Cheteshwar Pujara has had a career marked with ups and downs. While he made a promising start to his stint in international cricket, a knee injury he sustained in the 2011 edition of the IPL prevented him from playing for much of that year. However, the batsman is back in a new innings in his professional and personal life. Excerpts...

JAIPUR: And you thought S Sreesanth has lost his touch! The Rajasthan Royals speedster, who was in the news again for reopening the 'Slapgate' episode, gave the momentum to his team with a superb early burst. Royals did not look back after that and bagged a comfortable six-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Sunday.

MUMBAI: It took Shikhar Dhawan 82 first-class games to make it to the Test team. Once he made it, though, all it took was one knock for this Delhi left-hander to show everyone that he belonged at the top. It has been almost a month since this 27-year-old stole hearts with a fabulous 187 on his debut against Australia in Mohali, but Dhawan still thinks about the knock! The man who took just 85 balls to hammer the fastest debut century loves driving SUVs and watching movies, besides, of course, bashing the cricket ball. Dhawan, who was in town for a promotional event, spoke to TOI on a range of issues. Excerpts...

TOKYO: A UN nuclear watchdog team is reviewing the cleanup process at Japan's crippled nuclear plant amid growing safety concerns triggered by recent glitches.

Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and eight others injured, some of them critically, when one of the fire crackers they were making exploded in a village in Odisha's Puri district, police said on Monday.

New Delhi: Gold futures prices on Monday fell by 2.95 per cent to trade at a fifteen-month low of Rs 27,100 per ten gram as speculators engaged in offloading their positions after the precious metal dropped to a two-year low in overseas markets. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in June fell sharply by Rs 825, or 2.95 per cent, to Rs 27,100 per 10 gm, the lowest level since March last year. It clocked a business turnover of 3,190 lots.

New Delhi: With water crisis during peak summer months looming large, the Delhi government has asked 35 five-star hotels to take immediate steps to cut down their consumption and directed them to set up waste water treatment plants. Identifying the five-star hotels as major guzzlers of water, the government has directed them to take a number of "concrete steps" by June to conserve water and install waste water treatment plants by September.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will take up Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia's petition challenging the summons of the CBI special court on Monday in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of mobile phone bandwidth during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance regime in 2002.

Kolkata: Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have sought the help of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for declassification of all secret files concerning the iconic leader. "Netaji belonged to the entire nation, so we extend our appeal to you for your kind support in demanding from the Prime Minister that the Central Government must release in public domain all records to help unravel the mystery about his fate and bring a closure to the issue," read the letter written to Narendra Modi .

Bhubaneswar: With Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) not keen for the proposed Rs 8,000 crore common coal corridor project, Odisha government on Wednesday decided to take up the corridor work through its own agency.

"From today's negotiations, we have come to know that RVNL is not keen on implementing the coal corridor project.

"Therefore, the state government will implement the project in Talcher-Angul area through Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO)," Odisha Chief Secretary BK Patnaik said.