Cricket Australia Chief Executive Kevin Roberts believes BCCI President Sourav Ganguly's idea of a four-nation tournament, which involves Australia, England and one other team, as "innovative".

"I think it's an example of the innovative thinking coming out of the BCCI with Sourav Ganguly as President,"

Amid Protests against the amended Citizenship Act, the students of the Jamia Millia Islamia have given a call of one-day hunger strike for impartial inquiry into the violence. If the demand are not met, they said, this may convert into a relay hunger strike to press the demand.

The students are demanding free and fair probe into v

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced a milestone of sorts with the total number of Aadhaar cards issued so far crossing the 1.25 billion mark. With this, 125 crore residents of the country have received their own 12-digit unique identity number since the service was rolled out in 2009, the government said on Friday.

Friday prayers were held peacefully in Lucknow and across Uttar Pradesh amid tight security.

A heavy deployment of forces had been made in all mosques and clerics were heard requesting people to return to their homes after the ‘namaaz'.

In Lucknow, District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash and Senior Superinten

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked the policies of the central government and said that unity in diversity is our strength, and the strength of the country will increase by uniting all.

He said "making brothers fight against each other cannot benefit the country."

Rahul Gandhi was sp

Violent protests rocked Amaravati on Friday as a crucial meeting of the Andhra Pradesh cabinet was underway to take a decision on the three-capital proposal.

A thick security blanket was thrown around 29 villages as farmers intensified the protest over Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government's proposal to develop Visakhapatnam and Ku

RIL-run retail major Reliance Retail has been valued at around Rs 2.4 lakh crore as per a proposed share-swap scheme for the shareholders.

Under to the scheme, shareholders of Reliance Retail would get one share of the listed Reliance Industries (RIL), in exchange for four of its shares. 

"Every 'Speci

Myntra, the Flipkart-owned e-commerce platform has announced that the 11th edition of its flagship 'end of reason' sale had set a record by garnering 50 per cent more orders, compared with last year.

The four-day fashion carnival witnessed 2.85 million customers placing 4.2 million orders for 9.6 million items. Six lakh ne

Twenty-one Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike conducted by the Afghan Air Force in Laghman province, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.

"A total of 21 Taliban fighters including Zain-Alabidin, the shadow governor of Laghman, were killed in an airstrike conducted by Afghan National Army (ANA) in Alishing district

"Most members" of the Taliban councils in Pakistan have agreed to establish a temporary ceasefire in Afghanistan, an informed source said.

The source, familiar with the US-Taliban peace talks in Qatar, said on Thursday that the final decision about the ceasefire will be made by the Taliban's top leader, Mullah Hibatu