Doctors claimed it is the first time that cases of gallbladder gangrene have been reported after recovery from COVID-19 infection.
An inexperienced Indian men's hockey team fought hard before going down to arch-rivals Pakistan 4-5 and slumping to their third defeat in the Asian Champions Trophy at Kakamigahara, Japan on Thursday.
Skipper Sardara Singh has been rested for third Asian Champions Trophy. In his absence, Hockey India said, midfielder Manpreet Singh will lead India's 18-member squad for the tournament in Kakamigahara, Japan, from November 2-10.
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The probe agency sought to intervene in a plea of Chandrashekhar, who is lodged in Tihar jail on charges of money laundering and duping several people, and his wife seeking their transfer to a prison outside Delhi alleging threat to their lives from jail staff.
A last-minute goal by Firhan Ashari helped Malaysia beat Japan and clinch the bronze medal in the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament that concluded in Ordos, China on Sunday.
India squandered their hard-earned lead on two occasions as they slumped to their second successive defeat losing 2-4 to World Cup bronze medallists Argentina.
The International Cricket Council made it clear that it had nothing to do with the absence of former Indian captain Ravi Shastri from the panel of commentators for last month's ICC Champions Trophy in England.
Former captain Rahul Dravid heaped generous praise on ICC Champions Trophy winners' India saying their good showing had brought a lot of happiness to the fans, who were left in despair following the match-fixing saga in the Indian Premier League.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has dismissed reports that the BCCI attempted to get the Champions Trophy scrapped from the international calendar at the ICC meeting which postponed the eight-nation tourney, to be held in Karachi, until next year.
Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was on Saturday asked by Pakistan Cricket Board to pay the fine of seven million rupees imposed on him or forget playing in next month's Champions Trophy.
In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal surrounding the Indian Premier League and the Bangladesh Premier League, the ICC is doing whatever it can to minimise the risk of corruption during the Champions Trophy, which starts in the United Kingdom on Thursday.
"Around 23 BCCI units have sent their written approval that we need to send a letter to the ICC seeking course correction. But as the COA has communicated that they don't want any legal notice to be sent to ICC, we are not sending one. But the letter would urge ICC to take corrective measure. Now the matter will be placed before general body," a senior BCCI official told PTI on Friday.
MSCHF, a Brooklyn-based group of artists and designers, painstakingly recreated three peoples' medical invoices as large scale paintings. The work is aptly called 3 Medical Bills.
A salute to Commando Mudasir Ahmed Sheikh, known as Bindaas to Indian Army officers and colleagues in the J&K police, who was killed in action last week in an encounter that eliminated three terrorists in Kashmir.
Myanmar has requested the administration in Mizoram to send back eight policemen, who have apparently crossed over to the northeastern state to take refuge, following last month's military coup in the neighbouring country, an official in Aizawl said.
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Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday.
Sasikala, admitted to the Bowring Hospital on Wednesday, is presently in the dedicated COVID-19 Centre of the Victoria Hospital in the city and her condition was stable, hospital sources added.
Currently under investigation in clinical trials, left gastric artery embolisation is a less invasive option to surgery.
The Supreme Court Monday took serious note of the election process reserving the post of president of a panchayat samiti in Maharashtra for the Other Backward Class category, saying it is 'clearly in the teeth' of the judgement delivered by the apex court earlier this year.
The pleas raising issues about the dam, which was built in 1895 on the Periyar river in Idukki district of Kerala, came up for hearing before a bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar.
Already out of the opening match, Pakistan captain Younis Khan could end up missing his team's entire group stage campaign of the Champions Trophy in South Africa due to a hand injury.
Disgraced pace bowler Mohammed Asif on Tuesday, completed a 12-month ban, which was imposed on him for failing a dope-test during inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL), but Pakistan team management is yet to decide about playing him in the Champions Trophy.
The disastrous tour of Sri Lanka and rumours of discord in the team notwithstanding, Pakistan captain Younus Khan is confident that his side will either win the Champions Trophy next month or the 2011 World Cup.
Former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Jarnail Singh passed away in New Delhi on Friday due to COVID-related complications, his family said. He was 48.
Before the opening day of the second Test, the BCCI officially announced that Rahane, Ishant and, more importantly, Ravindra Jadeja are out of the match due to various injuries.
Disappointed with the early exit from the recently-concluded Champions Trophy, West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo said his team would look to make amends for the debacle in the ODI tri-series against India and Sri Lanka starting in Kingston on Friday.
Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar has reportedly been relegated to the peripheral fourth umpire role following the ball-tampering allegations in the ICC Champions Trophy that rocked the England team.
The result would only be of academic interest but it is unlikely to be just another dead rubber when traditional foes India and Pakistan take on each other in their final Group B match of the Champions Trophy in Birmingham on Saturday.
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"A CT scan of Aiden Markram's wrist showed a fracture involving the wrist bones. The medical team has, therefore, ruled him out of the next Test match against India," said Team doctor, Hashendra Ramjee in an official statement.
The ICC Executive Board will take a final decision on whether the Champions Trophy, which has been postponed till 2009, should remain in Pakistan or be relocated during a meeting in March next year.
England, Australia and New Zealand are likely to join South Africa and withdraw from next month's Champions Trophy in Pakistan, Pakistan Cricket Board chief operating officer Shafqat Naghmi said.
India will take on defending champion Australia at Karachi on September 13 in their first match under the revised fixture for the Champions Trophy, beginning on September 12.
Doctor said the that her advocate was removed from the ventilator for sometime on Tuesday during which his condition remained stable.
Terming coronavirus as a big health crisis before humanity, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said the only way to break the chain of transmission and contain COVID-19 cases is for people to 'close down everything' till May 15.
An injury-hit India proved no match to defending champions Australia as they lost 0-3 in a lop-sided semi-final of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Melbourne on Saturday.
Diamantaire Mehul Choksi will "only" return to Dominica to face trial for illegal entry into that country when a doctor "certifies" that he is fit to stand trial, the media there reported citing conditions laid down by the Dominica high court while granting him bail. In a major setback to Indian efforts to bring him from the Caribbean country, Dominica high court Judge Bernie Stephenson allowed the businessman to return to Antigua and Barbuda, where he has been living as a citizen since 2018 after leaving India, to seek medical advice from neurologist Hayden Osborne at the Mount St. John's Medical Centre, Dominica News Online reported. Choksi is having a clot in brain besides other health issues such as diabetes and hypertension, his legal team has submitted.
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