Images from the T20 World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and Australia, in Dubai, on Thursday.
'Whatever I said and I said clearly that for me and my fellow jury members, it was and it is a vulgar propaganda movie that didn't have a place and was inappropriate for such a prestigious competitive section. I can repeat it again and again'
A plea against his transfer order moved by a sessions judge, who made controversial observations in his orders while granting bail to an accused in two sexual harassment cases, was dismissed by the Kerala high court on Thursday.
Australian captain Steven Smith has expressed disappointment over his controversial dismissal in his side's defeat in a do-or-die game against India at Mohali on Sunday. Smith was adjudged caught behind by umpire Marais Erasmus on two at Mohali, off Yuvraj Singh's first delivery of the tournament. The Aussie skipper looked clearly furious as he left the ground shaking his head. "It didn't feel like I hit that but that's the game of cricket. I got given out. It was the umpire's call and that was it. It was a bit disappointing," Smith said. Smith, who will be playing in the same Indian Premier League team (Rising Pune Supergiants) as Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni refrained from reading much into the loud appeal by Dhoni from behind the stumps.
'If an employee has a contract with the employer that he cannot moonlight, you should honour that contract.'
The bias, lack of objectivity and continuing colonial mindset are blatantly visible, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing while replying to a volley of questions on the documentary.
'Non-striker leaving the crease early is the actual unfair play in this whole scenario, not the bowler running them out.'
Snubbed by his party leader Rahul Gandhi and panned by the Bharatiya Janata Party for questioning surgical strikes, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh swung into damage control mode on Tuesday and said his questions were to the government and not the armed forces.
Committee of Administrators (COA) member Diana Edulji believes that the BCCI did the right thing by calling truce on the 'DRS Controversy' as it would have 'shifted focus' from India's win in Bengaluru.
Going by the ICC manual, India all-rounder Deepti Sharma's run-out of Charlie Dean in the third women's One-Day International against England, at Lord's on Saturday, was perfectly legal, but it still divided opinion, with some backing it and Englishmen Stuart Broad and James Anderson expressing annoyance.
While Governor Ravi's speeches have put the local BJP supporters on the defensive in matters of religion and social justice, his add-on 'attack on the constitutional scheme' in the 'Senthil Balaji case', has been condemned squarely by many legal experts and editorial writers across the country, thus adding weight to CM Stalin's position -- at least until the courts come up with their binding views, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Janata Dal-United supremo, however, also appeared annoyed with parliamentary board chief Upendra Kushwaha who had recently jumped the gun with the insinuation that the RJD could be trying to 'further the Bharatiya Janata Party's agenda' by refraining from taking action against the minister.
These are some of the controversial but interesting questions the late Alyque Padamsee has raised in his last book, Let Me Hijack Your Mind.
BJP leaders are continuously trying to defend their participation in the event.
'Unbelievable. If you want controversy, please tell me before so I can answer accordingly'
The project was announced in September 2019 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building on December 10, 2020.
IMAGES from Day 4 of the WTC Final played between Australia and India at The Oval in London on Saturday.
The income tax department's marathon "surveys" at BBC's offices ended on Thursday, after clocking over 58 hours in total, as officials prepared an inventory of financial data from select staffers and collected digital and paper data.
A photograph purportedly showing Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with an accused of Saharanpur violence sparked a controversy but the Uttar Pradesh government was quick to dismiss it as "baseless and misleading".
The tax department had launched the action on Tuesday at the BBC's Delhi and Mumbai offices along with at least two linked premises as part of an investigation into alleged tax evasion against the British broadcaster in India.
England fast bowler Stuart Broad has also endorsed Warner's views.
In India, TikTok unleashed creativity in people like never before until it was unceremoniously banned in June 2020, leaving them heartbroken.
India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said wickets must be credited to the bowlers when they run out batters at the non-striker's end for backing up too far, as it requires "presence of mind".
'Do you want Tipu or Savarkar? Where should we send Tipu Sultan? What did Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda do? In the same way he should be knocked out and sent off'
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi stoked a fresh controversy on Thursday, remarking that the anti-Sterlite protests in the state in 2018 had been fuelled by foreign funds and was aimed at hindering progress. His comment instantaneously drew an outcry from the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its allies.
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti will campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party "as and when required" and there is no question of cancelling her rally, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday, dismissing suggestions that she was being pulled out after her controversial remarks at a public meeting in Delhi.
Without naming Adani group specifically, the capital markets watchdog said in a statement that unusual price movement in the stocks of a business conglomerate has been observed in the past week.
All entities operating in India must fully comply with relevant laws, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Wednesday told his British counterpart James Cleverly, who raised the BBC tax surveys issue during a meeting with him.
The court dismissed the last-ditch appeal by his mother, saying Dharmalingam has been given "due process in accordance with the law".
Cricket can be a game of fine lines but England fans were irked that Moeen Ali was judged on the wrong side of a bulging one when the all-rounder was stumped on day four of the series-opening Ashes test on Sunday.
The controversy over poor umpiring in the ongoing Test series between India and the West Indies has taken a new twist as it has now emerged that Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given out off a no-ball on the first day of the second match in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Some smart variations from Prasidh resulted in three more dot balls and in the process, a rarest of rare feats in T20 cricket -- a wicket maiden.
The controversy triggered by remarks made by two former Bharatiya Janata Party functionaries against Prophet Mohammed is India's "internal issue" and it is not an attention-grabbing matter in Bangladesh unlike in some other Muslim nations, a senior Bangladeshi minister has said, as he dismissed criticism that the country's government is "compromising" on the issue.
Questioning the timing of the remarks, the BJP demanded a statement from former PM Manmohan Singh and former defence minister A K Antony on the issue.
England fast bowler Stuart Broad has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee for publicly criticising an umpiring decision during the ongoing fourth Test against Pakistan, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Sunday.
In her resignation letter, Battull Hammid, who served as the principal of Viva College of Law in Virar, claimed she was quitting the post as she was feeling uncomfortable and suffocated.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone caused a social media storm on Tuesday when he said women racing drivers would not be taken seriously in the sport and dismissed the contribution of immigrants to Britain.
The BJP leadership knows it can't boast of governance in the state as the Bommai government has little to show. So, the game plan is to project Modi, who will reiterate how important it is for a state to have the same party ruling in power at the Centre, observes Ramesh Menon.
Gandhi was in the eye of a storm for allegedly leaking defence secrets to controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma.
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