Pollution back in focus as Lanka’s Lakmal throws up at Kotla

Pollution back in focus as Lanka’s Lakmal throws up at Kotla

New Delhi, December 5 : The controversial issue of air pollution flared up again in the third and final Test between India and Sri Lanka, with the visiting seamer Suranga Lakmal going off the ground after throwing up here on Tuesday. After the visitors were bowled out for 373 in their first innings on the […]

No jobs, differently abled lodge protest on their day

No jobs, differently abled lodge protest on their day

Ludhiana : Accusing the government of adopting an indifferent attitude towards them, unemployed differently abled persons staged a protest at a state-level function here today. The event was organised to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons at Government Institute for Blind where a large numbers of differently abled persons from across the state gathered. They […]

Tied down by barbed wire, farmers suffer

Tied down by barbed wire, farmers suffer

Chandigarh : Conceived as a bulwark against cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics into trouble-torn Punjab in the 1980s, the barbed wire fencing has proved to be the bane of farmers in border villages. In 1980, when former BSF chief Prakash Singh convinced the Union Government to build a fence, he didn’t foresee the problems […]

Job satisfaction is most in Test cricket: Kohli

Job satisfaction is most in Test cricket: Kohli

New Delhi, December 4 : For a man with an insatiable hunger for runs, Virat Kohli says he derives utmost job satisfaction when he shines in Test cricket, a format he has mastered “watching” teammate Cheteshwar Pujara bat for long hours. Only 29, Kohli has already established himself as one of the game’s greats, yesterday […]

Masks out: Delhi gets to Lankans, they to Indians

Masks out: Delhi gets to Lankans, they to Indians

New Delhi : On Sunday, the second day of the final Test between India and Sri Lanka here, viewers witnessed something probably unprecedented on a cricket field. The Sri Lankan cricketers trooped out of their dressing room after lunch with their faces covered with masks. Evidently, they were struggling because of the air pollution. For […]