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What followed at PCA Stadium would have greatly pleased the team management. Suryakumar showed restraint in shot-selection and calmness in the situation, making a 49-ball 50, a much-needed third half-century in the format to ease questions on his 50-over adaptability.“I have been wondering what has been happening. The colour of the ball is the same. The teams are the same. The bowlers are the same. I think I was hurrying a bit. I thought, let’s take a little bit more time. Calm myself, take it slowly and try and bat deep,” he said after the match ended.Suryakumar shed his propensity…

Warsaw, Sep 23 (IANS) The US women’s volleyball team extended their winning streak to five matches as they beat Italy 3-1 (25-19, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18) in the volleyball Olympic qualifying tournament in Lodz, Poland.Opposite Jordan Thompson led her team to a massive victory with 24 points, while outside hitter Kelsey Robinson delivered 16 points. Opposite Ekaterina Antropova earned 20 points for Italy, reports Xinhua.Davide Mazzanti’s players committed more errors and granted 24 points to the US, who lost 14 points on errors.After losin 25-19 in the first set, Italy reacted in the best possible way by nailing down the second…

Hangzhou, Sep 23 (IANS) Rowing made its Asian Games debut in 1982 at New Delhi but India got its biggest success in 2010 when Bajrang Lal Thakar won the country’s first gold medal in the continental extravaganza.Bajrang won the gold medal in the Men’s Single Sculls and then the Men’s Quadruple Sculls (Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhoknal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh added a second gold to the tally in 2018 in Jakarta–Palembang. So far India has won 2 gold, 5 silver and 16 bronze medals overall in Asian Games rowing competitions.On Sunday at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre in Hangzhou,…

Sanand (Gujarat), Sep 23 (IANS) Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said that India has embarked upon its journey to become a semiconductor hub, as US-based Micron Technology broke grounds for its about Rs 22,500 crore ($2.75 billion) chip assembly and test facility here.Stressing that India will soon need 5 lakh crore chips to meet the growing demand, the minister said within three months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting Sanjay Mehrotra, the President and CEO of Micron Technology in the US, the company has started construction on its plant which is unprecedented.Micron has committed to investing up to…

United Nations, Sep 23 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar attended meetings of the Quad and IBSA on the sidelines of the high-level General Assembly meeting.Starting at the meeting’s fourth-day mark on Friday, he attended a ministerial meeting of the Quad, the group of India, the US, Japan and Australia, and of the IBSA, the India, Brazil and South Africa group.He had bilateral meetings with Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, a minister of state in Britain’s Foreign Office, Foreign Ministers Penny Wong of Australia, Yoko Kamikawa of Japan and Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani of Bahrain.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

Stand-up comedian Rahul Dua will also be seen taking on the role of the host once again adding tickles to the complex business discussions.The show will provide a platform for business aspirants to chase their entrepreneurial dreams with their business ideas to experienced investors and business experts who are referred to as ‘The Sharks’.The show is the Indian franchise of the American show ‘Shark Tank’. It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of investors or sharks, who decide whether to invest in their company. The first season of the show aired on Sony LIV and Sony Entertainment Television…

Having won the Asian Champions Trophy 2023 recently, the Indian team is keen to carry forward this momentum and make their nation proud by bring home the gold medal.Interestingly, the Indian team have a rich history in the Asian Games as they have clinched three gold medals (1966, 1998, 2014), nine silver medals ((1958, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1994, 2002), and three bronze medals (1986, 2010, 2018) so far in the marquee tournament.Hence, the Indian team will aim to continue their brilliant show and go all out for Gold medal as it will help them secure a direct…

The Liberal leader said that the Public Safety Minister has reached out, saying Ottawa wants to make sure the province has the details it needs to keep its residents safe, “but there has not been good information sharing,” news outlet CBC reported.”I’ve been continually pushing the federal government and related agencies to share information with the province instead of holding about this latest incident,” Eby said, adding that everything he knows about Nijjar’s killing is “in the public realm”.He also called a briefing with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) director “frustrating” as no concrete information was provided.”For a while,…

The 29-member squad features a blend of experienced players and promising young talents that underlines Chennaiyin’s philosophy of nurturing and developing the country’s young players to contribute to the growth of Indian football.“Our model at Chennaiyin is different from those big spenders. We obviously invest where we can, but it’s more in young players. And I’ve been known to give young players a chance and develop young Indians and that’s what I’ll continue to do. We’ve got a good mix,” Chennaiyin head coach Owen Coyle said ahead of the club’s opening match of the ISL 2023-24 against Odisha FC, scheduled…

On a two-paced PCA Stadium pitch, Shami set the tone by dismissing Mitchell Marsh early, before returning to take out Steve Smith and triggered a late Australia collapse by taking out Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Short and Sean Abbott to pick 5-51, keeping the visitors to 276.“When you build a team, the coach has a role to rotate players and based on the situation, it is decided. You must have seen we have got results due to rotation and I believe before the World Cup, you shouldn’t put too much load by playing back-to-back games. As of now, it’s going well,…