The former captain returned to a warm welcome at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Friday morning.
Australia beat a battling India in the final of the Commonwealth Volleyball championship.
Narendra Modi can pick up a tip from the Samajwadi Party ramlila. If he doesn't want L K Advani as President, he might anoint him Bharatiya Bhishma Pitamah, suggests Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The Centre was still undecided whether the modernisation of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata should be done by Airports Authority of India or through joint venture, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said.
The Delhi Police has asked commuters to avoid Rajpath and its connecting roads on Friday morning as nearly 30,000 people are expected to throng the Red Fort on the occasion of International Day of Yoga, traffic officials said.
West Bengal government will felicitate Atletico De Kolkata (ATK) team for winning the first edition of Indian Super League football, state chief minister Mamata Banerjee said.
BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said efforts will be made to pacify the dissidents.
The 47-year-old Gandhi is on a three-day trip to Singapore and Malaysia during which he will meet Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak, besides interacting with the Indian community, and business leaders.
Ranaghat sub-disional hospital superintendent A N Mondal said that the nun was taken to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, over 64 km away, from where she left for an undisclosed destination.
I want to make this clear again that the CAA is not about taking away anybody's citizenship, but about granting citizenship, Modi said.
Through the yatra the UP CM would try to send the message that he was in the driver's seat, notwithstanding all the hue and cry within the party.
'The party dropped me as a spokesperson for showing a roadmap. It shows that the party either has a high level of arrogance or they are completely detached from ground realities.'
The observer for Tuesday's BCCI elections also gave voting right to the Jharkhand State Cricket Association.
Munshi was one of the cases in the Jessica Lal case.
SP veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed that there was "no discord".
A minor scuffle broke out between the media and police personnel during Martina Hingis' arrival at the Kolkata airport.
Government schools in West Bengal will not make any arrangement for students to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's live address on Teachers Day and many private schools too may skip the programme.
The Madras High Court restrained the BCCI from conducting the elections in Kolkata till 1230 pm on Thursday.
In its first sporting event after the tsunami, a charity football match was held at Port Blair.
Some Lok Sabha candidates in Haryana, which has the country's lowest sex ratio, are facing a strange demand from bachelor voters -- "get us brides in return for our votes".
A 30-year old Gujarati woman was arrested by the airport police in Kolkata Sunday night after she was sent back by immigration authorities at New York airport allegedly for using a passport of another person.
In another match at the Sunfeast Open, wild card Kyra Shroff was virtually given tennis lessons by eighth seed Chinese Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan before bowing out.
The pair would now lock horns with the third seeded pair of Beygelzimer and Fedak for the title at the centre court on Sunday.
They will now take on Beygelzimer and Yuliana Fedak for a berth in the final.
The Swiss ace overcame a late fightback from Israel's Tzipora Obziler to make the grade at the Sunfeast Open.
The Mumbai lass rallied splendidly to beat the higher-ranked Dutch girl in the opening round qualifiers of the Sunfeast Open.
The All India Football Federation said that there would be a shake-up in the sport in the country and the roadmap ahead is to have just one league in near future.
The 90-minute meeting is being seen as an attempt at reconciliation between Shivpal, a Cabinet minister, and Akhilesh after intervention of the latter's father Mulayam.
India skipper Sourav Ganguly expressed confidence that the experience with Glamorgan would help him regain lost touch with the willow.
Our work in last five years and the problems people are facing due to demonetisation will lead us to victory, he said.
The Board has sought a stay on the order on grounds that the high court committed gross error in entertaining the review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club.
Additional Solicitor Generals P S Narsimha and Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, informed the court that following its order, a team of doctors from AIIMS had visited the baby in a local government hospital and shifted her to AIIMS for better medical care.
The fourth seeded Indo-Spanish pair beat Sunitha Rao and Villmarie Castellvi 6-1, 6-3
The two players registered contrasting victories in the qualifiers to make it to the main draw of the Sunfeast Open.
