Day: May 14, 2021

Former Manchester United and Ecuador player Antonio Valencia on Thursday announced his retirement from football because of chronic knee problems.

The top-ranked Serb seemed to enjoy every moment of his 6-2, 6-1 win over Spanish qualifier Alejandro Davidovich Fokina that put him in the Italian Open quarterfinals.

India wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday. Pant, the swashbuckling batsman, also made an appeal to citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible if they are eligible to receive the jab.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today he felt the pain and suffering that people had gone through in the past few days because of Covid.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) director of cricket Kumar Sangakkara has said he was surprised with the way left-arm pace bowler Chetan Sakariya turned up and performed in the Indian Premier League (IPL) recently.

Rajasthan Royals owner Manoj Badale on Thursday said that rescheduling the postponed Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 will be a real challenge as most teams have already locked in their international calendars.

The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously until there is a rigorous data-led investigation that proves it wrong, a group of leading scientists said.

Petrol and diesel prices on today touched record high levels across the country after rates were increased for the fourth time this week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released the eighth installment of over Rs 20,000 crore to more than 9.5 crore farmer beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme via video-conferencing.

A day after it was decided to hold to intensify the existing lockdown restrictions, Chief Minister M K Stalin today held a meeting with senior officials from the police department about the strict implementation of the lockdown norms.