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MUMBAI: Navjot Singh Sidhu, Venkatesh Prasad and Anil Kumble all played instrumental roles in India’s memorable win over arch-rivals Pakistan in the second quarter-final of the 1996 ICC World Cup at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. Prasad’s fiery send-off to Aamer Sohail turned out to be one of the most talked about moments in the rich cricketing history involving the two traditional rivals. In the same high-voltage, former all-rounder Ajay Jadeja played a crucial cameo of 45 off 25 balls against the Green Army. Jadeja, who was a player when India defeated Pakistan, returned to the World Cup stage as a coach…

SYDNEY: Former Australia teammates David Warner and Mitchell Johnson are currently embroiled in a bitter controversy. Johnson wrote in his column that the selection of Warner for the Test series against Pakistan was because of the reason that he was retiring after the series and not because of his form. The former Australia pacer also insisted that chief selector George Bailey was too close to the players and that was affecting his selection process. Following the controversy, the two former teammates were going to come face-to-face during the first Test in Pakistan but it looks like that is not going…

Jaipur: The supporters of prominent Rajput leader Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi have called a Rajasthan bandh today after he was shot dead in his Jaipur home. Gogamedi, who led a fringe outfit called Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena, was shot dead by three men who just had tea with him in his living room, CCTV footage showed. Rohit Godara, a gangster closely associated with the gangs of Goldie Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi, has taken responsibility for the murder in a Facebook post. Gogamedi and two of his associates suffered bullet injuries in the attack. They were rushed to a hospital where doctors…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: ‘We for Palolem’ demanding proper health facilities at the only government hospital (Community Health Centre) sought X-Ray facility should function 24 x 7 daily and immediate introduction of Bullet Ambulance services in Canacona remote areas. Leading a delegation of Executive members of ‘We for Palolem’, South-Goa District Congress Block General Secretary Gaspar Coutinho, met the Health Officer Dr. Jose Tavares at Community Health Centre (CHC) at Canacona on Tuesday. The Health Officer is questioned as to the functioning of X-Ray unit only for half-days on Saturdays and demanded that X-Ray Unit should function 24 x 7 uninterrupted…

Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of murder cases at 3,491 in 2022 followed by Bihar (2,930), Maharashtra (2,295), and Madhya Pradesh (1,978). New Delhi: India recorded a total of 28,522 murder cases in 2022, an average of 78 killings every day or more than three every hour, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The number of murder cases, however, came down from 29,272 in 2021 and 29,193 in 2020, the report titled “Crime in India-2022” showed. Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of FIRs of murder at 3,491 in 2022 followed by Bihar…

WASHINGTON DC: The United States has said that it will withhold judgment until the results of India’s investigation into allegations of an Indian official’s involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate a separatist Sikh leader in the US are revealed. “We have noted at the most senior levels of this government – the secretary of state has raised this directly with his foreign counterpart that we take this issue very seriously. They told us they would conduct an investigation,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters at his daily news conference on Tuesday, PTI reported. “They have publicly announced an investigation.…

A four-and-a-half hour meeting was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence yesterday, during which the frontrunners in the three states were considered New Delhi: The BJP may choose new faces for Chief Minister posts in the heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, where it posted thumping poll victories, according to sources in the party. The selection would be done keeping the 2024 general election in mind, the sources added. The BJP won the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, results of which were declared on Sunday. The party’s central leadership has been holding discussions on…