Anantha Kumar has been made party general secretary. Najma Heptullah and Varun Gandhi have been included in the national executive.
Parts of Raigad, Ratnagiri districts in the coastal Konkan region and Kolhapur district in western Maharashtra, have been worst affected by the floods. Besides that, heavy rains have been pounding parts of Satara district.
In a desperate bid to get their team combination right, the Indian cricket team summoned Karnataka all-rounder Stuart Binny as the 16th member of the Test squad ahead of the second Test, starting Thursday.
Fernandes was hospitalised in July after suffering a fall while doing yoga at his house.
A round up of the fourth and final day's action of the Ranji Trophy matches on Sunday.
Stuart Binny celebrated his maiden call-up into the Indian team with a scintillating 88 as table toppers Karnataka asserted their supremacy with a solid performance, scoring 226 for 5 at stumps on the second day of their final Ranji Trophy match against hosts Delhi, who are almost out of the race for a quarter-final berth.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy final played between Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday.
The AIADMK is convinced that the BJP will remain an electoral burden for a long time to come, beginning the Lok Sabha polls next year, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.
For MP, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya and Anubhav Agarwal also took two wickets apiece. MP got seven points from the win. The outright-winning team gets six points while a victory of an innings or 10-wickets fetches seven points.
Rediff readers share photographs of their celebrations.
A leisure trip to Sri Lanka proved fatal for JD-S workers when the blast took place very close to the dining table as they sat for breakfast at Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, one of the major targets of the deadliest terror strikes in the island nation's history, family members said.
A summary of Thursday's matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy limited-overs' tournament.
During the four-month monsoon period, India recorded the highest rainfall since 1994, according to the India Meteorological Department.
The flooding in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra has left people without homes and brought about destruction worth crores.
Mithun became the first bowler in the domestic circuit to claim hat-trick in all the formats.
'The staff student ratio in Kerala medical colleges is already compromised as in the last few years, the Kerala government has taken a decision to admit maximum number of students in all the medical colleges.'
For three years Vaishali Shadangule has been away from ramps discovering the magical essence of India,
Words and actions like those of R N Ravi and a vocal section of the state BJP have only added to Tamil fears and suspicions, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Congress claimed that the BJP was "trying hard" to get their party's MLAs on their side".
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
Vaishali Shadangule's handloom line was a medley of colours and textures.
'Modi-Shah have understood the risks their cynical mixing of domestic political motivations with strategic national interests was soon going to become counterproductive asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Mother and son refuse to go away despite indications blowing in the wind that their leadership is ringing the death knell of the party, observes Ramesh Menon.
Taxmen also claimed that the signature of Siddhartha on the letter being circulated on the social media under his name "does not match" with the record available with the department.
Rediff readers share their best travel photos of India.
'The BJP is using all the central agencies at its disposal (to undermine us).' 'We are also taking care that our MLAs are not poached.'
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday.
A summary of all the action from Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Wednesday.
Infused with new energy under Rohit, India looked a completely overhauled unit after being whitewashed in South Africa and the team would certainly want to continue from where it left of on Sunday night.
He flew down to Mumbai as a Congress troubleshooter with a mission to save the wobbly coalition government in Karnataka, but minister D K Shivakumar hardly found any support from the Maharashtra unit of his party in his task and was sent packing to his home state.
'Those (Russian) fighter jets just drop bombs and fly away.' 'How will they know if a bus is carrying Indian students?'
India batter Mayank Agarwal is keen to pick newly-appointed national team head coach Rahul Dravid's brain once again, having had an enjoyable experience with the approachable Karnataka stalwart while playing for India 'A'.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Friday.
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Friday.
Around six lakh people have been housed in over 2000 relief camps in the two states.
A public-private partnership is changing the way the youth from rural India is enabling themselves to become job-ready.
'He is like a pillar and the whole team bats around him.' 'In today's world, everyone likes to play their strokes while Pujara is someone who will tire out the bowlers.' 'If you have one batsman who can play out the new ball or play out a spell from a good bowler, then it helps the whole team, it helps the other batsmen.'
In the absence of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul was named vice-captain of the ODI and T20I teams. He also makes a comeback to the Test team, as Shikhar Dhawan was named only in the limited-overs' side.
Eyeing a top-two finish, Chennai Super Kings will start as the firm favourites when they take on Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League, in Dubai, on Thursday.
