Steve Smith played like a star as Australia retained the Ashes by outclassing the hosts England in the fourth Test at Old Trafford. 18-month after the ball tampering case which almost took his career out of his hands, Steve Smith proved once again why he is one of the most important players in the Australian team.

England, all out for mere 67 runs in their first innings, were reeling under deep trouble with 286-9 in their second innings, needing 73 more runs to win the game. Ben Stokes took hold of one end and took his team to victory.

One of the most influential voices of Cricket Australia, Greg Chappell will be retiring as the selector and national talent manager after the end of Ashes this year.

A picture of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's original ashes listed on famous e-commerce website Amazon went viral on various social media platforms, attracting mixed reactions from the society.

The ashes of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were immersed in the Yamuna river here on Tuesday following religious rituals.

After protests by the churches and different tribal bodies, the Nagaland unit of the BJP on Monday restricted the programme to immerse the ashes of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to a secret one in the Christian-dominated state.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday hit out at Karuna Shukla, the niece of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, accusing that she was politicising his death.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey on Friday handed over the urns containing the ashes of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to party functionaries and ministers, to take them to different districts of the state where they will be immersed in 16 rivers.

The ashes of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were immersed at the Mahodadhi (sea) in the pilgrim town Puri on Thursday.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes were dissolved in the Subarnarekha river here on Thursday.