'On November 8, two women activists were assaulted and left for dead because they were following the illegal mining trail. This is how bad the coal mafia is in Meghalaya.' 'Most politicians own coal mines, some policemen own coal mines and some in the administration own them.' 'So what you have is a nice cocktail and everybody is protecting each other.'
After winning the ODI series 2-1, Indian women lost momentum and subsequently conceded an unassailable 2-0 lead against England.
Despite his meteoric rise to the top of ICC Test batting charts, India's star opener Gautam Gambhir admits that maintaining consistency is becoming increasingly difficult given the hectic international schedule these days.
Unpredictabilty is the word that defines best the sixth One-Day International between India and Australia in Guwahati on Sunday.
German Kerber has not won a title since and will now drop out of the world's top 10.
The motion takes note of the UNHCR statement last month, which described the CAA as 'fundamentally discriminatory in nature', and also of other United Nations as well as the EU guidelines on human rights as it calls on the Indian government to 'repeal the discriminatory amendments'.
Sticking to their key demand of the repeal of three farm laws to end their protest, farmer leaders on Friday told the government their 'ghar wapsi' can happen only after 'law wapsi' but the Centre insisted talks must be limited to contentious clauses and ruled out a complete withdrawal of Acts.
Former champions India and West Indies cricket teams arrived in Kolkata on Monday amid tight security ahead of their World Twenty20 warm-up fixtures later this week.
Aston Villa returned to winning ways in stunning fashion as Ollie Watkins scored twice in a 3-0 away thumping of an abject Arsenal in drizzly north London on Sunday.
The England cricket team led by Alastair Cook arrived in Mumbai from Bangladesh to engage hosts India in a five-Test series commencing at Rajkot on November 9. The tourists touched down around 3 pm and reached their hotel in South Mumbai two hours later. This is the sixth five-match Test rubber between the two countries and first in the country since the 1984-85 series between the squads captained by Sunil Gavaskar and David Gower.
Budget carrier IndiGo continued to be the largest player with a market share of 46.9 per cent ferrying 54 lakh passengers in March.
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink has urged doctors at the Football Association (FA) and Premier League clubs to stand up against English football's gruelling fixture list.
Djokovic, the ninth seed, was originally scheduled to play Australian Open semi-finalist Chung Hyeon but the 22-year-old South Korean withdrew with a back injury about an hour before the match was due to start.
The match ended in 52 minutes as Williams played her forehand into the net.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
World number one Roger Federer will begin his bid to win a record sixth consecutive US Open against American wildcard Devin Britton after the draw was made on Thursday. Women's champion Serena Williams begins her campaign against American wildcard Alexa Glatch.
Mumbai Indians notched up their sixth win on the trot to continue to be in hunt for a semi-final place after pipping Deccan Chargers by 25 runs in their Indian Premier League encounter on Sunday. The Mumbai team first scored a competitive 178 for seven, thanks to some sensible batting by Abishek Nayar and Dwayne Bravo, and then restricted hosts to 153 for seven in 20 overs.
Images from Day 1 of the French Open matches played at Roland Garros on Sunday
Farmer leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan said told reporters after the meeting that the unions urged the government to repeal the three laws, but the Centre was unwilling to do so. "We decided to meet again on January 19 at 12 pm," he said.
Peter Siddle's maiden five-wicket haul blighted South Africa's response as Australia tightened its grip on the proceedings on day three of the third and final Test in Sydney on Monday.
Russian sixth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova claimed her third title of the year by beating seventh-seeded Australian Daria Gavrilova in the final of the Hong Kong Tennis Open on Sunday.
There will be no cheerleaders in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the wake of spot-fixing scandal, which rocked the sixth edition of the cash-rich tournament, BCCI vice-president Ravi Savant said.
The day-in-the-life feature, written and directed by Dieckmann, has Thurman as a harried mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party as myriad urban challenges confront her.
Paul Collingwood reached his sixth test century with a six on Friday to keep England afloat on the third day of the third Test against South Africa at Edgbaston. Collingwood, who has scored only 96 first class runs this season, demonstrated his strength of character with an unbeaten 101 in England's 297 for six at the close.
'This team is really good and we have invested a lot in it. Now we have to work with that'
World No 2 Serena Williams shook out any cobwebs from four months away from tennis with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over France's Pauline Parmentier in the first round of the Auckland Classic on Tuesday.
'The sad truth is our news managers know much more about Houston and Boston than Kohima and Kokrajhar...' 'Many worthies will travel to the US and Europe to report on Prime Minister Modi's foreign sojourns, but will cite the difficulties of logistics when asked why they don't cover Modi's forays into Arunachal Pradesh, a state China lays claim to.'
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
'Because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation today, the revenues of the states have gone down, the GST money is not coming and all the states combined have lost more than Rs 365,000 crore in revenue.' 'To make it worse, the Government of India is not compensating us for the shortfall, which it must as per its Constitutional obligations.'
Roger Federer entered his fifth successive US Open final but rain intervened when Briton Andy Murray was leading top seed Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-6, 2-3 in the semi-finals of the US Open.
Images from Day 4 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
India, who play three matches against Australia and five against New Zealand, could reach 125 points and within one point of England
Karan Rastogi's campaign in the US $15,000 ITF event in Kuwait came to a screeching halt on Friday when he conceded his semi-final due to a back problem.
Images from Day 10 of the 2021 US Open in New York on Thursday.
Bailey hopes find a cool drink in IPL's tight schedule.
The Sixth Pay Commission is likely to significantly raise basic salaries for an estimated 4.5 million central government employees. The recommendations are expected to be submitted in January, a few months ahead of schedule, and the award is likely to come into effect from January 2006.
Fast bowler Edwards took 2-11 as South Africa, who need 389 to win, stumbled to 45-3 at lunch on the fourth day.
Doubts about Force India being able to race at Spa, the first Grand Prix since the August break, emerged on Wednesday with reports of legal complications.
The Indian wicketkeeper scored an unbeaten 139 in the third and final Afro-Asia Cup match on Sunday.
