India's star players Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma were on Monday named captains of the three teams for the Women's T20 Challenge to be played in Pune from May 23.
In a thrilling final, Mumbai Indians handed Delhi Capitals a seven-wicket defeat to win the inaugural edition of the Women's Premier League.
Indian society may be more advanced than we think it is, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Prashant Bhushan is a lawyer and one of the senior leaders and brains behind the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement for a stronger Lokpal bill. The movement is set to add a historic, new chapter in India's parliamentary democracy.
'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.'
Veteran pacer Shikha Pandey axed, rookie keeper Shwetha gets maiden call-up.
Teen sensation Shafali Verma is set to make her eagerly-anticipated ODI debut as the Indian women's team seeks white-ball course correction against a strong world champion English side in the first game of the three-match series, in Bristol, on Sunday.
The Grade B has an annual retainer fee of Rs 30 lakh and veterans such as Jhulan Goswami, Mithali Raj and Deepti Sharma are among 10 players in this bracket.
It will be a start-to-finish quickie and feature the multi-faceted Dulquer in a role never seen before.
Public-interest litigators Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ rights in India, along with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani are among the Indians who have been named by TIME magazine in its prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list also includes Indian-American comedian and TV host Hasan Minhaj.
In the previous fiscal year, he drew a Rs 15 crore salary from the company -- the same as in the previous 11 years.
IMAGES from the Women's T20 Challenge game between Supernovas and Trailblazers in Pune on Monday.
Chanda Kochhar has been ranked as the most powerful woman in the Asia Pacific region by fortune magazine.
A desperate Indian women's team would aim to snap its five-match losing streak in the second T20 International against England, in Guwahati, on Thursday.
India now enjoy an unassailable 2-0 lead in the five-match series with the second encounter being a washout.
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Verma, who had regained the top position last week, garnered 26 rating points for her knock in the final
'To see India being recognized at a global level at a platform like this... 'I think it says a lot about where we are as a nation and the road ahead for us as a nation.'
According to a National Crime Records Bureau report, a total of 356 cases of sedition -- as defined under section 124A of the IPC -- were registered and 548 people arrested between 2015 and 2020, out of which only six were convicted.
World championship trials would be held from March 7 to 9, followed by the Asiad trials from March 10 to 13.
Dr Rajan is a person of very high caliber
'She will forever be remembered for being a disrupter - a disrupter in a positive sense - as she disrupted the hierarchies that existed in society!'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
India lost all their T20s in New Zealand after winning the ODI series and things are heading in a similar direction against England with two more games to go. Ahead of the second T20 Thursday, the momentum is with the visitors who also won the third and final ODI.
In addition, both will offer services jointly, subject to financial viability.
The one-off Test against India, scheduled to be held from 16-19 June, starts an important summer for Knight's team that has an Ashes series followed by a World Cup title defense in New Zealand.
Joginder Tuteja looks back at all the lesser known films Bollywood's leading men debuted in.
A fascinating glimpse from Somak Ghoshal's 10 Indian Heroes Who Help People Live With Dignity.
Rajnish Kumar was on Wednesday appointed the new chairman of the largest public sector bank, State Bank of India (SBI), replacing Arundhati Bhattacharya who completes her one-year extended term on Friday.
'He never believes in loose talk.' 'If he is done with you, then you go your way, he goes his way.'
Smriti Mandhana-led Trailblazers will aim for another win to finish with two victories and enter the final on November 9 with momentum behind them.
Harmanpreet Kaur will lead a 15-member Indian team at the sixth ICC Women's World Twenty20 to be held in the West Indies from November 9 to 24.
Bengal's rookie batswoman Richa Ghosh in India squad
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Ambara fails to evoke any curiosity, moving along predictable lines.
South Africa women registered a series-clinching six-wicket win in a last ball thriller in the second T20 International
India level series as England pressed self destruct button towards end
The 37-year-old cricketer, who retired from T20s last September, remains India's ODI captain and plans to carry on till the 2021 World Cup.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the operation of sedition law, and ruled that all pending cases, appeals and proceedings with respect to charges framed for sedition should be kept in abeyance.
RBI's current Deputy Governor Urjit Patel got 3-year extension in January.
