India kicked off their Under 19 World Cup 2020 campaign on a winning note as they beat Sri Lanka Under 19 by 90 runs at the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein on Sunday. Put in to bat, India Under 19 scored 297/4 on the back of fifties from Yashasvi Jaiswal, skipper Priyam Garg and Dhruv Jurel. The pair of Jaiswal and Divyaansh Saxena gave India Under 19 a 66-run opening stand before the latter got out for 23. N Tilak Varma then joined forces with Jaiswal and the two added 56 runs for the second wicket before Jaiswal, after scoring 59…
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The police lathi charged and prevented BJP workers from taking out a thanksgiving rally on Citizenship (Amendment) Act which was slated to be led by state party chief Dilip Ghosh in East Midnapore district’s Nandigram on Saturday. Claiming that the rally was being taken out without their permission, the police stopped bike riders escorting Ghosh’s car at Reyapara, sparking tension. The BJP workers accompanying Ghosh surged forward trying to break the police barricade, following which the security forces resorted to lathi charge to disperse the party cadres. The BJP claimed that four of their workers sustained injuries. The police, on…
Renowned Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi was injured in a road accident involving her car near Khalapur on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the police said on Saturday. As per preliminary information, her car, in which her husband and noted lyricist Javed Akhtar was also travelling, dashed against a truck on the highway towards Pune at around 4.15 p.m. The injured actress was brought out of the car and admitted to a hospital in Navi Mumbai. It is not immediately clear whether Akhtar was also injured, but another unidentified woman is reported to be seriously hurt. Highway police patrol teams have rushed to…
Congress MLA Munnalal Goyal on Saturday staged a dharna against his own party’s government near the main gate of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly here. Goyal, who is considered close to former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, reached the Assembly with his supporters before noon and climbed the barricades to reach the Gandhi statue on the Assembly campus to start his dharna. Goyal said that the state government is not fulfilling promises made in its manifesto which the ruling party calls a promissory note. He said I am not angry with the Chief Minister or any other minister. But I want…
Telangana police on Saturday arrested an associate professor of the Osmania University on charges of alleged links with Maoist but hours later the High Court directed the police to produce him before the Chief Justice on Sunday. The High Court directed Siddipet district police to produce Chintikindi Kasim before Chief Justice Justice R. S. Chauhan at his residence on Sunday morning. The Chief Justice gave the direction after Civil Liberties Association moved a house motion challenging the arrest of Kasim. The petitioner submitted to the Chief Justice that Kasim was arrested in a case registered in 2016. The Chief Justice…
An Indian-American entrepreneur drives around the world to spread awareness about organ donation, ever since he donated his own kidney to his brother in 2014, a media report said. After donating his kidney, Anil Srivatsa started the ‘Gift of Life Adventure’, which is a series of overland expeditions aimed at spreading organ donation awareness, the India-West newspaper said in the report on Friday. “Love was the reason I went through what I did for my brother. In my opinion, love is the only reason anyone would donate an organ to somebody else, love for somebody you know personally or love…
UK’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle will no longer use the prestigious titles His and Her Royal Highness (HRH) and will not receive public funds for their royal duties, the Buckingham Palace has announced. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will also no longer formally represent The Queen, BBC reported on Saturday. The couple will also repay £2.4 million of British taxpayers’ money spent to renovate their UK family home, Frogmore Cottage. The new arrangement comes into effect in spring this year, the palace said. The development comes after senior members of the royal family held talks about…
After winning the WTA Hobart International trophy with partner Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine, Sania said that she couldn’t have asked for a better comeback. The Indo-Ukrainian duo defeated second-seeded China’s Shaui Peng and Shuai Zhang in straight sets 6-4 6-4 in the contest lasting for one hour and 21 minutes. Speaking after the match, Mirza said that it was a perfect comeback. “It really is a fantastic tournament. This is what happens when you don’t expect anything out of a tournament and I think it teaches us not to put any pressure on ourselves. I came out here to try…
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has gifted a cricket kit to a specially-abled boy from Bastar district. Tendulkar had earlier tweeted a video of the boy playing cricket with his friends on New Year’s Day. “Start your 2020 with the inspirational video of this kid Madda Ram playing cricket with his friends. It warmed my heart and I am sure it will warm yours too,” Tendulkar had tweeted. On Saturday, according to a Times of India report, Madda Ram received a cricket kit from Tendulkar and a note urging him to continue playing the sport. “I feel very happy to see…
India got their debut Pro League campaign off to a winning start with a 5-2 win over world no. 3 Netherlands. In what is the first of two matches that will be played between the two sides at the Kalinga stadium in Bhubaneswar, India rode on goals from Gurjant Singh (1′), Rupinder Pal Singh (12′, 46′), Mandeep Singh (34′) and Lalit Upadhyay (36′). Jip Janssen (14′) and Jeroen Hertzberger (28′) scored for the Dutch. Both sides scored in a frantic first quarter of the match. India scored their first within 26 seconds of the start of the match through Gurjant…