India fielding coach R Sridhar and bowling coach Bharat Arun are banking on players’ experience as Covid-19 quarantine restrictions might hamper their preparations for World Test Championship final against New Zealand, starting June 18 in Southampton. The BCCI announced a 20-man squad for the World Test Championship final and the subsequent 5-Test series in England…

As the winter snow melts in the mountains, the Chinese ground forces seem to have recalibrated some of their positions near the Hot Springs and Gogra areas in Ladakh. Analysis of new high-resolution Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery provided to India Today by space firm Capella Space confirms minor adjustments being made by the People’s…

Reliance Jio plans The Rs 749 plan is there for the old users and it gives 12 months of unlimited voice calls, unlimited data (2GB high-speed data per month). In addition to that, the company also introduced a plan worth Rs 1,999 and Rs 1,499 for the new users. Source link

Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is training hard for his maiden Olympics but the 23-year-old athlete from Panipat said he still needs to participate in international competitions to better prepare for the Summer Games in Tokyo. Neeraj Chopra is aware he will face tough competition in Tokyo but is prepared well for that (Reuters Photo)…

An alarming number of people in Japan are losing their life to Covid as more infectious variants of the disease trigger a fourth wave of infections in the country and hospital resources are stretched to capacity. With the rising cases, there lies a cloud of uncertainty over the viability of holding the Olympic Games, which…

Bitcoin was pinned near its lowest in more than two months on Friday and headed for its worst week since February, while dogecoin leapt by a fifth as tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk sent the two cryptocurrencies on a wild ride. Markets have gyrated to Musk tweets for months since his interest in dogecoin…

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India`s central bank is informally urging lenders to cut ties with cryptocurrency exchanges and traders as the highly speculative market booms, despite a Supreme Court ruling that banks can work with the industry, three sources told Reuters The guidance comes as India is crafting a law to ban cryptocurrencies and penalize anyone…

India opener Prithvi Shaw was stopped by police for travelling without an e-pass near a Maharashtra village on Wednesday. Shaw was travelling to Goa for a vacation, police have said. India opener Prithvi Shaw (AFP Image) HIGHLIGHTS Prithvi Shaw was stopped by police for travelling without an e-pass Shaw was en route Goa when police…

A woman from Kerala, who had been working in Israel as a housemaid, died on Tuesday allegedly in a Palestinian rocket strike. File photo of Soumya Santhosh (Picture Courtesy: Twitter) A Keralite woman working in Israel was killed allegedly in a Palestinian rocket strike on Tuesday, her family members said here. They said the rocket…

The government is “pro-actively” looking at the best possible options around WhatsApp’s new privacy rules, a senior Ministry of Electronics and IT official said on Thursday. WhatsApp had set May 15 for its users to accept a change in privacy policy but later scrapped the deadline for users to accept the controversial update. The instant…