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Nagpur Test: Ton-up Kohli drives India to 404/3 at lunch on Day 3

Nagpur, November 26 : Captain Virat Kohli (123 not out) helped India reach 404/3 in their first innings till lunch on the third day of their second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here on Sunday.Kohli, who cracked his 19th Test century, shared a 183-run stand for the third wicket […]

Re-arrest Hafiz or ties bound to suffer: US to Pak

New Delhi : Stepping up the heat on Pakistan, the US today sought immediate re-arrest and prosecution of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and threatened of an adverse impact on ties if Islamabad failed to act against the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai massacre. After Saeed’s release from house arrest yesterday, the US State Department had […]

Academics robs literature of popular touch

Chandigarh: Punjabi writer Amarjit Chandan is a product of the 1960s, a time when universities and colleges were considered a vibrant place for creativity. He often wonders if what he studied at the college really made any impact on his literary creativity. He finds the answer in the negative. “In teaching, the syllabus comes first, […]

2 Punjabis among 600 stuck on Pacific island

Chandigarh : The fate of two Punjabi youths among 600 illegal migrants is uncertain after the Papua New Guinea police today stormed the Manus Island detention centre and whisked them away in buses, more than three weeks after the centre was decommissioned. Papua New Guinea is a country in southwestern Pacific. Ravinder Singh and Manjit Singh […]