Australia on Friday pulled out of several upcoming FIH tournaments, including the junior men's hockey World Cup slated to be held in India later this year, citing COVID-19 related government travel restrictions.
Basil had negotiated the Indian economic relief package to help Sri Lanka tackle the current foreign exchange crisis.
World champions the United States women's soccer team have held on to the top spot in the latest FIFA rankings released on Friday, while England have moved up to third spot behind Germany.
West Bromwich Albion secured a stunning 5-2 win over 10-man Chelsea at Stamford Bridge
Social media posts and articles falsely suggest that Jawaharlal Nehru 'signed a bond' or 'used his father's influence' to escape from serving a prison term in Nabha in 1923. Utkarsh Mishra reveals the true story. The first of a series of occasional columns correcting social media's false take on History.
Pushing your meal timings earlier by 90 minutes helps you from gaining weight.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday fired Basil Rajapaksa from his post and invited the Opposition parties to join a unity Cabinet to tackle the raging public anger against the hardships caused by the economic crisis.
The Government also defended the President's decision to enforce a state of emergency, that had given him sweeping authority to act in the interests of public security and preserving public order, including suspending any laws, authorising detentions and seizing property, saying it was declared after attempts were made to attack the President's Office and other public property.
A makeshift England side beat Romania 1-0 in their final Euro 2020 warm-up game, while Belgium's Romelu Lukaku underlined his status as one of the world's top strikers with his 60th international goal to secure a 1-0 win over Croatia.
CA's Head of Cricket Operations Peter Roach thanked the umpires and said the decision to reduce head count was a mutual one.
Microsoft on Friday (local time) announced that its co-founder Bill Gates has stepped down from the company's board of directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health and education. Gates will, however, continue to serve as the technology advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
German international Ilkay Gundogan scored twice and was at the heart of City's hugely impressive display as Pep Guardiola's side delivered the kind of football that took them to title wins in 2018 and 2019.
India's golfer Shubhankar Sharma made a superb start with a five-under 66 to lie tied second on the first day of the Italian Open.
The FIFA 2022 World Cup will kick-off in Qatar on Sunday, November 20. Here is a list of the 26-man squads playing in the quadrennial global football extravaganza.
A misfiring and inconsistent India finished a disappointing sixth in the Hero Hockey World League Semi-finals after being stunned 2-3 by lowly Canada, in London, on Sunday.
Manchester City beat bottom club Sheffield United 1-0 to move three points clear of Manchester United who were held to a goalless draw at Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday.
Dina Manfredini, who lived at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Centre in Johnston, died on Monday, according to her granddaughter Lori Logli.
Sri Lanka repulsed a gallant challenge from Ireland at Lord's on Sunday to win their Twenty20 World Cup Super Eights match by nine runs.
Henry Blofeld, who charmed the cricket world for more than 40 years, bids farewell to the microphone come September. Haresh Pandya salutes the Master.
India have never won the first Test of a series in Australia and will be looking to come hard at Australia on Day 5. Rajneesh Gupta has all the numbers from the fourth day of the Adelaide Test.
The ICC Cricket Committee's recommendation to have qualifiers for the 2015 cricket World Cup has given fresh hope to the associate nations, who were fuming over the governing body's earlier decision to scale the event down to just 10 teams.
Ireland became the second associate nation to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, to be held in Sri Lanka, when they beat Namibia by nine wickets in the second qualifying final in Dubai.
One of Britain's leading daily newspapers, The Independent, on Friday announced it will end its print edition and switch to 'digital only' mode from next month amid falling readership.
'But we should encourage umpires to use good techniques and to make decisions, we shouldn't just abrogate the responsibility that we are making decisions (after referring) everything upstairs, we should be backing our cricket umpires to call it as they see it. The umpires get to the top because they make good decisions'
Bahader had previously told media he was 75, which he attributed to "rounding up".
The Indian golfer rounded off the week with a three-under 68 for a total of nine-under 275 to finish tied seventh at the Italian Open
India's World Cup-winning former men's coach Gary Kirsten and ex-opener W V Raman were, on Thursday, short-listed for the post of the women's team coach.
England return on Wednesday to the scene of their thrilling tied match against India at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium against an Ireland team who they would take lightly at their peril in World Cup Group B.
a red-ball warm-up game will be the most welcome distraction for Virat Kohli and his men as a precursor to the two-match Test series starting next week.
Tottenham moved up to seventh place with 36 points from 22 games
The former South African opener, who coached India to the 2011 men's World Cup title, will appear for interviews for the Indian women's team coach job on Thursday
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
Goalkeeper Alisson Becker scored a stunning header in the fifth minute of stoppage-time as Liverpool snatched a 2-1 victory at the death against relegated West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Sunday.
The name of her party "People's Resurgence and Justice Alliance" was announced at the Johnstone Higher Secondary School in Imphal.
Teachers are responding to US President Donald Trump's suggestion that arming teachers would prevent more school shootings and are using the hashtag #ArmMeWith to demand better school supplies and mental health resources, not guns.
Dr Devdas Shetty is the new dean of the College of Engineering at Lawrence Technological University, Michigan. He said his goal is to see the College of Engineering become a leader in engineering education. "I want to work on providing real-life challenges for students by forming industry partnerships and applied research at the undergraduate level," he said.
Russians win team Figure skating gold, Valieva first woman to land Games quads
Australian newspaper defies criticism, reprints Serena Williams cartoon
The winning photos of this year's Nikon annual Small World Photomicrography Competition.
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