BCCI President Sourav Ganguly wants a shorter than mandated quarantine period for the Indian team when it travels to Australia for a Test series this year as “we don’t need the players to travel that far and sit in hotel rooms for 2 weeks”. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the principles of the sport, which restarted with the continued Test series between England and therefore the West Indies. Players need to be in quarantine for 2 weeks and be tested for the virus before they will take the sector in empty stadiums for now. But Ganguly is hoping that the…
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Actor Esha Deol on Sunday rubbished rumours that her mother, veteran star Hema Malini was admitted to a hospital. There were reports that the 71-year-old actor was rushed to a hospital thanks to poor health. Taking to Twitter, Esha asked people to not react to misinformation. “My mother @dreamgirlhema is fit & fine! The news regarding her health is completely fake so please don’t react to such rumours!” she tweeted. “Thanks to everyone for his or her love and concern,” the actor-author added. The rumours began to spread after megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son, actor Abhishek Bachchan tested positive…
India is at a “good position” within the battle against the coronavirus pandemic and therefore the country will fight the disease determinedly and enthusiasm, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. Shah spoke after participating during a mega plantation drive initiated by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) that features a target to plant about 1.37 crore saplings in their country-wide campuses by this month-end. “The world is seeing that if a successful battle has been fought anywhere across the world against the coronavirus it’s India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said “It was feared…
Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose defection to the BJP earlier this year contributed to the Congress collapse in Madhya Pradesh, taunted his former party as it faced a rerun in Rajasthan with Sachin Pilot seen to attempt a split. https://twitter.com/JM_Scindia/status/1282289304572575752?s=20 “Sad to see my erstwhile colleague Sachin Pilot too, being sidelined and persecuted by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Shows that talent and capability find little credence in the Congress,” Jyotiraditya Scindia tweeted. Sachin Pilot, the deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, is in Delhi with a few MLAs loyal to him amid speculation that he is in talks with the BJP to…
Built 1500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. In 1934 it became a museum and is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Defending the move, a Turkish official stressed that tourists could still visit the site after it once more became a mosque. Tayyip Erdogan, President Turkey, said that the first Islamic prayers would take place in Hagia Sophia on 24th July. His statement came after a court revoked the museum status of Hagia Sophia in its judgment. The President declared the ancient monument to be…
The Congress appears deep in crisis in Rajasthan three months after it lost Jyotiraditya Scindia and Madhya Pradesh to the BJP after a long-drawn tussle between the old guard and the new. Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot — who shares an uneasy equation with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot — is in talks with the BJP, sources said, claiming he has the support of 16 MLAs and three independents. The discussion has been on since before the lockdown — parallely with Mr Scindia. But the BJP is not ready to offer Mr Pilot the Chief Minister’s post and a section…
Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, who has declared an open revolt against the Congress claiming the support of 30 MLAs that could bring down the Ashok Gehlot government, is likely to meet with BJP chief JP Nadda on Monday, sources said. Mr Pilot, who is camping in Delhi after setting his party up for another state collapse just three months after it lost Madhya Pradesh to the BJP, has refused to attend a key meeting of Congress MLAs called by Mr Gehlot on Monday. Instead, he is likely to meet with JP Nadda and any future course of action…
Wendy Barclay, chairwoman in influenza virology at Imperial College London, has said that coronavirus particles can remain infectious in the air for more than an hour. Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Barclay said: “”It is the first time that the World Health Organization has acknowledged that the airborne route contributes to the spread of this disease. “Of course, there are other routes as well… But what this new acknowledgement means is that the route through the air probably also contributes in some circumstances.” Barclay said the virus could remain suspended in the air and travel some distance away from…
Veteran actress Rekha’s bungalow in Bandra, Mumbai, has been sealed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) after her security guard tested positive for coronavirus, reported news agency PTI. The BMC has also put a board outside the premises declaring the place as a containment area. The security guard at Rekha’s house – Sea Spring – tested positive for the virus on Tuesday and he has been hospitalised at the BMC’s COVID-19 care facility in Bandra Kurla Complex since then, a civic official said on Sunday, reported PTI. He added that BMC has sealed only a portion of the bungalow, which…
Coming down heavily on Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for the demolition of the Nalla Pochamma temple on the premises of the Secretariat, BJP general secretary P Muralidhar Rao on Friday said that the State government’s fall is imminent as the deity would be KCR’s nemesis. Addressing the Jan Samvad Virutal Rally organised by his party’s state unit, the BJP leader took exception to the demolition of the temple, saying: “The act of pulling down the Nalla Pochamma temple has lowered the life of KCR’s government. After demolishing the temple, KCR claims that it happened accidentally, which is a…