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The stylish Indian batter completed this milestone during the 2023 World Cup match against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday.Kohli has now scored more than 1000 ODI runs in a calendar year eight times, overtaking the legendary Tendulkar’s erstwhile record of seven.Kohli’s brilliance in ODI cricket came back in 2017 when he scored 1460 runs in 26 innings. With 1000+ runs in four consecutive years 2011, 20212, 2013, and 2014, Kohli managed to equal Tendulkar’s record after 2017, 2018, and 2019 phenomenal performance with the bat.After struggling with the bat in the year 2020, 2021, and 2022 Kohli…

The Taliban government on its part said that Pakistan must show “Islamic brotherhood” and “magnanimity” while dealing with Afghan refugees who have been in Pakistan for decades.Petitioners challenged the caretakers’ mandate to formulate such a policy against “illegal residents and asylum seekers” living in the country for decades. “It is a reversal of Pakistan’s 40-year-old policy,” they said, claiming that no provision of law permits such mass deportation.On Wednesday as the announced deadline expired, Pakistan formally began to deport Afghans through “holding centres” established at Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Attock. Thousands of refugees, including their families, women folk and children, were…

Kochi, Nov 2 (IANS) The Congress and its students’ wing Kerala Students Union (KSU)are up in arms after what they allege was a planned back door operation that played spoilsport for its visually challenged chairman candidate at the Kerala Varma College in Trissur. He was declared the winner first, but later he found himself on the losing side as the SFI candidate was announced the winner.Late on Wednesday after the votes was counted the KSU candidate S. Sreekuttan, a visually challenged student, was declared elected by a margin of one vote.But as the KSU began celebrating as it was winning…

After the famous 1983 World Cup, it was the 2011 World Cup when the Dhoni-led Indian team lifted the World Cup on home soil after 28 years and the joy was quite vivid all over the country.Sunil Gavaskar, who was in the commentary box, jumped with tears in his eyes witnessing the historic moment.“I was so happy at that moment, we were jumping and shouting with joy in the commentary box, and later when the presentation was done, I went on the field to see the Indian team celebrating, and I smeared the soil off the pitch on my forehead…

Be it as the Rajput nobleman Sangram Singh in “Pukar” (1931) set in the times of Mughal Emperor Jahangir, Raja Porus in “Sikandar” (1941), in the title role of the Parmar king in “Prithvi Vallabh” (1943), as the Rajguru of Rani Lakkshmibai in “Jhansi ki Rani” (1952), or the bitter persecuted Jew Ezra in “Yahudi” (1958), Sohrab Modi strode the silver screen with his imposing presence, boundless histrionic abilities, and thunderous voice.He delivered a trailblasing performance as a kind and rational man turned domestic tyrant – and twice over- in “Jailor”, made first in 1938 and remade in 1958, with…

Lucknow, Nov 2 (IANS) Friday’s clash in the Men’s ODI World Cup will be the final game to be played at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium. Both Afghanistan and Netherlands, squaring off in the clash on Friday, will be keen to take two points and push more for a semi-final berth.For Netherlands, according to its all-rounder Colin Ackermann, countering the Afghanistan spin threat featuring Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, along with Noor Ahmed at the bench, will be the key if they are to spring another surprise in the tournament.“They’ve obviously got three very good spinners that…

San Francisco, Nov 2 (IANS) Meta-owned Instagram might be developing an ‘AI friend’ feature that will let users create a friend as per their liking. According to screenshots shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi on X, users will be able to communicate with the AI in order to “answer questions, talk through any challenges, brainstorm ideas, and much more”.”#Instagram is working on the ability to create an #AI friend,” he wrote.The development was first spotted by TechCrunch.According to the screenshots, users will be able to choose the gender and age of the chatbot. Following that, users would be able to…

The company’s turnover grew 32.1 per cent on a year-on-year basis to Rs 1,05,128.2 crore, according to a regulatory filing.The auto major registered Rs 14,400 crore in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the quarter which represents an increase of 86.4 per cent over the corresponding figure of the previous year.Tata Motors remains positive on the outlook ahead on the same of trucks cars and electric vehicles.The company said: “We aim to deliver a stronger performance in H2, due to a healthy order book at JLR, strong demand for heavy trucks in CV and exciting new generation…

About 25,71,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report.The most popular messaging platform, which has over 500 million users in the country, received another record 10,442 complaint reports in September in the country, and the records “actioned” were 85.”Accounts Actioned” denotes reports where WhatsApp took remedial action based on the report and taking action denotes either banning an account or a previously banned account being restored as a result.”This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s…

Speaking to the media on Thursday, Sonkar said, “The Ethics Committee’s aim was to probe the allegations against her. Instead of cooperating she got angry and then used unparliamentary words against the Chairperson and the Committee along with the Opposition MPs Uttam Kumar Reddy, Danish Ali and Girdhari Yadav, as they made unethical allegations.”He said that she is facing accusations by Darshan Hiranandani, so thus by walking out she diverted the issue.”The committee will now decide the further course of action,” Sonkar added.When asked if the committee asked her personal and unethical questions as alleged by Moitra, he said, “She…