A look at this week's hits and misses.
"This Indian tendency to compare youngsters with established stars tends to burden the players and it must stop," says Sudeep Hota.
The last date for filing of nominations is September 22; scrutiny will be taken up the next day.
Lakdawala was reportedly shot dead by members of the Chhota Shakeel gang.
The Indian colts were 119 for 2 in reply at close on day of the second 'Test'.
Shinde, who returned from Delhi on Tuesday morning, headed straight for the Raj Bhawan. The chief minister was earlier scheduled to meet the governor in the afternoon.
Haryana registered a 41-run victory on the fourth and final day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Group 'B' match.
The governor has asked Deshmukh to be the caretaker chief minister till his successor in sworn in.
'I'm backing myself to show the lead to the other batsmen,' the Pakistan captain said.
Designer Premal Badiani put the cause in the New York Fashion Week spotlight.
'Both the countries have signed this agreement to resolve all their disputes bilaterally,' Fazal-ur Rehman said.
Besides the five Indian films that are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year -- a rather large collection at an international film festival, says Aseem Chhabra -- there are more films with an Indian connect.
Taapsee takes off her make up, Salman gets a date, Akshay gets flowers for his girls...
The blast targeted Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri when he came out of a mosque after addressing a gathering.
Looking at the star arrivals for the Filmfare pre-awards party.
Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai decided against enforcing the follow-on after taking a huge lead of 297 runs over Rest of India on Day 3 of the five-day Irani Cup match at the Brabourne stadium, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.
Sushilkumar Shinde will now head a 69-member jumbo ministry of the Democratic Front govt.
Vilasrao Deshmukh expressed happiness that his long-time friend Shinde will take over the reins of the government.
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday signed death warrants of six terrorist, whose execution was pending.
Eight policemen will be stationed on the university premises and a mobile van will be deployed outside. Four female university employees would be tasked with keeping an eye on female students
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Following-on, J & K were 36 for 4 in their second innings against Vidarbha on day 2 in the Ranji Trophy 'Plate' match.
VCA restricted RCA to 183 for eight on their way to chasing the target of 246 in the Central Zone Ranji trophy one-day match in Indore.
A summary of the first day's play at different venues in the Ranji Trophy.
The decision left everyone wondering if the on-field umpires faltered in calling off the game, but the Vidarbha player, said nothing like that had happened.
Having already clinched the series, India would look to hand Zimbabwe a third successive whitewash while testing more youngsters when they take on the lacklustre hosts in the third and final One-day International in Harare, on Wednesday.
Punjab pummelled Delhi by 10 wickets for their maiden win of the season on Friday while handing the hosts their first Ranji Trophy loss at home in five years.
Delhi suffered another batting collapse to brighten Punjab's prospects of recording an outright victory in their Ranji Trophy Group B match in New Delhi on Thursday.
It remains to be seen whether veteran Gautam Gambhir can make a comeback to the Indian ODI team after being recently called up to the Test squad to replace the injured KL Rahul.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify Rediff.com's Most Valuable ODI Player in the 2016-2017 season so far.
Umesh Yadav starred with a match haul of 12/79 as defending champion Vidarbha routed Kerala by an innings and 11 runs shortly after lunch on Day 2 to storm into the Ranji Trophy final for the second year in a row.
Check out the star arrivals.
Watch stars dazzle at the red carpet.
Fortune favours the brave and he has done well by taking risks and winning it all, says Aditi Phadnis.
'Deeply flawed, Sacred Games and Mirzapur come nowhere close to representing the diversity of stories from this country,' says Vikram Johri.
'The joke has gone on for far too long already. How about a happy ending?' asks Sukanya Verma.
'We have been following our routine and that's the best part, we have done. All credit goes to the players as they have put in the hard work. I am very happy with the way they have respected me, and the players have never ignored the system we have followed.
