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Dushan Hemantha‘s four-wicket haul and Ahan Wickramasinghe‘s sensational fifty sealed Sri Lanka A spot in the final and brought an end to defending champions Pakistan A campaign to its unforeseen conclusion in the first semi-final match of the ACC Men’s T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024. Sri Lanka left Pakistan bamboozled with their blitzkrieg and relentless onslaught while chasing a paltry target of 136. Despite losing opener Yashodha Lanka after he obstructed the field, Lahiru Udara and Ahan Wickramasinghe went berserk in the powerplay. Boundaries came according to their will, and the defending champions looked clueless in their attempts to put a halt to Sri Lanka’s high-flying inning. Fours and sixes became a constant theme… Read More »ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup: Sri Lanka A Knock Pakistan A Out Of Semis

Team India will embark on a five-Test tour of Australia next month, with the series likely to determing their hopes of reaching the World Test Championship (WTC) final next year at Lord’s. India have won each of their last two Test tours of Australia, and the Rohit Sharma-led side will look to make it three on the trot against Pat Cummins and his men. Cummins has enjoyed unmatched success as captain of Australia’s Test side, but his team lost the series on their recent trip to India last year. It has been nearly a decade since Australia last beat India home or away in a Test series. During a recent interaction, Cummins revealed he wouldn’t… Read More »Cummins Fires ‘Bushy Pitches’ Warning To India. Says “If I Had My Way…”

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia’s business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow could do what it wanted to ensure its own security. The United States said on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that the West is casting as a significant escalation of the Ukraine war. Ukraine’s military intelligence service said that the first North Korean units trained in Russia had been deployed in the Kursk region, a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces took a chunk of Russian… Read More »If Ukraine Could Join NATO, We Can Decide Too: Putin On North Korean Troops

<p>The ABP Southern Rising Summit 2024 witnessed diverse perspectives on population growth, birth rates, and the potential implications of the upcoming Lok Sabha delimitation. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu and Telangana MLA Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (KTR) shared their views on the issue.</p> <p>Speaking at the summit, Ram Mohan Naidu defended Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s recent remarks encouraging families in the state to have more children. “There is no controversy in Chandrababu Naidu saying that we need more children. Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary… He thinks for the next 20 years, even 50 years,” he said, adding that the Chief Minister&rsquo;s comments were rooted in concerns about an ageing… Read More »Union Min Ram Mohan Naidu Backs Chandrababu’s Call For More Children; KTR Points To ‘Crumbling Infrastructure’

The attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla on Thursday, in which two Indian Army soldiers were killed in action and two civilian porters lost their lives, is proof that Pakistani terrorists are deliberately targeting Kashmiri locals to evoke fear in the Valley, the Army has said. In a statement on Friday, the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps of the Indian Army said the brave soldiers, whose vehicle was attacked in Baramulla’s Butapathri area, demonstrated their commitment to countering the “inimical agenda of Pakistan-abetted terrorism in Kashmir”. The Army vehicle was targeted on Thursday and two soldiers, Rifleman Kaisar Ahmad Shah and Rifleman Jeevan Singh from Kashmir’s Anantnag and Haryana’s Sirsa, were killed in action. The statement said… Read More »“Pak Terrorists Trying To Evoke Fear”: Army On J&K Attack Which Killed 4