Babar Azam was named as Pakistan ODI captain by the Cricket Board. The right-handed Azam, who has been one of the world's leading batsmen across formats over the last year, replaced Sarfaraz Ahmed
'You are not going to find success all the time and you will feel insecure when your film fails at the box office, but that's a part of the game.' 'You just deal with it and move on.; 'Maybe the problem was something else and not so much about his career.'
'OPS did not back off.' 'He wanted transparency and he got it.'
'I had a very painful shoulder surgery after a fall in the park.' 'I am nursing myself back to sturdiness slowly and steadily.'
That is what you will hear again after Nirmala Sitharaman presents a speech that will prove to be meaningless and numbers that will show themselves to be wildly off the mark, observes Aakar Patel.
Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has defended centre-back Gerard Pique's right to make comments about referees favouring Real Madrid.
'If the Union Budget can provide incentives for animal spirits to come as well as induce demand stimulus and consumption, the Budget would have done a wonderful job.'
Lewis Hamilton seized pole position in the dying seconds of qualifying for the first Portuguese Grand Prix in 24 years on Saturday to deny and dismay Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas once again.
The FIR was lodged at the Sector 20 police station on Thursday after the complainant, a Noida resident, alleged that her Amazon Prime account got hacked and the problem remains unresolved despite assurance from Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, an official statement said.
'There is more likelihood of dying from lightning than from vaccine induced blood clots.'
'It was a big surprise because I haven't really left the house, apart from some exercise and the odd walk with the kids. I've mainly just been homeschooling and keeping fit.'
Last year, Nikhil Kamath and his brother Nithin jettisoned into a club of the country's 100 wealthiest with their net worth pegged at around Rs 24,000 crore
It's sunny side up for Diana Penty!
The challenges in a post COVID-19 world were new and unusual but unlike other Indian sports, cricket could partially redeem itself, thanks to the deep pockets of the BCCI
Images from the third T20 International between India and England, in Ahmedabad, on Tuesday.
'I never thought an invisible character like Radhiya would get me that much visibility.'
Kohli won the award for his gesture at the 2019 World Cup, when he refrained the crowd from booing Steve Smith soon after the latter's return to international cricket from a one-year suspension for ball-tampering.
Stranded in Srinagar for more than a month due to the coronavirus-forced national lockdown, Real Kashmir FC head coach David Robertson and his family will finally return to Scotland on Thursday, ending an anxious wait to attend to his sick mother. Robertson, his wife Kim, son Mason, who plays for the club, and three support staff reached Jammu on Wednesday by an official bus of RKFC which left Srinagar early in the morning. They will fly back home in a British Airways flight from Amritsar on Thursday afternoon.
It has decided to provide them with necessary training through online mode.
Addressing public rallies at Barnala chowk and Bhawanigarh in Sangrur, the chief minister vowed to do whatever it takes to protect the farmers and the state from the 'devastating' effects of the 'black laws'.
Namrata Thakker shows us the other trend in town: thigh-high slit gowns.
Russian Nikita Nagornyy clinched the men's all-around title at the gymnastics world championships on Friday, while team mate Artur Dalaloyan took second spot in Stuttgart.
Images from Sunday's IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals in Sharjah.
That's why he is now finally focusing on the two things that alone can help: Fiscal expansion -- from December onwards -- and supply management via amended laws and rules that affect business, notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
See how the Lakme ambassador brought the curtains down at the grand finale of the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai.
Lakme model Daman Brar tells Rediff.com's Prasanna Zore about her first modelling assignment and the flip side of being a model in India.
'I was always a reluctant actor.' 'I kept putting things off and not doing them.' 'But Tenet has really changed that for me.'
'...but having to bring a number of teams and getting them to isolate to prepare and then move around the country to different venues, I think that will be a logistical nightmare.'
Australia made a good start before a dramatic collapse saw them slip from 144 for two in the run chase to be 207 all-out.
Talking to reporters for the first time after the NDA's victory, Kumar, who is set for yet another term in office, said the date for his swearing-in ceremony will be discussed at an 'informal' meeting of all the four NDA constituents on Friday.
'If you don't have a strong political leadership, however much expertise a country may have, in pandemic preparedness or infectious disease, will not matter.' 'It's really about having strong political leadership, that is proactive, that prioritises taking the right action.' 'And if you don't have that, then you will have a much worse pandemic experience.'
Australia's top order batsman, who had averaged 49.31 in 2019, has not been included in the national side for over a year.
'This year, we know the virus. Last year we didn't know anything about it.' 'The best part is that for the Indian population there has been some amount of cross protection.'
The doubting thomases "should be careful" about what they wish for as there is no second coming for a once-in-a-generation player like Mahendra Singh Dhoni if people "push him into retirement", former England captain Nasser Hussain said on Saturday.
"I was the Governor of South Carolina, the best job serving the state that raised me. And then I got a phone call (after the 2016 elections," Haley, 48, said during a fireside chat organised by Indian Voices for Trump in Norristown in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday.
'You can still acquire the COVID-19 virus even if you are vaccinated.' 'But if you develop the disease, (after being vaccinated) the likelihood is that it will be mild.' 'It just makes sense to continue to take precautions, because you may be around a lot of unvaccinated people.'
'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.'
There are reports that Shraddha Kapoor has received Rs 7 crore for her presence in Saaho. But that's wrong!
Of the exit polls, the India Today-Axis, ABP-C Voter, TV9 Bharatvarsh-Cicero got their numbers right for both the parties.
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