Sachin Tendulkar was a picture of humility as he celebrated his 40th birthday with a brief cake-cutting ceremony in Kolkata, thanking his legions of fans for their "unconditional love" in a cricket career spanning over two decades.
Amid large protests at the Delhi hospital where a five-year-old rape survivor was fighting for her life, a police officer was filmed slapping a woman demonstrator.
Anushka has finally found herself a new friend in Mrs Dhoni. The actress revealed that they went to the same school and were in the same class in a small town in Assam.
A woman from Ludhiana in Punjab had to organize footage of herself being struck several times with lathis or sticks by a group of four men so that the police would register a case against them. (Video has disturbing images, not suitable for children)
Delhi, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad reported major tremors as an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale struck Iran. At the NDTV studio in South Delhi, studio lights and equipment shook for nearly a minute. The quake was reportedly felt in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and India.