Tag: RLD
Dravid Refuses Extra Rs 2.5 Cr Bonus, Opts For Equal Reward For Support Staff: Report
Rahul Dravid, the departing head coach of Team India, has declined an additional bonus offered by the BCCI, which would have equated his reward to that received by members of India's T20 World Cup-winning playing squad.....
Every Hour 26 Lives Lost To Drowning Worldwide: WHO
About 236,000 lives every year, which can be 350 per day or 26 every hour, are lost due to drowning worldwide, said Saima Wazed, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for South East Asia on Thursday. ....
U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2025: India To Start Title Defense Against West Indies On Jan 19
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday announced the match schedule for the U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 in Malaysia. Defending champions India will start their campaign against West Indies on January 19, a day after the start of the tournament.....
Quad Nations To Align Their Coast Guards In New Initiative
The Quad member countries India, the US, Japan and Australia on Saturday announced a slew of new initiatives on maritime security including the first-ever interoperability exercise among their coast guards.....
PM Modi Holds Bilateral Talks With Biden, Discusses Global, Regional Issues: MEA
US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged views on global and regional issues, including the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, during their bilateral talks at Biden's residence in Greenville, Delaware on Saturday ahead of the fourth in-person summit of the Quad later in the day.....
Italy Toll Surges To Nearly 3,000 With 475 New Deaths
Coronavirus-ravaged Italy, which had recorded 300 plus deaths for three days running from Sunday, on Wednesday hit a new high of 475 deaths in the last 24 hours.....
Global Coronavirus Cases Top 500,000; Death Toll Crosses 22,000
The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 500,000 as of Thursday noon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University in the US. The fresh figure reached 510,108 cases with 22,993 deaths.....
Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 1.5 Million
Global confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1.5 million on Wednesday afternoon local time, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.....
Thousands Defy Lockdown For Funeral Of Muslim Cleric In Bangladesh
Thousands of people on Saturday defied the countrywide lockdown to attend the funeral of a Muslim cleric in Bangladesh, triggering fears of rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic.....
This Was An Attack, This Wasn't The Flu: Trump
US President Donald Trump said that the US "had no choice" but to pour trillions of dollars into fighting the coronavirus pandemic, adding that "this was an attack... this wasn't the flu".....
