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UAE: A distraught Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur conceded that her team didn’t play its best cricket during the 58-run thrashing at the hands of New Zealand in their Women’s T20 World Cup opener but remains confident that her players are capable of much better performances. India were bowled out for 102 in 19 overs in their pursuit of 161 with not a single player reaching an individual score of 20. “We didn’t play our best cricket. Going forward we know every game is important,” Kaur said at post-match presentation ceremony. She didn’t agree that 161 was a difficult target on…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: FC Goa’s homecoming to the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda would have ended in a defeat – but Borja Herrera rose to the occasion once again, this time with an injury-time equaliser, to help the Gaurs hold NorthEast United FC to a 3-3 draw in the Indian Super League (ISL) on Friday. Armando Sadiku, who came back into the side after a short-term injury layoff, scored a brace for the Men in Orange. Earlier in the day, head coach Manolo Marquez made three changes to the starting lineup from last week’s win over East Bengal FC.…

Mumbai: A massive fire erupted at a warehouse in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi on Saturday morning. At least six fire tenders rushed to the spot as soon as they received information about the incident, and efforts to douse the flames were on. The incident happened near the Mumbai-Nashik highway in the state. A video showed a cloud of black smoke as the warehouse continued to burn According to the details, the warehouse contained a huge quantity of hydraulic oil, clothes, plastic and chemicals. The entire warehouse was destroyed in the blaze The reason behind the fire was yet not known. There were…

New Delhi: BookMyShow might cancel Coldplay tickets that were “sold unethically”. The online aggregator filed a First Information Report or FIR on Wednesday against scalping and black marketing of tickets for the highly-anticipated concert in Mumbai and said that it was monitoring “instances of ticket reselling for this tour through black market channels”. “Our stance remains clear and unchanged – BookMyShow vehemently condemns and opposes ticket reselling which is deemed illegal and is punishable by law in India,” it said. It reiterated that it has no association with any such “unauthorised ticket-selling/reselling platforms and/or any third-party individuals/platforms for the purpose…

Kolkata: The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum (WBJDF), spearheading the movement against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in August this year, on Friday announced its decision to withdraw the cease-work demonstration considering the interest of the common people who come for medical services at state-run hospitals. However, WBJDF representative Debasish Halder said that the junior doctors will start a fast-unto-death agitation if their demands that are within the jurisdiction of the West Bengal government are not fulfilled within 24 hours. WBJDF had already laid out the conditions for withdrawal…

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will visit Pakistan later this month to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ‘Heads of Government’ summit. This would be Jaishankar’s first visit to Pakistan as foreign minister of India. Jaishankar’s trip also marks the first official visit by an Indian Foreign Minister to Islamabad in nine years. Sushma Swaraj was the last foreign minister to visit Pakistan when she led the Indian delegation to the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process in Islamabad on December 8-9, 2015. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said,…

New Delhi: India will witness the steepest rise in living standards of the common man on the back of the government’s initiatives and the efforts towards doubling per capita income in a few years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. India will witness the steepest rise in living standards of the common man on the back of the government’s initiatives and the efforts towards doubling per capita income in a few years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. Addressing the 3rd edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave, the minister stressed that inequality in India has declined with the…