Amidst demands of a break for Indian cricketers following a long cricket season, which included their ICC World Cup triumph and the ongoing IPL, Virat Kohli on Monday said that he is willing to play as many matches as possible for the country.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has drawn attention of Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav to reports about fatigued pilots operating Air India flights, saying it was concerned over the issue.

India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves dipped by $2.04 billion to $307.49 billion for the week ended May 13 partly due to revaluation of non-dollar assets and foreign investors withdrawing money from the local markets.

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, which rose after a quiet start on Friday, continued to hold on to its morning gains. Broader markets too were ruling in the green.

Sentiment in the markets which was really low for the last few weeks because of high inflation and interest rate regimes, was hit by a double whammy on Tuesday with the Centre’s reported move to make ONGC share a higher subsidy burden and SBI shocking the street with a dip of 99 per cent in its net profit for the Q4FY11 on higher provisioning.

In a new twist, the Mumbai police on Wednesday claimed that fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar was not present when gunmen opened fire in a South Mumbai area killing his bodyguard.

In a surprise announcement, police on Wednesday said Iqbal Kaskar, the brother of India's most wanted mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, was not fired at by gunmen in the attack that killed his driver.

Already out of the IPL play-off race having suffered 8 defeats in 12 games, Pune Warriors would be looking to restore some pride and play party poopers when they take on Kolkata Knight Riders here on Thursday.

Bollywood actress Minisha Lamba, who walked the red carpet at Cannes last week, was on Wednesday detained by the customs at the international airport here for not declaring diamond jewellery worth over Rs 50 lakh, a senior official said.

In an acute embarrassment to India, Wazhul Kamar Khan, whose name figures in the '50 most wanted' fugitives' list submitted to Pakistan, has been found staying in neighbouring Thane district.