Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Friday urged people to refrain from ‘criticising individual preferences’ with regards to a number of India internationals who have decided to skip this year’s Ranji Trophy.
Author: PTI
Jasprit Bumrah said his experience of getting reverse swing on slower pitches in first class cricket helped him get the best out of a docile Melbourne Cricket Ground track after his six-wicket haul put India in command in the third Test in Australia.
India came within sniffing distance of a defining victory before a stoic resistance by Australia’s tail delayed the inevitable in the third Test here Saturday. Pat Cummins scored a heroic half-century as Australia finished at 258 for eight at stumps on day four after being reduced to 176 for seven after tea.
In a touching re-union, 93-year-old E K Narayanan Nambiar, who was imprisoned for participating in the 1946 violent peasant struggle in Kavumbayi village of Kerala, met his first wife after 72 years, leaving them both speechless and teary-eyed.
The DMK Friday lodged a police complaint seeking action against those behind a fake Twitter account in the name of its chief M K Stalin and for posting objectionable comments aimed at defaming him among the Hindus.
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday divested Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara of the key Home Department and gave it to M B Patil as he allotted portfolios for new ministers from the Congress, seven days after their induction into the cabinet.
CPI national secretary D Raja Friday said he would raise in the Rajya Sabha the farmers’ protest against the Tamilnadu government over installing high-power lines in their fields.
The Tamilnadu government Friday constituted a search committee to pick a chief and members for the anti-graft body, Lokayukta following a meeting of the selection panel led by Chief Minister K Palaniswami.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Friday accused Lt Governor Kiran Bedi of taking a “negative stand” on the implementation of various decisions of the cabinet while the latter denied having “obstructed” any welfare schemes.