He has often been painted as a batsman who has failed to realise his potential but Rohit Sharma is not bothered about the criticism, instead he is eagerly waiting to make his Test debut.

Indian boxers Aditya Maan (66kg) and Ashish (63kg) made their way into the quarter-finals of the Aiba junior world boxing championships with contrasting wins in Kiev, Ukraine on Wednesday.

Narendra Modi, a staunch proponent of Hinduvta, was on Friday anointed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, ending months of suspense over his elevation amid stiff opposition by party patriarch L.K. Advani.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday told the Bombay high court that it has conducted an inquiry and found baseless the allegations levelled against actor Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri of conducting pre-birth sex determination tests of their surrogate son AbRam.

Taking a serious note of the recent communal clashes in Muzaffarn-agar and amid specific intelligence reports of such incidents spiralling in the months to come, the Cabinet Secretariat will soon write to all the states to formulate a new set of stringent guidelines to check cases of communal violence.

The Ravi Sawani report, dealing with the involvement of Rajasthan Royals’ trio in the infamous spot-fixing scandal which rocked the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League, will be taken up for deliberations by Board of Control for Cricket in India’s disciplinary committee here on Friday.

Petrol prices were Friday hiked by Rs 1.63 per litre, the seventh increase since June, on rising oil rates and falling rupee.

A day after the tragic death of Class 5 student Oindrila Das, hundreds of irate parents went on a rampage at Dum Dum’s Christ Church Girls’ High School forcing principal Helen Sarkar to tender her resignation. Later, Ms Sarkar was arrested for negligence of duty on the basis of the FIR filed by the deceased student’s family.

Tension prevails in Bahraich district as hundreds of villagers, led by BJP MLA Mukut Bihari Verma, are staging protests on the collectorate premises to protest against the removal of Ganesh idols in Beria and Dhaprapur villages on Tuesday night.

With the disruption of the international break over, Premier League clubs will be looking for their late additions to make an instant impact this weekend.