The legislature wing of the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra will hold a meeting in Mumbai on January 31, where Deputy Chief Minister late Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra is set to be named as its leader, state minister Chhagan Bhujbal said on Friday.
The talks about the reunification had already started when Ajit Pawar was alive. In fact, the two parties even contested the civic polls in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad together.
The group winners will qualify for the 12-team final tournament in China next year.
A clinical India thrashed Nepal 7-0 in their opening match of the SAFF U17 Women's Championship, with three players scoring a brace each, here on Wednesday.
Each team will play six matches, and the one with the most points will be crowned champion.
With this emphatic result, India made it four wins from as many matches, scoring 22 goals without conceding any, and tightening their grip at the summit of the table with 12 points from four matches.
Anuskha Kumari scored a hat-trick as India thrashed hosts Bhutan 8-0 for their third consecutive win at the SAFF Under-17 Women's Championships.
The second half followed a similar rhythm with India dictating possession and Bangladesh defending deep. Although chances were rare, India never looked in danger.
Actors, directors and admirers mourned legendary filmmaker Shyam Benegal on Saturday evening.
'...Shyam had not given me the roles he did.'
'I find his sense of history astounding, not just history of film, but of life in general.' Another fascinating excerpt from Sangeeta Datta's book Shyam Benegal.
'If there is one thing Shyam Benegal expressed best: It was the Poetry of the ordinary face and ordinary lives.'
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday questioned corporate lobbyist Nira Radia for about seven hours regarding financial transactions and shareholding patterns of her firms as part of its probe into the 2G spectrum allotment scam.
'Each of us will have a beautiful story to tell about him because he went beyond work and touched our lives. That's a rarity in this industry.'
'He treated stars and assistants with the same unfailing courtesy.'
'After Om's untimely demise, he would call us every Sunday for the next two years to ask, "How are you doing my dear? How's the young fella?"'
His cinema of compassion inspired me, gave me tools to develop empathy for others. But it also made me understand that serious, socially committed cinema with deeply engaging narratives and great performances is an art form to admire, appreciate and explore. Aseem Chhabra remembers Shyam Benegal, who passed into the ages on Monday evening.
A top official of the Central Bureau of Investigation, currently investigating the 2G spectrum scam under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court of India, told this correspondent in an informal conversation that the bureau has not registered an FIR against lobbyist Niira Radia, because "there is no case against Niira Radia"
Till now, some water from the Nira Deoghar dam in Pune was being diverted to Baramati and Indapur (a part of Baramati Lok Sabha constituency).
Shruti to portray Nira Patel, a young woman in Delhi whose waitress job serves as a cover for a dangerous double life as a trained assassin.
'The crossing of lines has dangerous implications for the credibility of the media -- its greatest asset. Already, many journalists have strayed from the profession's proper boundaries. It would be even worse, and ethically more repugnant, if journalists become political fixers or take instructions from corporate lobbyists.'
Over 20,000 people were evacuated to safer places in these three districts. State capital Mumbai too witnessed water-logging in many areas after overnight rains on Thursday.
Dismissing allegations that he had business relations with controversial corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Saturday claimed that the Congress was behind these as it wants to divert attention from the 2G spectrum scam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is all set to videograph the questioning of former telecom minister A Raja on Friday.
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Friday expressed himself against leakage of telephone conversations tapped for investigations but felt "some of it is inevitable".
Corporate lobbyist Nira Radia appeared in no mood to co-operate with the Public Accounts Committee when she appeared before them for questioning on the 2G scam on Monday morning as her answers were 'evasive' and 'clever,' preferring to use the non-descript phrase, "I do not remember" in reply to most of the questions.
Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande cheer for Ireland and look forward to the India-Ireland match.
Apart from physical access to handsets, metadata and backups are two common ways in which private communications can be broken.
Enthused by the liberalised open sky policy, Nira Radia-promoted Magic Airlines on Thursday announced its plans to operate low-budget flights in India with 10 aircraft by the year-end, for which it has sought permission from the government.
Check out the star arrivals.
National Disaster Response Force divers recovered the bodies of Pranav Lele (29), Sahil Quereshi (28) and Shrutika Chandwani (27).
A look at the ceremony that was held on May 10 in the presence of the Kapoor clan and their film industry friends.
Sadly, governments and their agencies can't be trusted to use private data, or decryption methods responsibly, says Devangshu Dutta.
Police later let the legislators off after a brief detention at a marriage hall. Stalin demanded the dismissal of the AIADMK government over the issue of the alleged pay-offs.
Subramanium, a feisty character, is not going to let anyone sully his reputation. He is ready to answer any question, any change which is more than what the Modi regime might be ready for. One man's integrity and toughness can crack a regime's carefully-built faade. Suddenly its backstage looks murky, says Shiv Visvanathan.
Ratan Tata was the first one to realise that Indian companies had become a prisoner to tradition and needed to radically innovate.
'We want to be a nation at par with the best internationally.' 'But why is it in theatre we continue to have such low standards?'
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