Day: August 15, 2020

Whatsapp status, Facebook walls and Tweets were filled with emotional messages as former Indian Cricket Team captain M S Dhoni announced his retirement from International cricket today.

Amid ongoing debate on who is the next Chief Minister for 2021 Assembly polls and a group of Ministers holding a series of parleys with both Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, the ruling AIADMK today urged the party functionaries not to air their views to the media without the consent of the party high command.

Tamilnadu today reported 127 Covid-19 deaths and 5,860 new cases. With this, the total number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus so far in the State has reached 3,32,105, while the fatalities due the pandemic have touched 5,641.

Ajit Singh, head of the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Friday said that no special measures have been put in place for this year’s edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

England and Australia will play three T20Is and as many ODIs beginning September 4, confirmed England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Australia on Friday.

Leipzig stunned Atletico Madrid 2-1 on Thursday to reach the Champions League semi-finals for the first time as Tyler Adams’ 88th-minute winner earned it a showdown with Paris Saint-Germain.

New flareups of Covid-19 are disrupting the peak summer vacation season across much of Europe, where authorities in some countries are reimposing restrictions on travelers, closing nightclubs again, banning fireworks displays and expanding mask orders even in chic resort areas.

Afghanistan has released the first 80 of a final 400 Taliban prisoners, paving the way for negotiations between the warring sides in Afghanistan’s protracted conflict, the government said Friday.

Nearly 40 people were missing after powerful landslides buried dozens of houses in central Nepal’s Sindhupalchok district on Friday, according to media reports.