Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming has blamed the batsmen for his team’s nine-run defeat against Mumbai Indians in their Pepsi IPL opener and said the way some of them got out was “not acceptable”.

Rescuers continued to recover more bodies from the debris of the seven-storey illegal under- construction building that collapsed in Shil Phata area, taking the death toll to 72 today.

Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli said his team does not mind being seen as too reliant on Chris Gayle after the West Indian swashbuckler made the decisive difference in the narrow two-run win over Mumbai Indians in an IPL match here.

Shares of sugar manufacturers, led by Bajaj Hindusthan surged as much as 16 per cent on the BSE after the government partially decontrolled the sugar sector by giving freedom to millers to sell in the open market.

The death toll in the under-construction building collapse in Shil Phata area of the district has risen to 37 as rescuers recovered more bodies from the site today, Thane police control room said.

He might be revered by billions of fans but Sachin Tendulkar insists he is “not god of cricket” as many would like to call him as he does “make mistakes” unlike the almighty.

A vessel coming from Dubai, suspected to be carrying a satellite phone, was intercepted off Mumbai, and five persons on board have been taken into custody, Coast Guard officials said today.

Scoffing at Congress’ assertion that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi shared a “unique” relationship, the BJP today said though Singh was technically at the helm, the real power rests in the hands of Gandhi.

Facing charges of domestic violence slapped by his wife, Kerala forest minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar resigned from the Congress-led the UDF ministry late last night.

The BSE benchmark Sensex today closed 29 points higher in the first trading session of fiscal year 2013-14 supported by buying in blue-chip stocks such as Dr Reddy’s, Infosys and RIL.