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MUMBAI: With the dust settling on the storm that led to the fifth Test between India and England being called off, it is now clear that the Indian cricket board (BCCI) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have decided to reschedule the match next year. However, the ECB has taken the call that the match will be replayed ...

CHANDIGARH: To ensure better coordination between the ruling party and the state government, and to further expedite the implementation of the various government programmes and reform initiatives, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday agreed to set up a 10-member ‘Strategic Policy Group’. In a show of unity in Congress leadership, the decision was ...

Robot-based technology has evolved over the last few years even if it hasn’t really become mainstream. Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have plans to change that as he revealed his company is working on a humanoid robot. According to a report by The Verge, a prototype of the robot will be ready sometime next year. Elaborating on the robot — ...

MELBOURNE: Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is off life support and recovering in hospital after emergency surgery in Sydney for a heart problem, his lawyer said on Friday. “I’m pleased to advise that Chris is off life support and has been able to communicate with his family from hospital in Sydney,” Aaron Lloyd said in a statement. “He and ...

NEW DELHI: One of the biggest competitive undergraduate entrance exams, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG has got bigger, breaching the 16-lakh registrations mark for the first time. The number of candidates appearing in Indian languages too have increased significantly in the last five years — up from 1.1 lakh in 2017 to 3.4 lakh in 2021. ...

NEW DELHI: One of the biggest competitive undergraduate entrance exams, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG has got bigger, breaching the 16-lakh registrations mark for the first time. The number of candidates appearing in Indian languages too have increased significantly in the last five years — up from 1.1 lakh in 2017 to 3.4 lakh in 2021. ...

WASHINGTON: A hostage trade-off situation is developing in Afghanistan between the United States and Taliban amid growing concerns about the medieval mob that has overrun Kabul gaining access to sophisticated American armaments including Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 attack planes. Thousands of Americans and their Afghan cohorts are stuck outside the Kabul airport perimeter, with Taliban controlling access and letting ...

WASHINGTON: About a month ago, Afghanistan’s ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. “They’ll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters a few days later at the Pentagon. In a matter of weeks, ...

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday chastised all those who have been supporting Taliban since it took over Afghanistan in a lightening power sweep. Speaking on the third day of the monsoon session of the UP assembly, Adityanath said all those who are “shamelessly supporting” the Taliban insurgents must be “exposed”. “Some people are supporting the ...

MULTAN: A powerful explosion hit a procession of Shia Muslims in central Pakistan on Thursday, wounding at least 30 people, witnesses and a Shia leader said. There were unconfirmed reports of deaths among the victims. Videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing toward the site of the bombing. Several wounded people were seen waiting for help along ...