The deceased have been identified as Rakesh Gupta (62), his daughter Shweta (30) and wife Renu Gupta (62), Santosh (25), Kirti (25) and Shanu Verma (27).
Australia opener Usman Khawaja was forced to retire hurt after a blow to his chin on Friday during the first Test match against the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval.
Four prominent faces of West Indian women's cricket--Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, Kycia Knight and Kyshona Knight--announced their retirement from the game on Thursday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) informed.
Josh Hazlewood's career-best haul of 9-79 in red-ball cricket guided Australia to a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first Test against West Indies on Friday at the Adelaide Oval.
West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is "dishonouring" Lord Ram by "using" his name for their "political motive" while responding to the party declining the invitation for the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Temple on January 22.
Mohammed made her debut for the West Indies Women in 2003 at the age of 15 against Japan Women in an ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in the Netherlands.
As the temperature in the sub-Himalayan region has dipped in the past few days, officials of Bengal Safari, a North Bengal wild animal park near Siliguri, have taken several steps to keep animals warm in winter.
The All India NCC Trekking Camp culminated at Japfu Christian College, Kohima on Thursday in which 510 cadets from Senior Division and Junior Division NCC from NCC Directorates of Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Sikkim and NER attended the camp, said PRO, Ministry of
Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said that India's semiconductor mission is focussed on talent development and designing the entire chip.