The ICC has named cricket's most prestigious individual award in honour of West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers.
World Championships bronze medallist Simranjit Kaur (60kg) and GeeBee Boxing silver medallist Dinesh Dagar (69kg) confirmed their places in the final, while Ankush Dahiya (64kg) and Ananta Pralhad Chopade (52kg) made it to the semi-finals.
In 2019-20 Budget, the government had increased surcharge from 15 per cent to 25 per cent on those with taxable income between Rs 2-5 crore and from 15 per cent to 37 per cent for income above Rs 5 crore. Following the increase, the effective income tax rate for individuals with a taxable income of Rs 2-5 crore will go up from 35.88 per cent to 39 per cent and for those above Rs 5 crore it would go up to 42.7 per cent.
It has agreed to submit a 'no objection' statement to an American court for directing Union Carbide to clean up the contamination caused by its abandoned factory in the Madhya Pradesh capital.
Housing Development Finance Corporation is to raise the interest rate on its home loans across all maturities by 0.50 per cent after Diwali.
The victory gave the unseeded Sekar a berth in the quarter-finals of the ITF tournament.
They were beaten by Suchanan Viratprasert and Chin-Bee Khoo respectively in the quarter-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.\n\n
Global oil majors did not bid in the previous NELP rounds but the discovery of a large gas field with estimated reserves of 14.5 trillion cubic feet by Reliance Industries last year is expected to attract foreign firms, they said.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
The change means that Panghal, an Asian Games gold-medallist in 49kg, will now have to move to 52kg, while Thapa and Kaushik will have to forego the 60kg division and move up to the newly-created 63kg. Thapa is a three-time Asian Championships medallist and a world bronze-medallist, while Kaushik won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games last year.
The duo will meet in the semis in the ITF Futures tournament.
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The Indian lass was beaten by top seed Suchanan Viratprasert of Thailand in the quarter-finals of the \n\nITF tournament.
Third seed Chin Bee Khoo went down to unseeded Wilawan Choptang, while eighth seed Sonal Phadke was beaten by Jie Hao of China in the ITF Women's Tennis tournament.
The victory saw the Indian wild card enter the second round in the Mother's Recipe-ITF Women's Futures tournament.
The Indo-Asian News Services reported that around 25 people, including 10 policemen, were injured.
Bhupathi and partner Max Mirnyi advanced to the second round in the ATP Tennis Masters while Paes and Divid Rikl lost in the first.
The India Abroad Person of the Year Awards, held at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Friday June 12, honored 14 achievers in seven categories.
The F1 ace said the electronic aids allows the driver the possibility to exploit the potential of the car.
For Geraldine, the 58-year-old daughter of the world's greatest comedian Charlie Chaplin, Indian films are like "dreams, full of music, drama and beautiful endings."
Septuagenarian cinestar Biswajeet will make his political and electoral debut by contesting from South Delhi constituency on a Trinamool Congress ticket.
The fourth-seeded Belgian will meet compatriot Kim Clijsters in the women's French Open final.
Two women survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy will go on an indefinite hunger strike here from May 1 to press Dow Chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide, to own up responsibility for the tragedy and assume the liabilities.
What makes S J Suryah so confident about Khushi.
An inchoate anger is brewing within the party against the central leadership after the poor show in the assembly polls.
'While its people might be a little less resistant to changing for its greater good, New Delhi, unfortunately, is also evolving into an ugly city of which one must remain wary to survive its rising incidents of violence and crime,' says Kishore Singh.
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