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Butch Stewart elated with Windies win

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Sandals Resorts International (SRI), the Principal Partner of Cricket West Indies (CWI), has offered its heartiest congratulations to the West Indies senior team on its historic victory in the first #raiseyourbat Test match against England at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton. In a release sent out yesterday Sandals stated: “SRI wants to join the entire Caribbean in applauding the efforts of captain Jason Holder and his squad and to recognize the outstanding performance of not only Mr. Holder, who captured six wickets for 42 runs in the first innings, but…

MAQ59 makes successful start in Trinidad

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SAN FERNANDO/TRINIDAD: The inaugural Maq Cricket59 tournament made a very successful start in Trinidad on Saturday as cricketers loved the new format. Three teams took part in the tournament Maq/Cricket360 All Stars, MYO, and Vijay Sports. Although the rain took precedent all four matches including the final was conducted much to the delight of the players and fans who showed up for the event. In the first match, Maq Cricket360 All Stars including a number of national youth cricketers, narrowly lost by five runs to MYO. The star of the…

Donald Trump working on merit-based immigration order, and DACA

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The White House on Friday said President Donald Trump was working on an executive order to establish a merit-based immigration system and offer a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, without offering them amnesty. The president has been pushing for a merit-based immigration system which offers US citizenship on the basis of the applicants qualifications and skills, in order to benefit the country, and less through familial connections, which currently account for roughly half of the 1 million Green Cards…

Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for Covid-19, admitted to hospital

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Actor Amitabh Bachchan has tested positive for the coronavirus. He has been admitted to hospital. “I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested !” he wrote on Twitter.

MAQ Cricket59 comes to Trinidad Saturday

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PORT-OF-SPAIN – TRINIDAD: The very popular Maq Cricket59 tournament will make its debut in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday, July 11 as a three-team tournament takes place in Avocat, South Trinidad. The very popular format which is the brainchild of chairman of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Mahammad Qureshi is expected to be very interesting as players will for the first time get the opportunity to play this format in the Caribbean Island. The format we see each innings being of 59 balls duration and the first ball of the match…

Pakistan rejects Kaneria and Malik’s pleas to help lift bans

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“Pakistani cricketer Danish Kaneria, whose plea to the PCB for help in lifting a match-fixing ban was rejected. ©AFP” /> Karachi (AFP) – Pakistan’s cricket board Friday rejected pleas by two former national players for help in overturning lifetime bans for charges related to match-fixing. Former spinner Danish Kaneria was banned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2012, while ex-skipper Saleem Malik was struck off in 2000 by the Pakistan board on the recommendation of a judicial commission. Kaneria, charged for inducing his Essex county team-mate Mervyn…

Turkey’s Prez Erdogan says Hagia Sophia becomes mosque after court ruling

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal. Erdogan made his announcement, just an hour after the court ruling was revealed, despite international warnings not to change the status of the nearly 1,500-year-old monument, revered by Christians and Muslims alike. “The decision was taken to hand over the management of the Ayasofya Mosque…to the Religious Affairs Directorate and open it for worship,” the…

Shortage of green cards is latest US immigrant barrier

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Indians holding or applying for green cards face a new anti-immigrant obstacle from the United States government. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has scaled back the printing of the physical green cards which identify the holder as a legal permanent US resident. By law, US permanent residents are legally required to carry the credit card-sized identity cards “at all times” and must show them when applying for jobs and when travelling. Indians received 10% of all green cards issued in 2019 and are the second-largest…

Intense outbreaks of new coronavirus can still be brought under control: WHO chief

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Intense outbreaks of the new coronavirus can still be brought under control, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday, lamenting that global case numbers had more than doubled in the past six weeks. “There are many, many examples from around the world,” said Tedros, that even if the Covid-19 outbreak is “very intense, it can still be brought back under control”.

Amazon bans TikTok on employees’ phones, cites ‘security risks’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> has requested employees remove the TikTok video sharing app from their mobile devices by July 10 over “security risks,” according to a memo to employees seen by Reuters. “Due to security risk, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email. If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email. At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed,” according to the email. Amazon.com representatives…