A summary of all the action from Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Tuesday.
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.
In response to a petion filed by Superintendent of Police G L Singhal, theGujarat High Court has stayed the magisterial inquiry report on encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
About 16,000 Indians, mostly students, are stranded in Ukraine as Russia's invasion of the east European country entered its second day on Friday. Of the students, many studying medicine in Kharkiv and Kyiv, about 2,500 are from Gujarat and 2,320 from Kerala.
London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar could not live up to the billing as he failed to qualify for the finals of the 25-metre rapid fire pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea on Monday.
a procession by fans of Indian Idol Prashant Tamang clashed with locals, following dispute over passage for an ambulance near the Siliguri Sub-divisional hospital on Friday.
India continued its dominance at the SAFF Women's Championship by lifting its fifth straight title with a 3-1 victory over hosts Nepal in the final.
The body of an army jawan, who had gone missing after an avalanche hit a patrol in Siachen's Turtuk sector in Ladakh region, was recovered from under the snow on Saturday.
According to media reports in Kathmandu, China has allegedly constructed 11 buildings on the Nepalese territory in the Humla district bordering Tibet. The disputed area lies in Lampcha village of Namkha Rural Municipality in Humla district.
Commonwealth Games gold medalist shooter Pemba Tamang was stopped by immigration officials in Mumbai from boarding a flight to Beijing as his passport had the 'invalid' stapled visa, which China issues to the Indians from Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced Adhikari's name as leader of the BJP legislature party in the assembly after a meeting of the legislators at the party's Hastings office.
The Gujarat government on Tuesday rejected the S P Tamang report which concluded that Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a fake encounter in 2004 and said it would challenge it in a higher court.
Tamang said, "All schools in Darjeeling will be given relaxation for 12 hours on June 23 to evacuate students from the city."
Azim and Naushad Shaikh (36) then stitched a 109-run partnership before the latter was trapped leg before by leg-spinner Priyanshu Khanduri.
Curfew, clamped to quell violence that erupted over the alleged derogatory comment on Indian Idol Prashant Tamang by a Delhi-based FM channel, continued for the second day on Saturday paralysing normal life in Siliguri.
A spokesperson of the Delhi-based FM channel said that RJ Nitin has tendered, "an apology if he had unintentionally hurt the sentiments of anyone."
The ace Indian marksman lost to his coach and had to settle for the silver medal in the double trap event at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships.
The five shooters had to first spend a few hours at the Atlanta Airport after KLM airlines shut the gates before they could board, leaving them with no choice but to spend 12 hours in the terminal where they were forced to sleep on benches and were also not provided with accommodation or food.
Can Baichung Bhutia's Hamro Sikkim party pose a challenge to Pawan Chamling who has not lost an election in 24 years?
Three Nepalese citizens, arrested for allegedly raping a 30-year-old American woman in Manali, were on Friday remanded in 10-day judicial custody by a local court.
Masih Saighani fired Chennaiyin into the lead in the 17th minute before two goals in either half by Martin Chaves (43rd, 71st) seemed to have handed all three points to NorthEast United. However, a late equaliser from Lallianzuala Chhangte (90+3rd) ensured the away side took a point from the match.
Life came to a grinding halt on Friday in Arunachal Pradesh following a 24-hour state-wide bandh called by the All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union.
Arunachal Pradesh police are yet to make a breakthrough in the case where a woman journalist was shot in Itanagar on July 15 even as the demand for the Central Bureau of Investigation to handle investigations gained momentum, official sources said on Saturday.
Rajasthan's Mahaveer Singh and Tejaswini Sawant of Maharashtra were among the shooters to have won the gold medals on the 10th day of the 56th National Shooting Championship in New Delhi.
After being deprived of a gold medal by Border Security Force's Amit Kumar Pilaniya in the 10m air pistol event three days ago, Samaresh Jung was bang on target today as he won the 25m centre fire pistol title in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
The Gujarat government on Monday opposed CBI probe into the 2004 encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, in the Gujarat High Court.
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung and its general secretary Roshan Giri have been named in an FIR filed by the police in connection with the murder of Gorkha leader Madan Tamang. Charges of conspiracy have been brought against the two besides Gurung's wife Asha, the chief of Gorkha Nari Mukti Morcha, the outfit's press and publicity secretary Harka Bahadur Chettri, vice-president Amar Lama and GJM police wing GLP's 'commandant' Ramesh Aley.
All India Gorkha League president and Gorkhaland proponent Madan Tamang was seriously injured after being attacked with sharp weapons by unidentified assailants in Darjeeling town on Friday.
Summary of all Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday
The star-studded shooting squad was expectedly on target, while the track-and-field athletes continued their golden run as India held on firmly to the top spot by remaining way ahead of competition on the sixth day of the 12th South Asian Games in Guwahati
Hosts Bangladesh defeated a valiant Nepal by six wickets after a tense run-chase to storm into the semi-finals of the ICC under-19 World Cup on Friday, giving the nation its maiden appearance in the last four of a world event.
Family members of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed allegedly in an encounter by the Gujarat police, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court's order staying a magisterial inquiry report, which had described the incident as a fake encounter.The Gujarat High Court on September 9 had stayed Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang's report, on the plea of the state government.
Father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, one of the four persons allegedly killed in an encounter in Gujarat in 2004, on Tuesday hailed the judicial inquiry report that said they were victims of a 'fake encounter'."I always believed that the truth will be known one day," Javed's father Gopinatha Pillai told PTI from his home at Charaummood in Aalappuzha District, reacting to the findings of the investigation conducted by Magistrate S P Tamang.
This is what you call LUCK. In a fortunate-dramatic turn of events, a Nepal-born servant has inherited the multi-crore apartment of a reclusive star in the United States. The actress, Ruth Ford, bequeathed the Rs 38-crore flat and everything in it not to her siblings, but she left the lot to her trusty butler, reports The Independent in a fascinating article.
Life came to a standstill in all three sub-divisions of Darjeeling district on Monday due to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's indefinite bandh called to press for a separate state and other demands.
The apex court also issued notice to the Centre on Jahan's mother, Shamima Kaushar's plea seeking vacation of the Gujarat High Court order granting stay on the report of Judicial Magistrate S P Tamang.
For Home Minister Chidambaram, it was an opportunity to set the record straight and disabuse any misperception that the Home Ministry affidavit on Ishrat Jahan and three others could be used by the Gujarat government to vindicate itself from culpability in the alleged fake encounter case.
In a setback to the Gujarat government, a judicial probe has stated that the 2004 killing of Ishrat Jahan, a college student, and three others suspected to be on a mission to 'kill' Chief Minister Narendra Modi, was a case of fake encounter by the police. Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang's probe report said the four persons who were also suspected to be linked with Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba, were killed in cold blood by the police.
Gokulam Kerala were crowned champions of the Hero Indian Women's League after a dramatic 3-2 victory over Kangchup Road Young Physical and Sports Association (KRYPHSA) FC in the final