Sidelined India batsman Virender Sehwag has ruled out the possibility of retiring from cricket and has expressed his insistence on playing for “atleast the next two years.”
Sehwag was dropped from the impending World Cup’s 30-member preliminary squad following a prolonged form slump. The right-handed batsman said he was still keen to play competitive cricket and has no imminent plans of quitting the game.
Former India captain Kapil Dev feels that he is fine with Virat Kohli’s antics as long as he is performing on field.
“If Virat Kohli scores a century and then blows a flying kiss towards his girlfriend, I have no problems. Rather I have problem if a player scores zero and is blowing a flying kiss. We played cricket in a different era and now its a different era. We have to accept that,” Kapil said at a ‘Cricket Conclave’ organized by News24.
The Government of India’s decision on extension of “Visa on Arrival (VOA)” facility to 43 Countries seems to be benefiting the city. The number of foreign visitor arrivals has seen an upward trend, bode well for a rise in tourism revenue.
Shamshabad airport officials show a data, according to which almost 356 visitors to Hyderabad availed VOA last December. This has increased from the average 60 visitors a month that the airport would receive till December.
Sadhvi Prachi lands BJP in yet another new controversy by asking Hindus women to have four children and not 40 puppies. “I asked people to have 4 kids, not 40 puppies,” she said.
Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strict instruction to its party members to abstain from making controversial statements, she defended her claimed.
In a speech in Badaun, she said, names like Tughlakh, Musharraf, etc. were nowhere 1400 years back and that India was ‘Hindustan’ and all Indians are Hindus.
Seeking the imposition of a lifetime ban on Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir, a petition has been submitted in the Sindh High Court on Monday, following the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to allow him to play domestic cricket.
The petition was put forth by a Pakistani citizen named Rana Faizul Hasan, who said that the players who had brought disgrace to the nation should not be permitted to play the sport, the Dawn reported.
Justice Muhammad Ali will head a division bench to hear the petition, with the next hearing scheduled to be held on February 16, the report added.
Presence of Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a leader makes the Indian team a good unit going into World Cup, former Pakistan cricketers Inzamam Ul Haq and Shoaib Akhtar said on Monday.
President Barack Obama has said that the U.S. policy of imposing tough sanctions on Russia after its actions in Ukraine has badly hit the Russian economy, but he ruled out a war between the two countries amidst growing tension between them.
“I don’t think that it would be wise for the U.S. or the world to see an actual military conflict between the United States and Russia,” Obama said.
Exuding confidence that his party will come to power in Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today said the BJP has pressed the “panic button” and was now resorting to “politics of poison” to avoid a defeat.
Five days ahead of the voting to the 70-member Delhi assembly, Kejriwal predicted that Congress will not win even a single seat which will obviate the need for him to take that party’s support as he had done in 2013 to form his short-lived 49-day government.
Salman Rushdie’s new novel, a timeless love story and a wonder tale about the way people live now, will hit bookstores in September, his publishers said.
“Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” will be the author’s first novel in seven years.
“Well, yes, first ADULT novel in 7yrs, but since ENCHANTRESS I did write LUKA, JOSEPH ANTON, and the M’S C. screenplay,” the 67-year-old writer of books like ‘The Satanic Verses’, ‘Midnight’s Children’ and ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’ “he tweeted.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is of the belief that lack of practice was the reason behind the Indian bowlers’ inconsistency during their dismal tour of Australia.
India lost the four-match Test series 0-2 and also failed to win a single match in the One-Day International (ODI) tri-series against England and Australia.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday said “people-friendly but tough” police were needed to tackle criminals and terrorists.
Speaking to police officials in Bengaluru after reviewing the law and order situation in Karnataka, Rajnath Singh instructed the authorities to take action on reports of discrimination against people from the northeastern states living there, the ministry said in a statement.
The home minister also asked the state administration to remain vigilant on illegal migration from Bangladesh.
China said Monday that it opposes any meeting between any country’s leaders and the Dalai Lama “in any form”.
The comments came in response to a question regarding a possible meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama at a Feb 5 “prayer breakfast”, Xinhua reported.
“We strongly oppose any country interfering in China’s internal affairs in the name of issues regarding Tibet,” the spokesperson said.
“Issues regarding Tibet concern China’s core interests and national sentiments,” he stated.
The inquiry commission probing the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots has recorded the statement of the then District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma who asserted that authorities had effectively controlled the violence.
The one-man inquiry commission of Justice (retd) Vishnu Sahai yesterday recorded the statement of Muzaffarnagar DM Kaushal Raj Sharma who asserted that district authorities had controlled the violence after taking steps to instill confidence in the people in the riot-hit district.
Fresh snowfall on Monday closed the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway as the weather office forecast heavy snowfall during the next 24 hours.
“The Srinagar-Jammu highway has been closed because of more than three-feet deep snow on the highway in Bannihal and Batote sectors.”
“Clearance operations will start after the snowfall stops,” a senior official of the traffic department told IANS here.
Continuing snowfall also resulted in poor visibility, and air traffic to and from the Kashmir valley was disrupted today (Monday).
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal has met with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Mangala Samaraweera, and discussed issues of bilateral interest between the two nations.
A Colombo Page web site report said Monday that Biswal, who is on a two-day official visit to the island nation, was accompanied by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Atul Keshap to the meeting with Samaraweera.
Biswal also reportedly met key civil society members, according to a U.S. Embassy tweet.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday hit back at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its allegation that Arvind Kejriwal had during his 49-day stint as the chief minister left a loophole in the CAG audit to save discoms, and alleged that the latter was misleading the people and trying to protect power companies.
The 32 candidates who were empanelled after clearing the WBSSC examination but are yet to be appointed in state-run schools, continued their hunger strike Monday and sought the Bengal governor’s intervention to resolve the matter.
As many as 96 youths started the agitation Jan 27 at the WBSSC (West Bengal School Service Commission) office in Salt Lake in east Kolkata, demanding employment in government-aided schools in accordance with their enlistment after passing the exam in 2012.
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay on Monday said that Narendra Tandon, the campaign manager of chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, has withdrawn his resignation and will continue to work for the party.
“I just got to know from the party that Narendra Tandon visited the central party office and took back his resignation. He will continue to work for the BJP,” he said.
Tandon withdrew his resignation earlier this afternoon and cited his ’emotional’ state of mind as the reason behind his earlier decision.
With just five days left for the assembly elections, former chief minister and senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Monday said there is a confusing political situation right now, but expressed hope for a stable government in Delhi.
“It is confusing. Nobody knows what is going to happen, who is going to get the maximum numbers, and the situation keeps changing….Now, there are only about four days left, so, let us see what happens,” Dikshit told ANI here.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has asked officials to come up with a proposal on full-scale for cleanup operation of Hussainsagar this summer and take steps to ensure that drains carrying sewage were diverted from the lake.
The work should be taken up on a war-footing as the required funds is on hand, Rao said, while reviewing the civic programmes of Hyderabad at an official meeting here on Saturday.
As many as 91 juveniles on Monday fled from the Surajkund observation home in Nauchandi area here, following which two constables were suspended for dereliction of duty, police said.
The incident took place in the wee hours today and 40 of the juveniles have been nabbed by different police teams, Superintendent of Police (City) Om Prakash said.
The juveniles escaped by crossing the boundary wall of the home, using ropes made of blankets and bedsheets, he said.
However, till now 40 juveniles have been held by police and a search for others is on, the SP said.
Supreme Court on Monday stayed fresh criminal proceedings initiated recently in different parts of country against Yoga guru Ramdev, for his alleged controversial “honeymoon” remarks targeting Rahul Gandhi over visiting homes of Dalits.
“Our earlier interim order (of May 9 last year) shall continue in other matters also,” a bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice AK Sikri said.
During the hearing, lawyer Keshav Mohan, appearing for Ramdev, said it has come to light that around eleven more complaints have been filed in different parts of the country.
Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan illegal rifle possession case dated back to 2005 when Mansur Ali Khan Patudi together with six others had gone for hunting expedition to shoot a blackbuck at Jhajjar (Haryana) in 2005.
Six people were sentenced to three years in jail by the Faridabad court.
However, the case still haunts the actress since the rifle used during the hunting spree was licensed in her name.
Heidi Klum has revealed that she still feels like she is 30 as she loves what she does and has plenty of energy.
The 41-year-old model said that the only thing that has really changed for her since turning 40 is her eyesight, suggesting that she is planning to continue to wow the modelling world and appear on her TV shows, like ‘Project Runway’ and ‘Germany’s Next Top Model,’ the Daily Express reported.
US Government is trying to bar Prince Andrew’s alleged ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts from Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit case with a new filing.
On January 30, the government filed the declaration of FBI Special Agent Timothy R. Slater, who joined the investigation of Epstein in 2006, Radaronline.com reported.
It was noted in the declaration that sometime during January – February 2007 Slater called Roberts and told about the investigation of Epstein but she quickly became uncomfortable and expressed her desire to let everything in the past and demanded to not be bothered about this again.