Simranjeet Singh and Rajni Etimarpu will lead the men's and women's sides respectively as Hockey India on Sunday named the Indian teams for the upcoming FIH Hockey5s World Cup to be held in Muscat, Oman.
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Impressed by his mental agility till an advanced age, the premier National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences wants to study the late Jyoti Basu's brain to find out whether there was any special reason for his alertness.
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The cortege will first travel to Park Street and then along AJC Bose road to the CPI-M's headquarters on Alimuddin Street. Basu's body will lie in state at the party headquarters for an hour to let party members to pay homage. The carriage will later proceed to the West Bengal Assembly, where Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will pay tribute.
The former West Bengal chief minister will explain the Communist Party of India-Marxist's views on the implementation of the Common Minimum Programme.
The Delhi high court on Friday allowed a plea filed by former Union minister M J Akbar seeking an early hearing of his appeal challenging a trial court order that acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a criminal defamation case filed by him over her allegations of sexual harassment.
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In an unprecedented admission, Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said he had breached party discipline by openly canvassing for maverick West Bengal transport minister Subhas Chakraborty's induction into the Central Committee as well as the state secretariat.
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On January 3, Bhattacherjee had strongly advocated capitalism and not socialism as the only way to industrialise the state.
Jeev Milkha Singh turned in a roller-coaster four-over 74 to slip to the tied seventh spot even as Jyoti Randhawa and Daniel Chopra fell by the wayside after the second round of the 90th PGA Championships in Bloomfield.
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Jyoti Randhawa was the lone Indian to return a sub-par card as he and Jeev Milkha Singh made the cut while compatriots Shiv Kapur and SSP Chowrasia fell by the wayside in the Qatar Masters, in Doha on Friday.
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Asked whether he would continue to be a politburo member, 94-year-old Basu told media persons at the CPI-M state headquarters, "I do not wish to continue and I have verbally communicated this to the party leadership."
Three Lok Sabha MPs, including its former Telangana president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, figured on Sunday in the BJP's first list of 52 candidates.
Eminent economist and noted author Ashok Mitra, who served as the finance minister of West Bengal in 1977 and 1982, worked closely with Jyoti Basu. In his autobiography Apila-Chapila, Mitra fondly recalls his bitter-sweet association with Basu, and the latter's penchant for clipped sentences, good food and note-taking.
Anil Kumar also faced a similar fate during the quarter-finals of 85kg, going down to Japan's Atsushi Matsumoto 0-7, but was fortunate to enter the bronze medal round after the Japanese grappler ensured a place in the gold medal round.
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A reward of Rs 5 lakh was handed over those who helped the police identify the vandals who defaced the Amar Jyothi Memorial in Mumbai.
The Calcutta high court on Tuesday directed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be handed over the case of attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali and the custody of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh, as it slammed West Bengal Police for 'totally biased' conduct and said every attempt is being made to delay the probe to 'protect' the accused.
The weavers have received customised orders for various patterns on the sarees, including Ram Mandir motifs on the pallu, designs detailing life of Lord Ram right from his childhood to killing Ravana, and 'Shree Ram' inscriptions on the border.
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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's decision to skip the funeral of CPI-M veteran Jyoti Basu has snowballed into a major controversy.On Thursday, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury alleged that Banerjee has 'insulted' the people of West Bengal by not attending the state funeral of the former West Bengal chief minister.It was not the Bengal CM, but Sonia Gandhi's elite Special Protection Group, which made Banerjee stay away from the funeral.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said tenants are also eligible to avail the 'Gruha Jyoti' scheme, under which 200 units of free power will be provided to all domestic consumers in the state from July 1.
The former chief minister has said his old age and ill-health make it difficult for him to continue.
It was impossible to get access to Indira Bhavan, Jyoti Basu's residence, without the help of his personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh. Ghosh worked with the veteran leader for years and the two shared a very special ties.
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In the eye for her hate speech in New Delhi while being on the campaign trail, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti apologized for her remarks but said that she would not quit the Cabinet.
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