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Gautam Gambhir, Shubman Gill India head coach Gautam Gambhir has dismissed the idea that India are struggling in Test cricket, saying the team’s recent results should be seen as part of a transition after the retirement of several senior players.India go into the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo with a 1-0 lead after their 165-run win in Galle. But the series has also kept the focus on a team that is trying to build a new Test side after the departure of some of its biggest names.Since Gambhir became head coach, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin…
(Image used for representative purpose) Patients battling drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai are encountering significant hurdles after the withdrawal of private pulmonologists MUMBAI: Drug-resistant tuberculosis patients across Mumbai can no longer rely on the neighbourhood TB specialists who have managed their care for more than a decade. Under a directive from the Central TB Division, trickling down from Delhi through state and district offices, the city’s suburban hospitals have now been stripped of their specially-deployed private pulmonologists.This could effectively force vulnerable, highly infectious patients to travel to South Mumbai, crowding into a handful of already saturated tertiary hubs in Parel, Mumbai…
Vinay Gupta was employed as a software engineer in Adobe, while his wife is a homemaker. NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old software engineer was allegedly beaten to death by his wife’s family following a matrimonial dispute in outer Delhi’s Nihal Vihar Friday.Police have detained four people.The engineer, Vinay Gupta, was a resident of Laxmi Park. He had married a 31-year-old woman from Budh Vihar about three-and-a-half years ago. The couple has twins — a boy and a girl — who are about four months old.Police said the dispute between the couple started Friday morning. The woman called her family over. They…
Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday used a high-profile visit to the University of Oxford to pitch state’s ‘Telangana Rising‘ vision, inviting the prestigious institution to establish a presence in Hyderabad and partner with the state in higher education, research and executive training programmes.As part of the Telangana Rising delegation’s UK tour, Revanth visited the nearly 900-year-old university and held discussions with Professor Maya Tudor of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor Faisal Devji of Balliol College.During the interaction, the chief minister presented an overview of Telangana Rising and outlined the…
Gujarat High Court at Sola in Ahmedabad. Photo by Kevin Antao. 12-07-11. Ahmedabad: A doctor working at a govt hospital has approached Gujarat High Court seeking custody of his five-year-old daughter, alleging that his estranged wife failed to return the child after being granted temporary custody during the summer vacation by a Maharashtra court.The doctor, through a habeas corpus petition, alleged that the woman instead lodged an FIR against him and his family members for alleged harassment, two days before she was required to hand over the child to him.According to the case details, the couple married in 2019 and…
Pune: A 26-year-old senior software engineer with a prominent software company, who wanted to earn extra money through a part-time job, lost Rs30.26 lakh to cybercrooks last month.The crooks assigned her tasks involving sharing screenshots of different brands and products on an e-commerce platform. They assured her of returns after she completed the tasks. The crooks gained her confidence by sharing profits with her after she completed prepaid tasks. Between July 11 and 23, the woman transferred Rs30.26 lakh to different bank accounts through 63 transactions and lost the money to the crooks.The woman filed an online complaint. After a…
Chandigarh: The municipal corporation Friday intensified its enforcement drive against vendors operating from unauthorised locations and removed 112 vendors found vending from sites other than those allotted to them.The action was part of a zone-wise campaign aimed at streamlining street vending and enforcing the designated vending-site system.MC officials said the vendors had already been allotted vending pitches through the draw-of-lots process but continued to operate from their old locations. The civic body maintained that vending outside designated sites would not be allowed.The enforcement teams carried out the drive across various parts of the city and removed vendors from unauthorised spots.The…
Padma Shri folk singer Malini Awasthi Lucknow: The spirit of the monsoon filled Kala Mandapam auditorium on Friday evening as Padma Shri folk singer Malini Awasthi captivated the audience with an evocative performance at ‘A Celebration of Rains: Sawan with Malini Awasthi’. The programme was organised by Sonchiraiya in collaboration with Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya.Awasthi, known for her deep connect with folk traditions, took listeners on a musical journey through the many moods of Sawan, presenting a rich selection of thumri, ghazals, kajri and phagwa. Her soulful renditions of ‘Bijli chamke barse meherva’, ‘Garaj garaj mohe aat hi dara e’, ‘San…
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari interacts with shopkeepers and stallholders from Gokulpeth Market during a meeting on the market’s redevelopment project in Nagpur. Traders raised concerns and received clarifications during the discussion. Nagpur: Union minister Nitin Gadkari assured shopkeepers and stall holders at Gokulpeth Market that the proposed redevelopment would not leave them disadvantaged, with the administration planning individual agreements to address concerns over shops, relocation and other conditions.The redevelopment project is planned on 1,52,908 sq ft (3.51 acres) and will include a 31-storey building with six major entry gates. At a meeting with shopkeepers and stall holders at his Mahal…
US President Donald Trump. A US federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, calling the nationality-based restrictions “patently unlawful.”US District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan ruled on Friday that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority and conflicted with federal immigration law governing the processing of immigrant visas, according to Reuters.Judge says policy violated immigration lawThe State Department announced the suspension in January, blocking the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries across Latin America, the Balkans, South Asia, Africa, the Middle…