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India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, 3rd T20I: The grounds at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium is set to witness the third match between India and Sri Lanka, of the T20I series. Chasing a target of 78 runs, in 8 overs, India had won the second T20 match.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The memory of the 1999 supercyclone in Odisha is as vivid as a nightmare for Bina Kandi of Biluamundali village in Puri’s Astarang block. She was pregnant and the flooding in her village was catastrophic. “The water rose up to my neck, the walls of my house were damaged and my family had to take shelter in a nearby structure to survive,” says Kandi, 55.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Rishu Goswami farms six acres of land in Bilawar, a village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. Agriculture is his only income. For years, he has watched it rain at the wrong time.“It no longer rains as it used to,” he said.

Indian tourists are the largest group visiting Sri Lanka, thanks to the country’s proximity—a quick 2.5-hour flight from Mumbai—and its affordability. Following the Sri Lankan rupee’s collapse in 2022, the country became one of the most budget-friendly luxury destinations.

Telangana, including Kamareddy, Hyderabad, Nirmal, Siddipet, Nagarkurnool, and Medchal-Malkajgiri, experienced heavy rainfall for the fourth straight day on Tuesday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert, forecasting thunderstorms in several districts, including Rangareddy, Hyderabad, and Medchal-Malkajgiri.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. By the time I arrived at Sri Lanka’s Amba tea estate it was late evening and dark. In the morning, a short walk to the dining area was all it took for gorgeous views of the valley.

Modi slammed the Congress and the National Conference (NC) on Thursday for «allowing» India's waters to flow across the border for seven decades and showing no nerve to construct dams for the utilisation of the resource that would have benefitted Jammu and Kashmir's farmers. Addressing an election rally in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in this newly-created Assembly segment of Mata Vaishno Devi, Modi said his government is continuously improving road connectivity in the region to tap the full tourism potential of the area. «The governments run by the NC and Congress allowed our waters to flow across the border. They never dared to construct a big dam here. The Shahpur Kandi dam project remained untouched for years and as a result, thousands of hectares of land in Jammu became lifeless,» he said. He said if a BJP government was not formed at the Centre, the distressed farmers of Kathua and Samba districts would not have got a new lease of life with the Shahpur Kandi dam.

In Pimpri near Pune, when Tata Motors set the ball rolling to set up a pioneering all-woman line at its Harrier and Safari SUV plant, prospective employees —and their parents —had concerns about how they would travel and where they would stay. The management realised that for their mission to succeed, an important piece that had to fall in place was an assurance that the female workers would have a safe commute and accommodation. Says Sitaram Kandi, chief human resources officer, Tata Motors: “Where they would stay became our biggest concern since we didn’t have hostels. We shortlisted hostels near the plant and each one was visited by three different teams at different times of the day so that we could give the girls and their parents confidence.” After a tough initial phase, Tata Motors was able to increase the share of women on the shopfloor from 4% to 12%. “When you think of women’s employment, three big infrastructural barriers end up being the lack of safety, mobility and childcare,” says Pooja Goyal, founding CEO of Udaiti Foundation, which focuses on women’s economic empowerment. “For women to go out of the house to work, the benefit needs to be significantly more than what it is for a man since they are the ones doing the caregiving.”

Kandi Srinivasa Reddy, a former Congress candidate from Adilabad who contested the 2023 Telangana assembly elections, is facing serious allegations of rigging the US H-1B visa lottery system. According to an investigative report by Bloomberg, Reddy allegedly increased the odds for his staffing company clients by submitting multiple applications under different company names for the same individuals. Reddy has denied the accusations, asserting that his actions are within legal bounds. «Filing multiple entries is legal,» Reddy said, questioning why he was being singled out when 5,000 other companies reportedly employ similar strategies. He further clarified that his firms have secured only 302 visas out of 425,000 in the past five years. An NRI entrepreneur, Reddy founded Cloud Big Data Technologies LLC in 2013. Bloomberg's report indicates that Reddy's firm, along with other entities he controls, submitted over 3,000 entries, acquiring a substantial number of H-1B visas since 2020. The H-1B visa lottery, a key aspect of US employment policy for foreign workers, allocates a limited number of visas to skilled individuals. In 2023, 446,000 applicants vied for just 85,000 available visas.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, 2nd T20I: Suryakumar Yadav's India take on Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy today. After securing a win in the first T20I, Surya would be looking for his maiden T20 win as skipper of Team India. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will be looking to keep the series alive with a strong performance in the second T20.There were many positives for India in the first T20I, including the form of skipper Surya, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill.

Ujjaini Mahankali temple in Secunderabad, Telangana. Later, the Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth more than Rs 6,800 crores. These projects encompass multiple key sectors like road, rail, petroleum and natural gas. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for three National Highway projects.

Also read | Pakistan election 2024: Presidential polls set to take place by March 9 This will translate into the Jammu and Kashmir region now benefitting from the 1150 cusecs of water that was previously allocated to Pakistan. The water is expected to be utilised for irrigation purposes, benefiting over 32,000 hectares of land in the Kathua and Samba districts.

Shahpur Kandi barrage has effectively ceased the flow of water from the Ravi river into Pakistan, according to a report. Located on the Punjab-Jammu and Kashmir border, this development signifies a significant shift in water allocation, with the Jammu and Kashmir region now set to benefit from the 1150 cusecs of water previously destined for Pakistan. The diverted water will serve irrigation purposes, providing a boon to over 32,000 hectares of land in the Kathua and Samba districts. Despite facing numerous challenges over the past three decades, the Shahpur Kandi barrage project, essential for irrigation and hydropower generation, is on the brink of completion. Under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan, India possesses exclusive rights over the waters of the Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas rivers, while Pakistan controls the Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab rivers. The successful implementation of the Shahpur Kandi barrage empowers India to maximize the utilization of the Ravi river's waters, redirecting previously allocated resources from the old Lakhanpur dam towards Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

ANI as saying. So far, two terrorists have been killed in the encounter. One of them is said to be a "highly ranked terrorist leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba".

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday, as informed by the Defence spokesman. As per the official statement, the terrorist was trained on the Pakistan and Afghanistan Front. “One terrorist named Quari has been killed in an ongoing operation.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday appreciated the State Bank of India (SBI) for becoming the first foreign bank in Sri Lanka to successfully launch a pathbreaking direct Sri Lankan Rupee-Indian Rupee trade. Sitharaman, who is on a three-day official visit to the crisis-hit island nation, along with P.S.M. Charles, the Governor of Northern Province, inaugurated the second SBI branch in Jaffna.

Nirmala Sitharaman will be on a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka beginning Wednesday to address 'NAAM 200' and India Sri Lanka Business Summit, among others. During her visit, she will give the keynote address as the Guest of Honour at the 'NAAM 200' organised by the Government of Sri Lanka to commemorate the 200th anniversary of arrival of India-origin Tamils (IOTs) to the island nation on November 2 in Colombo, the finance ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Tata Motors on Thursday said it plans to equip over 50 per cent of its overall workforce with new-age auto tech capabilities within five years as part of its strategy to develop skilled and future-ready staff focused on electric vehicles and other emerging technologies in the auto industry. The company, which has over 57,000 employees across different functions, has collaborated with organisations such as ARAI, Bosch, Mathworks, SAE, and Tata Technologies, among others to provide its employees with professional certification programmes in connected, electric, shared and safe (CESS) through its upskilling programme.

₹25 crore in the last fiscal in upskilling programs to combat the shortage. Kandi highlighted that although the company's attrition is below the 10-12% industry average, "there are attempts to poach" from them. The senior executive also negated the fear that AI may lead to job cuts in the firm which employs about 57,000 in India.

Mohammed Siraj on Sunday donated his player-of-the-match cash prize of USD 5,000 to the Sri Lankan groundstaff who worked tirelessly through the rain-hit Asia Cup. «This cash prize goes to the groundsmen.

Also Read| Asia Cup 2023: Jasprit Bumrah off to Mumbai ahead of India vs Nepal match, expected to be back by… LiveMint earlier reported that ahead of India's second match of the Asia Cup, Bumrah had to leave for Mumbai owing to ‘personal reasons’. Bumrah is expected to rejoin the Indian contingent before the start of the Super Four stage of the tournament from September 6.