Late last year, the Cabinet Committee on Security had cleared the proposal for the creation of the post.
Winless in two matches, both India and Afghanistan are out of the tournament and Thursday's match between the two sides in Dubai has been rendered inconsequential.
India, who have been among the top teams over the last five years but unable to win a major trophy
Facing the challenge of avoiding a series whitewash, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has asked the top-order batsmen to respond to the tough situation as they face a rampaging India in the fourth ODI on Tuesday.
Australia aim to unsettle the rampaging Indian spinners by slowing the tempo of the game.
The experienced seamer, however, refused to read too much into their forgettable bowling display at the Feroz Shah Kotla and expressed optimism about a strong comeback in the second match.
It is thanks to the policy of liberalisation conceived by Manmohan Singh and enforced by P V Narasimha that the Indian economy has now become the world's 5th largest economy by nominal GDP, asserts Dr Sudhir Bisht.
India's in-form spinner Kuldeep Yadav missed Sunday's game due to a sore thumb and it remains to be seen if he is available for selection.
The Aussies will spend the quarantine in the Maldives before heading home.
A look at match-ups that could potentially decide the winner of the ICC World Cup final between India and Australia in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
The Aam Aadmi Party will fight the 2024 Haryana assembly polls on its own, its state unit vice-president Anurag Dhanda said on Friday, saying the party has a complete organisational structure ready and will soon announce its village-level committees too.
Who do you think should be part of India's playing for the World Cup match against Sri Lanka?
All-rounder Sneh Rana showed nerves of steel by choking runs in the death overs as the India women's cricket team pipped hosts England by four runs to enter the final of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday.
Images from the first T20 International between India and West Indies at the Brian Lara stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad on Friday.
Dennerby admits India not up to USA standards
Already through to the quarter-finals, defending champions India continued their rampaging run as they beat Australia 4-1 in their final group A match of mixed team competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
The earnestness of the actors keep Kaala Paani from drowning, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Shikhar Dhawan hit a splendid half-century as India edged West Indies by three runs in a last-ball finish in the first One-Day International at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Friday.
Images from the third T20 International between India and South Africa, in Indore, on Tuesday.
After Suryakumar Yadav's maiden IPL ton, the Mumbai Indian bowlers rallied to restrict the Gujarat Titans to pick up an important win.
The security agencies have been warning that militants belonging to United National Liberation Front, People's Liberation Army and other banned groups had become part of the mobs and carrying out sneak attacks on security forces as well as giving directions to the agitators.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 2 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:
Moeen Ali and James Anderson made light of the injured Stuart Broad's absence with a devastating bowling display for England on Saturday as they skittled out India for 161 to win the fourth Test and take a 2-1 series lead.
Pakistan needs to win all its matches and expect Australia to falter in at least two of their remaining four games.
Shafali Verma blasted 60 runs off 30 balls after left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad's fine bowling to power India to a consolation nine-wicket victory over South Africa in the third and final match of the women's series, in Lucknow, on Tuesday.
Animal's violence isn't for the fainted-hearted unless you have an appetite for Korean style mayhem, like Sukanya Verma.
Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan struck quickfire fifties to win the inaugural Road Safety World Series title.
"You don't produce the numbers and produce the innings that he (Kohli) does in all three formats and it's fine. We as players and people who play against him a lot, we never take anything he has done in the game before into the game we have got here," said Stokes.
India on Friday summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistani high commission on the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and pressed for an expeditious trial in the case, saying the families of 166 victims from 15 countries are still awaiting closure.
Rohit Sharma on Tuesday surpassed captain Virat Kohli to become India's highest run-scorer in T20 Internationals during the second game against the West Indies at the newly-built Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
Images from the third Twenty20 International between India and the West Indies, in Kolkata, on Sunday.
'The war has been on for four weeks; the bombings are still on. I can hear it in my house.'
Images from the first One-Day International between India and the West Indies, in Ahmedabad, on Sunday.
Former Australia batsman Michael Hussey said it would be difficult to play T20 World Cup in India this year because of the rampaging second wave of COVID-19 which forced the postponement of the Indian Premier League earlier this month.
In the space of just 10 balls, Ben Stokes blasted his way from 50 off 40 balls to 95 from 50 balls -- hitting 45 runs with six sixes and a four to take the match away from India's grasp.
American analysts and their camp followers in India are talking absolute rubbish when they try to establish that India is facing a Hobson's choice in regard of Donbass, called upon to take sides between Russia and the West, asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Watch Jubilee's concluding episodes. Radhika Apte is a housewife turned spy. Mithunda makes his OTT debut. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
A pick of just 10 watchable (a couple of them admittedly in the so-bad-it's-fun category) foreign films starring Bollywood stars in significant roles are available to watch on streaming platforms.
He is just telling us that batting is so easy: Hardik Pandya on Suryakumar Yadav
