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Kvitova, who won the Wimbledon title in 2011 and 2014, extended her winning streak to eight matches in 2023 after beating Stevanovic 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday. Stevanovic is on a high, having captured her 31st career WTA Tour title two weeks ago in Berlin.Against No.225-ranked Stevanovic, Kvitova had spells where she looked unstoppable. After a slow start, she roared back from an early break deficit to take the first set in a flurry of fine volleying and efficient serving. Even when Stevanovic raised her game in the second set, Kvitova came up with some superb defense en route to a…

The Consortium assured the bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad that it would be capable of devising a thorough roadmap for the eventual inclusion of additional languages in the CLAT examination.Currently, CLAT is conducted exclusively in English, and the exam for the upcoming 2024 academic year is scheduled to take place in December.The Consortium has said that its advisory board, in collaboration with the governing body and executive committee, will actively address the substantive and procedural challenges and formulate a comprehensive plan to broaden the scope of the CLAT examination.The Consortium also said that the…

Playing under the roof on Centre Court, the Spaniard quelled Jarry’s attack to advance 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-5 after a three-hour and 56 minutes battle in the neb’s singles third round.Alcaraz rallied from a break down in the fourth set, moving quickly across the court to show off his defensive skills before he turned the table by unleashing his own relentless power game.Alcaraz is now 43-4 in the season and is aiming to become the third youngest player to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon, joining 17-year-old Boris Becker and 20-year-old Bjorn Borg. The top seed will continue his…

This marked the first substantial rainfall of the season, prompting the issuance of an “orange” alert for further showers on Saturday.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) also issued a “yellow” alert for Sunday.The IMD uses four color codes to indicate weather warnings — green (no action required), yellow (stay alert and informed), orange (be prepared), and red (take immediate action).According to the IMD, the maximum temperature reached 28.7 degrees Celsius, which is eight notches below the seasonal average on Saturday.The relative humidity varied between 96 per cent and 100 per cent.The Met Office has forecast a generally cloudy sky with moderate…

The official said that the victim was running a coaching institute in the Ghorasahan area of the district.The students have alleged that the teacher was passing lewd comments on students and was behaving inappropriately in class.The students were annoyed with his attitude and they called some local youth. The teacher was called to a mango farm and allegedly beaten. A video also went viral on social media on Friday.Ghorasahan SHO Santosh Kumar said that the police have received an application filed by the coaching teacher on Friday evening.“A video also surfaced on social media as well. We are investigating the…

The victim has been identified as Ranjit Kaur (56), who died in the Karol Bagh area. First, a portion of her quarter collapsed. When she went inside to remove a few articles, another part collapsed on top of her. The quarter was in a dilapidated condition, the police said.Meanwhile, due to the heavy rain, a boundary wall of Desh Bandhu College in Kalkaji, South Delhi, collapsed, damaging a number of cars.–IANSatk/arm

Heroics from all-rounder Bas de Leede, who hit a maiden ODI century after taking his first five-wicket haul, helped the Netherlands secure a four-wicket win over Scotland, chasing down the target inside 44 overs to overtake their opponents’ net run rate and clinch a spot in the ODI World Cup.“Going into the tournament, qualifying was part of it, but we wanted to win the tournament. So once we celebrated qualifying, we’ve moved straight onto preparing for this game and we’re looking forward to hopefully playing a good game of cricket tomorrow,” Edwards was quoted as saying by ICC.Edwards scored an…

Sheikh Talal received 24 of the 44 votes cast. The other candidate, the OCA director general and president of World Aquatics Husain Al-Musallam, who is also from Kuwait, received 20 votes.Sheikh Talal, 58, is the son of the first OCA president Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who was president from 1982 to 1990, and the younger brother of the previous OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah, who led the organization from 1991 to 2021.Sheikh Talal joined the OCA in 2007 and served as chair of the OCA Rules Committee and a member of the OCA Executive Board.Sheikh Talal’s motto was…

In a statement, the IMD predicted “a very heavy rainfall activity over the western Himalayan region and adjoining plains of northwest and west India on July 9 and decrease thereafter”.It said that eastern India and northeast would receive more rain from July 9.The IMD said: “There is also a chance of isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall occurring in the western Himalayan region, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, and Rajasthan from July 8-10. Also, Uttar Pradesh is likely to see rainfall for the next five days.”Furthermore, Himachal Pradesh may experience extremely heavy rainfall on July 9 while Uttarakhand is expected to receive heavy…

Using this tool, more than 317 High Court judgments and over 5,136 District Court judgments have been translated from English to Malayalam and uploaded on websites of the respective courts, informed the Court office.This was done under a team of three judges who were nominated for it and included Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque, Chairman of the Computerisation Committee and fellow judges V. Raja Vijayaraghavan and Kauser Edappagath.”In the first phase, the Kerala High Court proposed to translate and make available all judgments certified for reporting in Malayalam,” said their statement.It also pointed out that there is a proposal to share…