PARIS: South African athlete Caster Semenya missed out again on Saturday in Regensburg, Germany to qualify for the 5,000 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. The 30-year-old, who is barred from defending her Olympic 800m title, finished fourth in Saturday’s race in a time of 15 minutes 57.12 seconds, more than 47 seconds outside the 15:10 … Read more
BRISTOL: India may have drawn their one-off women’s Test away to England in Bristol on Saturday, but the match represented another landmark for teenage batting sensation Shafali Verma. The 17-year-old opener become the first Indian and the youngest woman from any country to surpass fifty in both innings of her debut Test with scores of … Read more
CHANDIGARH: Haunted by the childhood memories of losing his parents and a few of his siblings during partition in 1947, Milkha Singh had once refused to travel to Pakistan, the same nation which bestowed him with the title “The Flying Sikh” in 1969. Terrible images of dogs and vultures scavenging on mutilated bodies haunted Singh … Read more
BRISTOL: Indian women team’s spectacular fight back to draw the one-off Test against England on the final day would put the home side on the back foot going into the limited overs series, captain Mithali Raj said on Saturday. After a middle-order batting collapse, debutants Sneh Rana (80 not out) and Taniya Bhatia (44 not … Read more
મહારાષ્ટ્ર,તા.20 જૂન 2021,રવિવાર મહારાષ્ટ્રમાં સંયુક્ત મોરચાની સરકારમાં ખટરાગના સંકેતો જોવા મળી રહ્યા છે. હાલમાં મહારાષ્ટ્રમાં શિવસેના, કોંગ્રેસ અને એનસીપીની સરકાર છે ત્યારે મહારાષ્ટ્રના મુખ્યમંત્રી ઉધ્ધવ ઠાકરેએ પાર્ટીના સ્થાપના દિવસ પર આપેલા નિવેદનના પગલે રાજકીય ગરમાવો આવી ગયો છે. શિવસેના અને કોંગ્રેસ વચ્ચેના મતભેદો ઘેરા બની રહ્યા હોવાનો સંકેત પણ ઠાકરેના નિવેદનના પગલે મળી રહ્યો છે. … Read more
India’s 1st legend of the racing track, Milkha Singh, missed out on an Olympic medal by 1/10th of a second in 1960, yet the man who came to be known as ‘Flying Sikh‘ leaves behind a legacy that’d be hard to matchAs Rudyard Kipling wrote, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ … Read more
TOKYO: A member of the Uganda Olympic team has tested positive for coronavirus on arrival in Japan, just over a month before the pandemic-postponed Games, officials said. The first group to arrive from Uganda — a nine-strong party, including boxers, coaches and officials — landed at Tokyo‘s Narita airport on Saturday. They are the second … Read more
– 21 જૂનથી રાજધાનીમાં પબ્લિક પાર્ક, ગાર્ડન, ગોલ્ફ ક્લબ અને આઉટડોર યોગા એક્ટિવિટીની મંજૂરી મળી ગઈ નવી દિલ્હી, તા. 20 જૂન, 2021, રવિવાર દિલ્હીમાં કોરોના સંક્રમણના કેસમાં ઘટાડા સાથે જ છૂટ મળવાની શરૂ થઈ ગઈ છે. દિલ્હીમાં સોમવારથી બાર ખોલવાની મંજૂરી પણ મળી ગઈ છે. અનલોક-4 અંતર્ગત આ પ્રકારની છૂટ આપવામાં આવી રહી છે. દિલ્હી … Read more
SEVILLE (Spain): Spain were again haunted by their inability to finish off chances as they drew 1-1 with Poland on Saturday after missing a second-half penalty to leave their hopes of making the Euro 2020 knockouts hanging in the balance. Alvaro Morata gave Spain the lead in the 25th minute but Poland, who had hit … Read more
South Africa’s Quinton de Kock fell four runs short of successive centuries but the tourists took charge of the second and final Test against West Indies by the close of the second day’s play in Saint Lucia on Saturday. SCORECARDDe Kock chased a wide delivery from seamer Kyle Mayers (3-28) and was caught at gully … Read more