A special CBI court on Tuesday sent senior IPS officer P.P. Pandey, an accused in 2004 Ishrat encounter killing case, in judicial custody, after he surrendered before the court here.

A special CBI court on Tuesday sent senior IPS officer P.P. Pandey, an accused in 2004 Ishrat encounter killing case, in judicial custody, after he surrendered before the court here.

England manager Roy Hodgson will hope his side can banish the Wayne Rooney transfer sideshow from the sports pages by beating their oldest rivals Scotland in Wednesday’s friendly at Wembley.

New world 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah brushed the sleep from his eyes and forced his tired legs around 15 laps of the track to qualify for the 5,000 final on a warm, sunny Tuesday morning at the Luzhniki.

Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (Retd) was seriously hurt Tuesday after being hit by a car while travelling to office on his bicycle.

The factional feud within the Trinamul Congress reached its peak on Tuesday when the son of a former Trinamul block president, Ashok Ghosh, who was shot to death on Monday, accused party’s heavyweight Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal and Ashok Mukherjee of his father’s murder.

Senior opener Gautam Gambhir admitted that his statemate Shikhar Dhawan has “raised the bar” for him and all others with his stupendous performance at the international level.

The exposure-starved Indian football team will take on higher-ranked Tajikistan in an international friendly here on Wednesday, in what will be their first show of strength in more than six months.

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 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.