggested that recovery was slow, as heavy ex-smokers in the study who had given up smoking for more than 25 years still had a thinner cortex. The researchers further added that the cortex grows thinner with normal aging, but smoking appears to accelerate the thinning process, and a thinner brain cortex was associated

In Perth, after India had lost their last tri-series match against England, skipper MS Dhoni sat in the press conference picking up the pieces. His team were still winless after three months on tour, and were faced with more questions than answers going into the 2015 ODI World Cup. Perhaps the biggest one pertained to Virat Kohli’s spot in the batting order. For the first time in the tri-series, he batted at his favoured position, number three. He didn’t last long, holing out in the deep as he went after Moeen Ali. On Sunday then, as India began their final run-in with a warm-up game against Australia, he again batted at the same spot. There was also similarity in the result, once more dismissed cheaply. Throughout this tri-series and warm-up games, as for much of last year, the Indian team has been experimenting with its batting line-up. While it is necessary to do so, this obviously hasn’t helped Kohli at all. In his last six 50-overs outings then, he has scored

        The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be the 11th Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. 14 teams will play 49 matches in 14 venues, with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney while New Zealand hosts 23 games in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington.[1] The final match of the tournament will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The hosting rights were awarded at the same time as those of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which Australia and New Zealand had originally bid to host, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup, which was awarded to England. The 2011 tournament was awarded to the four Asian Test cricket playing countries, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in a 10 to 3 vote (Pakistan later lost the co-hosting rights due to a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team). battle     The International Cr

NEW DELHI: In his first public comments after his AAP won a landslide in Delhi's assembly election, party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described it as "a victory for truth and honesty". Addressing thousands of cheering supporters at the AAP office in central Delhi, Kejriwal said an Aam Aadmi Party government would work in a manner that both the poor and the rich would be proud of Delhi. The 46-year-old then introduced his wife Sunita to the frenzied crowds chanting "paanch saal Kejriwal!" slogans and waving hundreds of party flags and brooms, the AAP election symbol.     AAP supporters celebrate their party's win in the Delhi assembly election ( TOI Photo) "This is my wife," he said, putting his arm around her shoulders. And as she folded her hands in greeting triggering a roar, he added: "I would have never been able to work if she had not supported me." As Kejriwal made his brief comments, giving due credit t