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NEW DELHI: India added a record 80,092 cool covid cases on Sunday, becoming the first country in the world to cross the 80,000 mark in a single day since the outbreak of the pandemic, even as the week ending August 30 turned out to be the worst of the month. …

August was a great month for Netflix and Disney + Hotstar’s push towards Bollywood premieres, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Between the two, we have Sadak 2, starring Alia Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, directed by Janhvi Kapoor, and Khuda Haafiz with Vidyut Jammwal. There …

Shreyas Iyer believes the next IPL season will be one of his “most important assignments” as captain. He has been in charge of the capitals of Delhi since 2018, when he took over half the competition, replacing Gautam Gambhir. “It’s certainly very different from last season, but the challenges excite …

The Pakistan team was brutally controlled by passionate cricket fans after losing the second T20I to England at Old Trafford, Manchester, on Sunday. Despite posting a stiff total, they were disappointed by the bowlers when the former top-ranked T20I team suffered a bitter defeat in the contest. ‘Zimbabwe is coming’ …

Written by Sandip G, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Posted: Aug 30, 2020 7:24:23 pm The biennial Chess Olympiad, the most important team tournament in the world, is to the game what the Davis Cup is to tennis, a celebration of team spirit. (Photo: Twitter / @FIDE_chess) …

India and Russia were declared joint winners of the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad on Sunday after the final was marred by internet disconnection and server malfunction. Russia was initially declared the winner after two Indian players, Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh, lost time in the final after suffering a server …

Troubles mount for Rhea Chakrabory as the CBI called her back on Monday for the fourth time. The CBI for the third day in a row questioned Rhea on Sunday in the case of the death of her boyfriend and movie star Sushant Singh Rajput. The 28-year-old actress was interrogated …

Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not talking about upcoming NEETs and JEEs, Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday that the hopefuls wanted him to do a ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ on their monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio show. . “JEE-NEET hopefuls wanted the prime minister to do ‘Pariksha Pe …

Written by Rahel Philipose, edited by Explained Desk | Panaji | Updated: August 30, 2020 10:48:20 pm Riot police block protesters at Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, on August 27 (Photo: AP). With thousands of anti-government Protesters stormed the streets of Belarus For the third week in a row to …

Citing a serious situation and suffering around the world ”due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, the Supreme Court judge, Judge Arun Mishra, on Sunday rejected the farewell invitations from the bar associations. Judge Mishra, who is retiring on September 2, is one of the banks delivering key judgments …