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Colombo, Sep 14 (IANS) In India’s 41-run win over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup Super Four match, Hardik Pandya was fiery in his five-over spell, consistently bowling hard lengths and touching 140kph mark to put the pressure on the gritty duo of Dhananjaya de Silva and Dunith Wellalage.It was a ploy which worked well as de Silva miscued to mid-on off Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik came back to remove Maheesh Theekshana to ensure the winning path of the Indian team and seal their qualification for the Asia Cup final.Now ahead of India’s match against Bangladesh on Friday, bowling coach…

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The industry stakeholders on Thursday asked the government to provide a legal framework to ensure that over-the-top (OTT) players that are large traffic generators pay a fair and proportionate share to telecom/mobile service providers for the services provided by them, adding that the telcos’ demand for reasonable ‘usage charge’ from OTT providers is fair and rational.India is undergoing the fastest 5G rollout in the world and more than 3.3 lakh 5G base transceiver stations (BTSs) have already been deployed by the telecom service providers.“While Telcos have been carrying the massive investment burden for deploying networks…

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Music streaming giant Spotify has launched a new tool called “Showcase” that will allow artists to pay to promote their music to listeners on the platform’s Home feed. With Showcase, artists can display a song or an entire album as a mobile banner, targeted at a specific type of listener from 30 markets at launch. The banners will indicate that a recommendation has been sponsored.”Showcase is a sponsored recommendation that helps you share your music — whether it’s your newest release, your deepest catalogue cut, or anything in between — at any time to likely listeners…

‘Wagle Ki Duniya’ depicts the daily trials and tribulations of the Wagle family, while also focusing on pertinent issues faced by the common man. The recent episodes of the show centre around breast cancer, a disease that affects numerous women across the globe. Sumeet spoke about his on-screen wife Vandana’s (Pariva Pranati) character and her courageous battle against breast cancer, emphasising the important role of the entire family in offering endless support during this challenging journey.He said: “Rajesh is like the captain of the ship at home, taking care of his parents, kids, and his wife, Vandana. It’s not an…

The online portal will help in speedy action with transparency and secrecy in dealing with and monitoring of complaints on corruption.After launch of the portal, the complaints against corruption received in physical form will not be accepted/taken cognisance of.The move comes following L-G’s intervention in a meeting to review handling/disposal of complaints against corruption, held in May this year, in line with his avowed commitment towards the dictum of “zero tolerance to corruption”.“In VCIMS portal, the anonymous/pseudonymous complaints will be reduced to virtually zero and the platform will be faceless and there will be no requirement of any physical interface…

Moreover one-third of India’s sugar production is produced byMaharashtra, which will produce just 9 million metric tonnes of sugar in the season that starts on October 1 in 2023/24, down from 10.5 million tonnes in 2022-23. This can cause sugar prices to increase on both the domestic and international markets and fueled optimism in sugar stocks, Vaibhav Vidwani, Research Analyst, Bonanza Portfolio, said.Most of the sectoral indices were in green at the closing, with Nifty PSU Bank, Nifty Metal leading the way with gains of 1.64 and 1.49 per cent, respectively.UPL, Hindalco, Mahindra and Mahindra, ONGC, Divis Lab were among…

With the Men’s ODI World Cup now less than 30 days away, India and Bangladesh will be keen to see how the players who haven’t got to play would fare in various situations that could happen in Friday’s match.From an Indian perspective, the Asia Cup has seen the majority of the players click well. Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli have scored big runs. Ishan Kishan has shown that he can be a flexible batter by making runs in the middle-order.K.L. Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah have been very excellent in their displays with bat and gloves and ball after…

For the film, Amit collaborated with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap with whom the composer made his Bollywood debut in ‘Dev.D’. The ‘Manmarziyaan’ soundtrack mixes Punjabi beats with a modern twist and has 12 songs. ‘Daryaa’ is one gem that tugs at the heartstrings of the audience. ‘Grey Walaa Shade’ perfectly captures the idea that love doesn’t follow rules.Talking about the album, Amit said: “Collaborating with Anurag Kashyap is always special, and ‘Manmarziyaan’ is one of the most special albums. The love that I receive for it is still overwhelming. Whenever we perform live, songs like ‘Daryaa’ and ‘Bijlee Giregi’ are favourites…

The BCC, held in Bangladesh’s Chattogram from September 11 to 14, special emphasis was given to focused issues particularly insurgent activities, various trans-border crimes including smuggling of contraband including drugs, various narcotic substances, border violations, pending infrastructural and developmental works and coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP).A BSF spokesman on Thursday said that issues related to confidence building amongst the local population on either side with enhanced cooperation and understanding between the troops of both the border guarding forces were also discussed.During the deliberations at the conference, BSF and BGB officials were able to jointly evolve viable solutions to various bilateral…

A picture of the wedding card has gone viral on social media. The wedding date reads September 24 on the card, which is white in color. “Divine Promises: A pearl white Indian wedding… Leela Palace Jaimala: 3:30 p.m. Pheras: 4:00 p.m. Vidai: 6:30 p.m.,” read the card.The card has beautiful sketches of the landscape of Udaipur.The wedding festivities will start from September 23 with Parineeti’s Choora ceremony at 10 a.m. at Maharaja suite. A ‘Fresco Afternoon’ will be held on the terrace near the ballroom on September 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.On September 24, Raghav’s ‘Sehrabandi’ will take…