KANPUR: Senior India opener KL Rahul was on Tuesday ruled out of the two-Test series against New Zealand due to a muscle strain in his left thigh, a development which is expected to open up a debut opportunity for either Shreyas Iyer or Suryakumar Yadav. The opening Test is scheduled to begin in Kanpur from […]
KANPUR: New Zealand coach Gary Stead has hinted that if the conditions demand, the visiting side may field three specialist spinners against India in the first Test, starting here on Thursday. Stead also feels that their two-Test series against India won’t feature the kind of tracks that England got in Ahmedabad during their series against […]
MELBOURNE: If Steve Smith is reinstated as captain of the Australian Test squad for the upcoming Ashes following Tim Paine’s exit after the sexting scandal it will only “add to the circus”, said former wicketkeeper-batter Ian Healy Paine had stepped down as Australia’s Test skipper on last Friday after it emerged that he had sent […]
New Delhi: Anil Ghanwat, one of the members of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on farm laws, on Tuesday wrote to Chief Justice of India, urging him to consider releasing the report on the three agri laws in the public domain at the earliest or authorise the committee to do so. Ghanwat, also a […]
Srinagar: The mercury slipped further in Kashmir on Tuesday as cold wave conditions persisted in the Valley, with Srinagar recording its coldest night of the season at minus 2.3 degrees Celsius, meteorological department officials said. Kashmir has been experiencing sub-zero temperatures for the past few nights and in most places, […]
New Delhi: India logged 7,579 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 543 days, taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,26,480, while the active cases were the lowest in 536 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 4,66,147 with 236 fresh fatalities, […]
Jammu: Senior vice-president of the Apni Party and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Sunday called for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood before assembly elections are held. Speaking at a party convention organised by its youth wing here, Mir expressed concerns over growing unemployment in the union territory and sought necessary measures to redress […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of CP I(M) on Monday asked the civil society of Ramban and adjoining areas to come forward and demand the return of the body of Amir Magray — the third person killed in the Hyderpora encounter last week — and whose kin claim he was innocent. The Left party […]
New Delhi: Ahead of the winter session of Parliament, the government has called an all-party meeting on Sunday, which is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said on Monday. The floor leaders of all the political parties from both houses of Parliament have been invited to the meeting, they added. Besides […]
Puttaparthi, (Andhra Pradesh): Rulers should introspect everyday whether the decisions taken by them are good and also check if they have any bad characteristics, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said on Monday. Addressing the 40th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in Puttaparthi town in Anantapuramu district, Justice Ramana, quoting Mahabharata […]