India skipper Sourav Ganguly expressed confidence that the experience with Glamorgan would help him regain lost touch with the willow.
A minor scuffle broke out between the media and police personnel during Martina Hingis' arrival at the Kolkata airport.
Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's only child, breaks her silence about her father, his often-turbulent relationship with Mahatma Gandhi and his mysterious death.
The West Bengal Archaeology Department found the letters in two bundles while cleaning his ancestral house in Cuttack, Janakinath Bhavan.
Armed with this note, Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghosh approached the MEA and Prime Minister's Office last September and asked them to state the facts vis-a-vis the note under Right to Information Act.
Anita arrived in Kolkata with her husband and sons and put up with the Bose family primarily to celebrate 95th birthday of her late mother Emilie Schenkl on December 26 and also birthday of her aunt Krishna Bose, a former member.
For the BJP, the RSS' organisational heft is a prized asset, considering the slew of elections it faces this year, ahead of the Lok Sabha election in 2024.
The argument between the two leaders in the virtual space began after Kejriwal had on Wednesday tweeted that a closure of schools is not a solution and there is a need to open more schools across the country, and shared a link to a news report claiming a "closure" of some schools in Assam.
Sourav Ganguly has yet to make a final decision on whether to appeal against the six-ODI ban on him.
In an embarrassment to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a Delhi court on Thursday termed the arrest of an accused in a money laundering case linked to a UPA-era defence deal with aircraft manufacturer Embraer "illegal" and ordered his release.
The High Commissioner of India Ronen Sen will be the chief guest at the celebrations.
The Indian cricket team on Tuesday returned home after a successful Test and one-day series in Bangladesh.
The Australian Test skipper would also discuss plans for setting up another home for girls with the Foundation.
"As Netaji's only child I feel obliged to ensure that his dearest wish, to return to his country in freedom, will at last be fulfilled in this form and that the appropriate ceremonies to honour him will be performed," Pfaff said.
The organisation established its electoral presence post-Independence in states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Assam, with West Bengal being its main stronghold, but eight decades down the line, the party, now limited to just some pockets of the country, has no MP or MLA in its kitty.
The Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate in New Delhi was merged with the eternal flame at the National War Memorial on Friday.
'He was a very shrewd politician. He was a lawyer who really knew how to work the system and manipulate people in a positive sense,' says Netaji's daughter.
'Some people in India say, 'If they were alive, things would be different.' This is an emotional reaction,' feels Netaji's only child.
In order to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the West Bengal government on Thursday announced that it has suspended all the flights coming to Kolkata airport from the United Kingdom from January 3 onwards till further notice.
More suspected SARS patients have been detained in several places around the country.
Major roads in and around Delhi including on the DND flyover and Ghazipur border were affected from the morning rush hours till around 2 pm.
'Earlier, it was four songs and four fights, and some story. That was enough.' 'Maybe we are in a box then and the audiences were not prepared for anything new.' 'Now we have got bigger scope.'
The agitated workers waved black flags and chanted slogans against him.
Twenty two years before Kabir Khan's The Forgotten Army streams on Amazon Prime on January 24, 2020, his documentary of the same name was telecast on Doordarshan. On that occasion, Kabir Khan spoke to Amberish K Diwanji/Rediff.com about Netaji's Azad Hind Fauj and its many battles for India's freedom.
Amid a row over snooping on close relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose, his grandnephew is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Germany on Monday, and try to demand declassification of all secret files related to the freedom fighter.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said the agenda of the new political outfit would be to struggle for the restoration of J and K's statehood and to fight for the job and land rights of people.
The West Bengal government on Monday made public the cabinet papers on Netaji and allied subjects from 1938 to 1947.
'Many members of the INA were reduced to poverty and some of them died in hunger.' An exclusive interview with Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji's only child.
Yogvedanta Poddar, in his 20s, was being interrogated at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport police station to ascertain his motives.
They also said they will observe the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on January 23 as 'Azad Hind Kisan Diwas'.
While Kharge is considered the firm favourite with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a large number of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself as the candidate of change.
Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Sukh Ram has died, his grandson said on Wednesday. He was 94.
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