Indian spinners produced yet another controlled performance to clinch a semi-final berth with a comfortable 52-run victory against Ireland in a group league encounter of the ICC Women's World T20 on Thursday.

Since the construction of compound wall around the Indira Canteen on BC Road triggered political controversy, the police have beefed up the security by putting barricades around it on Thursday.

Cyclone 'Gaja' is very likely to cross the Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore, South of Nagapattinam by early hours of Friday as a severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 90-100 kmph gusting to 110 kmph, a weather bulletin said Thursday night.

“The art will instill virtuousness among an artiste besides creating universal mentality. A person will become a citizen only when he leads life thinking that everything belongs to him. Let the Vidyarthi Siri illuminate the humanity”, said film actress and artiste Vinaya Prasad.

Unaccounted cash worth Rs 70 crore was seized in separate searches carried out in poll-bound Telangana on different occasions, since the Model Code of Conduct came into force, a poll official said Thursday.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Thursday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of "snooping" by installing a powerful CCTV camera atop a boundary wall of the CM residence near his bungalow.

Senior journalist Ravi Belagere moved the Karnataka High Court seeking dismissal of cases on giving contract to kill another journalist and illegal possession of weapons.

One of the convicts in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case was Thursday assaulted by BJP MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa in Patiala House Courts moments after a court reserved its order on the quantum of punishment to be awarded to two persons for killing two men.