Dubai: Pakistan batter Fakhar Zaman was named the ICC Men’s Player of the month for April while Thailand skipper Naruemol Chaiwai was adjudged best in the women’s section after both produced match-winning performances for their countries in the ODIs. Both batters were identified as April’s outstanding performers following a vote conducted among a specialist panel comprising…
New Delhi: Struggling with fitness, England pacer Jofra Archer was on Tuesday ruled out of the IPL, forcing Mumbai Indians to name fast bowler Chris Jordan as his replacement for the remainder of the T20 event. Archer, who was picked by five-time champions MI for Rs 8 crore in the auction, has played just five games…
Tashkent: Indian boxers Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) notched dominating wins to cruise to the quarterfinals of the men’s World Championships here on Tuesday. Continuing his good run in the tournament, Deepak brushed aside China’s Zhangh Jiamao by a 5-0 unanimous verdict in the 51kg round of 16 bout. Nishant, on the other hand,…
Jaipur: Having opted out of a New Zealand contract, pacer Trent Boult still has a “big desire” to play the ODI World Cup in India later this year and has seen “little bit of movement” in that direction of late. Boult gave up his New Zealand contract last August to spend more time with family and…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches against suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani in a money laundering case linked to an alleged betting racket in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T-20 cricket tournament in 2015, official sources said. Jaisinghani and his daughter Aniksha were arrested by the Mumbai Police for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to bribe…
Mumbai/Kolkata: Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri on Tuesday said he has sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for defaming his movie “The Kashmir Files”. Officials in the chief minister’s office said they had no information on the legal notice. Banerjee on Monday ordered a ban on the screening of “The Kerala Story”…
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Tourism and Culture Minister Satpal Maharaj has said the controversial film “The Kerala Story” will be tax-free in the state. The film, starring Adah Sharma, was released in cinemas on Friday and deals with the events behind the alleged disappearance of thousands of women from Kerala. It depicts how women from Kerala were forced…
Kochi/Malappuram: With Kerala yet to recover from the shock of the fatal Tanur boat tragedy that claimed 22 lives, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday swung into action by initiating a PIL on its own to probe into the violation of rules that led to the mishap, which it described as “haunting.” Women and children were…
Jerusalem: Israel is keen to finalise an FTA with India as there is a huge scope of trade between the two nations, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has said, and expressed hope that the agreement will further strengthen bilateral economic ties. From a humble beginning of USD 200 million in bilateral trade (primarily in diamonds) in 1992…
New Delhi: Gold prices jumped Rs 450 to Rs 61,300 per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday amid a rise in precious metal prices internationally, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had finished at Rs 60,850 per 10 grams. Silver, however, went lower Rs 380 to Rs 77,400 per…
