The hits and misses of the week.
Festive atmosphere and bonhomie prevailed in Lok Sabha on Thursday with members donning traditional dress and head gears and many taking oath in their mother tongue.
Senior cricketers Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina will lead India Red, India Blue and India Green teams respectively in the Duleep Trophy to be played at Greater Noida International Cricket Stadium from August 23 to September 14. The four-day tournament will be played for the first time with pink ball and under lights.
The FTSE 100 is up by about 2 per cent since the start of 2015, although the index is down 6 per cent from a record high of 7,122.74 points reached in April.
It's high time the President intervened and saved the country, said Mamata.
The decision followed reports from New Delhi that senior party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay was being considered for induction in the Cabinet against Mamata's wishes.
The injured soldiers' doctor is the lanky 30-year-old son of Indian immigrants from Kolkata.
Sonchiriya is an entire mood within a movie, feels Sukanya Verma.
The senior MP had been suspended for 'anti-party' activities after he publicly criticised Mamata's decision to leave the NDA before the 2001 assembly elections in West Bengal.
Singh also said that lynching incidents have been happening for years and mentioned that the biggest lynchings happened in 1984.
India's leading software company Wipro Technologies on Monday said it would recruit 2500 professionals for its upcoming software development centre at Kolkata to be operational from June 2004.\n\n\n\n
He asserted that the BJP does not carry out any action with a vindictive approach.
The Trinamool Congress chief is keen to get the veteran leader in the party fold to counter the growing influence of young Turk Sudip Bandopadhyay.
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.
Following the address by President Ram Nath Kovind, the economic survey will be tabled in the two Houses.
BJP won 18 of the seats while the TMC won 22 of the seats.
Scientists also expressed the hope that any technical problem will be sorted out by ISRO, and the mission will be launched successfully.
The 'NaMo wave' failed to influence voters in Tripura, which remained a Communist bastion with the Left Front retaining both the Lok Sabha seats with record margins and a vote share of 64.0 per cent.
A round-up of Day 1 in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final matches.
The govt asserted the Centre has no role in the preparation of the draft list.
A round-up of results from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday.
He said while the state government had sought Rs 8,481 crore as central assistance, the Centre has provided Rs 940.92 crore.
The list, which is a mix of seasoned political players and greenhorns, has 17 women candidates, five more than the last elections, constituting roughly 41 per cent of the candidates.
HRD Minister Smriti Irani was again in the line of fire in the Lok Sabha with opposition members forcing Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to allow them to speak on their notice for the privilege motion against the minister.
Rabada, the number one ranked Test bowler, could still play if he succeeds in his appeal against an International Cricket Council (ICC) decision to award him three demerit points for his reaction to dismissing Steve Smith in the second Test.
Indian IT players, over the past few years, have pressed the paddle on re-training of their employees as new technologies take centre-stage.
Governor Tathagata Roy also administered the oath of office to BJP leader Jishnu Deb Burman as the deputy chief minister along with seven other ministers, including Indigenous People's Front of Tripura chief N C Debbarma.
This is the latest in a series of large office space buyouts by RMZ Corp which has created a portfolio of rent-yielding commercial assets in India.
There is nothing new that Dark Chocolate highlights about the murder case, says Namrata Thakker!
The Opposition, which had been demanding that the bill be referred to a 'joint select committee', staged a walkout when its demand was rejected by the government.
He said that the government was willing to listen to the complaints and suggestions different parties have over the execution of the demonetisation move.
Here's a list of a few remarks which added to the anguish of people in the aftermath of the tragedy.
The introduction of the Telangana Bill itself has run into a controversy with several parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, telling Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar that they do not accept that the legislation has been introduced.
Opposition's relentless demand for a debate on demonetisation under a rule which entails voting on Thursday forced the adjournment of the Lok Sabha
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