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Miffed at alleged "derogatory statements" by advocate Puneet Bali against the northeastern states, the Manipur Cricket Association has written a letter to the BCCI, requesting the Board to restrain its legal counsel from making unsavoury remarks.

The Times of India and the Krishna Prerna Charitable Trust brought together art, music and literature on Krishna in the capital recently.

The jubilance was clear on Friday at Dhyanapeetam Ashram in Bidadi. Devotees, who had spent a gloomy two months, celebrated as news broke out that their guru, Swami Nityananda, had been granted bail by the Karnataka High Court.

While two women were busy helping the urban housewives in trying their hands on making butter milk in the traditional way, two brothers were busy teaching a crowd on how to make pots on wheels.

There was high drama at the Press Club on Thursday afternoon when Kuruppan Lenin, former driver of controversial godman Swami Nityananda, met mediapersons. He is also a complainant in the case against the godman.

It was a Poorna Kumbha welcome on Saturday evening for Swami Nityananda who spent 52 days in Ramanagaram sub-jail before returning to his Nityananda Dhyanapeetam Ashram near Bidadi.

Disciples of controversial godman Swami Nityananda challenged his former driver and complainant in the CID investigation to undergo narcoanalysis to reveal the truth.

The Cricket Association of Bengal will have an exchange programme with the Manipur Cricket Association for three one-dayers and two T20 matches.