Day: June 19, 2020

Touching a new high on the first day of the fresh phase of lockdown in Chennai, Thiruvallur, Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu districts, Covid-19 figures reached 2,115 in the last 24 hours in Tamilnadu, taking the total number of infections in the State to 54,449.

Raheem Sterling scored the first goal of the Premier League’s return to action after the coronavirus lockdown as Manchester City defeated Arsenal 3-0 behind closed doors at the Etihad Stadium here on Wednesday.

Atletico Madrid hammered Osasuna 5-0 away from home in La Liga on Wednesday to secure its biggest win of the season and give a huge boost to its chances of qualifying for the Champions League.

Indian fast bowlers will be raring to have a go with the pink ball during the day-night Test that is scheduled to be played in Adelaide later in the year, according to batsman Cheteshwar Pujara.

Kraigg Brathwaite was one of the heroes for the West Indies when they defeated England in the 2017 Headingley Test. He had scored 134 and 95 as West Indies completed an incredible fourth innings chase to seal an unlikely win.

The Kerala film industry plunged into sadness when the news came of ailing popular film director and script writer K.R. Sachidanandan passing away at a hospital in Thrissur on Thursday night, film industry sources said.

Filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon and  cinematographer PC Sreeram will come together for a web series to be premiered on Amazon Prime. The shoot of the web series will begin after the lockdown.

After cricketer and CSK spinner Harbhajan Singh also called for a blanket ban on products coming from China, the editor of Chinese mouthpiece Global Times has criticised him.

Seerat Kapoor is looking at the bright side of the lockdown.