These are happy days for Indian cricket. The gloom for England in ODIs never seems to end. The dynamics of this ODI series has put the future of both teams in front.

SINGAPORE: Hard-headed bean counters are busy auditing the economic gains of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Japan but the PM seems to have shrewdly used "soft power" symbolism to boost the profile of a visit billed as a major international engagement.

LUCKNOW: Political opposition notwithstanding, the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has made elaborate arrangements to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech reaches lakhs of students in the state this Teachers' Day.

NEW DELHI: The defence ministry continues to stonewall repeated attempts by the Army to get official sanctity and notification for its Operation Falcon, which was launched way back in 1986 along the border in Arunachal Pradesh to counter Chinese incursions in the region.

LUCKNOW: The hospital sojourn of former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife - both serving life sentence in Madhumita Shukla murder case - has come to an end. Senior superintendent of Gorakhpur district jail SK Sharma confirmed on Wednesday evening that he has received a letter from the prison headquarters to send the couple back to Dehradun jail.

It has been a roller coaster ride for Ajay Singh of Panchoor village of Pauri region in Uttarakhand. Born on June 5, 1972, became an MP barely after turning 26, that too from a faraway land - Gorakhpur in eastern UP.

BHOPAL: Special Task Force (STF) has made over 1,000 arrests in multi-crore MPPEB scam, largely on basis of names found on excel sheet retrieved from hard disk of a key player in the scam,

MUMBAI: Amid indications that a nuclear deal could be in the offing, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived here on Thursday morning on a two-day India visit during which the two countries would look at ways to deepen strategic ties and strengthen two-way trade and commerce.

WASHINGTON: The justice department will open a broad civil rights investigation into police practices in Ferguson, Mo., where a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager last month and set off days of racially charged unrest, the city's police chief and other officials said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON: The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is racing ahead of efforts to control it and at least $600 million is needed to get the unprecedented epidemic under control, UN health officials said on Wednesday.