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The Cricket Advisory Committee on Thurday recommended Ramesh Powar’s name for the post of head coach of India women’s cricket team. CAC recommends Ramesh Powar as India women’s head coach. (Reuters Photo) HIGHLIGHTS CAC recommends Ramesh Powar’s name for India women’s coach position Ramesh Powar was the coach of India women’s cricket team before WV…

As West Bengal approaches voting day, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is increasingly bragging about having created 12 million jobs during her 10-year rule. Trinamool Congress (TMC) billboards in Kolkata laud her for drastically reducing the state’s unemployment rate. These claims fly in the face of some rather grim data that Mamata’s rivals are using to…

Weary Palestinians somberly marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel. Violence across Israel The violence has reached deeper into Israel than at any time since the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising. Arab and Jewish mobs…

New Delhi: Hours after the debris from the Chinese ‘Long March 5B’ rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday (May 9, 2021), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that China is failing to meet the responsible standards. In an official statement, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that the spacefaring nations must minimize…

New Delhi: WhatsApp has filed a petition in the Delhi High court alleging that other Indian mobile applications are collecting even more data than the messaging platform does. With the petition, the social media giant has hit back hard on the rising criticism over its new privacy policies.  WhatsApp moved to Delhi High Court on…

New Delhi: Akshaya Tritiya this year, like the last year, will be marred by the onslaught of the second wave of COVID-19 crisis. Akshaya Tritiya is considered an auspicious day for buying gold, silver and other metals. Gold prices are widely tracked in bullion market largely due to token purchases on the auspicious occasion of…

New Delhi: Bollywood`s A-list actors and filmmakers have always aimed to release their movies on festival weekends. Many stars have managed to slot their films for an Eid, Diwali, or Christmas release and, consequently, received an overwhelming response by attracting crowds in larger numbers. While Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan are known for their…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the appointment of former India spinner Ramesh Powar as the head coach of India women’s cricket team. Powar’s candidature was finalised and recommended to the BCCI by a three-member Cricket Advisory Committee The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Sulakshana Naik, Madan Lal and…

A little late in the day, but on January 18, the Congress high command appointed Oommen Chandy, the former chief minister and AICC (All India Congress Committee) general secretary, to lead the party’s campaign in the assembly election scheduled for April 6. The 77-year-old’s re-entry into state politics seems to have energised party workers as…

COVID-19 deaths in the US have tumbled to an average of around 600 per day — the lowest level in 10 months — with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days. Confirmed infections, meanwhile, have fallen to about 38,000 a day…