Sindhu Manjesh With Pti Inputs

• BCCI may not ask chief N Srinivasan to quit: sources

  A dinner hosted by Cricket Association of Bengal president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Saturday brought Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials and state unit representatives face to face with the beleaguered board chief N Srinivasan.

• Who is Pawan Kumar Bansal?

  Pawan Kumar Bansal, who has quit as Union Railways Minister today following allegations about his involvement in a bribery scam, is a Congress veteran who won his first Lok Sabha election from Chandigarh in 1991.

• Pakistan 'positively considering' sending Sarabjit to India: sources

  Pakistan is said to be positively considering the Indian request to repatriate Sarabjit Singh to India," Pakistani diplomatic source have told PTI. However, this has not yet been conveyed to the Indian government and the sources did not confirm when Islamabad would make a decision.

• Send Sarabjit home on humanitarian grounds, India requests Pakistan again

  The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Sharat Sabharwal, has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary today and requested Islamabad to immediately release Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds.

• Rescued from borewell, girl dies in hospital

  A seven-year-old girl who was rescued from a deep borewell after a near 15-hour-long intense rescue effort in the Karur district in Tamil Nadu on Saturday night, has died in a hospital.

• Justice Katju writes to President, seeks pardon for Sanjay Dutt and Zaibunissa Kazi

  Press Council of India chief Justice Markandey Katju has sent a written appeal to the President of India seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to five years in jail by the Supreme Court last week in a case related to the 1993 Bombay blasts. He has also sought pardon for another Bombay blasts convict, 71-year-old Zaibunissa Anwar K...

• UP policeman Zia-ul-Haq's murder: CBI registers four cases

  The CBI has registered four different cases in the murder of senior police officer Zia-ul-Haq and two others who were shot dead on Saturday in the constituency of former Uttar Pradesh minister, Raja Bhaiya.

• Narendra Modi's Gujarat is 'model state in the world': BJP chief Rajnath Singh

  On day two of the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Council meeting in Delhi, party chief Rajnath Singh heaped praise on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and called him "the most popular" Chief Minister.

• Supreme Court pulls up aviation regulator over implementation of safety norms

  The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to the Director General of Civil Aviation or DGCA for failing to comply with its orders to implement flight safety norms effectively.

• Sarpanch shot dead by suspected militants in Jammu and Kashmir

  Suspected militants have shot a sarpanch dead in Kalantra village in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. Police say Javid Ahmad Wani, affiliated to the National Conference, was fired at by gunmen outside his home last evening.

• Hyderabad Blasts: No breakthrough in investigations yet

  Four days after the deadly Hyderabad bomb blasts, Andhra Pradesh Police, under immense pressure to nail the culprits, is yet to make any significant breakthrough in its investigations. Police have questioned nearly 30 persons in connection with the explosions but no arrests have been made yet.

• Jayalalithaa turns 65; says best gift would be Lok Sabha victory in 2014

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who turns 65 today, has exhorted her party cadre to not indulge in ostentatious celebrations to mark the occasion.

• Kashmir: Day 7 of curfew, Valley on alert

  Strict restrictions have been imposed in the Kashmir Valley today, which is under curfew for the seventh straight day following the execution of Afzal Guru

• Fire breaks out at Kumbh Mela; one killed, several tents gutted

  One person has died in a fire that broke out early this morning at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. Almost 30 make-shift tents set up to house pilgrims were gutted by the fire that broke out at around 2 am.

• Afzal Guru hanging: Curfew continues in J&K, security beefed up

  Afzal Guru's family in Kashmir received only today, the letter sent by the Centre last week informing them of the decision to execute the 2001 Parliament attack case convict. Guru was hanged on Saturday morning at Delhi's Tihar Jail. Jammu and Kashmir has been tense and under curfew since then. There have been protests and additional BSF, CRPF and ...