The Indian squad for the four-Test series against England, which is the first part of their forthcoming tour, will be picked on July 2, Cricket Board sources said on Thursday.

A day after committing to remain in the party, Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader Gopinath Munde on Thursday announced plans to undertake a tour of Maharashtra “to ascertain the views of party workers”.

A benchmark index for Indian equities markets on Thursday closed 187 points higher while broader indices ended on a lacklustre note.

Scotching rumours of his attempts to join Congress, senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Thursday said he would continue to remain in the party.

Maharashtra’s former chief minister Ashok Chavan on Monday sought to pin the blame for the irregularities in the controversial Adarsh housing society on his predecessor Vilasrao Deshmukh, now Union minister for rural development.

A local court in Alwar found five persons guilty of poaching the tiger in Sariska reserve and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment. The court has also imposed a fine of `1.30 lakh on each of them. This was the seventh case since year 2007 when the court sentenced the poachers under the Wild Life Act.

Days after it was released by Somali pirates with its 22-member crew, including six Indians, the Egyptian cargo vessel MV Suez was stranded on the high seas after it ran out of fuel, a top maritime authority said here on Saturday.

The Indian Navy and salvagers who mounted a massive operation to remove merchant ship MV Wisdom, stranded off a Mumbai beach, suspended the effort on Friday due to “technical difficulties” and will resume it on Saturday, a maritime official said.

Sulking BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Friday said he has decided to attend a meeting convened in Delhi to discuss his fate but indicated that he had no plans to join ally Shiv Sena and split the saffron alliance.

Three persons who were detained in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey here, have been let off, the police said on Thursday.