NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) will this week take stock of the targets set by each infrastructure ministry after the Narendra Modi government took charge.

London: After his side's crushing defeat by India on Monday, England wicketkeeper Matt Prior said that he will not play any more Tests this season and may have ended his international career.

Opening the batting is a difficult proposition. You get to face the new ball in conditions best for fast bowling. You also have to shield a middle order. And you have to score runs. The moment you're not good enough, you'd be replaced with someone else who can do the job better. Poor form can grind you down. Just ask Alastair Cook.

CHENNAI: Four people, including two civil engineers from Singapore, died when the SUV they were travelling in collided with a lorry on GST Road on Sunday.

SEOUL: North Korea's top military body today defended its recent missile tests as a legitimate exercise in self-defence, and said South Korean and US charges of provocation were malicious and hypocritical.

TOREZ: Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars on Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders that the rebels were tampering with the site.

RANCHI: Wading past the surging devotees, Poonam Devi makes a desperate bid to reach a man walking a few metres ahead of her. Her struggle ends in vain as he disappears in the crowd out to witness the "rath yatra" that attracts thousands to the Jagannath temple every year in June-July. Tired and breathless, she stops to explain that he is the man who took her 14-year-old daughter away to Delhi without her knowledge. It has been a year and she has not heard from her.

LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is still not certain over the formation of government in Delhi, while Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has moved into poll gear.

NEW DELHI: In a major move to remove unnecessary procedures, the shipping ministry will now issue lifetime licences to Indian ships and any other ship chartered by an Indian citizen or an Indian company.

NEW DELHI: Greco-roman grapplers seldom hog the limelight in India and keep away from mainstream wrestling action. In Glasgow, though, their absence from the programme will affect the nation's medal tally, since these wrestlers had fetched seven out of the 19 medals won by the Indian contingent in the Delhi Commonwealth Games.