Sunil Gavaskar with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide Oval on December 17, 2020. (Photo by Philip Brown/Popperfoto/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India’s 0-3 Test series defeat against New Zealand has not only set the cat amongst the pigeons, but has also sent the World Test Championships permutations haywire.India now need to win 4 Tests in Australia…
NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj supremo Prashant Kishore on Saturday criticised the 35-year rule of Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar, saying that it has stripped Bihar‘s children of their school bags and replaced them with the burdens of labor. Kishor explained the significance of the school bag as his party’s election symbol, saying that education is…
Jitan Ram Manjhi (left) and Tejashwi Yadav / File photos NEW DELHI: Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi, reacting to Tejashwi Yadav‘s remark that more people drink alcohol in Bihar than in Maharashtra, said the RJD leader made the claim “because he may be involved in smuggling”.“Liquor is banned here (in Bihar) but…
Hardik Pandya with captain Suryakumar Yadav during a training session. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India are set to face Bangladesh in the third and final T20I of the series at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday. Having already clinched the series with dominant victories in Gwalior and Delhi, India are eyeing a…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav was stopped on Friday from visiting Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) in Lucknow on security grounds on the socialist ideologue’s birth anniversary, prompting the SP president to garland a bust of the Loknayak (people’s hero) temporarily placed outside his house amid an outcry against Uttar Pradesh’s Bharatiya Janata…
PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar used his party’s state executive committee meeting Saturday to further consolidate his ties with ally BJP.Addressing the meeting, Nitish, who is JDU national president, not only praised PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda for financial assistance Bihar got in Union Budget, but also said…
NEW DELHI: Posters calling for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to be awarded the “Bharat Ratna” were seen outside the Janata Dal (United) party office in Patna, according to news agency ANI on Saturday.Earlier on Friday, Nitish Kumar while reviewing the flood situation in Bihar revealed that a sum of Rs 307 crore has been…
NEW DELHI: Political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor has dared to tread an uncharted territory in Bihar politics in recent times with his promise of scrapping liquor ban in the state, within an hour, if voted to power by the people in assembly elections due next year.Interestingly, liquor ban is considered to be one of the important…
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Prashant Kishor (R) NEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor, who is all set to launch his political party in Bihar, on Tuesday claimed that state chief minister Nitish Kumar was not “physically and mentally” fit and accused the BJP of propping him up to run its government at the Centre. The…
NEW DELHI: Former political strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday launched a fierce attack on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and alleged that the state government was being controlled by four retired bureaucrats.Addressing a press conference, Kishor vowed to remove Kumar from power. He accused Nitish of running his government through a small group of retired…
