Navy Chief Admiral Joshi said that were was a lot of ordinance and other material on the ship that could have triggered the explosions. “Apart from the explosives, there was fuel, oxygen and hydrogen bottles on the ship.

Fortuna, the famous Roman Goddess seems to have become Virat Kohli’s mistress. Be it his ascension to captaincy or his toppling multiple ODI records or most recently, him being named as a recipient of the coveted Arjuna Award, Kohli certainly seems to be going places.

Long after Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman ceased to be Rahul Dravid’s team-mates, emerging cricketers like Sharath Srinivas, Nihal Ullal, Zeeshan Ali Saayed as well as Stuart Binny continue to match strides between the wickets and work in tandem with the legend on the field.

Call it the Durga Nagpal effect or the political turmoil in Uttar Pradesh! A large number of state IAS officers are now queuing up for Central deputations, while those already posted at the Centre are reluctant to return to work with the state government.

The BMC officials have toiled hard for years to find a mate for Shiva, a solitary male one-horned rhinoceros at the Byculla zoo. Now, that they have finally found him a young rhino in her 20s at New Delhi, he seems unwilling to leave the zoo, which had been his home for the last 28 years.

The CBI, probing the conspiracy which led to the fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, is likely to mention the role of two suspects who helped the Gujarat police and Intelligence Bureau officials (IB) in the illegal detention of Jishan Johar — one of the four deceased — before the shootout, in its supplementary chargesheet.

He is the likely successor when Mahendra Singh Dhoni decides to relinquish national captaincy but India vice-captain Virat Kohli named Mumbai batsman Rohit Sharma as a captaincy material.

The government on Tuesday raised customs duties on gold and platinum by two per cent, and on silver by four per cent in an attempt to bring down the current account deficit. This is the third increase in duties on the yellow metal in eight months.

The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011 (LARRB) coming up for discussion in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday continues to be anti-farmer.

A confident India A, boosted by Shikhar Dhawan’s brilliant double century, will take on their consistent Australian counterparts in what promises to be a high-scoring tri-series final on an absolute featherbed at the LC de Villiers Stadium on Wednesday.