The selection process will begin after acceptance of Roy's resignation.
'If I were to live a thousand years, I could not repay the gratitude I feel.' 'To receive love is the greatest thing.' 'What more in life could you wish for?'
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A trailblazer in Indian tennis, Sania Mirza revealed that as a child, she was once asked to stop playing as "no one would marry" her if her complexion turned "dark" due to the rigours of an outdoor sport.
Former India coach Anil Kumble is in the running for the Coach of the Year award in the inaugural edition of the Indian Sports Honours, instituted by the RP-SG Group in association with the foundation of skipper Virat Kohli.
Six Indian women have made it to Asia's most powerful women list released by Forbes.
The hits and misses of the week.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
The daily wage earners who oil the wheels of the movies business are struggling to cope with the fallout of the lockdown.
Sprinter Dutee Chand, who made it to her first Olympics after fighting the odds arising out of a 'gender test', finished a disappointing seventh in her 100m heats on the opening day of athletics event, in Rio de Janeiro, on Friday.
All-women bank to take wings across states.
Women dominate Indian banks's clerical and officer rolls, but few make it to the executive office these days, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Two of the accused in December 16 gang rape case on Thursday questioned in a court in New Delhi the authenticity of the girl's dying declaration being relied upon by the Delhi police as they claimed that the same was introduced by the probe agency after her death.
The hits and miss of the box office.
Railways sprinter Merlin K Joseph smashed the 13-year-old national record in women's 100m race in the semi-finals on Sunday, but could manage only a bronze in the finals on the second day of the 53rd National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
The hits and misses of the week.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your stock market queries.
A look at the week's hits and misses.
'Nothing comes easy, but I knew what I was getting in to.'
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
In an unprecedented move, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting award, will be conferred on four athletes this year. The Sports Ministry announced on Monday that Olympic medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik will be honoured alongside trail-blazing gymnast Dipa Karmakar and ace shooter Jitu Rai.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
'Once you are a mother, you don't have time for yourself, especially if you are a first-time mother. You want to do everything for the child and then you realise that you don't have 10 hands.' Rakshanda Khan is back, and ready to thrill!
An Association of Democratic Reforms report states that 161 out of 230 MLAs in the newly-formed Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha are crorepatis, while 73 MLAs have criminal cases filed against them.
Is it just the glamour?
Tiger Woods appears to be unmatchable in appeal, even when he does not play well as at this year's Masters.
'This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture.' 'And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!' Sreehari Nair comes away unimpressed.
It is not often that Goswami's Nation-Wants-to-Know shows become material evidence in a murder trial no less. Nor was it something CBI Special Judge J C Jagdale was wildly enthused about. It had to be done because as he put it to CBI Special Public Prosecutor Kavita Patil caustically: "Your witnesses gave interviews to channels about a serious crime."
'All those photographs I had seen before about Ladakh were not photoshopped.' 'Ladakh, truly, was nature's masterpiece.'
Barring Maharashtra, the poll percentage in rest of the states was in excess of 60 per cent while in Puducherry it was 80.47 per cent.
SC said to establish a clear link between the convicts and the incident, the police has adduced scientific evidence like DNA, fingerprint and bite mark analysis.
The Mahindra Monastery Escape 2016 is a one-of-its-kind road trip through some of India's toughest and picturesque terrain.
