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IPL 2019: Kolkata track totally opposite to Delhi, says Shikhar Dhawan - Times of India
KOLKATA: Having roared back to form with a 97-run unbeaten knock, Shikhar Dhawan on Friday said the pitch at the Eden Gardens was better than the one at Delhi Capitals' home ground. SCORECARD | IPL SCHEDULE | IPL POINTS TABLE Dhawan batted through the innings to guide Delhi Capitals to a seven-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL here. He was, however, denied his maiden T20 century, as Colin Ingram smashed one into the stands to finish the game in style.
Tribeca ties up with Logix to enter Noida’s realty market - Times of India
TNN | Apr 13, 2019, 07:52 IST Noida: The city’s increasing consumer base has now drawn the attention of Tribeca, the Mumbai-based real estate developers better known for their collaborative boutique residential projects with The Trump Organization in India. Tribeca has announced a tie-up with Noida’s Logix group to create a line of mixed-use projects, the first of which will start taking shape within three months adjacent to the Logix City Centre mall in Sector 32.
Woman attacks husband with knife over tiff - Times of India
TNN | Updated: Apr 13, 2019, 06:16 ISTPicture used for representational purpose only PUNE: A 30-year-old woman attacked her husband with a kitchen knife in Dhayari on Tuesday night because he asked why she was talking over cellphone and tried to snatch her handset to check the call list. The Sinhagad Road police on Thursday registered an offence against the woman under Section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of the Indian Penal Code.
Folk artistes from 4 states at west Nagpur shobhayatra - Times of India
Nagpur: City is all set to soak in religious fervour as shobhayatras will be taken out in multiple areas on the occasion of Ram Navami on Saturday. The procession taken out by Shri Poddareshwar Ram Mandir at Central Avenue in East Nagpur is now in its 53rd year, while this will be the 46th year of shobhayatra from Shri Ram temple, Ram Nagar. In a first, SCZCC, which is headquartered in the city, will be collaborating with Pashchim Nagpur Nagarik Sangh for the event.
Do not compel parents to buy accessories: CEO - Times of India
TNN | Apr 13, 2019, 04:56 IST Coimbatore: Days after the parents of the students of a private school at Nallampalayam staged a protest and petitioned the collector, chief educational officer (CEO) R Murugan has directed the school management not to compel the parents purchase accessories from the school.
No fresh poll dates yet for 4 G’chiroli villages - Times of India
Soumitra Bose | TNN | Apr 13, 2019, 04:01 IST Nagpur: The voting at Watelli, Gardewara, Wangeturi and Puskoti would be held in the coming days as polling parties could not reach these remote places in south Gadchiroli to conduct the polls on April 11. The fresh dates holding polls at these places have not been announced by the state’s chief electoral officer.
Workers, not leaders, help bring voters to polling booths - Times of India
Nagpur: A senior citizen, M Joshi, suffering from paralysis, came all the way from Mumbai to cast his vote. When he reached Neeri Modern School with his relative, there was no wheelchair to carry him to the classroom, which was quite some distance away. It was then that two activists — Shashank Chobe and Balasaheb Gajbhiye — who were helping voters find their booths and polling stations, came to the rescue. The two carried him easily till the voting booth and also dropped him back to his vehicle.
3 scribes demanding hafta in Varachha caught - Times of India
TNN | Apr 13, 2019, 04:00 IST Surat: Police arrested three video journalists of a local news channel for demanding hafta (protection money) of Rs5,000 from transporters and grain suppliers in Varachha area of the city on Friday. According to Varachha police, one Bhimsinh B Linka , 44, a resident of Godadara, Limbayat had gone to load his tempo at the government godown in Varachha.
In unprecedented support, US defends India’s space weapons test saying it understands New Delhi's concerns - Times of India
A hearing of the powerful US Senate Armed Services Committee on the proposal to establish a United States Space Force was the forum for lawmakers and defence officials to voice understanding of India’s compulsions in going in for an anti-satellite test while seeking to establish global space norms and protocol that would include New Delhi. “What should the rules environment be, and what should we be doing to try to promote rules? India is an ally.
IPL 2019: Royal Challengers Bangalore get Dale Steyn boost - Times of India
Veteran South African pacer Dale Steyn on Friday joined Royal Challengers Bangalore as a replacement for the injured Nathan Coulter-Nile, giving a much needed boost to the bowling department of the bottom-placed team in the IPL.
Russian couple held for growing cannabis in Siolim - Times of India
PANAJI: A Russian couple was arrested by the crime branch on Thursday for growing cannabis plants in pots in rented premises in Siolim. In a raid, crime branch seized two cannabis plants, three pouches of cannabis seeds, 380gm of cannabis stems, five pots used for growing the plants, and, additionally, 118gm of ganja, altogether worth more than Rs 1 lakh.
Gang of snatchers targets bus passengers on Bypass - Times of India
KOLKATA: When 22-year-old Rohit Kumar Sharma from Champaran in Bihar, who is studying engineering at a college in Garia, was approached by a man while returning from college a couple of days ago, he did not suspect anything. Sayantan Nandi, a hotel management trainee, too, was candid when asked about his future plans by his co-passenger on his way home from Salt Lake on Thursday.
Mumbai: Five-year-old falls to death from fourth floor window - Times of India
Sandhya Nair | TNN | Updated: Apr 12, 2019, 05:43 ISTThe four-storey Jivdani Aman Apartment where the incident occurred MUMBAI: A five-year-old boy who had begun his summer vacations died after falling from the window of his fourth floor flat in Nalasopara on Wednesday. Rehan Khan sustained serious head injuries and succumbed late on Wednesday. The KG student was playing in his flat in the four-storey Jivdani Aman Apartment, Pragati Nagar, Nalasopara (E), around 7.30pm.
Chanda records 60% turnout in 45C heat, polling peaceful - Times of India
Chandrapur: The fate of 13 contestants sealed in EVMs on Thursday with 60% voters turned out to use their franchise, braving 45.2 degrees Celsius sizzling heat, the hottest in Vidarbha. The polling in 2,193 booths was by and large peaceful with some scattered instances of confusion over missing names and poll boycott. Entire population of Mahakali Nagar and Rani Herai Nagar slums, consist of 850 voters, boycotted the Lok Sabha poll.
Missing names, typos, age and pic glitches rob many of their vote - Times of India
Napgur: Many excited voters returned disappointed from polling booths as their names could not be found in the voters’ list. They claimed they had filled form 6(a), had voted in previous elections and were holding a valid voter card. After the chaos in 2014 elections when lakhs of names had gone missing, voters this time had been striving to get their names registered well in advance. Much to their chagrin, the name of entire families were found missing.
Controversy mars MS Dhoni's record 100th IPL win as captain - Times of India
Having already been the most successful captain ever of the Indian cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni now became the first skipper to record 100 victories in the history of Indian Premier League.
Delhi Capitals seamer Harshal Patel ruled out of IPL 2019 - Times of India
Delhi Capitals seamer Harshal Patel was ruled out of the remainder of the IPL owing to a fracture in his right hand, coach Ricky Ponting said on Thursday. PTI | Updated: Apr 11, 2019, 18:51 IST(AP Photo) KOLKATA: Delhi Capitals seamer Harshal Patel was ruled out of the remainder of the IPL owing to a fracture in his right hand, coach Ricky Ponting said on Thursday. "He has suffered a fracture in his right hand in the game against Kings XI (on April 1).
Ban on TikTok app would harm free speech, China's Bytedance tells Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: A court's call for a ban on the popular video app TikTok will hurt free speech rights, China's Bytedance Technology Co has said in a request for the Supreme Court to quash the directive. Bytedance is one of the world's most valuable start-ups and its TikTok app lets users create and share short videos with special effects. It has become popular in rural India, where most of a population of 1.3 billion lives.
Guwahati: Two dead, one missing after boat accident - Times of India
TNN | Apr 11, 2019, 13:17 ISTRepresentative image GUWAHATI: At least two persons, including a woman, died and one eight-year-old child went missing when a passenger-carrying boat capsized at Dhubichar area in lower Assam’s Dhubri district, some 260 km from here, on Tuesday night. State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel have launched an operation to locate the missing child. Police said that the boat collided with a goods vehicle and then capsized.
Photos: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas papped enjoying a date night in Los Angeles - Times of India ►
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HC questions legality of retd cops probing corruption cases - Times of India
Debashish Karmakar | TNN | Apr 11, 2019, 08:28 ISTRepresentative image PATNA: The Patna high court on Wednesday questioned the legality of appointing retired officers as SP and deputy superintendent of police (DSP) on contract for conducting investigation, especially in corruption cases.
Officials directed to inspect, act against unrecognised schools - Times of India
Coimbatore: The district school education department officials plan to inspect all schools to verify whether they are being run with proper approvals and if not, take action against them. The move comes after the directorate of school education on Tuesday sent a communication to the chief education officers (CEOs) of all districts in this regard. The communication said that though the CEOs had been instructed to act against unrecognised schools, one such school was found functioning in Chennai.
Kudos to ‘baideos’ for poll awareness in Cachar - Times of India
TNN | Apr 11, 2019, 04:04 IST Silchar: The Cachar district administration on Wednesday felicitated 147 female workers, known as “chandraprabha baideos”, who were engaged in ensuring maximum participation of women voters in the coming Lok Sabha elections. The “chandraprabha baideos” have been working across the rural areas in the seven assembly constituencies of Silchar Lok Sabha constituency.
Injured Rohit Sharma misses an IPL match for first time in 11 years - Times of India
India vice-captain Rohit Sharma's right leg muscle spasm, five days ahead of the World Cup squad announcement, will keep the national selection committee worried. PTI | Apr 10, 2019, 20:27 IST Highlights On Wednesday, Rohit missed an IPL game for the first time in last 11 seasons "Rohit is fine but as a precautionary measure we have decided to give him as a rest": Pollard Rohit is the second most important batsman after Virat Kohli in the Indian team Rohit Sharma.
As 'Hera Pheri 3' is delayed once again, director Indra Kumar moves to film with Ajay Devgn - Times of India
Fresh on the heels of the success of his last film 'Total Dhamaal', director Indra Kumar was reported to collaborate with Akshay Kumar for 'Hera Pheri 3'. The third edition of the film that has been stuck in limbo for over five years now, would see Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal reprise their memorable roles. However, according to reports, the Firoz Nadiadwala production has been postponed yet again.
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