Shane Warne's midas touch to minnows Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL season may be a part of cricketing folklore but a new book reveals that the Australian spin legend was not the original choice for captaincy.
Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore reports from Bhopal and Manikhedi Kot, Etkhedi Kot and Kejra Dev, about the October 30-31 escape and encounter in which 8 prisoners were killed, a case that has many questions and few answers.
Twenty units of fire fighters were trying to douse the fire but they could not manage to douse the blaze till noon.
Navi Indran Pillai wants to inspire people to feel beautiful.
India won the toss and opted to bat against Pakistan in the second match of the triangular one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday. India have included uncapped batsman Yusuf Pathan in the team for their first match of the tournament.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in a trial court over the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police
In a circular, the ministry said all NGOs registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act should receive foreign donations in a single designated bank account.
Pakistan hockey team's disastrous performance in the Beijing Olympics has taken another toll with coach Naved Alam following chief coach Khawaja Zakauddin in stepping down from his post. Announcing his resignation, Alam said the Olympic debacle is a collective failure and the federation should not start a witch hunt of senior players.
The BJP chief also said there is no need to say 'Bharat Maata Ki Jai' under pressure from the RSS or the BJP.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Aftab Alam also issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a petition filed by Zakhir Hussain Noor Sheikh, who was sentenced to death by the Mumbai Terrorist And Disruptive Activity (prevention) court.The petitioner contended in his appeal that the TADA court had failed to appreciate that there was no evidence against him, showing his involvement in the conspiracy.
'In other parts of India, people may feel their religious identity is more important, but here in Assam, we are Assamese first and then, anything else. So, we are against this CAB (now CAA). It will hurt the interests of us Assamese'
The issue related to the petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission, which sought transfer of the trial of the riots' cases outside Gujarat and re-investigation by an independent agency. The NHRC had filed the petition after several witnesses turned hostile amidst allegations of threat, coercion and inducement to derail the investigation.AA three-member bench said it would pass necessary orders on Wednesday for constituting the SIT.
During the course of investigations, it was revealed that these immigrants had entered India illegally by crossing the border near Rajshahi, a Bangladesh border town, and Boghkalam in West Bengal's Mursheedabad. Some of them have been staying in Hyderabad for several years while the rest of them came recently. Some of the illegal immigrants even obtained passports, ration cards, voter identity cards and PAN cards by furnishing false documents.
The double-decker bus belonged to Awadh Depot and was going to New Delhi from Lucknow.
New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat in the Twenty20 World Cup first semi-final in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday.
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