The Pune rural police registered an Fir against Tripura governor D.Y. Patil and kin in connection with a fraud case following direction by a local court, the police said on Thursday.

Nearly a month after the trial court convicted him for raping his maid, Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was on Wednesday granted bail by the Bombay high court.

Former England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher was on Wednesday appointed as India's new coach, board officials announced, less than one month after the country won the World Cup on home soil.

Fourteen policemen involved in the Ishrat Jahan encounter on Tuesday alleged there was “serious groupism and infighting” among senior IPS officers in Gujarat as a result of which they were being victimised and they have approached the high court for transferring the case.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday fixed the reference rate for the US dollar at Rs 44.40 per dollar and the euro at Rs 65.17 per euro, as against Rs 44.59 per dollar and Rs 64.81 per euro on Tuesday.

Amid speculation that Indian cricketers are unhappy with the prize money announced for their World Cup triumph, the BCCI on Wednesday increased it from Rs 1 crores to 2 crores each.

BJP is confident of forming the next government in Assam and doing reasonably well in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pudduchery and West Bengal, party president Nitin Gadkari said.

Maharashtra government has decided to build a grand sports museum to honour batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said.

A Mumbai sessions court on Tuesday extended till May 7 the judicial custody of alleged money launderer and tax evader Hasan Ali Khan. Principal sessions judge Sapna Joshi extended his custody while rejecting his bail plea.

A benchmark index for Indian equities markets on Tuesday crept up from its intra-day lows but was still languishing about 140 points down in the afternoon trade. Broader indices too were in the negative.