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NEW DELHI: India captain Rohit Sharma has lashed out at Star Sports for recording and playing on air his private conversation, calling it a breach of privacy. Clearly the former Mumbai Indians captain was referring to video where he was asking the cameraman not to record his audio while talking to longtime Mumbai Ranji Trophy teammate Dhawal Kulkarni before their final league encounter against Lucknow Super Giants, the video of which went viral on social media. In the video, Rohit was seen pleading with folded hands not to record his audio. “Bhai audio bandh karo, Kasamse, ek audio ne mera waat…

JAPAN: The Indian team picked up its first medals in the World Para Athletics Championships with high jumper Nishad Kumar and 200m runner Preethi Pal winning a silver and bronze respectively at Kobe in Japan on Sunday. Kumar, a Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist, cleared 1.99m to finish second in the men’s T47 high jump final and pick up India’s first medal on the third day of competitions. American Roderick Townsend won the gold with a jump of 2.05m. Another Indian in the fray, Ram Pal finished sixth with his season’s best performance of 1.90m. Kumar had also won a silver…

PARIS: The much-anticipated French Open 2024 tennis tournament gets underway at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France on Monday. The main draw matches at the second grand slam of the year begin on May 26. Sumit Nagal secured his place in the main draw of the men’s singles thanks to his career-high world ranking of 80. He is the first Indian male player to qualify for the French Open main draw since Prajnesh Gunneswaran in 2019. The 26-year-old Nagal recently stunned world No. 38 Matteo Arnaldi at the Monte Carlo Masters where he became the first Indian tennis player…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The High Court last month ordered the Goa State Pollution Control Board to look into the matter of the commercial establishments in Colva not having sewerage connections, taking serious note of the submission made by the government counsel on the Colva sewerage issue. In fact, the High Court had noted that the GSPCB would have to decide whether to permit the 43 commercial establishments to continue operating if they refused to link to the STP. The manner in which these forty-three commercial establishments are treating their sewage is unclear. The petitioners allege that the Colva Creek is…

Goemkarponn Desk IRAN: Iran President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, Iranian state media confirmed. “No survivors” were found at the crash site of the chopper that was carrying Raisi, his Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollhian and other senior officials. After hours of searching through mountainous terrain amid inclement weather, rescue teams located the crashed helicopter. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash,” The chopper crashed in Jolfa in the mountainous northwestern region of the country on Sunday. The incident happened as Raisi and others were travelling back from their visit to Iran’s border with Azerbaijan. The next in the line…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on Saturday arrested a man working at Goa Shipyard Naval base in Goa for allegedly sharing secret and crucial information related to the Navy with Pakistan secret agency ‘Inter Service Intelligence (ISI)’ after being honey trapped by a woman, said senior ATS officials. They said an FIR under Indian Penal Code (IPC) 121-A (for conspiring to wage war against Indian Government} has been registered against the accused at the ATS police station in Lucknow. In a press note shared by UPATS, a senior police official stated the accused was identified as Ram…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Cybercrime Cell of the Goa police has detained a 29-year-old Bangalore man for allegedly extorting a Chimbel woman and engaging in cyberbullying and sexual harassment under the guise of offering her a job in an Abu Dhabi bank. After setting up a trap, the accused Mohan Raj V was taken into custody in Bangalore. Mohan and his associates advertised a fictitious position with a large salary at an Abu Dhabi bank. The Chimbel woman who replied to the post was tricked into going to an online video interview where they forced her to take off her…