India will face hosts England at Derby on the opening day of the ICC Women's World Cup which gets underway on June 24.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Kaul, who has urged the UK and Indian governments to support his candidature, said he was relying heavily on India's support and had already spoken to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
India maintains that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral one and no third party has any role in it.
A British court will review whether open air cremations are unlawful.
The locals of Khonoma, the village of legendary Naga leader Angami Zapo Phizo, hope the Naga peace accord satisfies the aspirations of the Naga people.
The head of International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit has categorically rejected suggestions it struck a deal to protect New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum from punishment for not reporting an alleged match-fixing approach in 2008.
Favouring a greater role for New Delhi in the global arena, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday backed its bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council and sought expansion to G-8 to include India in it in view of the "new realities".
He said, according to the party constitution, a 3-member enquiry committee would be set up, which after going through their (suspended MLAs) replies to the notice.
The Supreme Court and its committees, the two states and the central government must become objective and take the present and not just the past in mind.
'If the Ram Mandir is made, it is because of the collective strength of our country.'
Snapshots from this year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund dinner
'We are known political activists, so the police put our names in.'
The south Asian country has remained largely starved of international cricket since the 2009 attacks on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, wounding six players and a British coach and killing eight Pakistanis.
Kaul has asked both the British and Indian governments to nominate him for the coveted post.
A disturbing video showing beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff by dreaded terror group ISIS is authentic, US officials said on Wednesday.
The Muslim Council of Britain has admitted to not having any checks against extremism among its affiliated groups.
Jaitley presents NRI award to G P Hinduja.
The focus will be on K L Rahul and Vijay Shankar, contenders for the number four slot, in the World Cup warm up match against New Zealand, in London, on Saturday.
The ICC also announced that the captains will not carry forward any over-rate offences into the World Cup.
On January 20, Taliban men armed with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests attacked the landmark Intercontinental Hotel and killed around 25 people, going from room to room searching for foreigners during the more than 12-hour ordeal.
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been beset by controversy, but for the visionaries bringing soccer back to life in Afghanistan it represents a shining, magical light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel.
'Some Indians take the extreme view that everything was known to our ancients, but others go to the opposite extreme and consider everything Indian was superstition and rubbish.' 'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.'
Reid's comments came after his meeting with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents the names of 10 global terrorists who, according to United Nations Security Council, are operating against India from Pakistan.
Despite the International Cricket Council's (ICC) clause nullifying the ball-tampering allegation against Virat Kohli, former Pakistan cricketers have demanded the world's cricketing governing body to penalise the Indian Test skipper in the incident which relates to the drawn Rajkot Test against England. After the 'mintgate' row involving South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis in which he was found guilty of ball-tempering, a British tabloid had on Tuesday accused that some footages of the Rajkot Test indicated that Kohli appeared to shine the ball using residue from a sweet.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia congratulated the cricketers, saying she believed they would keep the winning spree going
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be in India tomorrow, but Cyrus Mistry will no longer head the Indo-UK CEO forum.
The protesters blocked roads in several areas of Mumbai, forced shops to shut down.
Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju today said the apex court had made some "serious mistakes" in the Soumya case by commuting the death sentence of the accused to life, and attributed it to "judges not being able to give much time to cases due to heavy workload of pending cases".
In a grand ceremony with overtones of a United States presidential inauguration, heads of state and government, India Inc honchos, opposition leaders, Bharatiya Janata Party members and showbiz stars rubbed shoulders as they watched President Ram Nath Kovind administer the oath of office to India's 58 new ministers.
"The world sees India as a growing opportunity. I expect it to have more role in world affairs."
He claimed the people of Delhi were facing "injustice and humiliation" since independence because the government elected by them lacked power to work for them.
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs William Hague and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne, heading the largest business and ministerial delegation ever, arrived in Mumbai, their first port of call, during a two-day visit to the country.
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