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When Rahul Dravid coached India to an U-19 World Cup win in 2018 – guiding the likes of Shubman Gill and Arshdeep Singh – it seemed like it was a matter of time till he became the Head Coach of the senior India Men’s cricket team. And so it proved to be. Now, as the curtains are drawn on the 2024 T20 World Cup, Rahul Dravid’s two-and-a-half-year-long tenure comes to a close. Will he, nay should he, be remembered fondly for guiding India in a transitional phase despite the burning hunger for a major title? Much like his predecessor Ravi…
Virat Kohli, former Indian cricket team captain and Player of the Match in the T20 World Cup 2024 final, announced his retirement from the format right after India’s historic win over South Africa in the title clash in Barbados on Saturday. Kohli, who has been one of India’s best-ever cricketers, said that it was time for the next generation to take over. For a boy who rose from the by-lanes of Delhi to rule world cricket, it was the perfect culmination of a T20I career that saw several highs as well as lows as captain. “This was my last T20…
India beat South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup, beating the Proteas by 7 runs. Rohit Sharma and company brought an ICC trophy home after 11 years and India’s first World Cup win since 2011. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the team for bringing the cup “home in style”. CHAMPIONS! Our team brings the T20 World Cup home in STYLE! We are proud of the Indian Cricket Team. This match was HISTORIC. 🇮🇳 🏏 🏆 pic.twitter.com/HhaKGwwEDt — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 29, 2024 “Champions! Our team brings the T20 World Cup home in style! We are…
Iconic former India all-rounder Kapil Dev feels Jasprit Bumrah is a “1000 times better” bowler than what he was at his prime. Bumrah, who has been doing exceptionally well in the ongoing T20 World Cup, snaring 11 wickets at an outstanding economy of 4.08 in the 23 overs he has bowled so far. “Bumrah is 1000 times better than me. These young boys are far better than us. We had more experience. They are better,” Kapil told ‘PTI Videos’. Bumrah, who is widely regarded as the best pacer in international cricket now, has played 26 Tests for India, picking up…
Amid various voices in and outside the party being raised in favour of making Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar the Chief Minister, the Karnataka Congress President on Saturday categorically stated that he doesn’t need anyone’s recommendation and that the high command would decide based on his work. Speaking to reporters at his residence in Bengaluru on Saturday, Mr Shivakumar said, “There is no discussion about Deputy Chief Ministers, and there is no question of discussing the Chief Minister’s position too. The pontiff (Kumara Chandrashekaranatha Swami) has spoken out of love for me. I request that no one make any recommendations.…
The BJP’s tally in Haryana has been halved in this year’s Lok Sabha elections, following the clean sweep in 2019, but the party has reposed its faith in Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and declared that the Assembly elections later this year will be fought under his leadership. Mr Saini had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar, who had been the chief minister of the state since 2014, in March. Home Minister Amit Shah also announced that the party will go it alone in the upcoming elections. The BJP had formed an alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party after it failed to…
Five years after their marriage, a woman’s family got her husband killed in a case of dishonour killing in Greater Noida. The incident happened around two weeks back. The woman had run away and got married against her family’s will five years back. Her family, who disapproved of the marriage, extended an olive branch and invited her husband over for drinks. However, while returning home, he was strangled to death by a contract killer hired by his wife’s family, said police. The family mortgaged their jewels to pay the contract killers, police added. The victim’s body was found on June…
As the monsoon arrived in Uttarakhand, so did the soaring river water levels engulfing and taking along everything that comes within its reach. After Haridwar was hit by heavy rainfall, many vehicles parked in a cremation ground were washed away by the strong currents of a seasonal river. In visuals from the spot, several cars and buses can be seen submerged in an overflowing seasonal river in Har ki Pauri. The strong currents swept away buses and eight cars parked in the cremation ground. In a video, a cop can be issuing a warning to the pilgrims and locals to…
Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is seeing a “conspiracy” in back-to-back bridge collapse incidents in Bihar. “Why have bridges started to collapse only after the Lok Sabha elections?” he wondered as he spoke to reporters in Gaya. “Why were such incidents not taking place 15 or 30 days before? Why have bridges started to collapse only after the Lok Sabha elections? Why are they collapsing now? Is there any conspiracy to defame the state government?” the minister said. Five bridges – in Araria, Siwan, East Champaran, Kishanganj, and Madhubani districts – have collapsed across the state in the last nine…
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) chief Dr S Somanath in an exclusive interview to NDTV said the delayed return of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams from the International Space Station (ISS) should not be seen as a hugely worrying factor as the ISS is a safe place with long endurance. “It is not just Sunita Williams or any other astronaut. Getting stranded or stuck in a place is not a narrative that we must have at this moment. There are nine astronauts there; all of them are not in a stranded situation,” the ISRO chief told NDTV. “All of them…