The Asian leg of the 2020 Badminton World Tour scheduled for November has been postponed until next year in Bangkok, officials said, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) said three tournaments on the tour were now scheduled to be played back-to-back in mid-January, with the finals at the end of the […]
The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee has announced to extend their ‘rail roko’ till September 29 in protest against the farm Bills, recently passed in Parliament. The Railways had cancelled various special trains running from the Ferozepur division from September 24 to 26, which was scheduled to conclude today, but was extended. Members of the committee […]
New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said that Japan is determined to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games to prove that humanity has defeated the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Suga said, “I will continue to spare no effort in order to welcome you to the […]
Delhi Capitals registered their second win in the IPL 2020 by defeating the IPL 2019 finalists by 44 runs. Opting to bowl first after winning the toss, CSK bowlers could not make much of an impression early on as Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan scored fluently and reached 94 in the 11th over without losing […]
The seventh match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 will be played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Delhi Capitals (DC) at 7.30pm at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Dhoni-led CSK had lost their last game to the Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 16 runs, but they can take heart from the fact that […]
Legendary playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as Balu and SPB, died at 1.04 pm on Friday while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a Chennai hospital. He was 74. SP Balasubrahmanyam is survived by wife Savitri and his two children – daughter Pallavi and son SP Charan. “In a further setback this morning, despite maximum […]
The National Medical Commission (NMC) came into force from Friday, as the Centre repealed the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and dissolving all its bodies such as the Medical Council of India (MCI) and Board of Governors (BoG), through a gazette notification. Last year, the National Medical Commission Act 2019 was passed by […]
Helsinki Airport in Finland has deployed specially-trained dogs to detect Covid-19 among passengers within 10 minutes with 100% accuracy. The trials are being conducted by researchers from the University of Helsinki. The preliminary results of the programme show that the dogs, which previously used to detect illnesses such as cancer and malaria, were able to […]
Buoyed by a blistering knock of 133 by the KXIP skipper KL Rahul, Punjab registered a massive victory as they defeated RCB by 97 runs at Dubai today. Put into bat by Virat Kohli led RCB, Kings started fairly decently as KL Rahul batted steadily in the initial part of his innings. While Glen Maxwell […]