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The woman is speaking to locals and identifying herself as the daughter of Prabhakaran. Some local Tamil people, however, identified her as Udayakala, a Tamil refugee who has landed in Tamil Nadu in 2014 along with her husband, K. Dhayabararaj and three children as illegal refugees in a ferry. However, the local police had then arrested them with Dhayabararaj being lodged in Tiruchi special camp while Udayakala and her children were lodged in Mandapam refugee camp. Udayakala, along with her family, including children, had went on an indefinite strike asking the authorities to unite them and Dayabagararj was shifted to…

In ODIs in 2023, Shardul has taken 19 wickets in 11 games at an economy rate of 5.92.“Pretty happy to get three wickets in this game (against Bangladesh). Against Pakistan, I wasn’t doing too great with a bit of fever and carrying that sickness throughout that game. But after bowling 10 overs today, I’m pretty happy,” he said in a mid-innings chat with the broadcasters.With India set a target of 266, Shardul feels if fielders hadn’t dropped catches or suffered plenty of misfields, they could have reduced Bangladesh to an even lower total.“I think the pitch was on the slower…

The Yatra would be organised in the state’s Cauvery basin taluks.Addressing a press conference after attending a meeting in which former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa also participated, Bommai said the state government has failed to protect the interests of the state on the Cauvery issue.Along with the Padayatra, the party will also stage dharna. The next course of action would be decided after September 21, Bommai said.”We have not released even 30 per cent of water to our farmers. On the other hand, the Tamil Nadu farmers are growing the second crop,” he said.”Our government miserably failed to make an…

The toll tax will be waived from September 16 till October 1, and shall be applicable on toll posts on the Mumbai-Goa National Highway, Mumbai-Bengaluru National Highway and other government roads going to the Konkan. Shinde has also directed the PWD officials to provide the toll exemptions and make other arrangements for the comfortable travel of lakhs of devotees who will throng the districts of Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg for the 10-day festival. For the purpose, the vehicle owners would have to submit an exemption pass with full details to the Traffic Police, RTO, etc, which will provide stickers to…

Vaishnavi’s father, Vitthal Phalke, is a farmer who was once a wrestler and participated in Kersari Kusthi, a regional wrestling competition in Maharashtra. His dream of winning the competition went unfulfilled, but his passion for sports lives on through his daughter.“My father was a wrestler when he was young but he couldn’t make it to the big leagues so he invested in me and hoped I would play for the country. He sent me to Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Balewadi, Pune in 2011 to pursue sports and after trying my hand at several games I decided to take up…

It doesn’t look like an ideal draw for India as their highest-ranked player Sumit Nagal will face Adam Moundir in the second singles on Day One.While Nagal and Mukund will lead the campaign in singles, US Open runner-up Rohan Bopanna will partner Yuki Bhambri, ranked 65th in the world, in men’s doubles clash.The draw ceremony was conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence on Friday. He also wished the players luck in the tie.The draw ceremony was also attended by All India Tennis Association (AITA) President Anil Jain, Secretary General Anil Dhupar, other officials,…

With Tamil director Atlee’s vigilante actioner ‘Jawan’, starring SRK, Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupati, crossing the box office collections of the year’s other big hit, Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel’s ‘Gadar 2’, in just nine days, SRK now carries the distinction of leading this year’s two certified blockbusters — ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’.Having made a gross collection (including the 18 per cent GST) of Rs 21.90 crore and Rs 20.20 crore respectively on the eighth and ninth days, ‘Jawan’ has raked in Rs 696 crore worldwide, compared with the ‘Gadar 2’ worldwide collection of Rs 679.69 crore (including domestic gross receipts adding…

Jadeja reached the magical 200-wicket mark in ODIs by trapping Shamim Hossain lbw with turn and bounce during his spell of 1-53 in ten overs. He has also become the only left-arm spinner from India to take 200 wickets in ODIs, with others being Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Ajit Agarkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Kapil Dev.Jadeja, who has six wickets from the 2023 Asia Cup, is additionally the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev, the 1983 ODI World Cup-winning captain, and legendary fast-bowling all-rounder, to complete a double of 2500 runs and 200 wickets in the format, where he…

The crucial meeting, to be held at a star hotel, will take stock of preparations for the upcoming Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram.The meeting of 84-member CWC to be presided over by party President Mallikarjun Kharge will begin in the afternoon.All CWC members, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, will be attending the meeting, which will also deliberate the strategy for 2024 general elections in the light of formation of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to take on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unitedly.Congress General Secretary K. C. Venugopal told media persons in…

While the Sports Ministry has included Sandhu and Jhinghan in the squad for Hangzhou, the Indian Super League (ISL) has not verified the release of these players, nor has the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) stated anything on this matter.The list of 655 players for the Asian Games released on Thursday by the Ministry significantly looks different from the list released by AIFF earlier on Wednesday.The AIFF’s revised list for the Asian Games had 13 changes in the original team after the Indian Super League clubs refused to release a few players.However, the list from the MYAS, on the other hand,…