The Calcutta High Court ruled that an allowance announced by West Bengal government for Imams and Muezzins was unconstitutional and against public interest.
Goals by I M Vijayan, M Suresh and Asim Biswas gave the hosts a 3-1 victory.
Pakistan ended the third day of the first Test on 113 for 4 in the second innings after Shivnarine Chanderpaul's unbeaten 153 put the Windies in command.
Pakistan's Asim Kamal bacame only the third player to be dismissed for 99 on debut.
Pace spearhead Shoaib Akhtar and batsman Asim Kamal were forced to leave the field with injury scares on Day 2 of the third Test.
Cellular operator Hutchinson has bagged exclusive rights for the content of ICC World Cup Cricket 2003 for mobile telephony, enabling it to send video clips of every match's "best moments" on a cellphone.\n\n\n\n
The team, comprising National champion Achanta Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajit Saha, routed Pakistan 3-0 in the final.\n\n
In an apparent resspone to India's aggressive counter-insurgency rhetoric, Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif has warned that no one should dare to cast an evil eye on his country.
Noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani will represent Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the civil and criminal defamation suits filed against him by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Asim Biswas scored a brace in a 3-0 victory in the Kolkata Super Division league.
A chronology of events in the case in which the main trial ended in 2007.
The empowered committee on value-added tax will meet the finance minister in mid-July to discuss the 'roadmap' for the introduction of the new tax regime, after which it will be taken up with political parties for a national consensus.
Ready with the "groundwork", the Empowered Committee on value-added tax is likely to press for President's nod on VAT Bills of at least nine states by May 25
The crucial meeting of the empowered committee of state finance ministers on value-added tax began in New Delhi on Wednesday to resolve all pending issues to ensure smooth implementation of the new tax regime from June 1 this year.
In a fresh anti-India tirade, Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has alleged that the assault on an Indian army base in Uri that killed 18 soldiers was a "plan devised by India itself".
SP has fielded Shivpal from Jaswant Nagar seat in Etawah district.
Any subject is good enough for producing good art. Piku, and its obsession with 'emotion resulting from motion' is a perfect example, says Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
Fleet-footed teenager Asim Biswas struck in the dying minutes as Tollygunge Agragami stunned defending champions Mohun Bagan 1-0 in the National Football League
In an apparent climb-down from its earlier stance, the Empowered Committee on value-added tax on Monday gave in to the Centre's plan for a nationwide VAT implementation.
It is this new Muslim who is not burdened by the Pakistan guilt, who is ready to fight it out for the rights enshrined under the Constitution, and who is not defensive about Muslim identity that the BJP and the Sangh Parivar are out to crush, argues Mohd Asim.
'No country or society ever prospered or remained secure by marginalising more than one-sixth of its own,' warns Shekhar Gupta.
District authorities categorically denied having imposed any "ban" on the controversial film Aligarh, based on the life of a gay AMU professor.
Samsung on Monday launched its 'Note 5' in the country priced at Rs 53,990.
According to Bajwa, the main facilitator -- "terrorist A" -- who received and made arrangements for the attackers at Torkhum border checkpost is still at large.
At least 55 militants were killed in Pakistan military airstrikes and a gun battle with the army in the volatile northwest tribal region where a major offensive to wipe out terrorists is on, officials said.
'While there cannot be any doubt that the national anthem should be shown utmost respect, cinema halls are not the most appropriate places to play the national anthem.'
The chief of Al Qaeda's global operations, wanted by the United State over a 2009 plot to attack the New York subway system, was killed in a raid in Pakistan's restive tribal region, the country's military said.
Majaz, based on the life of Asraul Haq Majaz, the John Keats of Urdu poetry, marks Talat Aziz's debut as a composer in Hindi cinema. The film could have been an excellent biopic had it stuck to the poet's poetic self rather than his unfulfilled love, says Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
Two suspected operatives of Al Qaeda have been arrested in New Delhi and Odisha and Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a module of the terror group's Indian sub-continent wing operating out of the country.
The Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent says a series of drone attacks have killed nearly 50 of its members, including deputy head Ustad Ahmad Farooq and Qari Imran, the group's central council member and in charge of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Arvind Kejriwal will monitor the work of various departments. Adarsh Shastri might also aid Kejriwal in this task. Somesh Jha reports
Six militants involved in the brutal massacre of over 150 people, mostly school children, at a military-run school in Peshawar have been sentenced to death while one has been handed down life imprisonment by military courts, the Pakistan army announced on Thursday.
Pakistan's powerful Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif's visit to Beijing comes in the backdrop of assertions by Pakistan that it will raise its concerns at the international level over India's successful test of supersonic interceptor missile.
Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bhutto, 54, was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi shortly after she had addressed an election rally on December 27, 2007.
Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Asim Bajwa told Pakistani daily Dawn that "all four suicide bombers were killed" and a clearance operation is underway.
Sushil Kumar Modi, who ceased to be Bihar Finance Minister following the JD (U)-BJP split, on Monday resigned as Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers looking into the implementation of the proposed new indirect tax regime - Goods and Services Tax (GST).
