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Incumbent Ravi Shastri will continue his role as Team India head coach after the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy gave his candidature a nod on Friday at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai. Shastri has been given a two-year contract which will see him at the helm till the 2021 World T20 in India. This will be Shastri's fourth stint with the national team, having served briefly as the Cricket Manager (2007 tour of Bangladesh), Team Director (2014-2016) and head coach (2017-2019). Shastri pipped former India teammates Robin Singh and Lalchand Rajput along with former New Zealand coach Mike Hesson and Australian Tom Moody to the post. Former West Indies and Afghanistan coach Phil Simmons pulled out of the race, citing personal reasons. Kapil Dev, CAC member"Number three was Tom Moody, number two was Mike Hesson. Number one is Ravi Shastri as all of you were expecting... (But) It was a very close race." S...

नई दिल्ली काफी समय से बीमार चल रहे पूर्व वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली (66) को AIIMS में भर्ती कराया गया है। सांस लेने में तकलीफ और घबराहट की शिकायत के बाद उन्हें मेडिकल जांच के लिए शुक्र...

Senior BJP leader and former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj passed away a while ago at AIIMS on Tuesday. The BJP veteran, who suffered a massive heart attack, died at the age of 67. Her last Twitter post was about thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the government’s move on Kashmir stating that she was waiting for this day in her lifetime. Swaraj, who was for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s most prominent woman face, did not contest the recently held Lok Sabha elections in which the party won with a massive majority. Last November, she had announced she would not contest the general elections.

As tensions mounted in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday moved a resolution in the Rajya Sabha that all clauses of Article 370 will not be applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. Amit Shah announced in the Rajya Sabha that Article 370, which accords special status to Jammu & Kashmir, will be revoked from the day of the President's assent. After Amit Shah proposed that the regulation under Article 370 will not be applicable after Presidential nod, the Rajya Sabha witnessed massive uproar with the Opposition slamming the Centre over the move. Before the introduction of the bill, the Kashmir issue rocked the Rajya Sabha as Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad raised the current situation in Kashmir. Entire Kashmir is under curfew. It's a war-like situation. Three CMs are under house arrest. That should be discussed first, Ghulam Nabi Azad said in the Rajya Sabha. What is Article 370? Article 370 has been the bone of contention between the state's politi...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched India's second moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, at 2:43 pm on Monday, 22 July, from the second launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, a week after the lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag. The Vikram lander will land on the moon on the 48th day of the mission. The Rs 978 crore mission, seeking to explore the uncharted Lunar south pole by landing a rover, was launched onboard one of the most powerful rockets GSLV Mk-III. The mission was aborted on 15 July due to a "technical snag" in the GSLV Mk-III launch vehicle Chandrayaan-2 will be attempting a soft landing with the Vikram lander on the south pole of the moon Chandrayaan-2 comes 11 years after ISRO's successful first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 scripted history by making more than 3,400 orbits around the Moon and being operational for 312 days till 29 August 2009

Lucknow, July 22:  Thirty five persons have been killed due to lightning in various parts of Uttar Pradesh as heavy rains lashed across the state. Thirteen others were also injured due to lightning in the state till late on Sunday evening. According to official reports, seven persons each were killed in Kanpur and Fatehpur, five in Jhansi, four in Jalaun, three in Hamirpur, two in Ghazipur and one each in Jaunpur, Pratapgarh, Kanpur Dehat and Chitrakoot. Three persons were reported dead due to snake bites in Deoria, Ambedkar Nagar and Kushinagar. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed sorrow over the loss of lives in the state and has issued orders to the respective district magistrates to give a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to each of the families of victims.

Indian ODI team for West Indies tour:- Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kedar Jadhav, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Khalell Ahmed, Navdeep Saini. Indian T20 squad for West Indies tour: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (wj), Krunal Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sunder, Rahul Chahar, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini. Indian Test squad for West Indies tour: Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane (vc), Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (wk) Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav.

PUBG Mobile 0.13.5 or season 8 has been released globally with new features, weapons skins, outfits, rewards, new theme and more. The PUBG Mobile new season will kick-start from July 18 and roll out has begun from today; however, the players will still have their Royal Pass section locked. The size of the new PUBG 0.13.5 update for Android users is 181MB and for the iOS users, the update size is 158MB. Also, iOS users will now be able to download and update features in the background, which wasn't possible before. PUBG Mobile 0.13.5: What's new? Some of the big new additions to the game in the version 0.13.5 include a brand new 'Power of the Ocean' theme, inclusion of the Bizon gun, and a 'Water Blaster' skin for the Scar-L in the gun lab. The new PP-19 Bizon gun uses 9 mm bullets and has 53-rounds in a magazine. It also supports limited muzzles and sights. The new gun was first teased in the PUBG - Vikendi Snow Map Gameplay Trailer. The new PUBG Mob...

A four-storey building has collapsed in Mumbai's Dongri, leaving several people trapped under debris. Fire tenders have rushed to the site, news agency ANI has reported. ANI ✔ @ANI Mumbai: Kesarbai building has collapsed at Tandel street, in Dongri. More than 40 people are feared trapped. 40 12:25 PM - Jul 16, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 19 people are talking about this A team of the National Disaster Response Force has also rushed to the site where the four-storey building collapsed on Tuesday.

England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time in extraordinary circumstances, beating New Zealand by a tiebreaker of boundaries scored after the match was tied after regulation play and then the first Super Over in the tournament's history. Martin Guptill needed to score two off the final ball of the Super Over but was run out by England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler as the New Zealand batsman scrambled back for the second. Both teams scored 241 after the regulation 50 overs per side, with England scoring 14 off the last over - including a six made up of two runs followed by an accidental four deflected off the bat of the diving Ben Stokes - to tie New Zealand's 241-8. The teams then scored 15 runs each in the Super Over, but England won courtesy of scoring more boundaries in regulation play.