The legendary khadoos (bloody-minded) approach of Mumbai cricket denied Karnataka a Sankranti gift at a jam-packed Gangothri Glades, pipping the home side by six runs in one of the most gripping Ranji finals ever. A carefree Manish Pandey century loosened Mumbai's grip on the title, but th
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आयुष्याकडे, त्यातील घडामोडींकडे संवेदनशीलपणे पाहणाऱ्या तसेच विशिष्ट मूल्यांसाठी झगडणाऱ्या ज्येष्ठ लेखिका सुनीताबाई देशपांडे यांचे शनिवारी संध्याकाळी पुण्यातील राहत्या घरी, वयाच्या ८४व्या वर्षी वृद्धापकाळाने निधन झाले. आज, रविवारी पुलंची जयंती असताना, त्याच्या आदल्या दिवशी सुनीताबाईंनी जगाचा अखेरचा निरोप घेतला.
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Appearing before the media for the first time after his party fared poorly in the Maharashtra assembly polls, Shiv Sena [ Images ] executive president Uddhav Thackeray [ Images ] on Monday observed that the results did not mean that the Sena had been 'vanquished'.
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Jejuri describes a day trip to the town of Jejuri, a pilgrimage town in Maharashtra. Both devotion and commercialism populate the town, and the man we follow doesn’t search for enlightenment; he’s sightseeing. His straightforward voice colors most of the poems, though Kolatkar does hop into the mind of the priest and the god at points. Though the traveler becomes more enchanted with the town as t
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Who will I talk to in Bengali now?" Sachin Tendulkar asked on Monday in a tribute to his long-standing dressing room pal Sourav Ganguly,who retired from international cricket.
Tendulkar recalled his long association with the elegant left-hander and said he owes the little Bengali he knows to his former opening partner in One-dayers.
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The Shiv Sena appears to be suffering from political paralysis with Raj Thackeray emerging as the sole champion of the Marathi manoos. The Se
na simply did not know what to do as hundreds of Marathi youths protesting Raj’s arrest were lathi-charged by the police. “If we condemned the violence against the Marathi youths, then we would be unwittingly helping Raj’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)
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youth from Bihar's Nalanda district has died after being beaten by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists in Mumbai on Sunday. His death has trigerred a widespread protest by angry students in Patna and other towns of Bihar on Tuesday.rnPawan Kumar died in Mumbai after he was brutally beaten by MNS workers on Sunday during the attack on north Indian railway exam candidates. He becomes the first
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राज ठाकरे यांना अटक होताच मनसेचे कार्यकर्ते लगेच सक्रिय झाले. पदाधिका-यांना अटक होत असल्याचे पाहून रत्नागिरीतले अनेक कार्यकर्ते भूमिगत झाले. तर काहींनी राज्यभर फोनाफोनी करायला सुरुवात केली. त्यामुळे मुंबई आणि कोकणात तणाव निर्माण झाला.
मुंबई-गोवा हाय वे वर अडथळे निर्माण करण्याचा प्रकार घडला. कळंबोली परिसरात तसेच निवळे फाटा येथे दगडफेक झाली. त्याचवेळी मुंबईत अनेक ठिकाणी दगडफेक आणि जाळपोळीच्या घटन
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Balaji Telefilms Ltd said on Monday SGL Entertainment Ltd, part of broadcaster Star group, has terminated sourcing and telecasting TV serial.'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' from Nov. 10.
The serial is produced by Balaji and the termination is in breach of contractual obligation owed by the Star group to Balaji, it said in a statement to the stock exchange.
Balaji is pursuing all legal reme
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rnOn his first tour of England, he batted against Eddie Hemmings who started his first-class career seven years before Tendulkar was born. Now he shares a dressing room with young men who were in their nappies, or sometimes found even those unnecessary, when he scored his first century! But the zest, the limitless energy,
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Sachin Tendulkar broke Brian Lara's record for most Test runs in the final session of day one in Mohali when he hit Peter Siddle to third man for two runs. The record stood for nearly two years after Lara played his final Test and it was inevitable that Tendulkar would eventually break it. Incidentally, he is also one-day cricket's leading run-scorer with 16,631 runs.rn
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rnThis was a decision everyone knew was coming, but no one expected it to come when it eventually did.rnSourav Ganguly sent shockwaves throughout the country when he announced his decision to call it quits after the upcoming four-Test series against Australia rnThe decision
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Eight alleged drug peddlers have been arrested and 241 persons detained for attending a rave party following a raid at a night club, police said on Monday.
Acting on a tip-off that drugs were being peddled at the 'Bombay 72 Degree East' night club, the Anti-Narcotics Cell of the city police raided the establishment late Sunday night, police said.
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Dr R Sanjeevi, a Ph.D in Physics, with sponsorship from the well known YMCA College of Physical Education in Chennai, has discovered that the reverse swing occurs in a cricket ball even when bowled at medium pace.
While teaching in a US university, Dr Sanjeevi had studied the swing of a baseball thrown by a pitcher to a batter, as does a bowler to a batsman, in the game of cricket.
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One hundred and three people were killed and 29 injured in a stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur on Tuesday, a senior Rajasthan government official said.
The incident took place at the start of Navaratra festival on Tuesday.
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