Our Sports Desk Questions apparel contracts, academy dominance and SMC oversight; seeks independent probe as Lokayukta sets October 14 deadline for CID report. Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) has alleged serious conflicts of interest in the functioning of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), questioning the transparency of team-apparel contracts, the alleged dominance of a…
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), in collaboration with the Karimnagar District Cricket Association and the Mahabubnagar District Cricket Association, has announced the establishment of regional cricket coaching camps at Karimnagar and Mahabubnagar to strengthen grassroots cricket development across Telangana. While Karimnagar will serve as the North Telangana hub, Mahabubnagar will cater to aspiring cricketers…
New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Saturday claimed that its leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained by Delhi Police after their flight landed in the national capital. In a statement, the party condemned the alleged detentions, claiming they were part of a pre-planned move to prevent its leaders from…
Washington: US President Donald Trump slammed Norway for passing him over for the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming he should have won it eight times for each war he settled. Addressing a rally in Syracuse on Friday, Trump also claimed to have saved 50 million lives by preventing nuclear armed India and Pakistan from going to…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has cited the possibility of “serious” law and order concerns and inconvenience to residents and citizens to deny permission to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) for its proposed protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10. In a letter addressed to the party’s co-convenor Saurav Das and joint secretary Balkrishna, the Deputy…
New Delhi: Delhi is under an unprecedented security blanket, with around 25,000 police and paramilitary personnel deployed across the city. Forty-five metro stations face entry and exit restrictions, and surveillance has been increased at the national capital’s borders, railway stations, bus terminals and other sensitive locations ahead of a proposed protest by the Cockroach Janta…
N Nagarajan In a letter dated 13 July 1944 to George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, then a director of Faber & Faber, acknowledged the literary merit of Animal Farm, describing it as “a distinguished piece of writing” and praising the skill with which its fable was handled. Yet Faber & Faber declined to publish it….
New Delhi: Leaders of the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu and flagged the issue of its ‘vote chori‘ claims to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and repeal of all assembly polls held in the last two years, with Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi…
Online Sports Desk Ishan Kishan batted at No. 3 for India in the second T20I against the West Indies on Friday (October 9) and scored 43 runs off just 22 balls. He added 97 runs off just 43 balls for the second wicket with Sanju Samson (82 off 41 balls) and smashed six fours and…
Online Sports Desk Former India batter Parthiv Patel has revealed that Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ignored his advice to sign Jasprit Bumrah in 2014. Patel said that in the middle of that year’s mega-auction, after the team picked him, he recommended the management look into Bumrah, who came from the same state, Gujarat, but was…
