Year: 2020

West Indies paceman Gabriel won’t let up against England after Root row

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“No easing up – West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel . ©AFP” /> London (AFP) – West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel has no plans to alter his on-field approach against England, saying a previous flare-up with Joe Root was “blown way out of proportion”. Gabriel received a four-match ban after asking England captain Root “do you like boys?” during the third Test in St Lucia last year, with Root replying: “There’s nothing wrong with being gay.” Homosexual activity remains illegal in Gabriel’s native Trinidad. Only Root’s rebuke was picked…

US ‘closely monitoring’ India-China border situation

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The United States has said it is “closely monitoring” the India-China border situation and an American media report suggested China may have suffered severe losses in the eastern Ladakh clashes and put the number of its fatalities at 35 citing an intelligence assessment. US News, the media publication, went on to suggest that the Chinese are taking the deaths as a humiliation and might be reluctant, therefore, to announce or confirm them for fear of emboldening other adversaries. In the reported assessment of US intelligence it was…

‘Black lives do not matter’ in US: George Floyd’s brother tells UN

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ George Floyd’s brother on Wednesday begged the United Nations to help African Americans because “black lives do not matter in the United States”, as the UN’s rights chief urged reparations for centuries of discrimination. Philonise Floyd made an impassioned speech via video-link to an urgent United Nations Human Rights Council debate on “systemic racism” in the US and beyond. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the “gratuitous brutality” of Floyd’s death in police custody encapsulated racism that harmed millions of people of…

Global Covid tally crosses 8 million mark, WHO sees ‘green shoots of hope’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The world health organization on Wednesday said that green shoots of hope have emerged despite the world crossing a grim milestone of over 8 million deaths due to coronavirus pandemic. The director general of the global health organization added that the developments in the past couple of months have shown that together through global solidarity, humanity can overcome this pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s comments came on a day when the global tally of the Covid-19 infections crossed the 8.3 million mark with 60 thousand fresh cases registered…

Chinese property billionaire gets 5 years’ jail for child molestation

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The controlling shareholder and former chairman of Seazen Group, one of China’s largest property developers, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after being convicted him of child molestation. When Wang Zhenhua was arrested last July, shares in the company and its listed units nosedived. At the time, Seazen Group was China’s eighth-largest property developer by sales; it has since slipped to 13th place. The Putuo District People’s Court in Shanghai issued the verdict after a two-day closed-door hearing, according to a statement published on…

‘No compromise on borders’: PM Modi spells out India’s stance on row with China

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ India wants peace but is capable of giving a befitting reply if provoked, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, his first remarks on the border clash between soldiers of the Indian and Chinese army in eastern Ladakh on Monday evening. PM Modi’s sharply-worded statement was aimed not just at reassuring the country that the government was taking steps to protect India’s sovereignty but was also designed to deliver a stern message to Beijing. India has always promoted peace among nations, PM Modi said on Wednesday afternoon.…

West Indies’ Hope aiming for Test turnaround in England

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“West Indies batsman Shai Hope. ©AFP” /> London (AFP) – West Indies batsman Shai Hope is aiming to achieve a “turnaround” in his Test career now he is back in England, the scene of his greatest triumph in the five-day format. Three years ago Hope became the first batsman to score two hundreds in a first-class match at Headingley as his side recorded a stunning five-wicket win over the hosts in the second Test. Yet those remain his only two centuries in 31 Tests, with Hope averaging a modest 27.23.…

Cricket Australia admits T20 World Cup plans ‘unrealistic’

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“Australia played New Zealand behind closed doors in Sydney in March. ©AFP” /> Sydney (AFP) – Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this year is “unrealistic” in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic, Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings admitted Tuesday. The tournament is scheduled to take place from October 18 to November 15, and officials have previously said they are planning for it to proceed on those dates. But with many global borders still shut due to virus-related travel restrictions, Eddings conceded that was looking increasingly unlikely. “While…

‘Ground-breaking’: Trial shows drug cuts death risk by third in Covid cases

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Results released on Tuesday by the University of Oxford say that the use of the cheap and easily available anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone saves the lives of people seriously afflicted by coronavirus, cuts the death risk by a third for those on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen. The results were described by experts such as the UK government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance as “ground-breaking”, as Imperial College London announced its human trial for a vaccine from this week. The university said that in…

India blames China for violent face-off in eastern Ladakh, says PLA tried to change status quo

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ A colonel-ranked army officer and two soldiers were killed in a violent face-off with People’s Liberation Army soldiers in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan valley late on Monday evening. The deadly border clash, which led to casualties on both sides, took place at one of the four locations in Ladakh where the two armies have been locked in a 40-day standoff. In a statement earlier in the day, the Chinese foreign ministry and the PLA’s western command had blamed Indian soldiers for triggering the border clash. It had claimed…