Johannesburg, May 20 (IANS) Bangalore Royal Challengers kept their Indian Premier League (IPL) semi-final hopes alive with a comprehensive seven-wicket win over mighty Delhi Daredevils at the New Wanderers stadium here Tuesday.

The win catapulted Royal Challengers, who had four successive loses in the early stages of the tournament, to the fourth spot with 14 points from 13 matches.

Johannesburg, May 20 (IANS) Scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Delhi Daredevils and Bangalore Royal Challengers here Tuesday.

Delhi Daredevils

Johannesburg, May 19 (IANS) Bangalore Royal Challengers defeated Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Tuesday.

Brief scores: Delhi Daredevils 134/7 in 20 overs (Dinesh Karthik 31, AB de Villiers 28; Praveen Kumar 3-30). Royal Challengers 135/3 in 19 overs (Jacques Kallis 58 not out, Rahul Dravid 38).

Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Scoring a brace in each half, Syria’s Al Karamah drubbed Mohun Bagan 4-0 in the AFC Cup tie at Howrah near here Tuesday.

The superior Syrians went into the lead as early as the 18th minute through Haani Al Taiar, who scored the last goal for his side in the second session of the one-sided game at the Howrah Municipal Stadium.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court has a recipe for a successful marriage, more so for men: Obey your wife and rule the world!

“Bibi joh boltee hai woh sunno (Listen to whatever your wife says). We all listen,” a vacation bench of Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Deepak Verma observed while hearing a lawsuit by Indian Air Force officer Deepak Kumar, who had complained that his estranged wife Manisha had ruined him and his family by implicating them in false criminal cases including sodomy.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said he admires party president Sonia Gandhi for her “political sagacity and great spirit of renunciation” for being unwilling to step into the prime minister’s post.

In an interview to NDTV, Mukherjee said, “I must admire her political sagacity and great spirit of renunciation” to reject the proposal of being “prime minister of one billion-plus people”.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) India is concerned about the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka and wants that their “legitimate aspirations” should be addressed, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday.

Mukherjee said he had held several rounds of talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. He also said that Rajapaksa had confirmed to him about the killing of Tamil Tigers chief V. Prabhakaran.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) After the Congress-Trinamool alliance’s body blow to West Bengal’s ruling Left in the hustings, Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said that Trinamool Congress supreme Mamata Banerjee could be the next chief minister of the state.

In an interview to NDTV news channel, Mukherjee, the West Bengal state Congress president, said it was possible that Banerjee would emerge as the next head of the state after the electoral rout of the Left after three decades.