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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has categorically denied the recent media reports suggesting that the dates for next year’s ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan might be rescheduled. “It is disappointing that certain media outlets have misrepresented PCB Chair Mohsin Naqvi’s comments from yesterday’s media interaction, misleadingly quoting him on the potential change of dates for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 due to security concerns, thus creating unnecessary sensationalism,” read the statement on their website. This news comes days after PCB confirmed that Pakistan’s second Test against Bangladesh, set to start on August 30, has been shifted from Karachi to Rawalpindi…
The parents of a nursery student who was sexually assaulted in a Thane school have said they got to know about the horrific crime after the parents of another nursery student, who was also sexually assaulted, told them they would file a police case. The parents then took their child for a medical test, which confirmed sexual assault, they said in the first information report (FIR) filed with the police in Maharashtra’s Thane district’s Badlapur city. What’s more shocking, the parents said, was the police’s long delay in filing the FIR – while the sexual assault happened on August 13,…
The ICC match referees have gone soft on the much-maligned pitches used for the New York leg of the T20 World Cup with six of the eight games, including the India versus Pakistan contest, getting a “satisfactory” rating. Two games at the makeshift Nassau County Cricket Stadium, including India’s opening fixture against Ireland, have got an “unsatisfactory” rating from the game’s governing body which remains bullish on promoting cricket in the United States. The surface used for the game between between Sri Lanka and South Africa also got thumbs down from the match referee. After a rather long delay, the…
Days after the rape and murder of a doctor at a Kolkata medical college, another shocking incident has surfaced from Rohtak, Haryana. A first-year BDS student was allegedly assaulted and kidnapped by a senior male doctor. Prachi Hooda shared her disturbing and traumatic experience, which took place on August 16 and 17. Ms Hooda revealed details of the incident through an Instagram video. In the clip, she can be seen sobbing uncontrollably, with bruises all over her body. She shared that Dr. Manindar Kaushik from PGIMS Rohtak was allegedly interested in her and forced her to be in a relationship,…
A mother of two from the UK, Kaydell Brown, 38, tragically died following cosmetic surgery in Turkey. Brown, from Sheffield, paid 5,400 pounds for a “mummy MOT” package, which included a Brazilian butt lift, tummy tuck, and breast augmentation. Her family shared that she hoped the procedure would transform her life, The Standard reported. However, Ms Brown never made it out of surgery at Clinic Expert in Istanbul on the morning of March 26, 2024. In an interview with ITV, her devastated sister Leanne, 40, condemned the clinic, referring to it as a “pop-up butcher shop.” She claimed that after…
BJP fields Union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu from Rajasthan and George Kurian from Madhya Pradesh for Rajya Sabha bypolls Original Source
Antitrust body, the Competition Commission of India, has reached an initial assessment that the $8.5 billion India merger of Reliance and Walt Disney media assets harms competition due to their power over cricket broadcast rights, four sources told Reuters on Tuesday. In the biggest setback so far to their planned merger, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has privately told Disney and Reliance its view and asked the companies to explain why an investigation should not be ordered, one of the sources said. “Cricket is the biggest pain point for the CCI,” said one of the sources. The merged company,…
The massive protest in Maharashtra’s Thane over the sexual assault of two four-year-old girls at a school, has been quelled by police batons and tear gas. The Badlapur railway station that was a seething mass of slogan-shouting people for over six hours, emptied in a matter of seconds and a huge police force cracked down. People – many of them sitting down on the railway tracks — started running as batons flashed. From the other side of the station, protesters responded with stones, till the station turned into a war zone. But the police prevailed, giving chase to the protesters…
For all the perception of glamour that one has regarding a cricketer’s life, there is a darker side to it. Of that of depression. Some suffer from it silently, while a few come out in the open to share their experiences with other. And help others cope with it. Robin Uthappa, member of India’s 2007 T20 World Cup-winning team, is one of those individuals who has been inspirational when it comes to motivating others and help them take care of mental health. Uthappa, who has played 46 ODIs and 13 T20Is, has in the past showed a lot of courage…
A decision on reducing the policy rate will depend on keeping inflation in check, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das told NDTV in an exclusive interview. Any reduction in the policy rate will also depend on future data, with inflation being the biggest influencer, the RBI chief told NDTV Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia when asked to explain the RBI’s complex work in a layperson’s language. Mr Das denied the RBI ever said it expected inflation to go below 4 per cent. “We never said inflation would go below 4 per cent, if you see the MPC meeting details carefully,” Mr…