A shocking incident of misuse of power has come to light in national capital New Delhi where 11 Shiv Sena Members of Parliament are reported to have forced a Muslim worker to break his Ramzan fast and eat a chapati, at the Maharashtra Sadan.
The woman, who was wearing a dress, missed her flight, though she was accommodated on a later flight after she reportedly changed into trousers.
According to media reports, the BCCI has decided that girlfriends will no longer be allowed on tour and there will also be restrictions on the duration of the wives' stay in overseas tours.
Former India captain Diana Edulji, part of the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA), wants Board of Control for Cricket in India's CEO Rahul Johri sacked over allegations of sexual harassment.
'N Ram and I met on the lawns of Mani Shankar Aiyar's bungalow.' 'I pulled out a rolled printout from my jacket and handed it to him.' 'In the cut-throat world of journalism, this was like high treason.' 'But letting a story be killed because you can't publish it is a bigger crime than passing it to the competition,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
Following the Supreme Court on Friday, the Board of Control of Cricket in India secretary Ajay Shirke has written a letter to Justice Lodha Panel asking for clarification in the issues related to broadcast rights for the Indian Premier League. The invitation to tenders (ITTs) are slated to be opened on Tuesday (October 25).
Two-time Indian Premier League champions Chennai Super Kings has been valued at just Rs 5 lakh by its owners, India Cements.
The students -- who were from the Central Agricultural University in Imphal -- had gone to visit the monument as part of an all-India educational tour.
The designer had expressed his desire to dress up the couple in 2015.
An angry BCCI has now threatened to withdraw the Indian team from the next year's Champions Trophy in England after being excluded from the ICC's finance committee meeting held a few days ago in Dubai.
Pehlu Khan, the man who died after gau rakshaks beat him and four others for allegedly smuggling cows, was a dairy farmer and had the receipts of the cow purchase.
Naresh Chandra was most certainly among the greatest patriots two generations of Indian strategists have seen.
Did Prime Minister Narendra Modi have his facts wrong when he claimed during his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort that Nagla Fatela, a tiny village in Uttar Pradesh, had finally been electrified, seven decades after independence?
"Show respect to cows as it is the leader of all bovines. Its milk, ghee and butter have therapeutic properties and its meat is the cause of several diseases," translates the verse on the hoarding
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh speaks about the shortcomings of the Grand Old Party, and puts up a brave defence for party vice president Rahul Gandhi in this freewheeling chat with the Indian Express
'The producer will wear these gold ornaments, but they will not part with Rs 30,000 or Rs 50,000 to pay the writer.'
An occasional quiz to improve Narendrabhai's grasp of Indian history...
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani has reportedly held S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan guilty in his investigative report on the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal.
"The news report published in the Indian Express (external link) today comprehensively exposes the fake controversy created by the NDA government on the two affidavits filed by the Central government in the Ishrat Jahan case," Chidambaram said in statement.
'The entire brouhaha with regard to the CAB smacks of blatant Hinduphobia, a duplicitous exercise, morally corrupt in its construct and aimed at divesting deserving Hindus of basic human rights by raising the bogey of Muslim discrimination, and must be called out for what it is,' says Vivek Gumaste.
Concerned with the continuous downward revision, the EPFO has since last month begun counting people quitting their previous jobs and joining a new one as an addition to the net payroll.
If one were to go by the degree of clout, Jaitley was the undoubted No. 2 in the Modi government.
Darryl D'Monte mentored more journalists than any other editor of his generation. Some of the biggest bylines owe their beginnings in our glorious profession to this wonderful human being.
Reliance has no illegal Swiss Bank accounts.
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
'The verdict must be seen as something more; as a historical balm, a moral restitution and the deliverance of justice to a people wronged,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?' 'Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players in e-commerce and all but one player in telecom -- and it is very hard to justify this perception that the BJP is business friendly.' 'There will also remain the real risk of ideas seemingly gleaned from the pages of Amar Chitra Katha, overlaid with PowerPoint presentations,' predicts Rahul Jacob.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken a big stride towards ending the pay disparity between Test and Indian Player League players. With an aim to make Test cricket financially more lucrative and attractive, the board has doubled the pay of India players. Such a move was speculated when reports emerged Friday evening that the board president Anurag Thakur himself hinted for a pay hike.
Did leading media outlets BBC, Australian TV, NDTV, Indian Express and Tehelka fall for a fraudster variously posing as political analyst and strategic expert on Assam?
Hima Das's journey from the rice fields of Assam is to a world champion today is inspirational.
Ravi Shastri will pocket around Rs 8 crore per annum, which is atleast a crore more than previous coach Anil Kumble's salary.
'The Mallahs may remain divided between the two competing coalitions in Bihar,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Thursday chose to stay mum over her name figuring in the Panama Paper leaks for allegedly having links with offshore entities.
Amid reports of alleged interference in the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the coal scam, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Saturday demanded the constitution of a special investigation team to probe the scam.
A school textbook in Jodhpur has a shocking chapter on moral science.
Even Subramanian Swamy, who says he is an ardent supporter of the prime minister, has been taking proxy pot shots at him.' 'At the ground level too, there is resentment from workers and local leaders who have perhaps not got whatever they may have wanted,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday noted that the letter circulated to defend Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha Professor P J Kurien claiming to bring out the truth is a clever attempt to conceal key facts of the case and to deflect the demand for his resignation from the constitutional position, by dragging the party's name 'unnecessarily'.
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