According to official figures released by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Wednesday, over 4.77 lakh women availed pink tickets for free ride on the first day of the scheme on Tuesday.
Ajit Agarkar, who is the frontrunner for the Indian chief selector's job, relinquished his assistant coach's post in Delhi Capitals.
Pacer Ashok Dinda and Australian all-rounder James Hopes will play for Pune Warriors in the fifth edition of the coming Indian Premier League. The aforesaid players have been transferred from Delhi Daredevils.
Despite the team's resounding success against England and New Zealand in the Test series, the Indian team will not take Bangladesh lightly in the one-off Test beginning February 9 in Hyderabad, Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha said on Sunday.
As Mahendra Singh Dhoni turns 30 on Thursday, Rajneesh Gupta jots down some facts and figures that have made the India captain a success story.
A fine all-round display by Sairaj Bahutule powered West Zone to a comprehensive 105-run victory over East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy league match.
'Modi is trying avenues to convince people why they should vote for the BJP.'
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd is looking at 600 to 800 strategic sites across the country for its retail outlets expansion, a top official of the company said on Wednesday.
'You have to ask the BCCI and selectors; that's not something I can answer,' he said, when asked about the chances of Sourav Ganguly returing to the Indian team.
In another Second Division NFL match SBT routed Assam Electricity Board.
Asserting that the prime minister's job will remain with BJP leader Narendra Modi even after the general elections slated for next year, Singh claimed the country is scaling new heights under PM Modi's leadership.
'It has been doing yeoman service for the people of the North East.'
The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday shifted a senior officer of the Indian Police Service in Hyderabad after the police conducted lathi-charge against students, who were holding a demonstration to demand a separate Telangana state, at the Osmania University campus. The police's use of violence against the students has been condemned by the Opposition as well as the media and the state human rights commission.
One of the teams rescued two lion cubs that had fallen into an open well in Jasadhar Range of Gir East division during the cyclone's landfall on Thursday evening, the official said.
Team India southpaw Saurav Tiwary has said India was a strong contender for the forthcoming World Cup and predicted that Mahender Singh Dhoni led Indian team would clash with Australia in the final.
The Indian captain who is nursing a side strain has been advised rest by doctors.
Taking a serious view of his dressing room misdemeanour, the Indian Cricket Board has told Bengal player Manoj Tiwary that he will be banned from playing domestic cricket, if he will not behave well.
Promising batsman Manoj Tiwary was slapped a one-match ban and fine after his dressing room fury in Bengal's Vijay Hazare Trophy (East Zone) match against Jharkhand. Tiwary was adjudged leg before for three before Bengal registered a seven-wicket win over Jharkhand in the one-day tournament. Orissa Cricket Association secretary Asirbad Behera said the right-hander was so angry with the lbw decision that he abused the umpires before going berserk in the dressing room.
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja could do with a break, which will allow India to try out new players in the Caribbean.
Believe it or not but the Pakistani police produced a year-and-half-old infant before a judicial magistrate as a prime accused in a murder case of a 20-year-old youth in Karachi.
'Modi must see how we live, what we have to do to educate our children.'
'As of now, there's no update from the Railways. The scheduled time (of departure) here is 4am but we doubt the train will start from Chennai tonight'
At stumps on the third day, England 'A' were 78 for two chasing a target of 367 against East Zone in the Duleep Trophy.
Any miscalculation and miscommunication are fraught with the risk of a major catastrophe, warns Rup Narayan Das.
According to senior officials, nine additional commissioners have been allocated departments and office spaces at different floors of the Civic Centre, while three deputy commissioners were also appointed.
BSNL started rolling out 3G services in north and east zones in February 2009, gradually expanding it to 113 cities. It had garnered a total subscriber base of 10,733 during the first four months itself. Initially, there was less coverage in the cities. That was gradually improved to cover entire cities. Also, at the time of the launch, only four services were available -- video calling, video conferencing, mobile TV and mobile broadband.
For the most battle-hardened, specialised and successful counter-insurgency army in the world, this is an unfamiliar, first-time experience of dealing with the north east's deepest complexities, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The Kolkata medium pacer, who picked 57 wickets last season, believes his haul of 26 wickets this season, though lesser, is still formidable.
The earthquake damaged houses, roads, as well as other infrastructures, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted eyewitnesses from the area as saying.
It is only the Indian approach of holding on to multiple realities and contradictory ideas simultaneously that is likely to deliver peace and progress. Binary logic is out of sync with reality, notes R Jagannathan.
Although India has sought inputs from the Myanmar army since most of those involved in Thursday's ambush would have sneaked across into Myanmar, the fresh operations would smoke out insurgents based in hideouts on the Indian side along the border.
Victim Saraswati Vaidya's live-in partner Manoj Sane, 56, has been arrested for allegedly killing her and dismembering the body in their 7th-floor rented apartment in Mira Road of Thane district.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India issued a circular to all its 27 affiliated units asking them to ensure the Indian Premier League-contracted players appear for their domestic teams instead of joining the franchises to prepare for the T20 tournament, starting in UAE next month.
Ganguly, who is expected to join the West Bengal team midway, has not yet reached the coal township.
The Bengal captain will have to miss his team's first two East Zone one-day league games.
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