Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dinesh Kashyap on Friday defeated his nearest rival Lakhma Kawasi of the Congress by over 85,000 votes to win the bypoll to the Naxal-hit Bastar Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh. Election officials in Bastar district said Kashyap defeated Kawasi by over 85,000 votes to win the tribal-dominated constituency spread over four districts
Pratika Rawal along with left-arm spinner Vaishnavi Sharma and seamer Kranti Gaud received their maiden long-format call-ups for the one-off Test against Australia.
The weekend saw film folk take a break from Diwali parties and attend the Thamma premiere in Mumbai.
Shafali Verma was named captain of the North Zone team for the Senior Inter-Zonal T20 Trophy, starting in Nagaland, from Tuesday.
Delhi Capitals will be aiming to claim the top spot, while UP Warriorz will be desperate to register their first victory of the season when the two sides face off in the Women's Premier League in Bengaluru on Saturday.
The doctor treating Rajat said his condition was improving. Pant may come to Jhabreda in a day or two to visit Rajat, the doctor said, quoting the cricketer's PA.
The Gujarat Giants will be hoping to improve their bowling and fielding after a disappointing defeat in their Women's Premier League season opener. They will face the UP Warriorz, led by Deepti Sharma, who will be looking to capitalize on their strong spin bowling attack. The match will be a crucial one for both teams as they seek to make their mark in the tournament.
UP Warriorz will be looking to bounce back and avenge their earlier defeat when they take on a resurgent Gujarat Giants in a crucial return-leg Women's Premier League fixture in Lucknow on Monday.
'The great singer Shardaji took Bhojpuri music and singing to the national and international level with her singing!'
'At the airport, some people held me like a mother holds her child's cheeks. I have never experienced these kinds of things.'
Suspected Naxals on Saturday opened fire at the sons of a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament from Bastar district in Chhattisgarh, leaving one of them dead. Tansen and Dinesh Kashyap, sons of tribal leader Baliram Kashyap, were shot on Saturday morning in Pairaguda village, a senior police official said. Both were admitted to Maharani Hospital in Jagdalpur, where Tansen succumbed to his injured, police department spokesman Inspector General R K Vij said.
Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Shafali Verma, Meg Lanning and Harmanpreet Kaur were some of the big names retained by their respective franchises for the next edition of the Women's Premier League.
Spin duo of Shreyanka Patil and Mannat Kashyap starred with the ball after a sedate batting effort to guide the India Under-23 team to the Women's Emerging Asia Cup T20 title with a 31-run win over Bangladesh.
Kriti Sanon takes a leaf out of Ayushmann Khurrana's diary and hosts a Diwali party of her own!
Maharaja is an audacious attempt that breaks down the tropes of a crime film with a brilliant Vijay Sethupathi in the lead, notes Arjun Menon.
Ayushmann Khurrana and his wife Tahira Kashyap threw the the first party of the festive season.
With this, the ruling BJP has so far declared candidates for 136 seats. Earlier, the BJP had announced 79 candidates, including two lists of 39 each, and another list of one nominee.
With the main draw of the Asian Badminton Championships set to get underway from Wednesday, the struggling Indian shuttlers face an uphill task.
Huma Qureshi rang in her 36th birthday on July 28 with her family and friends.
The Samajwadi Party on Thursday announced Dimple Yadav as its candidate for Mainpuri parliamentary seat, which fell vacant after the death of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The makers of the Diwali release Made In China threw a special screening for the film, and invited their friends from the industry.
Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and the ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 of the total 53 ministers, including the chief minister.
Quite a few film folk attended a special screening of Ayushmann Khurrana's latest starrer, Bala.
Homi Adajania's Angrezi Medium brings Irrfan Khan back to the marquee this week.
'When in both post-mortems, doctors say that he was not shot, we had not option left but to cremated him'
All roads led to Yash Raj Studios on May 25, as Bollywood's power couples and their friends celebrated Karan Johar's 50th birthday party.
Indian athletes' performance on Day 9 of the Commonwealth Games.
'I found myself a bigger playground to play around in as an actress.' 'The characters I choose to play are far removed from the person that I am.' 'That, I suppose, is the fun of being an actor.' 'You can live many lives in one lifetime, right?'
A summary of Indian athletes showing on Friday, Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games.
A messy love story, a tale of infidelity, a jab on sexism, a whodunit -- Haseen Dillruba wildly oscillates between diabolical provocations and unrealistic sentiment, notes Sukanya Verma.
It's time for another Ayushmann Khurrana release, and everyone -- including the film folk! -- is lining up to watch.
Congress Member of Legislative Assembly Sawna Lakra and three others were on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment by a local court in a case of kidnapping and murder of a youth who was in love with Lakra's niece.
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the constituencies going to polls in the first phase on April 11.
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The double-decker bus belonged to Awadh Depot and was going to New Delhi from Lucknow.
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