Six persons, including a woman, were killed and 18 were injured in violence and CRPF firing in the fourth phase of the West Bengal panchayat elections on Monday. Polling in four districts saw a voter turnout of 25 per cent.
There will be pressure on the fiscal situation, especially at a time when the monsoon can also disappoint. More populist expenditure is on cards if the mandate is a hung Parliament or a coalition government.
The Rs 3,250 crore (Rs 32.5 billion) Bangalore - Mysore Infrastructure Corridor has hit another hurdle.
'I don't think that I have done anything great. I haven't won any Olympic gold medal.'
Falling incomes and longer winter to translate into lower demand for at least some months.
On Friday (April 18), Premji in a clear signal of giving more powers to the management, elevated Girish Paranjape and Suresh Vaswani as joint CEOs of Wipro Technologies, which reported a topline of $4.3 billion. Read excerpts of an interview with Girish Paranjape and Suresh Vaswani, joint CEOs of Wipro.
All the Indian players in contention qualified for the main draw at the Chile Open Table Tennis championships.
Achyut Yagnik, author, thinker and activist, on the five years since Godhra.
The hits and misses of the week.
The National Football League champions scored a 2-0 away victory over Singapore Armed Forces FC.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Dempo Sports Club and Mahindra United settled for a 1-1 draw in the eighth round of the ONGC I-League.
The project has been plagued by controversies.
The National Consumer Commission on Thursday dismissed a medical negligence claim to the tune of Rs 143 crore filed by a US-based doctor who had alleged that his wife died because of negligence at a Kolkata hospital.
In the letter dated July 23, the celebrities have said that "exemplary punishment" should be meted out "swiftly and surely" in such cases.
The designer had expressed his desire to dress up the couple in 2015.
Ajay Srichandra was found hanging from the ceiling of his room.
The flamboyant veteran is going full steam ahead with his new projects.
Journeys from the mountains to the temples.
The deals -- worth $50-200 million (Rs 300-1,000 crore) -- are across the healthcare, travel, telecom and manufacturing verticals.
The Indian ace was beaten in the men's singles semi-finals of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
The US is keeping a close watch on the developments in the IT sector in West Bengal, which has just witnessed the formation of an union affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
'You have to go from winning elections to winning people,' sociologist Ashis Nandy tells A Ganesh Nadar.
Judge Uttam Kumar Nandy granted the former state transport minister bail on two sureties of Rs 15 lakh each.
The actress turns 34 May 13.
'We like to believe that it's the politicians who impose such bans. But it's the womenfolk of Bihar who made Nitish Kumar enact the ban,' says Ashis Nandy.
The hits and misses of the week.
Ex-RS MP Harikrishna was an actor and had acted in several Telugu movies.
Dipa Karmakar, who became the first Indian to make the cut for the individual vault finals in her debut Olympic Games after finishing eighth in the qualifying round, will compete for a historic medal in the finals on August 14.
'I am not a supporter of complete freedom of speech or expression on any social platform, but we must have the right to choose as adults in a personal space.'
The Mumbai champions were unimpressive in a 1-1 draw with the Goa side in the National Football League.
The Mumbai outfit are also negotiating with East Bengal's Baichung Bhutia.
Nanjangud Manju scored the all-important goal as India beat the Maldives 1-0 in the semi-final of the tournament.
The list has been sent to Governor Ram Naik for approval.
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