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India’s Virat Kohli (R) and captain Rohit Sharma gestures during the second ODI cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo on August 4, 2024. — AFP/FileIndian team’s jersey to feature tournament’s official logo: Saikia.BCCI to follow International Cricket Council’s guidelines.ICC clarified official logo mandatory requirement for all teams.Indian players’ jerseys will feature the ICC’s official logo, including Pakistan’s imprint to highlight the host nation, during the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Wednesday.Newly-appointed BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia, in an exclusive interview with…
Kelsey Parker announces she’s expecting baby with Will LindsayKelce Parker is expecting a baby with partner Will Lindsay, two years after late husband Tom Parker’s death.Tom Parker, who passed away in March 2022 after a brain cancer diagnosis, his widow confirmed that she is pregnant with her and new partner Will’s first baby. Kelce and her late husband were parents to two children, Aurelia, 5, and Bodhi, 4.The Mum’s the Word podcast host recalled her and Tom’s plan to expand their family before his brain cancer diagnosis. “Tom and I always said we wanted four — but life had other…
Polio vaccine drops are administered to a child at a civil dispensary in Peshawar, Pakistan July 11, 2019. — ReutersEOC says child started showing symptoms on Dec 21. Balochistan remains hardest hit with 27 polio cases. Polio is a “paralysing” disease with “no cure”. Pakistan’s poliovirus tally for 2024 rose to 70 as the country reported another case on Thursday.The case has come to light in 2024 but was first reported in 2024, said the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC). The child who has been infected with the crippling disease is from Karachi East, confirmed National Health Organisation’s Polio Reference Laboratory, taking the toll of the…
Palestinians have roundly condemned United States President Donald Trump’s proposal for them to be displaced from the Gaza Strip and sent to Egypt and Jordan – a suggestion that has raised concerns of ethnic cleansing. Trump on Saturday told reporters that it was time to “clean out” the besieged Gaza Strip, urging the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza, either temporarily or permanently. The proposal was roundly rejected by Palestinians on Sunday, with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) saying the proposal would violate its “red lines”, while Gaza residents insisted they would remain in the…
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Pakistan Army commandos depart in their vehicles in Rawalpindi on September 13, 2021. — AFP18 terrorists killed in Lakki Marwat district: ISPR.Says two ring leaders gunned down in Bagh area.”Weapons, ammunition recovered from killed khwarij.”RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 30 terrorists during three separate counter-terrorism operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday.According to a statement issued by the military’s media wing, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Lakki Marwat district. “After the troops effectively engaged the terrorists at their location, eighteen khwarij were sent to hell, while six khwarij got injured,” the statement…
Saleem Bagga, seen by some as a lookalike of US President-elect Donald Trump, sells kheer, a traditional South Asian rice pudding, along a road in Sahiwal, Pakistan January 13, 2025. — ReutersSAHIWAL: In a bustling market in Punjab’s Sahiwal district, a food vendor who locals say bears an uncanny resemblance to US President-elect Donald Trump gets more business — and attention — than others.”We feel as if Trump has come here to sell kheer (pudding),” said Mohammad Yaseen, a local resident who prefers to buy the dessert from Saleem Bagga, the look-alike vendor who also sings to draw customers. Saleem…
An Irish batter plays a shot while Pakistan’s wicketkeeper keeps the wicket in a rain-hit contest during the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup at the Johor Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia on January 22, 2025. — PCBPakistan Women’s under-19 cricket team fell 13 runs short in a rain-hit contest against Ireland Women’s U19 in their final group match in the ongoing ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup at the Johor Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia on Wednesday. Green Shirts finished fourth in the Group B points table and will now be facing Samoa for the fourth place match on Friday (January…
‘The Witcher’ cast under strict watch from Netflix?Since Henry Cavill’s outing, Netflix appears to put an extra watch on the cast of The Witcher to not let any spoilers slip.Safiyya Ingar, who plays Keira Metz, expands on the tight restriction in an interview with Screen Rant at the Sundance Film Festival. Reflecting on her experience of sharing a minor spoiler picture, she said, “I can’t! They’ve got us in a chokehold so hard, I could say one word and there goes my NDA; my phone’ll blow up.””I remember I got in so much trouble. I can say this because technically…
This is a representational image of people taking a walk. — Unsplash Keeping up with the fitness trends can get overwhelming at times for those who are in their beginner stages. But don’t worry as you don’t have to follow these fads. According to a new research, if a person walks for a short amount of time, it can also do wonders. CNN reported that 11 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per day may lower your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease or premature death.But even if that’s too much, five minutes of walk per day can provide health benefits, said Dr Andrew Freeman.Dr Freeman,…