By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) Indian cricket is full of Sourav Ganguly now. The former India captain and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President-elect had opined that Rohit Sharma should open the batting for India in Tests also, like he so successfully does in white-ball[Read More…]
Manila, Oct 17 (IANS) At least five people were killed and 60 injured after a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit the island of Mindanao, southern Philippines, local media reported Thursday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) registered the earthquake on Wednesday at 7.37 pm local time (11.37 GMT) at magnitude-6.3[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Oct 17 (IANS) NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken a fresh set of pictures under better lighting conditions of the area where the Indian moon lander Vikram likely ended up and experts will be making a rigorous search for it, according to LRO Project[Read More…]
By Aakash Kumar New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Virat Kohli and his men have been on a winning spree at home in the last two-three years when it comes to Test cricket. Barring the series losses in South Africa and England, the Indian team has played according to its number[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The Indian team was dealt a big blow going into the Test series against South Africa as pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the series with a stress fracture. But the other Indian pacers have stood up and made it count as Virat[Read More…]
By Aakash Kumar New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The last Test match between India and South Africa in Pune once again bore testimony to the fact that age is just a number if you have the fitness to compete at the top level. At 34, Wriddhiman Saha isnt getting any[Read More…]
By Rohit Mundayur New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) One of the many unique aspects of Test cricket is the celebration of a draw. When a match that has been played over five days, about six hours on each day, one would expect both teams to be frustrated and ask for[Read More…]
Madrid, Oct 17 (IANS) Manchester United have been dealt a significant blow ahead of their weekend clash at home to Premier League leaders Liverpool, with the news that goalkeeper David de Gea is injured. De Gea suffered a groin injury in the 59th minute of Spain’s 1-1 draw away to[Read More…]
By Sharon Thambala Bengaluru, Oct 17 (IANS) Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the Bengaluru civic body has decided to remap the tech hub landscape after latest satellite images from the ISRO exposed chinks in its outdated property records, an official said. “We are soon going to re-map the city with the[Read More…]
By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) If all goes as per plan, the Kolkata Test between India and Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens could see the Prime Ministers of the two countries in attendance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina have been invited for[Read More…]
Brussels, Oct 17 (IANS) European Parliament President David Sassoli and leading MEPs agreed to cancel the assembly’s confirmation vote on the new European Commission slated for next week, making the the commission unlikely to take office before December 1, media reported here. European Parliament has recently rejected three commissioners-designate from[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Minister of Railways and Commerce Piyush Goyal has lauded the novel idea of Indian Railways to invite filmmakers to promote their cinema projects on trains. The minister has also invited more filmmakers to use the medium of railways to reach out to the masses, using[Read More…]
Rabat, Oct 17 (IANS) Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has pardoned a woman journalist Hajar Raissouni, who was sentenced to jail last month for extramarital sex and an illegal abortion. According to a statement by the Ministry of Justice, the royal pardon was part of the King’s “concern to preserve the[Read More…]
Paris, Oct 17 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed hope to endorse an accord on Britain’s orderly departure from the European Union (EU) at a summit in Brussels on Thursday. “I want to believe an agreement is being finalized and that we will be[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) House Republicans deserted the United States president to oppose his withdrawal of troops from Syria, a prelude to a rancorous White House meeting with congressional leaders in which the president insulted Democrats before they walked out. The acrimony came after House Democrats and Republicans voted overwhelmingly[Read More…]
Baghdad, Oct 17 (IANS) A Kurdish presenter for NRT television, along with his wife and their son, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the city of Sulaimaniyah in northeastern Iraq, a channel official said. The incident took place on Wednesday evening when the gunmen opened fire on Amanj Baban,[Read More…]
Prague, Oct 17 (IANS) About 67 per cent of Czechs consider Brexit will be detrimental to their country, according to an opinion poll released by the newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD). The poll released on Wednesday, conducted from late September to early October, shows that almost three-fifths of the Czechs[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) President Donald Trump said that American troops should not be placed in harm’s way amid the Turkish army’s military campaign against Kurdish militias in Syria’s northeastern border region. “If Turkey goes into Syria, that’s between Turkey and Syria,” Trump told reporters at the White House on[Read More…]
Baghdad, Oct 17 (IANS) Iraqi Defence Minister Najah al-Shammari said on Wednesday that the security forces captured a number of Islamic State (IS) militants who tried to infiltrate into Iraq to flee the battles in neighbouring Syria. Al-Shammari made his comments during his tour to the Iraqi-Syrian border in western[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Actor Priyanshu Painyuli took cue from his own experiences to add to his upcoming Netflix project “Upstarts”. “Upstarts” follows the journey of three young college graduates Kapil (Priyanshu), Yash (Chandrachoor Rai) and Vinay (Shadab Kamal) from a small town in India, who are captivated by the[Read More…]
United Nations, Oct 17 (IANS) The UN General Assembly mourned the death of Diogo Freitas do Amaral of Portugal, president of its 50th session back in 1995-1996. Freitas do Amaral died on October 3, 2019, in Portugal at the age of 78. At a plenary meeting on Wednesday to pay[Read More…]
Damascus, Oct 17 (IANS) The Syrian army entered the symbolically important Kurdish-held town of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria near Turkey, state news agency SANA reported. The army units entered Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobane, in the remote northeastern countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria “amid the welcome[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Oct 17 (IANS) Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee is on a quest to find out how digital cinema will change the world, and says he is trying to learn how to speak in that language. “Each movie, starting with ‘Life Of Pi’, (I’ve been) searching for what digital[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution rebuking President Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria amid ongoing Turkish offensive. The vote was 354 to 60 for the resolution, wining bipartisan support. The resolution “opposes the decision to[Read More…]
United Nations, Oct 17 (IANS) Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said that Turkey’s military operation in northeast Syria should be “proportional” to its declared objectives. “The Turkish side tells us that they will respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, and (that) the final aim will be to ensure[Read More…]
