Month: May 2025

[ad_1] New Chandigarh: Punjab Kings' owner Preity Zinta gestures during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match between Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings, in New Chandigarh. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) Punjab Kings (PBKS) co-owner Preity Zinta says she is a "happy girl" after her team defeated Chennai Super Kings by four wickets at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Wednesday.After a tense finish, where Punjab got over the line, the PBKS team owner wrote on X: "Yeahhhhhh !!! appa jeet gaye (We won)! What a superb team effort!"Chasing 191, Punjab Kings openers Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran put on 44 for the first wicket. Prabhsimran brought up his second successive fifty in 31 balls, but his momentum was halted when he miscued a big shot off Noor and was caught at deep midwicket for 54. At that stage, PBKS were 116/2 […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A driver employed with the state-run transport corporation is facing a departmental probe after a video showing him offering Namaz during duty hours went viral, a senior official confirmed on Wednesday.The driver, identified as 58-year-old A K Mulla, was seen praying beside a parked bus that still had passengers inside. The incident reportedly occurred two days ago and was captured on video by one of the passengers.A senior official from the North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) told news agency PTI, "We don't know why this happened. A departmental inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the circumstances and reasons behind the incident." [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] CSK's Dewald Brevis after completes an excellent catch on Wednesday. against PBKS. (PTI Photos) The gravity-defying catch Dewald Brevis pulled off on Wednesday night was probably the lone shining light for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who are enduring a dismal season.Brevis' catch stunned the cricketing world, and the 22-year-old has been appreciated for his exceptional presence of mind at the boundary rope.In the first two balls of the 18th over, Punjab Kings' Shashank Singh hammered Ravindra Jadeja for a boundary and a six. Shashank was looking to finish the game in a hurry and was looking to clear the rope again, but Brevis, with his excellent awareness, caught it in the thin air at deep mid-wicket.Brevis, patrolling at long-on, ran and made the first contact with the ball inside the field of play as he caught it, then […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pakistani forces opened fire across the Line of Control (LoC) for a seventh straight day, the Indian Army said on Thursday, adding that own troops gave a proportionate response to the ceasefire violation."During the night of 30 April-1 May, Pakistan Army posts initiated unprovoked small-arms fire across the LoC opposite Kupwara, Uri and Akhnoor in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. These were responded proportionately," news agency ANI quoted Indian Army officials as saying.The ceasefire violation occurred despite Directors General of Military Operations (DGMO) of India and Pakistan talking over the hotline on Wednesday to discuss the continuous unprovoked violations by Pakistan.The Indian DGMO reportedly warned his Pakistani counterpart against violations by the Pakistan Army along the LOC and the International Border.On April 22, Pakistan-backed terrorists gunned down 26 male tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam. […]

[ad_1] SHAMLI/MEERUT: What began as a seemingly trivial preference between a bearded and clean-shaven look ended in a shocking betrayal for a 28-year-old man in Meerut, who claims his wife eloped with his younger brother after he refused to shave. Mohammad Shakir, a resident of Ujjwal Garden Colony in Lisari Gate area, married 25-year-old Arshi from Incholi around seven months ago. But trouble started on day one of their married life as Arshi objected to Shakir's beard and insisted he shave it off."She repeatedly told me that she didn't like the way I looked with a beard and even warned that she might leave me one day if I didn't shave it off," Shakir told the police.He dismissed the remarks as casual banter until Feb 3, when Arshi vanished from their home. She is suspected to have run away with […]

[ad_1] Are you a healthcare professional? Do you do your laundry at home, especially your work clothes? Well, then you might be harbouring dangerous pathogens, which might be putting the lives of your family and the people you interact with at risk. How? Your work clothes could be the carriers of pathogens. A new study found that healthcare workers who launder their uniforms at home could unknowingly contribute to the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals.Washing machines may increase the risk of antibiotic resistanceThe study led by Katie Laird of De Montfort University found that washing machines at home may harbour potential pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, which could have an impact on the domestic laundering of healthcare workers' uniforms. The study is published in the open-access journal PLOS One.Infections that are hospital-acquired are a major public health concern, as […]

[ad_1] Beijing hits back at lab leak theory, accuses Washington of politicising the pandemic and calls for probe into early US cases China has reignited the contentious debate over the origins of Covid-19 by releasing a white paper that accuses the United States of politicising the issue and suggests the virus may have emerged in America before it was detected in Wuhan.The white paper, published Wednesday via state-run Xinhua news agency, comes in response to renewed allegations from Washington, Reuters reported. On April 18, the US government launched an official Covid-19 website reiterating claims that the virus leaked from a lab in China. The site also criticized former President Joe Biden, Dr Anthony Fauci, and the World Health Organization for failing to hold China accountable.China’s white paper pushes back, citing a Missouri lawsuit that resulted in a symbolic $24 billion […]