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KL Rahul won’t be travelling with the Indian team to Pallekele today and is set to miss the first two games of India’s Asia Cup campaign that begins on September 2 against Pakistan, head coach Rahul Dravid informed during a press conference on Tuesday. The Karnataka batter is not “fully fit” and will stay back at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru to work on his fitness in a bid to be available for the Super 4s stage of the six-team tournament. That means Rahul won’t be in action before September 6. The last date to submit preliminary squads for the ICC Men’s World Cup is September 5. India would hope it is only a (yet another) bump in the road and not an end of the road.

NEW DELHI : India and Bangladesh are expected to hold a trial locomotive run on the Akhaura-Agartala railway line and push the operationalization of the crucial link between the two countries. Reports have indicated that both sides hope to operationalize the line by the end of this year. Tripura’s transport Mminister Sushanta Chowdhury stated in April that both sides would like to have the link operational by September this year.

Imran Khan's recent conviction on corruption charges, his lawyer Naeem Panjutha said, but it will not lead to his release as a judge has ordered his detention in another case. The 70-year-old former cricket hero has been at the centre of political turmoil in the crisis-ridden nuclear-armed state since his ouster in a parliamentary vote of confidence in April 2022, and his relations with Pakistan's powerful generals have deteriorated badly over the past year. Khan was imprisoned on Aug. 5 after being sentenced to three years jail for unlawfully selling state gifts during his tenure as prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

World Cup clash between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad on October 14 has been sold out within an hour after ICC's ticketing partner 'Book My Show' opened its exclusive pre-sale window. While there will be another round of general sale for the India-Pakistan match on September 3, there is a chance that there would be a complete sell-out within hours, like it happened on Tuesday for all the Mastercard holders. It couldn't be confirmed as to how many tickets were put online during the pre-sale window for all India matches and the warm-up games but it has been learnt that, after the sales opened at 6 pm IST, within an hour, all tickets on the day were exhausted. The 'Book My Show' website put a 'Sold Out' caption on the Pakistan game, which wasn't the case for the other eight India games. «Today it was only for those who owned a Mastercard (credit or debit, India and international).

A post shared by Shahid Afridi (@safridiofficial) Three possible high-octane India versus Pakistan games for the starved fans on both sides of the border along with a final chance for five nations to put their respective houses in order before the World Cup adds context to Asia Cup, starting in Multan on Wednesday. It is a tournament that has often struggled to find relevance in the midst of mushrooming bilateral contests over the last decade along with waning popularity of ODI cricket but the 2023 edition, beginning on Wednesday, has occupied a large slice of the mind space of team think tanks.

Anticipation is building as the Asia Cup 2023 is set to kick off with a clash between Pakistan and Nepal on Wednesday, August 30. The excitement is palpable as these teams prepare to take the field at Multan Cricket Stadium in Pakistan. The Asia Cup 2023 sees Pakistan and Nepal placed in Group A, alongside India.

Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's conviction and three-year sentence in the Toshakhana corruption case. A division bench comprising Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri announced the much-anticipated reserved verdict. On Monday, the IHC reserved the verdict on Khan's plea challenging his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case. A trial court in Islamabad convicted and sentenced the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman to three years in prison on August 5. The cricketer-turned-politician was sentenced on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts acquired by him and his family during his 2018-2022 tenure.

PTI, the announcement of this long-awaited verdict was made by a division bench led by Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri. IHC had kept its decision pending on Monday regarding Imran Khan's appeal contesting his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case. "Our application has been accepted, and the sentence has been suspended," Panjutha said on messaging platform X (formerly Twitter).

As anticipation builds for the upcoming cricketing clashes, the spotlight is undeniably fixed on the highly anticipated face-off between cricket titans India and Pakistan. Set to unfold on September 2 at Sri Lanka's Pallekele International Stadium, this match is destined to be an intense spectacle, drawing fans from both nations. Legendary cricketer Wasim Akram, a seasoned campaigner in these monumental clashes, shared his insights during a recent event.

The New York Post. Also Read: 'Hosting Osama Bin Laden,' Jaishankar's response to Pakistan at UNSC | Watch O'Neill gained significant attention when he publicly claimed responsibility for firing the fatal shots that resulted in the demise of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, during a secretive US military operation conducted in Pakistan back in 2011. This admission thrust him into the limelight and brought his military career and actions into the global spotlight.

Also read: WHO flags 7 India-made syrups in its probe on contaminated medicine causing 300 deaths globally Recent favourable environmental tests in Peshawar and Karachi have underscored the persistent risk of a polio epidemic in Pakistan, as noted by the committee. Furthermore, the committee reported the identification of a new case of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WP1) in Pakistan in 2023, bringing the year's total to 2 cases.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be eyeing to get past none other than Sachin Tendulkar, the highest run scorer from India in the Asia Cup. While Rohit is much closer to Sachin in terms of total runs in the tournament, King Kohli always tends to pleasantly surprise his fans. Let’s have a look at the top run scorers in the Asia Cup.

U20 World Championships gold. Check. Asian Championships gold. Check. Commonwealth Games gold. Check. Asian Games gold. Check. Olympic gold. Check. Diamond League trophy. Check. World Championships gold. Check. This is not a wish list of a teenager made right after watching a motivational movie. Or a shopping list of a soon-to-be bride. This is what Neeraj Chopra’s trophy cabinet looks like after his Sunday night triumph in the World Athletics Championships finals in Budapest, Hungary. Throw in a couple of silver medals he won at last year’s World Championships and Asian Junior Championships in 2016, too, and you have a treasure box that’s never been seen in India. Chopra threw his javelin 88.17m in his second out of six attempts. No one from the 12 strong finals line-up could breach the mark as Chopra became the first Indian ever to win a gold at the World Athletics Championships. The closest was Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem (87.82). When he won silver at the World Championships in Eugene, US, last year, he had said, “Yeah, but it’s not gold.” Well, it is now. The hallmark of Chopra’s ‘golden’ career has been his ability to gauge the conditions better than his competitors. In every competition there have been players with better personal and season best throws but Chopra has always managed to win on the big day. He had arrived in Budapest having played in just three competitions this year. He had hurt his groin in one of those competitions. According to Sportstar, Chopra barely threw a javelin in practice to avoid any possibility of hurting that muscle again. “I was thinking a bit about my groin injury. I was being careful, and my speed was not 100%,” he said. He still won.

India, and they would need to focus on education and infrastructure to take advantage of the demographic dividend, according to the latest report by Moody's Investor Service. «The ability of sovereigns to address these challenges will determine the extent to which their large populations can take advantage of opportunities to enhance long-term economic growth,» the ratings and research firm said in a report released Monday. While it appreciated the efforts made by India and the Philippines on infrastructure and governance, the firm noted that considerable work needed to be done on parameters like education and labour force participation. «There remains a considerable gap in the quality of education between Pakistan, Bangladesh and India compared with China and other peers in Southeast Asia, which contributes to labour-force participation imbalances,» the report said. The report pointed out that while the six large economies would contribute to a third of the global population increase over the next two decades and contribute significantly to the global labour pool, it said that «population growth unaccompanied by adequate job creation is likely to exacerbate sovereigns' exposure to social risks. According to the United Nations, India crossed China this year to become the most populous country in the world, and its population shall take another 40 years to reach its peak.

Indian government has appointed Geetika Srivastava, joint secretary (Indo-Pacific) in the external affairs ministry, to head the post of chargé d’affaires in the Indian high commission in Islamabad, said a report by Hindustantimes.com citing people familiar with the matter. She will be the first woman diplomat to hold this post in the Indian high commission in Islamabad.

Chandrayaan 3 near the south pole, a bizarre video has surfaced in which a purported student of a madrassa in Pakistan asserts that the moon and sun revolve around the earth. In the video, which has now gone viral on social networks, a reporter asks the'student' if science and English are taught in the madrassas. She then asks the student if the earth is round or flat, and the teenager says neither.

India's golden boy at the 2020 Olympic Summer Olympics, Neeraj Chopra scripted history in Budapest on Monday, beating arch-rival from Pakistan, Arshad Nadeem, to win the country's first-ever gold medal in the World Athletics Championships. It was his second medal at the World Championships after he secured a silver last year. Neeraj Chopra, 25 years, is also being praised for his patriotic gesture.

happy about Arshad Nadeem and how Javelin Throw is growing in India and Pakistan. He added that with the upcoming Asian Games 2023, the buzz around the India vs.

₹58 lakh). Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won the silver with a throw of 87.82m, and Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch (86.67m) bagged the bronze medal. Arshad got a cash award of $35,000.

Ukraine-Pakistan ties have gradually deepened amid the ongoing war with Russia. Islamabad started importing wheat from Kyiv earlier this year and is reportedly shipping weapons and other defence items to the war-hit nation. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had also made a day trip to Pakistan last month - the first ministerial visit from Ukraine since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1993.

ICC 2023 ODI World Cup, set to take place in India this October-November. In an encouraging news for BCCI and ICC, tickets for non-India matches, released on the official ticketing platform BookMyShow at 8 pm on August 25, are selling like hotcakes.