Head coach Rahul Dravid on Monday said Indian cricketers who are in the plans for the ODI World Cup will play in the Indian Premier League barring injuries and senior players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will have workload management as the white-ball format will not allow them to play. One will get preference over the other. According to the new policy of the Cricket Board of India, during this year’s IPL, the National Cricket Academy and the franchises will keep an eye on the workload of the main players in view of the 50-over World Cup to be…
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Veteran boxer MC Mary Kom will head a five-member monitoring committee set up to probe allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The government has appointed this committee which will also look after the day to day work of WFI for the next one month. Following the allegations of the wrestlers, President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been banned from overseeing the functioning of the wrestling association. The committee members include Olympian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, Dronacharya awardee Trupti Murugande, Captain Rajagopalan, Radha Sriman. Anurag Thakur said that Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will not work…
Uttarakhand’s Tourism and Culture Minister Satpal Maharaj has said that all tourist places in the state are safe except Joshimath. He said that the government would make every possible effort to organize winter sports in Auli. Maharaj also said that the upcoming Char Dham Yatra will be done in a smooth manner. He said that Char Dham Yatra and winter tourism were the backbone of the State’s economy. He also said that all possible help is being provided to the disaster affected people in Joshimath by the Central and State Government. State Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Kumar Sinha has said that the work of…
The controversy regarding Ramcharitmanas does not seem to be stopping. Education Minister of Bihar Prof. Chandrashekhar first raised questions on Ramcharit Manas written by Tulsidas. The matter had not completely settled down yet that in the meantime Swami Prasad Maurya, who had gone from BJP to Samajwadi Party, has given a controversial statement regarding this. Describing Ramcharit Manas as nonsense, Swami has demanded to ban it. In an interview given to a private media channel, SP leader Swami Prasad termed Ramcharitmanas as nonsense and said that many crores of people do not read it. Tulsidas wrote it for his own pleasure. While urging the government, he…
Senior Punjab leader and former finance minister of the state government Manpreet Badal on Wednesday resigned from the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Badal joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Piyush Goyal, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh and the party’s national media in-charge Anil Baluni. Manpreet Badal’s joining of BJP is being considered as a major setback for the Congress in Punjab. Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and former Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar have already joined the BJP. In his resignation letter sent to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Badal said he was “disillusioned” with the…
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Punjab have recovered a cache of arms and ammunition dropped by a Pakistani drone on Indian territory, about eight kilometers from the international border. A senior official gave this information on Wednesday. The officer said that BSF personnel heard the sound of a drone coming from Pakistan in the upper Takla frontier village area of Gurdaspur district at around 11.50 pm on Tuesday. “The drone was probably at a height of 300-400 metres, but it was not visible due to dense fog in the area,” the officer said. Immediately fired about 17 rounds in the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the country can be taken forward only by converting Amrit Kaal into Kartavyakal. He has said that the best era of India is coming. The Prime Minister said that BJP workers should dedicate themselves for the development of the country. In New Delhi yesterday, senior party leader Devendra Fadnavis said the Prime Minister’s address at the concluding session of the BJP executive meeting was inspirational as well as a guide. Fadnavis said that the Prime Minister urged the party workers to spend every moment of their lives in India’s development story. The Prime Minister also advised party…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that the state government will bear the cost of bringing back the mortal remains of four matriarchs of Ghazipur in Nepal plane crash. The Chief Minister also announced Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has already directed the Ghazipur district administration to provide all possible help to the affected families. In relation to providing financial assistance to the relatives of the deceased, it has been said in the statement, “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Maharaj has given instructions to provide assistance of Rs. Huh. Maharaj ji has said…
The United Nations Security Council has declared Pakistani terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist. Makki is the brother-in-law of Hafiz Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Taiba chief and mastermind of the 26/11 terror attack. The decision comes after China opposed the proposal to list Makki as a terrorist under the Sanctions Committee last year, which was followed by India’s condemnation. India has been actively involved in recruiting youth and raising funds to plan attacks, especially in Jammu and Kashmir. India and America have already put Makki in the list of terrorists. Makki executes various conspiracies in the terrorist organization. It is worth noting that…
In Uttarakhand, a group of villagers led by the Karni Sena took out a protest march at Mori Bazaar on Monday, demanding the arrest of Bhim Army national vice-president Manjit Singh Nautiyal for his statement that Dalits should not be allowed to enter There was a threat to run a bulldozer on a temple. Police officer SS Bhandari said people raised slogans against Nautiyal in a protest march led by Karni Sena leader Thakur Shakti Singh at Mori Bazar. They demanded Nautiyal’s arrest, accusing him of hurting religious sentiments and trying to disturb peace in the area. Nautiyal had on Saturday…