Anshul Gupta and Yashpal Singh scored unbeaten centuries to guide Services to 277 for three against Tripura at stumps on the opening day of their third round Ranji Trophy Group C match.
On Wednesday, the Tripura chief minister said that famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore refused the Nobel Prize in protest against the English.
Tamil Nadu registered their first win of the season, beating Kerala by 151 runs Sunday in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match at the M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai.
'We need to confront such people else they will be encouraged to harass more women in the future,' notes HR guru Mayank Rautela.
The army has expressed 'serious' concern over the assault and public humiliation of a senior ranking officer of the army in Agartala recently allegedly by sons of a former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and has sought urgent action against the culprits.
Tribal voters get their photo identity cards verified at a polling station in Mandai Bazar, 40km east of Agartala on February 23, during the Assembly elections
Gymnast Dipa Karmakar and discus thrower Vikas Gowda were the other sport spersons to receive the honour on Thursday.
Kerala scored an emphatic innings and 77 runs win over Tripura to garner bonus points from their Ranji Trophy Group C match in Agartala on Tuesday.
HR guru Mayank Rautela has some suggestions.
A round-up of results from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday.
Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 24 hours.
The border guarding force has the maximum confirmed cases of the disease among the Central Armed Police Forces, also known as paramilitary forces.
HR guru Mayank Rautela provides a three-point plan.
Sheikh Hasina, in her maiden visit to Tripura, expressed gratitude to the people for their help and cooperation during Bangladesh's liberation struggle. K Anurag reports.
She had planned to make a comeback at the Asian and World Championships but couldn't recover in time.
There were 86 million salaried jobs in India during 2019-2020. In August 2020, their count was down to 65 million. The deficit of 21 million jobs is the biggest among all types of employment, points out Mahesh Vyas.
What do you do when you've lost your job during the lockdown and are unable to get another one? Get expert advice from HR Guru Mayank Rautela.
At least 31 people were killed and 27 critically injured when a Tripura-bound bus fell into a deep gorge in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district in the early hours on Wednesday.
At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a Tripura-bound bus fell into a deep gorge in Meghalaya's East Jaintia hills district in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Bangladesh hopes for a liberal approach from India in the efforts to resolve water issues and bringing about parity in bi lateral trade by reducing the trade imbalance that is tilted in favour of India.
Voting is being held in 59 of the total 60 seats .
India's trailblazing gymnast Dipa Karmakar on Thursday denied reports that she was returning the BMW car presented to her by cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar for her historic performance at the Rio Olympic Games.
India's gymnastics heroine Dipa Karmakar has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of setting up a Task Force.
UNICEF estimates that almost 16 million children and their families are in urgent need of life-saving support. Since mid-August, there have been at least 1,288 reported deaths.
Dipa Karmakar will look to secure an Olympic berth with 'some good performances' at back-to-back Artistic Gymnastics World Cups
Two jawans of the Border Security Force were killed and another injured when a BSF jawan, in an inebriated condition, fired indiscriminately at Rajbari border outpost in south Tripura district, police said in Agartala on Thursday.
Here's a recap of the big events that shaped the nation over the weekend.
At least 13 Reang-Bru refugees from Mizoram sheltered in Naisinghpara camp in north Tripura district, nearly 200 km from Agartala, were on Saturday killed in an accidental fire, a top police official said. "Fire broke out at nearly 12 noon and soon engulfed the camp. Thirteen charred bodies of men, women and children have been recovered so far," Deputy Inspector General Police (Control) Nepal Das said.
Brisk polling began on Thursday morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. As people queued up across the nation to cast their vote, there were some famous faces in the lines at different polling stations. Take a look.
'None other but the invincible chariot led by Modi and Shah could have taken up the challenge and won,' says Tarun Vijay.
The debate on genetically modified crops was yet to reach a specific conclusion and safety issues should be discussed before marketting them.
Pakistan's intelligence aganeyc, the Inter Service Intelligence, has activated its sleeper cells in the North East region to use the Indo-Bangladesh border route as a 'safe passage' to courier its men and materials into different parts of India. This was revealed by the arrested ISI agent, Momin Khan, to his interrogators in Tripura recently.
Left parties would launch an offensive in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament against the United Progressive Alliance government hiking prices of petroleum products, Communist Party of India-Marxist member of the Parliament Basudeb Acharya has said.
"Overall, insurgency is on the wane due to crackdown on ultras in Bangladesh by their security forces, so different insurgent outfits are now shifting their bases to Myanmar," Pranay Sahaya, Director General of Tripura Police, told media persons in Agartala.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Wednesday congratulated Somdev Devvarman for winning gold medal for India in the Asian Games.
An Inter Services Intelligence agent, who was arrested in Agartala along with six Indian collaborators, has confessed during interrogation that he had entered Tripura via Bangladesh to go to Punjab to monitor army movement there and report to ISI headquarters, police said on Tuesday.
The US dollar jumped in overseas market on Wednesday.
The Centre has decided to construct 509 new Border Outposts (BOPs) and complete the unfinished barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangla international borders, a top official said on Tuesday.
'The current financial year will see the full impact of this crisis, and we will start seeing the recovery in the next financial year.'
R0 values, or the average number of infections expected to be caused by a Covid carrier, vary between states, and have not stabilised. While unlocking, it would be wise to look at these variations, advises Atanu Biswas.
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