Uncapped medium pacer Umran Malik was on Friday named as a short-term COVID-19 replacement for Thangarasu Natarajan in the Sunrisers Hyderabad squad in IPL 2021.
Malik said that as per the state Constitution he did not have to take permission from the president or Parliament.
'They keep issuing statements to win a few rounds of applause.'
The billions India invested in dams, schools, etc in Afghanistan will be gone. The Hindu and Sikh population of Afghanistan has already shrunk from some 200,000 to about 500, points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
The US will be secretly happy if Pakistan is forced to fight on two fronts (Indian and Afghan) in 2014, says Colonel Anil Athale (retd).
The rebels triggered several landmines to ambush the security personnel at Dhardhariya prompting the Central Reserve Police Force and district police personnel, returning from Urumuru village, to open fire, IGP (Operation) R K Malik told PTI in Ranchi.
One policeman was killed and two others were injured during an encounter with the Maoists in the jungles of Saranda in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Saturday, a senior police officer said.
Jharkhand Police on Tuesday said they had found the decapitated body of kidnapped police inspector Francis Enduwar. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Jharkhand Range) R K Malik, said that Enduwar's headless body was found at around 9.15 am on the Jamshedpur-Ranchi highway with a note from the Naxals saying that they could expect more of the same treatment if their demands were not acceded to.
The world's only 'zero-fuel' aircraft 'Solar Impulse-2' on Wednesday landed in Varanasi for an overnight stopover after its pilot held the Ahmedababd 'administration' responsible for the delay in departure from the city for want of customs and immigration clearance.
Air Marshal Ajit Bhavnani was on Thursday appointed as the new Vice Chief of Air Staff, a key operational post, which was lying vacant for the past 18 days.\n\n
F-16 will be there, (Swedish) Grippen, Mirage 2000 and MiG 29 will be there.
'Islamist terror groups have never been challenged ideologically. As long as their ideology survives, like cancer, these groups will sprout somewhere else, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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