The operation, performed at the AIIMS, was done to relieve pressure on a nerve near the wrist.
National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly and GM Dibyendu Barua also bowed out of the World Chess Championship.
Unheralded Vinod Bhagwat beat British Open champion Abhijit Kunte in the third round.
OPEC's move to cut output has pushed up oil prices. From here it could go either way: oil could reach $100/barrel or an analysis of demand and supply might follow, say Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly.
The trinity of rising stocks, rising yields and rising dollar since Donald Trump's election has already faced a setback.
The violence is in response to a recent attack on Assamese train passengers in Bihar.
India saw 4.2 million foreign tourists till May mainly thanks to visitors from Bangladesh
P T Ummar Koya's said it was impractical to recognise the newly-formed Chess Players Association of India.
The fact that the US recovery needs an elaborate defence suggests that things are far from certain.
The finance minister said unlike Hitler, Gandhi went a step ahead by endeavouring to transform India into "dynastic democracy".
An ULFA commander has said that the PM has nothing to offer in terms of talks on sovereignty.
...Because the students have made our industry worthy, Salman Khan explains.
Nine players share the lead after the second round in the 41st National 'A' Chess Championship.
Sasikiran, Harikrishna, and Dibyendu Barua share the lead with 4.5 points after six rounds.
Mumbai schoolgirl Siddhali Shetye also scored a major upset, beating Saheli Barua in the Commonwealth chess championship.
Harikrishna, Chanda and Ganguly share lead before the last round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The rise in US interest rates and associated change in the direction of capital flows, the fall in oil prices and the slowdown in China will dominate the markets, say Abheek Barua and Bidisha Ganguly
The fuzziness of Trump's economic blueprint remains the biggest risk.
This is an effect of general slackening in economic growth; however, this is not true of digital media, where business is booming.
If banks have a surplus, they have the option of parking the money with the RBI.
The majority in the markets believe that a September lift-off is likely.
Non-performing loans in the Chinese banking system stood at RMB 1.27 trillion at the end of 2015.
'Gajendra Chauhan may be a good administrator, or even a good leader, but he lacks the basic quality of inspiring others.'
Grandmaster Sherbakov Ruslan IM Neetlopal Das and IM R B Ramesh lost while playing with white pieces in the Commonwealth chess championship.\n\n\n\n
The RBI must cut rates to spur growth, say experts.
Government has no plans to create a separate time zone for 7 North Eastern states, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
S Vijayalakshmi, Nisha Mohta and R Aarthie share the lead in the women's section in the National A chess championship.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's 'mission 84' (winning 84 out of 126 assembly seats in Assam in 2016 polls) has run into a hurdle put up by the United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent. The militant outfit has threatened to use force to stymie all activities of the saffron party in Assam after January 10, 2015.
The next round of bad news could come from Europe, where banks in a number of economies such as Italy, Portugal and Greece are sitting on mountains of bad loans.
Asian emerging market stock prices did see a bounce post Fed-talk.
Germany is now sitting on a mountain of savings.
'China could place the currency on a par with global biggies. But it has to wait to be a serious challenger.'
Track and field athletes led India's gold rush on the third day of competitions at the 13th South Asian Games as the country added a whopping 29 medals to jump to the top of the medals tally, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
The NDA government was initially reticent about fleshing out its economic strategy for the future. But now that it has taken enough bold initiatives on the economic front it must have the confidence to tell us more about its approach going forward, says Abheek Barua.
The silver lining is that a pick-up in the US economy could help emerging market exports.
