India's U-19 World Cup star all-rounder Saumy Kumar Pandey possesses a striking similarity to Ravindra Jadeja's bowling action.
Uday Saharan plays copybook, conventional cricket, his style which has so far given India dividends.
The year saw its share of news and views. But there were some that really stood out for our readers.
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court quashed the minority status of AMU after ruling that the Parliament had no jurisdiction to restore it through the AMU Amendment Act, 1981.
The junior doctors formed a human chain before holding a rally to condemn the Centre's move as well as a baton-charge by police on protestors on Thursday.
Maan Kunwar, from the historic city of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, is being hailed as the "Rani of Jhansi" because of her indomitable spirit.
'It is important to understand that the disability is not in the person.' 'The problem lies in societal attitude and the discriminatory treatment given to disabled people in our country.'
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
Dr Anand Rai says his fight has cost him a great deal. But the battle is far from over.
Nearly 4,000 doctors have been on strike in various government and municipal hospitals since Monday demanding security at work place in the wake of a string of attacks on their colleagues.
Dr Koshy Eapen, 29, was chosen from 246 nominations from 107 countries for his "exemplary service to medical care and education".
Is the unusually and unbearably scorching Sun and the general laxity, bordering on laziness, among voters, responsible, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Judge Jagdale halted Dr Gupta's testimony several times because he felt it had neither order nor direction. Tightly controlling his irritation, his lips compressed, the judge explained as patiently as he could: "What he has done in this case should come (out in his testimony) in a lucid manner. You eat chapati and then rice. You cannot eat half a chapati and then have rice and then eat half a chapati..." "He is not a witness of facts. He is an expert witness. Either he is not prepared. Or you are not prepared."
The doctors have been protesting against some recent incidents, including in Dhule and at the civic-run Sion hospital in Mumbai, where relatives of patients attacked the respective doctors in-charge.
'All of our lives are going to be changed in a permanent way...' 'We just have to ride out the tide right now and we will see a rainbow at the end of this.'
Wushu athlete Mepung Lamgu has gone incommunicado since being denied visa to travel to China for the Asian Games.
rediffGURU Kanchan Rai urges you to talk about your problems so you can seek solutions and also transform your life.
Human presents an ugly truth -- that some people need to die a painful death in order to facilitate the process of finding a cure for deadly diseases, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
'If the National Medical Commission Bill is introduced, it will destroy the system of modern medicine.'
He pointed out that for every patient who is tested positive, there are 5 to 10 people who are positive but not tested. That means more than 15 to 20 lakh people are getting infected every day in India even now. Statistically, five per cent of the positive patients need an ICU bed, irrespective of their age. On an average, a patient in ICU spends at least 10 days there.
Tadvi's roommate and friend Snehal in her statement to the police, which is part of the chargesheet, has said Ahuja, Meher and Khandelwal used to harass and ill-treat them in front of other juniors, hospital staff and patients.
Tamil Nadu electricity minister was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), official sources said, making him the first minister in the M K Stalin-led government to face such an action from a central agency.
'Two years ago, had I been given even a tiny hint that my genes were tipping the scale for the development of a disease that would lock me into my body, unable to move or breath normally on my own, I would have been sad, and probably mad.' 'So now I'm running as fast as I can -- from my wheelchair.' P Rajendran on the amazing but brief life of Rahul Desikan, medical pioneer.
Tanishq Abraham has already been accepted by two universities to study medicine.
The 22-year-old Afridi will join the national team in Australia on Saturday after completing his rehabilitation programme for a knee injury under the supervision of the PCB Medical Advisory Committee.
Mister Mummy is neither a comedy nor an emotional drama, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Dimple Bhatt graduated with a joint MD-PhD degree and will soon begin his residency in neurology and psychiatry. Which would be impressive even if you didn't know that Bhatt, who is wheelchair bound, has also sold a book, two screenplays, gained a position on the US Paralympic fencing team and recorded a music album!
Akhtar Ali played eight Davis Cup ties between 1958 and 1964 and also captained and coached the Indian team.
Lakshya Sen's giant-killing run ended with a straight-games defeat to Thailand's rising star Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final of the German Open Super 300 badminton tournament, Muelheim An Der Ruhr, on Sunday.
Belonging to a middle class family from Jacobabad in interior Sindh province, Ropeta says she wants to end this sentiment that girls from good families shouldn't have anything to do with the police or district courts.
The DMK will not stop till Tamil Nadu got exemption from the central qualifying test, Stalin said.
Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia on Wednesday admitted that the Birmingham edition will be her last CWG but insisted that her career is not yet over.
On June 23, the boys and their 25-year-old coach had entered the Tham Luang network of caves on a team outing. However, they were stranded following a heavy and continuous downpour that flooded the cave.
La Nina, construction worsen air quality; spike in respiratory ailments.
The team heard a loud crackle. Then the scream came from Dilshan at the front of the bus. 'Get down.' Jayawardene was hit first; his sock filled with blood. Outside, twelve gunmen blocked the exit. A revealing excerpt from Nicholas Brookes's An Island's Eleven: A History of Cricket in Sri Lanka.
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Friday said he will file a contempt of court case against Amar Singh and police officials in connection with the controversial CD purportedly featuring his father and prominent jurist Shanti Bhushan.
Anup Patel tells Chaya Babu that he is bound by a sense of duty to help the country of his birth fight the menace of human trafficking
The accused -- Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal -- were arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of doctor Payal Tadvi by tormenting her with casteist slurs.
Kapil said the mentality of Indian parents towards sports has changed drastically over the years, but more needs to be done.
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