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India On Friday Registered It’s Highest Single-Day Spike In The Number Of Coronavirus Deaths.

India On Friday Registered It’s Highest Single-Day Spike In The Number Of Coronavirus Deaths.

India on Friday registered its highest single-day spike in the number of coronavirus deaths. With 77 deaths in the last 24 hours, health ministry data said, the total reached 1,152.The number of coronavirus cases in the country today breached the 35,000-mark. The total now stands at 35,365. The centre's data said 9,065 people have been cured of the virus so far, which is 25.37 per cent of the total cases.The centre on Thursday said the doubling rate of the coronavirus cases improved to 11 days.
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India’s Armed Forces Will Conduct Fly-Pasts, Light Up Ships At Sea And Shower Petals On Hospitals In An Elaborate Display On Sunday.

India’s Armed Forces Will Conduct Fly-Pasts, Light Up Ships At Sea And Shower Petals On Hospitals In An Elaborate Display On Sunday.

India's armed forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower petals on hospitals in an elaborate display on Sunday to thank doctors, medical staff and other front-line workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said this evening.The announcement, alongside all three service chief, came shortly before the Home Ministry released a statement extending the nationwide coronavirus lockdown by two weeks; the lockdown, which has been in force since March 25, had been due to end on Sunday.
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Umar Akmal Could Have A Part Of His Three Year Anti-Corruption Ban Suspended.

Umar Akmal Could Have A Part Of His Three Year Anti-Corruption Ban Suspended.

Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal could have a part of his three-year anti-corruption ban suspended when the judge heading the Cricket Board's disciplinary Panel gives out his detailed judgement soon, a source in the PCB has said. After the hour-long hearing of the panel held on Monday in Lahore, where Umar appeared himself to plead his case, Justice Miran Chohan announced a three-year ban on the batsman for failing to report corrupt approaches. "People are jumping to conclusions about the three-year ban but the detailed order is yet to come out. Umar might eventually get a three-year ban with two years…
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Michael Holding Said That The Pause Due To Covid-19 Should Be Used To Introspect On The Game.

Michael Holding Said That The Pause Due To Covid-19 Should Be Used To Introspect On The Game.

Looking to suck out every dollar available, cricket was suffering from an overkill and the coronavirus-forced break should be used to introspect whether the game is heading in the right direction, says West Indies fast bowling great Michael Holding. The 66-year-old cricketer-turned-commentator personally believes hitting the pause button for a while was necessary amid excessive commercialisation of the sport. "Just use the pause to look within the game, to look at what has been happening with the administrators, with the players, and think: Are we heading in the right direction? Is everything okay with our game? Personally, I don't think…
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Brett Lee Seems To Be Giving Andrew Symonds A Very Close Haircut In A Picture Posted By ICC.

Brett Lee Seems To Be Giving Andrew Symonds A Very Close Haircut In A Picture Posted By ICC.

ICC's official Instagram account shared a hilarious throwback picture of former Australian cricketers Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds to mark hair appreciation day. In the picture, Brett Lee can be seen giving a haircut to his former teammate Andrew Symonds. ICC captioned the post and wrote, "#HairstyleAppreciationDay Who is styling your hair during isolation". Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds are one of the very best to have played the game for their country. Andrew Symonds has been famous for sporting different hairstyles throughout his career.
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India’s Reliance Industries Has Cut The Pay Of Employees By Up To 50 Per Cent.

India’s Reliance Industries Has Cut The Pay Of Employees By Up To 50 Per Cent.

Reliance Industries has cut the pay of employees by up to 50 per cent, according to a company letter, as it battles lower profitability in wake of the coronavirus epidemic. The pay cuts were cited in a company note to employees dated April 29.Reliance Industries, headed by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has decided that employees earning more than Rs 15 lakh ($20,000) a year will face a 10 per cent salary cut, while senior executives will take salary cuts ranging from 30 per cent to 50 per cent. Employees earning less than Rs 15 lakh per annum will not…
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King Of Romance In Bollywood AKA Rishi Kapoor Takes His Last Breathe On Thursday Morning.

King Of Romance In Bollywood AKA Rishi Kapoor Takes His Last Breathe On Thursday Morning.

Rishi Kapoor, beloved star of films such as Bobby and Chandni, died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67 on Thursday. He fought a long battle with cancer and had spent much of last year in New York being treated. A statement from the Kapoor family said that the actor "remained jovial" and "kept doctors entertained till the end." Rishi Kapoor, who was famously fond of life, "would like to be remembered with a smile and not with tears," The family have also appealed that lockdown rules be respected by Mr Kapoor's fans and well-wishers.
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In Rajasthan, Around 26,000 People Were Transported To The Borders Of Madhya Pradesh Today.

In Rajasthan, Around 26,000 People Were Transported To The Borders Of Madhya Pradesh Today.

A number of states are making preparations for sending and receiving migrant workers a day after the Union home ministry gave a clearance for the movement of stranded labourers, students and tourists. Rajasthan was the first off the block, ferrying out around 40,000 migrant workers since morning. But many states, especially those from the south, have asked that the Centre run trains to move the migrants to their home states. Uttar Pradesh has made massive preparations to receive its stranded people. The Yogi Adityanath government which has so far brought back 12,000 stranded workers from Haryana -- has prepared quarantine…
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Nitish Kumar Is In Search Of Trains To Bring Migrant Workers Back To Bihar.

Nitish Kumar Is In Search Of Trains To Bring Migrant Workers Back To Bihar.

Till yesterday afternoon, Nitish Kumar was so firmly against bringing back those from his state who are stranded elsewhere in the country that he described the proposition as "an injustice to the principle of the lockdown." His comment, made last week, served as self-defence - he was alone among major states in doing little to bring students and migrant workers back to Bihar. It also did double time as a rebuke to his counterpart in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who dispatched buses to Rajasthan to help students from his state who were desperate to be home.Today, Nitish Kumar,…
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