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IPL 2020: MS Dhoni returned to Ranchi after CSK failure

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Harshit
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ipl 2020, csk, dhoni

After completing their journey in the IPL, the Chennai Super Kings team returned home from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday. Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni returned to his hometown Ranchi.

The team from Chennai first reached Delhi Airport from where Dhoni took a flight to Ranchi. IPL 2020 did not go well for Dhoni and his team Chennai Super Kings. Chennai team failed to reach the IPL playoffs for the first time in the history.

The Chennai Super Kings team won six matches in the IPL 2020 and lost in eight matches. The team finished seventh in the IPL table.

Dhoni, who was playing competitive cricket for the first time since World Cup semi-finals 2019, scored only 200 runs in 14 matches with a strike rate of 116, while he did not score any half-century.

Dhoni has made it clear that he will not retire from the Indian Premier League and play for Chennai Super Kings in this league next year as well.

IPL BCCI ready for Women T20 Challenge

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Harshit
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Woman IPL, Women's T20 Challenge
Woman IPL, Women's T20 Challenge

Apart from the best players of Indian women’s cricket, players from England, South Africa, and West Indies will show their skills and stamina against each other in the third Women’s T20 Challenge from 4 November. The tournament will have four matches in which three teams will participate. These three teams will face each other after which the final will be held on November 9. Players from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and New Zealand are also participating in the tournament.

Harmanpreet Kaur-led team Supernovas has won all their matches in the last two tournaments so far. Harmanpreet was in excellent form in the last tournament. She scored half-centuries in two of the three matches. Her innings of 51 off 37 balls played a key role in the victory. India’s T20 captain will try to return to her form.

Earlier this year, she performed poorly in the Women’s World T20 in Australia. Harmanpreet scored an average of 6.00 in five matches. All eyes will also be on Jemima Rodrigues. Last season, the Mumbai cricketer scored the highest 123 runs and came out as the best player of the tournament.

Umar Gul regrets not defeating India in World Cup 2011 semifinals

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Harshit
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Umar Gul, Pakistan, Umar Gul on India

Former Pakistan fast bowler Umar Gul says that he will regret his failure to beat India in the 2011 World Cup semi-final in Mohali. Pakistan has never defeated India in World Cup history.

The same happened on 30 March 2011 at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali and India entered the finals by defeating Pakistan by 29 runs and then became the World Champion for the second time by defeating Sri Lanka in the finals under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

“If you talk about a cricket career, then I only and only regret that we could not beat India in the semi-finals in Mohali.”

Before that match, we played brilliantly in the tournament, but one match destroyed all our expectations.

Gul has recently retired from international cricket. Gul has taken a total of 427 international wickets for Pakistan.

IPL 2020: Shreyas Iyer confident about Delhi Capitals winning the title

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Harshit
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IPL, IPL 2020, Shreyas Iyer, Delhi Capitals

Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer is very excited about his team’s comeback after four consecutive defeats in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and is confident that he will be able to defeat the defending champions Mumbai Indians in the first qualifier.

Delhi Capitals made it to the top two with an easy six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday. To book their spot in the finals, Delhi will now have to defeat Mumbai on Thursday.

Iyer said after the match, “Mumbai Indians are one of the best teams, but I will also say that we also have a team of bold and excellent players.”

Iyer said, “It really depends on the performance of that day. Mumbai are very experienced in playing in this (finals) stage, but on the match day, the team whose attitude is better and the one who performs well will be able to move forward. “

Bigg Boss 14: Kavita Kaushik, Nishant Singh Malkani face eviction

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Shivani Negi
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In a totally unexpected move, Bigg Boss 14 house witnessed two evictions on Monday. The two evicted contestants are Nishant Singh Malkani and wild card contestant Kavita Kaushik. Their eviction was decided on the basis housemates as well as audiences votes’/

Apart from Nishant and Kavita, the two other contestants nominated in the bottom four were Jasmin Bhasin and Rubina Dilaik.

While Nishant was evicted by housemates themselves, Kavita had to go home as she received the least number of votes from the audience.

Post her eviction, Kavita took to Instagram to share a cryptic note on her Instagram.

Even as she got evicted, she had a final showdown with housemate Eijaz Khan. When Eijaz moved forward to hug her, she snubbed him while hugged other members of the house.

Meanwhile, Nishant Singh Malkhani has called his eviction completely unfair.

“It’s been a roller coaster ride for me, full of ups and downs. Initially, when I entered the show, I was emotionally low and felt left out. I took time to open up and understand the game. It was only in the fourth week that things went brilliantly but the last couple of days were tough.”

“I was equally shocked and surprised that I was evicted not because of the audience, but due to my house mates. And this included those whom I considered my friends. If I would have been evicted on the basis of audience vote, I wouldn’t have felt bad. What was more shocking for me was that I got evicted because Bigg Boss asked the house mates to choose a contestant. Isn’t it strange? I was definitely an easy target and they reached a consensus against me,” he added.

Bollywood actor Vijay Raaz arrested for molesting female artist

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Neha Kumari
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Actor Vijay Raj, who made a special place in the film industry with his acting, has been accused of molestation. Vijay Raj has been arrested for molesting a female artist. He was arrested from a hotel in Gondia, Maharashtra.

Vijay Raj is currently shooting with his team in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. He was here for the last few days in connection with the shooting of the film Lioness. Vijay allegedly molested a woman during the shooting of the film.

Additional SP Atul Kulkarni of Gondia said that a case has been registered against Vijay Raj. A case has been registered against him under Section 354 of IPC.

The shooting of the film was stopped after Vijay Raj’s arrest. A case was registered late Monday night at Ramnagar police station on the complaint of the woman. Earlier Vijay Raj was also arrested in Dubai on charges of possessing drugs in 2005. He was later released on bail.

Bihar second phase of assembly election, 51.80% voting was done till 5 pm

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Neha Kumari
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In Bihar in the second phase, 46 candidates from BJP, 43 from JDU and five from VIPs are in the fray. 56 candidates of RJD, 24 of Congress, 14 of Left parties are contesting in the opposition Grand Alliance. 52 candidates of Lok Janshakti Party are in the fray.

According to the Election Commission, the fate of 1,463 candidates is to be decided in this phase, out of which 1316 are males, 146 females and one third gender. In the second phase, more than two crore 85 lakh voters will exercise their franchise.

According to reports, 51.80 percent voting was done in the second phase of voting till 5 pm. According to the Election Commission, the voting percentage till 5 pm has been 51.80 per cent. West Champaran – 55.99, Percent, East Champaran – 52.63, Percent, Shivhar – 53.50 Percent, Sitamarhi – 52.90 Percent, Madhubani – 52.67 Percent, Darbhanga – 52.40 Percent, Muzaffarpur – 57.08 Percent, Gopalganj – 52.79 Percent, Siwan – 48.47 Percent, Saran – 50.81 percent, Vaisali – 51.93 percent, Samastipur – 52.69 percent, Begusarai – 57.13 percent, Khagaria – 54.49 percent, Bhagalpur – 51.80 percent, Nalanda – 49.86 percent and Patna – 46.57 percent.

In the 2015 assembly elections, RJD won 33 of these 94 seats, while JDU got 30 seats. Congress got 7 seats, BJP 20 and LJP 2 seats. One seat each was won by CPI-ML and one Independent. BJP, JDU and RJD all got a large share of votes in this area. The RJD, JDU and Congress contested the 2015 assembly elections together.

NDA now have more than 100 seats in Rajya Sabha

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Neha Kumari
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New Delhi: After the BJP’s victory on 9 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the number of members of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the House has increased to more than 100. On Monday, BJP has won 9 seats. At the same time, the Congress, which has maintained its dominance in the upper house of Parliament for a long time, has come down to its lowest figure. The number of members of Congress is now 38. This is the lowest member number of Congress in Rajya Sabha till date.

In the elections held on 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh and one seat in Uttarakhand, BJP got nine seats in the account. Its nine candidates, including Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri, have been elected unopposed from Uttar Pradesh. With these nine seats, BJP’s strength increased to 92 in the Upper House. It has gained a total of six members in Uttar Pradesh, because three of its people have been re-elected.

In Bihar, BJP’s ally JD (U) has five members in the Rajya Sabha. Along with this, there are one member each in the house of RPI-Athawale, Assam Gana Parishad, Mizo National Front, National People’s Party, Naga People’s Front, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Bodoland People’s Front. In this way, the total number of NDA members in the Rajya Sabha has now increased to 104. At present, the total number of members in the house is 242.

Operation Cactus 3 November – when India saved Maldives

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Neha Kumari
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On 3 November 1988, the Sri Lankan militant organization People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam reached Maldives. These militants reached Maldives in disguise of tourists. Abdullah Lathufi, a Maldives citizen living in Sri Lanka, had planned the plank and the militants were admitted to the Maldives under this planning.

The militants took possession of the government buildings in the capital Male as soon as they entered the Maldives. Male, airport, television center and port were captured by militants. This troop of militants wanted to reach the then President Mamnoon Abdul Gayoom. As soon as Gayoom realized the danger, he sent emergency messages to the heads of many countries. Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, got into action as soon as he got the message. India was the first country to help Maldives.

At that time, in early November 1988, armed fighters reached the capital Male via waterboats. Important government buildings, airports, ports, communication centers were captured by the rebels there. Many leaders came under his control. Then 80 PLOTE fighters entered the Maldives and bombed through the Indian Ocean.

According to reports, soldiers of the 50th Parachute Brigade were sent to the capital Male. In the battle between the armed fighters and the Indian soldiers, the fighters were defeated and again Gayoom’s government came to power.

Continuing their operations, the Indian Army first occupied the Male Airport and then provided security to President Gayoom from the National Security Service headquarters. After this, the supply line of goods found to the terrorists was cut. Within a few hours, the Indian Army had saved President Gayoom’s capital from LTTE terrorists. The biggest thing in this attack was that the Indian Army was not harmed during the encounter with the terrorists. After this action of the Indian Army, many countries also praised India.

South Korean children’s song Baby Shark Dance becomes the most-watched YouTube video

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Shivani Negi
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The wildly popular South Korean children’s song “Baby Shark Dance” has set a new record. The music video of the song has become the most watched video with more than 7 billion views on YouTube, a record which was previously held by Louis Fonsi’s song “Despacito”. As of now, Baby Shark Dance has 7,049, 395, 509 views on YouTube.

Baby Shark Dance has been created by a South Korean Children’s educational company and was released by their official YouTube channel, ‘Pinkfong! Kids’ Songs & Stories’ on YouTube in June, 2016.

Even as the video was released in 2016, Baby Shark Dance came into light in 2019 when it charted at the 32nd spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2019. The groove-worthy lyrics and music of the song made it a perfect suit for many TikTok challengers with people using its tune as their background score.

The video, which clocks in at two minutes and 16 seconds, features two children repetitively singing “doo doo doo doo doo doo” lyrics while they call out “baby shark,” “mommy shark,” “daddy shark,” “grandma shark,” and “grandpa shark.”

Watch the official music video here:

Over the past few years, the song has risen to global fame with many global celebrities taking part in its various challenges.

Currently, the five most viewed videos on YouTube are: “Baby Shark”, “Despacito”, “Shape of You,” Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” and “Masha and the Bear – Recipe for Disaster.”

YouTube is yet to release an official statement.

US election 2020: Biden asks Trump to ‘pack bags’ on Election day eve

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Shivani Negi
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The United States will observe its final day of voting on November 3. While most of the polls have been in favour of Democartic nominee Joe Biden, the faceoff remains as intense as ever.

Amid the rising fear of covid-19 in the country, most of the voters opted for earli voting with more than 91 million already voting two-day before the election day.

While results are yet to be announced, Democratic challengers Joe Biden has expressed confidence in his win, The former vice-president has lashed out at Donald Trump for creating “chaos” during his presidency and said that “It’s time for him to pack his bags and go home.”

“We’re done with the chaos! We’re done with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility,” said Biden while assuring that if gets elected, he will bring the covid-19 situation under control across the country.

Biden was addressing the public on the eve of November 3 elections in his home-state Pennsylvania. In his first of the two speeches, he asserted that on Day One of his presidency, he will put forward an action plan against covid-19 that the has been promoting for months. The plan will include important measures against the virus including masking, social distancing, testing and tracing. He further said that the plan also consists of a full and fair distribution of vaccine whenever one is available.

“We’ll make sure we keep the protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Meanwhile, the Social Security Actuary says a plan like Donald Trump’s will bankrupt Social Security by 2023, ” Biden added.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump visited four battlegrounds states on Monday — North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. In his address, he highlighted his accomplishments over the last four years.

Polls will open and close across the US at different times on Tuesday, anywhere after 6 am and before 9 pm local time.

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In a first, Rajasthan mandates wearing masks in public

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Shivani Negi
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The Rajasthan assembly has passed a bill on Monday which makes it mandatory for people to wear masks in public as well as private transports. With this newly introduced law, Rajasthan has become the first state in the country bring such a strict law to fight to fight covid-19.

“Along with the ‘public movement against coronavirus’ going on in the state, the government will make wearing masks compulsory by enacting a law today itself,” Mr Gehlot said in a tweet in Hindi.

“The state government today also decided to ban the sale and bursting of fire crackers keeping the safety of COVID-19 infected patients in mind and also to protect the general public from toxic fumes from the fireworks.”

The Rajasthan Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced by state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal. In the Rajasthan Diseases Act, 2020, a new clause in Section 4 has been inserted which mandates public to wear face mask or cover while moving around public places.

The statement of the bill said, “Health experts all over the world are of the opinion that the use of a mask can help control the spread of COVID-19 considerably and save lives of millions.”

Chief Minister Gehlot had earlier said in a tweet that Rajasthan would be the first state in the country to enact a law making it mandatory to wear masks to curb the covid-19 infection.

“Rajasthan will be the first state in the country to enact a law making it mandatory to wear masks for protection against corona, as masks are the vaccine to protect against corona.”

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Covid-19 update: India’s covid-19 cases dip down to 38,310 in last 24-hour

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Shivani Negi
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A major decline was witnessed in India’s covid-19 positive cases in last 24-hour as only 38,310 infections were reported across the country. With fresh new additions, the country’s total covid-19 tally has reached 8,267,623. The total death toll has mounted to 123,097 with 490 fresh deaths. As of Tuesday morning, there are 542,346 active cases of covid-19, as many as 7.601,429 people have recuperated.

111,789,350 samples tested for Covid-19 up to 2nd November. Of these, 1,046,247 samples were tested on Monday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Delhi’s daily infections showed decline as the city recorded 4,000 cases on Monday. The Centre cited ongoing festive season as the reason of increasing infection and has come up with an elaborated plan to curb the infection. Among the measures which are to be taken are targeted RT-PCR testing in restaurants, market places and barber shops, ensuring proper hospital facilities in hospitals.

Here’re more updates related to covid-19:

*As many as 19 passenegers have tested positive for covid-19 in a recent flight from New Delhi to Wuhan under the Vande Bharat Mission. Besides the 19 Indians who tested positive, antibodies were found in the tests of 39 others, officials said.

*Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been discharged from hospital after he tested negative for the covid-19. He was admited to Breach Candy Hospital last month after contracting the infection.

*With 1,700 new Covid-19 cases and 58 more deaths, Chhattisgarhs count rose to 1,90,513 and the toll to 2,208 on Monday, a health official said.

*Accordin to the second sero survey in Harayana, at least 14.8 per cent population of Haryana has developed anti-bodies. Haryana’s Director of Health Services, Dr. Usha Gupta, said, “Rural areas of Faridabad and Jind were found to have the highest positivity rate of 25.5 per cent. Urban areas of Faridabad, Yamunanagar and Panipat districts had the highest sero-positivity rates of 40.2 per cent, 37.1 per cent and 36.3 per cent, respectively”.

*The Tamil Nadu state government has announced Deepavali bonus of Rs 210.48 crore to the PSU employees in the state, even as the income shrunk down to non-operation of vehicles amid the covid-10 induced lockdown.

*Manipur on Monday reported nine COVID-19 related deaths and the highest single-day spike, taking the death toll to 180 while the total positive cases has climbed to 19,091, with 341 fresh cases.

*Germany will observe four-week long partial lockdown with restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas and other entertainment facilities shutting down until the end of November to curb the recent infections of covid-19.

Meanwhile, the global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 47,284,293. While 33,982,192 have recovered, 1,210,378 have died so far.

India pre-orders 600 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, to order a billion doses more

By
Shivani Negi
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As the world continues to grapple with the increasing fear of covid-19, the race to develop a vaccine has even intensified. Even as the number of cases has shown a steady decline over the past few weeks in India, the fear of covid-19 is far from over. However, to much relief, India has an edge over other countries towards vaccination.

According to a new global analysis of advance market commitements (AMCS) for vacccines, India has repotredly used it manufacturing capability to pre-order 600 million doses of the vaccine. The report further said that India is also looking forward to pre-order another billion doses. Most of the vaccines being developed around the globe would require double dose to curb the infection. And if India succeeds in ordering a billion more doses, it would cover half of India’s population.

India is only second to US, which has pre-ordered 810 million and is negotiating for 1.6 billion more doses.

As per an analysis, it has been noted that manufacturing enough vaccines to cover the world’s population will take three to four years. The process to vaccination doses would be easy for high and middle income countries with manufacturing capacity.

“In terms of numbers of confirmed doses, the USA has pre-ordered the largest number (810 million confirmed, another 1.6 billion doses under negotiation), followed by India (600 million doses confirmed, with another 1 billion doses under negotiation), and the EU (400 million doses confirmed, another 1.565 billion doses under negotiation). But in terms of percent of population covered by confirmed purchases, Canada has pre-purchased enough vaccine to cover 527% of their population, followed by the UK at 277% of their population,” said Andrea D Taylor, assistant director of programmes at the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, who led the analysis.

“Of course, it is important to remember that most likely only some of the vaccine purchases will come through, depending on regulatory approval,” Taylor further said.

As of now, three vaccines are currently under late-stage clinical trials in India. These include Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin developed with ICMR and NIV, Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D and Oxford-AstraZeneca in partnership with Serum Institute of India. 

FIR against Amitabh Bachchan and makers of KBC-12

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Jyoti B
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An FIR against Amitabh Bachchan and makers of KBC-12.

The question asked by Amitabh Bachchan on his game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 12’ has not gone down well with some people on the internet.

An FIR has been registered against Big B and the show makers for “hurting Hindu sentiments” in Lucknow for a question during Friday’s ‘Karamveer’ episode, ZeeNews reported.

The question for Rs 6,40,000 was:

On 25 December 1927, Dr. BR Ambedkar and his followers burned copies of which scripture? 
The options given were:

 a) Vishnu Purana, b) Bhagavad Gita, c) Rigdev, and d) Manusmriti. 

Social activist Bezwada Wilson and actor Anup Soni were on the hot to answer the question.

The answer to the question is Manusmriti and after announcing it, Amitabh Bachchan said in Hindi that In 1927, Dr BR Ambedkar condemned the ancient Hindu text Manusmriti and also burned copies of it.

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri also shared a clip from the KBC show on the micro-blogging site Twitter and wrote, “KBC has been hijacked by Commies. Innocent kids, learn this is how culture wars are win. It’s called coding.”

Several other users accused the show of running a “leftist propaganda”, while others said the show had “hurt Hindu sentiments”.

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