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Alur: Arjun Tendulkar warmed up for the upcoming first-class season with a match-winning nine-wicket haul in Goa’s innings and 189-run victory over hosts Karnataka in the Dr (Capt) K Thimmappiah Memorial Tournament, which is also known as KSCA Invitational, a pre-season meet for state teams. KSCA XI comprised mostly their U-19 and U-23 players with only two established names — Nikin Jose and glovesman Sharath Srinivas — in the playing XI. The legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s son had a match haul of 9 for 87 in 26.3 overs across two innings. In the first innings, Karnataka folded for 103 in 36.5…

Legendary Australian spinner Nathan Lyon, who sits at No. 1 position in the leading wicket-takers list in World Test Championship (WTC) history, has backed the Baggy Greens to end the decade-long wait for a Test series win over India later this year. According to the 36-year-old cricketer, who has dismissed 530 batters in 129 Tests played so far, Australia will whitewash India in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which is set to start on November 22 in Perth and feature five matches. “It’s been ten years since we have won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. I started thinking about this…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Minister for Environment and Climate Change Aleixo Sequeira, chaired the meeting of First Working Group Committee Meeting organized by the Government of Goa and the World Bank to discuss the operationalization of the Goa Blended Finance Facility The meeting was held at the Goa Secretariat, Porvorim. This critical session focused on key decisions related to the governance structure, intermediary operations, and strategic direction of the facility. Also, the creation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for managing financial risks, the registration of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), and other pivotal issues around capital mobilization for sustainable infrastructure in…

The recent developments in the Kolkota doctors’ strike have brought about a significant shift in the ongoing protest. After a meeting with the protesting junior doctors, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has agreed to three of the five demands put forth by the doctors, marking a potential breakthrough in the impasse. The removal of two top officials of the health department and the Chief of Kolkata police has been confirmed, along with the decision to remove the police chief of the city’s north zone – the location where the tragic incident at RG Kar Medical College took place. Despite this…

Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee, after meeting with the protesting junior doctors, has announced that she had agreed to three of the five demands of the protesting doctors — the removal of two top officials of the health department and the Chief of Kolkata police. Along with it, the police chief of the city’s north zone — where RG Kar Medical College, the hospital where the rape-murder of a young doctor took place, is located — will also be removed. Though the impasse is solved, the protest and the ceasework is expected to continue till the formal orders are…

New Delhi: India has said Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments on Indian Muslims are “unacceptable”. Posting on X on the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, the Iranian leader had clubbed Indian Muslims with those in Gaza, talking about their sufferings. “We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India by the Supreme Leader of Iran,” the foreign ministry has said in a statement. “These are misinformed and unacceptable. Countries commenting on minorities are advised to look at their own record before making any observations about others,” New Delhi has added. In his post on X, formerly Twitter,…

Washington: Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said he would give India “an A” for its focus on solving the problem of malnutrition. “Well, India, for its income level, acknowledges that some of these nutritional indicators are weaker than it would like. That kind of frankness and focus on it, I think is very impressive,” Gates told PTI in an interview. He said India is more focused on the issue than any other government, Gates said. “It’s using the public feeding system and the Midday Meal System to try and get fortified foods out, but it’s still a…