Author: Shobhit Kukreti

It was a great day for Indian table tennis fans as Indian men too reached the pre-quarterfinals of the World Team table tennis championship, despite losing the final match against France. #77 Akula had also reached the semifinals of the Commonwealth games and also won the Gold medal in mixed doubles with veteran A. Sharath Kamal.Sathiyan too had a memorable Commonwealth Games as he clinched the bronze in the table tennis singles. The Indian men’s team advanced to the pre-quarterfinals despite losing 0-3 to France at the World Table Tennis Championship in Chengdu, China on Tuesday. India escaped elimination as…

The new season of the controversial show, Bigg Boss started this Sunday. Just like every year, the show has brought various celebrities from different fields. Among the 17 contestants, one name that has received a lot of flak is director, actor and anchor Sajid Khan. Sajid Khan’s inclusion in the show is not being liked by many considering he was accused by many of sexual harassment and obscenity. Many people including some famous names like singer Sona Mahapatra, host Janice Sequeira and journalist Barkha Dutt have raised their voices against the controversial director. Reactions to Sajid’s inclusion in Bigg Boss…

It was all killer Miller show in South African innings. Barring Deepak Chahar, David Miller didn’t spare any Indian bowler. In his unbeaten 106 run innings, Miller hit 7 sixes and 8 fours with strike rate of 200. It was all raining sixes and boundaries on Sunday evening in Guwahati. India was narrowly able to defend the runs in the high-scoring match. batting first, India scored 237 thanks to Rahul, Suryakumar’s blistering 50s, good support from Kohli and captain Sharma and the brilliant finish by Karthik. In reply, Proteas had a shaky start. After playing the first-over maiden, they lost…

The date 24 September was significant in women’s cricket. The end of a chapter called Jhulan Goswami, arguably the greatest woman fast bowler that cricket has seen. Team India gave her a fitting tribute by sealing the series against England 3-0. However, despite her being the woman of the moment, it was her other teammate, Deepti Sharma who became the spotlight of that day and even of the following week. “Earlier called ‘Mankad’ or ‘Mankading’, the special kind of run-out is when the bowler, while in action, runs the non-striker batter out if s/he tries to back up by leaving…

The Azerbaijan and Armenia tensions don’t seem to settle anytime soon. In a recent development of violence from Azerbaijan’s side, Armenia has decided to procure arms from the Indian Government. Earlier this year, Pinaka Mark I Enhanced and Pinaka Area Denial Munition (ADM) were launched on 9th April, from the Army Test Range at Pokhran. The user trials were done on 24th August. India will be exporting rockets, missiles, and other arms which include Pinaka, an indigenous multi-barreled rocket launcher. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violation of the ceasefire that both signed this month. The Ministry…

Courtesy of the brilliant bowling spells of Arshdeep Singh and Deepak Chahar, team India continued its good form and defeated the South African team by 8 wickets. Arshdeep was the stand-out bowler who took 3 wickets followed by Deepak Chahar taking 2. The chase became a little dicey when India lost both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli early. However, experienced Rahul and Suryakumar saved the team and took the team to the winning end. Team India was coming after the series win against Australia last week while the South African team was on a winning 4 out of 5 matches…

“With funds and ideological support from outside, it has become a major threat to the internal security of the country” The Government of India has ordered to ban the PFI(Popular front of India) for 5 years over the alleged involvement in terror activities and funding. This happened after the Central government raided the offices and officials of the controversial organization all over India for more than a week. The GOI has declared the PFI and its affiliated organisations as an “unlawful association” under the UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act). The organization has been alleged to have a connection with the…

“Along with same-sex marriage, “the family law” allows easier surrogacy rules, adoption laws and wider laws for grandparents.” On Monday, Cuba became the latest country to legalize same-sex marriage. Cuban people voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. More than 74% of the total 8 million votes were done in the referendum done by the Cuban government, out of which 3.9 million voters voted in support of it (66.9%), while 1.95 million opposed the proposal(33%) stated Alina Balseiro Gutierrez, president of the commission. President Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted that justice had won. https://twitter.com/DiazCanelB/status/1574399651607973898 The interesting thing about the votes was that…

Team India won the MasterCard Trophy by beating Australia by 6 wickets in the decider. While batting first, Australia scored 186, thanks to the firework by Cameroon Green and an explosive finish by Tim David. In reply, India took it till the final over but did enough to win it. Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli were the stars from the bat with Hardik Pandya giving the finishing touch. Rohit Sharma has continued his streak of not losing a bilateral series with this win. Australian Innings India won the toss and invited Australia to bat. India brought back Bhuvi to the…

India beats Australia in the second t20i of the three-match series. Indian captain Rohit Sharma starred with the bat while Axar led by his bowling performance. India had already lost the first match. There were doubts over the match as the ground was wet due to the continuous rain in Nagpur. Nevertheless, groundsmen did their job and it was decided to play 8 over a side match. Toss India won the toss and invited Australia to bat first after winning the toss. India had made two changes with Rishabh Pant and Bumrah replacing Umesh Yadav and Bhuvi. Australia replaced Inglis…