NEW DELHI: The BCCI will conduct all its domestic tournaments across age-groups with the coveted Ranji Trophy, starting on November 16, being the marquee event among the 2127 matches scheduled for 2021-22 season. Last season, the BCCI couldn’t conduct any age-group tournament and was forced to cancel the Ranji Trophy due to COVID-19 pandemic. However, […]
NEW DELHI: Chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand reckoned the upcoming Olympics would be one “like never before” because of thecoronavirus-related restrictions but he is expecting a rich haul of medals from the Indian athletes to herald a sporting turnaround for the country. He said the athletes at the Games Village are not going to […]
LONDON: India skipper Virat Kohli “operates at 200” per cent and has the unbelievable ability to inspire his teammates to do the same, reckons stylish batsman KL Rahul. “Playing with and under Virat Kohli, he is a different sort of captain. He is a very passionate individual. He operates at 200 (per cent). 100 is […]
Srinagar,” PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday termed the ending of 149-year-old practice of ‘darbar move’ as an insensitive decision, adding that its economic and social benefits outnumbered the expenses incurred for moving of the offices during summer and winter. GOIs recent decision to stop Darbar move is penny wise & pound foolish. Its economic & […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) on Saturday said the party will vigorously fight for restoring statehood with constitutional guarantees that was the milestone to a democratic process in the Union Territory. The JKPCC held a meeting of its senior party leaders and former legislators in the summer capital here to debate […]
New Delhi: A French judge has been appointed to lead a “highly sensitive” judicial investigation into alleged “corruption and favouritism” in the Rs 59,000 crore Rafale fighter jet deal with India, French investigative website Mediapart reported. Following the development, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come forward and order […]
Istanbul: Turkey’s foreign ministry has slammed a US report on human trafficking that criticised Ankara for providing operational, equipment, and financial support to an armed militia in Syria that recruits child soldiers. In a statement late Friday, the Turkish foreign ministry said it completely rejects the claim and its record is clean. The statement also accuses […]
Shajapur (MP): A buffalo brought for a protest staged by owners and directors of private schools in Madhya Pradesh’s Shajapur district went berserk amid the crowd and injured one of the agitators, an official said on Saturday. A video of the incident that took place at a protest staged on Friday to demand that the […]
Nathan (Australia): The Conversation) We’ve been living in a COVID world for more than 18 months now. At the outset of the pandemic, government agencies and health authorities scrambled to inform people on how to identify symptoms of the virus. But as the virus has evolved, it seems the most common symptoms have changed too. […]
United Nations/Geneva: The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing to evolve and mutate, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned. He said in countries with low vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm. […]