KKR have a slight edge head-to-head as the Purple Brigade lead 12-7 against the Orange Army Former champions Kolkata Knight Riders will look to strike a perfect balance under the astute leadership of Eoin Morgan when they open their IPL campaign against a consistent Sunrisers Hyderabad here on Sunday.One of the best in business in the white-ball format, Morgan took charge of an ordinary-looking KKR under Dinesh Karthik midway into the last season held in the UAE.Running against time, Morgan-led side finished on same points with SRH and RCB but the two teams advanced on better run-rate as KKR missed…
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Traffic on the 135-km-long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway in Haryana, connecting the Delhi-Agra and Delhi-Ambala highways, was completely hit on Saturday after farmers began protests at several points in response to a call by Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) for a 24-hour blockade.“There is no traffic on the road at all since morning. Farmers have been holding agitations at several points including Kundli, Badli, Nuh and Palwal,” Vijay Tiwari, senior project manager, Path India, the toll collection agency for the KMP, told The Hindu. However, there were no reports of protests on the stretch of the road passing through Gurugram.The SKM claimed that…
The IMF Deputy Chief Economist, Petya Koeva Brooks also made a strong case for an additional economic stimulus to address the impact of the pandemic on the country’s economy. India, which is projected to grow at an impressive rate of 12.5% this year, needs to grow at a much faster pace to make up for the unprecedented contraction of 8% that it clocked during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official.The International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief Economist, Petya Koeva Brooks, in an interview to PTI on Friday also made a strong case for…
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during her daily briefing said the U.S. is in close consultation and working with partners and allies in the region over Russia’s troop movements on Ukraine’s borders. The Biden administration is carrying a review of its policies against Russia over its escalating aggression in eastern Ukraine and there will be “consequences”, some seen and some unseen, to Kremlin, the White House has warned.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during her daily briefing said the U.S. is in close consultation and working with partners and allies in the region over Russia’s troop movements on Ukraine’s…
The animal is thought to have lived between 72 and 74 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence that mammals roamed that part of South America a lot earlier than previously thought.A part of the creature’s fossilized jawbone with five teeth attached were discovered close to the famous Torres del Paine national park.Christened Orretherium tzen, meaning ‘Beast of Five Teeth’ in an amalgam of Greek and a local indigenous language, the animal is thought…
The billionaire founder Jack Ma’s business empire has been particularly put under intense scrutiny after his stinging criticism of China’s regulatory system in late October. Chinese regulators have fined Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 18 billion yuan ($2.75billion) for violating anti-monopoly rules and abusing its dominant market position, marking the highest ever anti-trust fine to be imposed in the country.The penalty, equivalent to around 4% of Alibaba’s revenues in 2019, comes amid an unprecedented regulatory crackdown on the home-grown technology conglomerates in the last few months that have weighed on company shares.Alibaba’s billionaire founder Jack Ma’s business empire has been particularly…
‘But there are question marks about whether Iran has the willingness to take a pragmatic approach’ The indirect talks with Iran would resume in Vienna next week, a US official has said, noting that the meeting held this week through the European Union, China and Russia made some progress.A senior State Department official told reporters after the conclusion of the talks this week, “The parties will reconvene next week in Vienna sometime mid-week. We expect that the US team will be back and it will be continuing this process of clarifying what steps both sides need to take to come…
His condition is stable. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has tested coronavirus positive and he has been admitted to a private hospital in Nagpur, sources said on Friday.Mr. Bhagwat has been admitted to the COVID-19 ward of the facility and he is stable, hospital sources said.He is under observation, they said.An RSS functionary confirmed that Mr. Bhagwat has tested positive for the viral infection. Source
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India’s daily COVID-19 case count surpassed the 1.4 lakh mark on Friday with 1,44,797 infections reported as of 11.30 p.m., the highest single-day spike recorded since the outbreak last year. As many as 773 deaths were also recorded on the day. The figures do not include cases and deaths from Ladakh. The data is sourced from covid19india.org, an independent aggregator of daily COVID-19 figures. The country has so far reported a total of 1,32,02,751 cases and 1,68,467 deaths.Maharashtra reported 58,993 infections (accounting for nearly 41% of the new cases) on Friday, followed by Chhattisgarh with 11,447 cases and Uttar Pradesh…