A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Despite all the controversies, the IPL's brand value hasn't diminished. Instead, says Harish Kotian/Rediff.com, the IPL made the BCCI richer by over Rs 3 billion!
'Political elites need to feel that these are our children dying, that this is a crisis for us, a tragedy for our community, we must take immediate action to save the lives of our people.'
As a multi-disciplinary organisation, SFIO probes cases of financial frauds that are referred to it by Corporate Affairs Ministry
Ponting shrugged off Australia's injury worries and the idea of there being risk in rushing Smith and Warner into the team.
I am only suggesting greater sensitisation and understanding of adults' sexual and lifestyle choices, says Shekhar Gupta.
Sonia wanted to know what happened to the institution of Lok Pal, the anti-graft watchdog that was proposed to be set up.
'New Delhi showed itself willing -- at least for a period -- to tolerate the risk of conflict and to withstand Beijing's implicit and explicit threats.' 'But it also continued to try to cut some kind of deal with China to reduce tensions.'
Battered and bruised after their Test series defeat, India will bounce back strongly in the ODI series in South Africa, top-order batsman Shreyas Iyer said in Kolkata on Monday.
India continued their rampaging run as they thrashed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets to register their third win on the trot, at the ICC Under-19 World Cup, in Mount Maunganui, on Friday.
The Centre is expected to finalise the list of Bharatiya Janata Party veterans to be appointed as Governors to fill up vacancies in various Raj Bhawans on Wednesday.
India and China on Tuesday agreed to "jointly deal with security threats" and take measures to strengthen cooperation in combating terrorism during their first dialogue on counter-terrorism and security in Beijing, amid Indo-Pak tensions following the Uri terror attack.
Adjutant General of the Army Lt General Ashwani Kumar said it planned to induct about 800 women in the military police with a yearly intake of 52 personnel.
The Centre's notification lifting ban on bull taming sport Jallikattu during the festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu was on Monday challenged in the Supreme Court.
A win over Sunrisers Hyderabad is imperative for Mumbai Indians to keep their chances alive of making it to the play-offs.
The total quantum of non-performing assets in the Indian banking system increased to Rs 7.33 trillion as of June 2017, from Rs 2.75 trillion in March 2015.
The BJP, however, reacted sharply to Gandhi's remarks saying the Congress leader will do well worrying more about his constituency.
Glimpses of Republic Day celebrations across the country.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday
'Since last year, over 50,000 Sikh farmers have been evicted from Kutch district and Narendra Modi's government has done little other than giving assurances.' 'We are today at a point where Sikhs continue to move out of the country in large numbers and nobody is ready to address the real concerns of Sikhs.'
CBI officials, who questioned former RBI deputy governor H R Khan on Friday, wanted to understand from him why the gold scheme was rushed through without taking into the account the impact and potential misuse.
'PNB had confirmed compliance with the RBI's prescription in its circular of August 3, 2016, which has now turned out to be factually incorrect,' Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
What kind of chowkidari is Narendra Modi doing, asks Rahul.
Unlike in the past, when old private banks compromised upon underwriting standards to take on the bulk, they've now realised that scaling up at the cost of quality isn't worth the while. These banks have also readjusted growth targets when required, and rebalanced books to preserve capital and asset quality.
It said the prime minister of Pakistan has neither chosen to condemn the heinous act nor condoled with the bereaved families.
'Efforts to roll out GST from next fiscal'
'The brainless 'fidayeen' you have been breeding are going to hell to rot and not to any heaven.' 'No one can get away after messing with the Indian Defence Forces,' Major Mohommed Ali Shah, an Indian Army veteran, tells the Jaish e Mohammed.
Amid the bitter war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Narendra Modi of being discourteous to his opponents, adopting double standards on corruption and favouring select industrialists.
Probodh Panda and Atul Kumar Anjaan are among 39 candidates declared by the Communist Party of India for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as the party said that it would fight on 60 seats in 24 states.
The main Opposition party is likely to lose some more of its strength in 2016-17
Kumaraswamy met representatives of farmers groups and progressive peasants to discuss the problems faced by them.
'Parties like ours and others like the Lok Janshatki Party will ensure that the BJP remains on the straight and narrow path,' says Shiromani Akali Dal leader Naresh Gujral
A summary of the day's matches in the Vijay Hazare One-day tournament.
Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories has set aside Rs 257.4 crore (Rs 2.57 billion) towards the financial impact of a US ban on import of products made at its plant at Toansa.
India on Wednesday night deferred a decision on whether to go ahead with the FS-level talks with Pakistan on Friday after the detention of "several individuals" of the dreaded JeM by Islamabad.
Even as India gears up for election results on May 16, a group of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have taken up an informal initiative to see how a 'Modi ministry' will look like, in case the party forms the government at the Centre.
Stunning moments from across India as it celebrates its 69th Independence Day
The operation to fully sanitise the Pathankot Air base, which was attacked by six terrorists last Saturday, is "close to completion" with the personnel of the National Security Guard, the army and the Garud commandos of Indian Air Force undertaking the task on the sprawling complex.
'All governments try owning the message, but the Modi-Shah BJP has developed it into a fine art.'
Fearing defeat in the upcoming high-pressure polls, state Congress chiefs are reluctant to fight from their constituencies, eye a shift. Anita Katyal reports
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