Shane Watson blames Kotla wicket for exposing DC batting, DDCA says: ‘Told not to listen to franchise’

Days after Kolkata Knight Riders captain Nitish Rana stated that every team in the Indian Premier League enjoys home advantage ‘except KKR’, Delhi Capitals assistant coach Shane Watson has blamed the pitch at their home ground, the Feroz Shah Kotla, for the side’s dismal performance in the 2023 season. “The pitches here in Delhi haven’t been great, to be totally honest,” Watson told reporters…

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IPL 2023: What Virat Kohli’s spectacular six against SRH tells about his T20 batting

Some shots are single-ball events, to be devoured in isolation, its backdrop blurred to appreciate the sharper edges of the canvas. Virat Kohli’s short-arm jabbed (or on-driven? or both?) six off Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Nitish Kumar was one such single-ball event that thrills, marvels and fascinates the beholder, and with every rewatching it unravels more marvelous and mysterious layers, like a…

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Assam, Haryana pull up overweight cops: The big fat problem in law enforcement

Overweight Haryana policemen will be transferred to police lines until they regain their fitness, an order issued by Haryana’s Home and Health minister Anil Vij on Thursday (May 18) said. In the order, Vij said that many police personnel in the state had become overweight, with their weight only increasing over time. Haryana’s order came after the Assam Police on Tuesday (May 16) said it will…

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Manoj Bajpayee reveals what happened after his father gave him Bhaang when he was eight

Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee, who will next be seen in the film Bandaa, narrated a hilarious anecdote from his childhood days when he and his siblings got high on bhaang. Bajpayee amusingly revealed that, contrary to his mother’s disapproval, his father would give him bhaang when he was just eight years old.  On the podcast Cyrus Says, Manoj said, “Bhaang was a part of our growing up years.…

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A ‘warm ice age’ may have permanently changed Earth’s climate cycles

Around 700,000 years ago, polar glaciers expanded greatly during what was otherwise an exceptionally warm and moist period. This “warm ice age” paradox was identified by a European research team who used geological data and computer simulations to come to this conclusion. This “warm ice age” caused a profound change in our planet’s climate cycles, and could therefore represent a critical step in…

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Man Utd defender Phil Jones to leave club after 12 years

Manchester United centre back Phil Jones said on Friday that he will leave the club after 12 years when his contract expires at the end of the season, ending an injury-plagued stay at Old Trafford. Jones, 31, has played more than 200 games for United but has endured a torrid time with injuries over the past four seasons, managing only 13 appearances since the start of the 2019-20 campaign. “My…

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‘Real reward’: Anand Mahindra on family dancing, rejoicing during of delivery of new car

For Anand Mahindra, the joy of people is the “real reward” of being a part of the automobile manufacturing sector. The car manufacturing mogul was wowed by the reaction of a family that took the delivery of a new Mahindra car, a video of which has gone viral on the internet. The family danced as they took delivery of the Mahindra Scorpio-N SUV in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, a video of which got a…

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NIA arrests 2 ‘wanted’ associates of Canada-based terrorist Arsh Dhalla from Delhi airport

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two ‘wanted’ close associates of Canada-based ‘listed terrorist’ Arsh Dhalla on Friday when they arrived at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) from Manila, Philippines where they have been based. The duo, identified as Amritpal Singh alia Ammy and Amritk Singh, both hailing from Punjab, were nabbed in an early morning operation by…

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Pak anti-terrorism court grants pre-arrest bail to Imran Khan

An anti-terrorism court here on Friday approved pre-arrest bail for Imran Khan in three cases filed against Pakistan’s former prime minister after his arrest on May 9. While granting him bail till June 2, the Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) court also directed the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief to become a part of the investigation. One of the cases registered against Khan…

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FTII student’s health deteriorates on fifth day of hunger strike, hospitalised

One of the three students, who went on an indefinite hunger strike from Sunday at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, was hospitalised on Friday on the doctor’s recommendation, according to the students’ association. The student, Ashwin A K, has been admitted to Sahyadri Hospital in Pune. He is a second-year student of editing at the institute. The FTII Students’…

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More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds

More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published on Thursday found. A team of international researchers reported that some of the world’s most important freshwater sources – from the Caspian Sea between Europe and…

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IPL 2023: Yashasvi Jaiswal has learnt the art of converting 50s into 100s from Virat Kohli, says Virender Sehwag

Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag feels that young Rajasthan Royals (RR) batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has picked up the skill of turning fifties into hundreds from chase-master Virat Kohli. “Yashasvi Jaiswal is a future star. He’s learnt the art of converting 50s into 100s from Virat Kohli,” Sehwag said on StarSports. Jaiswal has hit the right notes in the 2023 Indian Premier League (IPL)…

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The CM and I: With D K Shivakumar set to become one, a look at the deputies, and the deals

Shivakumar, who was earlier insistent on a CM post, later settled for Deputy CM, but only on the condition that he be the sole one in the post, plus get important portfolios. Like in Karnataka, the Deputy CM post has largely come to be seen as a compensatory or conciliatory measure, or as part of an arrangement, as parties try to balance several interests. At present, at least 11 states…

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Everyday Explained | Hiroshima: The world’s first city to be struck by a nuclear bomb, and venue of the G7 2023 Summit

Hiroshima, a city at the southern tip of Japan’s main island Honshu, is the venue of this year’s Group of Seven (G7) Summit, the annual meeting of the leaders of world’s richest and most industrialised democracies. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida welcomed President Joe Biden of the United States, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Rishi…

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In veiled attack on PM Modi, Manish Sisodia pens poem on shaking foundations of a ‘4th pass king’s rajmahal’

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi renewed its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic qualifications through a letter purportedly written by former Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia from behind bars referring to the “shaking foundations” of a “4th pass king’s rajmahal (palace)”. Shared by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Twitter, the open letter consisted of a poem penned…

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With 2 new judges sworn in, Supreme Court at full strength now

Two new Supreme Court judges, senior advocate Kalpathy Venkataraman Viswanathan and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, were sworn in Friday morning by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud. With this, the Court is now at its full strength of 34 judges, for a brief period of time. The vacancies at the apex court will rise again soon with two judges – Justices K M Joseph and Ajay Rastogi — set to…

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Apple offers high-yield savings to card customers as deposit competition heats up

Apple Inc is seeking to attract U.S. savers with a new high-yield deposit account it announced on Monday with partner Goldman Sachs Group Inc amid increased competition among financial institutions for consumer dollars. Apple said users of its Apple Card can earn 4.15% on savings accounts, or 10 times higher than the national average, citing March data from the Federal Deposit Insurance…

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