Save the date! Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma to make India comeback on this day | Cricket News

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian cricket stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who recently bid farewell to Test cricket, are expected to return to international action in the upcoming three-match ODI series against Australia this October. The duo had already retired from T20Is after India’s World Cup triumph last year.Now…

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Jen Pawol gets the call: 48-year-old will be first woman to umpire a Major League game | MLB News

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) Jen Pawol started umpiring rookie-league games nine years ago. This weekend she will run the field in Atlanta. MLB confirmed she will work the bases during Saturday’s Miami Marlins-Atlanta Braves double-header at Truist Park and move behind the plate on Sunday. No woman has ever reached that spot in a regular-season…

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‘Coolie’ Early Reviews: Rajinikanth-starrer hailed as “best since Kabali”, Shruti Haasan the ‘main highlight’ while Nagarjuna and Aamir Khan impress with their performances | Tamil Movie News

Rajinikanth’s film ‘Coolie’, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, has rasied fans’ expectations even before its release. The film, that sees the superstar in an all-new avatar, and packaged in Kanagaraj’s style, has piqued the curiosity of fans. As the film nears its release on August 14, the first reviews of the film has surfaced on social…

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Sarees, sherwanis & statesmanship: Inside Mahua Moitra–Pinaki Misra wedding reception in Delhi; see photos | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: Political bigwigs gathered in New Delhi on Tuesday evening to attend the wedding reception of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra and former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Pinaki Misra. The reception, held at Hotel Lalit, followed the couple’s private wedding in Germany.Photographs from the event showed Congress leader Sonia Gandhi seated at…

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‘Genuinely worried’: Chris Woakes reveals Shubman Gill’s comment after gutsy effort with injured shoulder, calls draw a ‘fair’ result | Cricket News

England’s Chris Woakes, right, runs between the wickets with his arm in a sling. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: England pacer Chris Woakes has opened up about the dramatic final day of the fifth Test against India at The Oval, where he walked out to bat despite a serious shoulder injury. In a candid chat with…

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Dharali flash flood: 360 million cubic metres of glacial debris came tumbling down, experts estimate | India News

DEHRADUN: It wasn’t just the rain. A preliminary geological assessment conducted after Tuesday’s devastating flash flood in Dharali village, suggests a far more complex and violent trigger – a massive collapse of glacial sedimentary deposits, possibly caused by a retrogressive slope failure high up in the mountains.Initial estimates made by experts, based on satellite data…

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SC allows use of Stalin’s name in TN schemes, says other govts do it too | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday said naming of welfare schemes after political netas was all pervasive in states and at Centre and ruled that no exception could be taken to Tamil Nadu govt’s ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ scheme, which translates into ‘Your’s Stalin’.Setting aside Madras HC’s July 31 interim order restraining use of names of political…

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India’s dignity belittled by hand-pulled rickshaws: SC | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed deep anguish over the prevailing inhuman practice of hand-pulled rickshaws ferrying visitors in the eco-sensitive and automobile-free Matheran hill station in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats and said this belittles India’s march towards a developing country and its Constitution which promises social and economic justice.A bench of Chief Justice…

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