NEW DELHI: T20 World Cup-winning skipper Rohit Sharma will continue to lead India in the ODI and Test formats BCCI secretary Jay Shah said on Sunday, exuding confidence that the country will win next year’s Champions Trophy and World Test Championship under his captaincy. The 37-year-old Rohit, who became the third Indian captain after legendary […]
CANBERRA: Australia’s Pat Cummins advocated for a dedicated window for Tests so that players, who wished to play franchise leagues, could sort out their individual schedules. “Franchise cricket for some countries is more lucrative, more appealing than international cricket. If I went and played franchise cricket, I could probably be away for a half or […]
‘They’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle or pickleball’ NEW DELHI: World No. 2 and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic raised the need for tennis to increase its innovation factor and conceded that the sport’s future is under threat. Shortly after scraping past Alexei Popyrin in a Wimbledon third-round match that lasted […]
Jammu, July 6: BJP national president J P Nadda on Saturday asked party workers to be ready for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a vision to make the country a third economic power in the world in near future. He lashed out […]
Jammu, Jul 6: Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an assistant sub-inspector, were killed in separate road accidents in Kathua and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. ASI Parshotam Singh (58), a resident of Himachal Pradesh, lost his life, while two of his colleagues were rescued when their vehicle skidded […]
AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said here on Saturday that his party will defeat the BJP in Gujarat in the next election the same way it did in Ayodhya in the recent Lok Sabha polls. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha made the remark while addressing a party workers’ convention in Ahmedabad. […]
Police say he was recently contacted by pol parties NOIDA: Devprakash Madhukar, the main accused in the July 2 Hathras stampede that killed 121 people, was arrested from Delhi’s Najafgarh area by a Special Operations Group of Hathras police, officials said on Saturday. Madhukar, who was arrested late night on Friday, was contacted by some […]
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has questioned the way actions were being taken against innocent people and demanded a judicial probe on the way arrests were being made in the Hathras stampede incident. He said that these arrests are a conspiracy in themselves and there should be an immediate judicial inquiry into how these […]
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has asked the people not to get misled by the superstition and hypocrisy of many so called Babas and demanded action against Bhole Baba. Mayawati has also condemned the murder of party’s Tamil Nadu president K Armstrong and has announced to go to Chennai tomorrow to meet his family […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on Saturday lashed out at Congress leader P Chidambaram over his comment that the three new criminal laws were “drafted by part-timers”, terming it as “inexcusable” and urging him to withdraw his “derogatory, defamatory and insulting” observation. Dhankar said he was “shocked beyond words” when in the morning he read […]