फिर बिहार में गुंजेगा क्रिकेट का शोर, नए अध्याय की होगी शुरुआत,मुंबई से भिड़ंत

Ranji Trophy 2024: मुंबई की टीम रणजी के इतिहास की सबसे सफल टीम है. 88 सीजन में 41 बार ट्रॉफी पर कब्जा किया है. मुंबई के नाम लागातार 15 जीत का रिकॉर्ड है.

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साउथ अफ्रीकी कप्तान के फैसले से गावस्कर चकित, भारत के खिलाफ भारी पड़ी चूक

Ind vs SA 2nd test भारत के खिलाफ डीन एल्गर का फैसला उन पर भारी पड़ गया क्योंकि दक्षिण अफ्रीका की टीम पहली पारी में 55 रन पर ढेर हो गई जो भारत के खिलाफ उसका सबसे कम स्कोर था. भारतीय टीम भी पहली पारी में 153 रन पर सिमट गई जिससे उसने 98 रन पर बढ़त हासिल की.

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Guwahati Airport Handled Record 5.6 Million Passengers In 2023

The Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Assam's Guwahati handled around 5.6 million passengers in 2023, an increase of a million compared to figures from 2022 when the airport handled 4.6 million passengers.

In 2023, the airport run by Adani Airports handled around 2.9 million arriving passengers and 2.7 million were departing fliers.

In 2023, the Guwahati airport handled over 46,000 aircraft. Among them, about 23,300 arrival and departure flights each. In 2022, the number was about 41,000.

"We are happy that in the recent calendar year 2023, we have exceeded the previous year's passengers number by 10 lakh, with a 17 per cent growth, one of the highest in the country. We are happy because we could handle this volume in a terminal that has less than half the passenger handling capacity. We are waiting eagerly to commission the new terminal this year that has double capacity than our current demand. We will have connectivity with Jaipur, Bhubaneswar and Bangkok this year and working with a few more domestic and international destinations this year," said Utpal Baruah, the Chief Airport Officer (CAO), at Adani LGBI Airport. 

The airport has witnessed an increase of 5,600 flights when compared to 2022. 

Last year, the airport had domestic connectivity with Jaipur and Bhubaneswar and Bangkok was the only international destination connected with the airport.

On Christmas Eve of 2023, a record 19,290 passengers were handled by the airport in a single day.

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विराट ने किया धोनी वाला कमाल, विकेट के पीछे से खूंखार बॉलर को दिलाया विकेट

IND vs SA: भारत और साउथ अफ्रीका के बीच पहले ही दिन कांटे की टक्कर देखने को मिली. यह मुकाबला गेंदबाजों के पक्ष में अधिक रहा. इस मैच में विराट कोहली ने विकेटों के पीछे से धोनी वाला कमाल कर सभी का दिल जीत लिया.

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Opinion: Opinion: After Pivotal 2023, India Boldly Steps Into 2024

India strode prominently on the international stage in 2023. It chaired the G20 summit, as also the SCO summit (virtually). It attended the BRICS summit in South Africa. India was invited to the G7 summit in Japan where it also participated in the Quad meet. In organising a Voice of the Global South summit just before G20, India increased the diplomatic heft of its presidency.

At the bilateral level, US President Joe Biden, as a special gesture, invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US on a state visit, which included an address to the US Congress. This wooing of India carried a significant political message about the growing strategic underpinnings of India-US ties, despite differences over our relations with Russia, the Ukraine conflict, our refusal to impose sanctions on Moscow, and the campaign in US think tanks, media, academia, and human rights organisations against "democracy backsliding" in India. US accusations of India's alleged involvement in the Pannun affair has been a troubling development.

French President Emmanuel Macron invited Modi to the Bastille Day on July 14 as the Chief Guest, a gesture of high regard for the Indian Prime Minister personally as well as a signal of the growing strategic understandings between France and India.

All these developments had India's steady economic rise, its growing technological and human capacities, strong, purposeful and ambitious leadership, diplomatic dynamism, and an independent foreign policy as the backdrop.

The success of India's G20 presidency was a tour de force in some ways. Without a Leaders' Declaration India would have suffered a serious diplomatic setback because of the massive political investment Modi had personally made in making the event emblematic of India's domestic and international ambitions.

The absence of a declaration would have also put the G20 in jeopardy as a platform, and this on India's watch would have been a blow to its rising profile. The opposition in India would have exploited any failure in the run up to the national elections in 2024. India, however, was able to finalise a fully agreed Leader's Declaration without caveats by any country.

That this proved possible despite the collapse of G7 ties with Russia over the Ukraine conflict, the draconian sanctions on Russia by the West that inflicted serious economic costs on the Global South by way of food, fertiliser shortages and disruptions in energy flows, was remarkable. The final declaration carries a substantial paragraph on Ukraine, which met the diplomatic needs of both the G7 and Russia backed by China.

The openly adversarial relationship between the US and China has disrupted international politics as well as existing economic and technology frameworks, led to moves to restructure global supply chains and raised the spectre of a conflict in the western Pacific.

China is now openly challenging US power. Through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it has knit relations with all corners of the globe in trade, control of vital raw materials and infrastructure development.

The West-built international order is being eroded, with Russia and China seeking to actively promote a multi-polar order. The Global South as well as some non-western countries hitherto politically and militarily dependent on the US are now pursuing hedging strategies and striving to balance their external ties by reaching out to China, even to the point of seeking its good offices to bring about reconciliation between regional adversaries, in, for instance, West Asia.

All this has consequences for multilateralism and collectively addressing pressing issues of climate change and issues of financial and technology transfers to developing countries and energy transition. (India stood its ground on its core interests at the Cop 28 summit at Dubai in November/December 2023). The indebtedness of developing countries, the accelerated implementation of Sustainable Development Goals needs genuine global cooperation, which will be impeded by the fractures in the international system. On top of this, India and China are locked in a military confrontation in the Himalayas as well as in the east.

It is in this broad international context that India's G20 success in developing a consensus on all vital issues facing the international community and bridging the divides should be assessed. India has emerged as a consensus-builder and a proponent of dialogue and diplomacy to resolve differences. It has credibility with both the North and the South, and to some degree the West and East (China apart).

India has capitalised on its policy of engaging all, even those who are mutual adversaries. Its membership of BRICS and SCO while as it is a member of the Quad supports the Indo-Pacific concept. India has grown visibly closer to the US even in the defence domain, which has given the country more room to manoeuvre on the international stage, and made it a valued partner to those who want to preserve the present "international order" as also those who want to reform it or even challenge it.

India is projecting itself as an upholder of the international order, albeit a reformed and a more democratic and equitable one. It sees building closer ties with the US as necessary for trade and access to capital. Cooperation in advanced technologies with the US is considered critical for India's economic growth and competitiveness. India wants to be a beneficiary of the shift in global supply chains hitherto concentrated in one geography. At the same time, it seeks a greater voice and role for itself and for the developing world in international governance.

The Voice of the Global South summit in January 2023 was intended to shift the agenda of the G20 from G 7 priorities to those of the developing world, such as managing global debt vulnerabilities, food and energy security, eliminating hunger, climate change financing, affordable, just and sustainable green development, focus on SDGs, reforming international financial institutions, and so on. Promoting the G20 membership of the African Union was part of this strategy. India convened the second summit of the Voice of the Global South in November 2023 to maintain the momentum.

India's membership of BRICS meets the goal of "international re-balancing", though the expansion process is not based on any clear criteria and is being thrust forward by China and Russia as part of their push for "multipolarity", which is a code word for countering the US dominance of the global system.

The SCO summit India chaired in July, although a platform for cooperation in Central Asia that excludes the West, has, for New Delhi, a logic beyond that. India as an Asian power cannot allow itself to be excluded from the Asian landmass and must remain a balancing factor in the power equations in this region, which are moving in China's favour.

The New Delhi SCO Declaration emphasised greater effectiveness of global institutions; a more representative, democratic, just and multipolar world order based on international law; multilateralism; equal, joint, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security; and cultural and civilizational diversity, with a central coordinating role of the UN. It stressed that unilateral application of economic sanctions other than those approved by the UN Security Council was incompatible with the principles of international law and had a negative impact on the third world countries and international economic relations. All this reflects dissatisfaction with the West dominated global system and the need for change and reforms.

With President Biden unable to attend India's Republic Day in 2024, and the consequent postponement of the Quad summit, President Macron's willingness to step in shows both the personal chemistry between him and Modi and the deepening strategic ties between the two countries. This was already reflected in Macron's invite to Modi to be chief guest at Bastille Day on July 14, when the two sides laid the foundations of a strategic relationship spanning the next 25 years by adopting the "Horizon 2047 Roadmap on the 25th Anniversary of the Indo-French Strategic Partnership: towards a century of French-Indian relations". India and France adopted a new Indo-Pacific Roadmap during Modi's visit, which includes extending their cooperation to the Pacific.

In May 2023, Prime Minister Modi, invited to the G7 summit in Japan, also attended the Quad summit. In his opening statement, Modi spelt out the importance India now attaches to the Quad, both on the security and economic fronts. He spoke of the Quad establishing itself as an important platform for ensuring peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific, recognised that the security and success of the Indo-Pacific was important also to the world. Modi reiterated that India now saw Quad as a "global good".

At Hiroshima, India joined the vigorous criticism of China's policies in the western Pacific that adversely affect India's interests too. India-China ties remain frozen at the political level. China has not appointed an ambassador to India since October 2022. President Xi Jinping did not attend the G20 summit in Delhi. The meeting of India's Foreign Minister with his Chinese counterpart in Delhi during the SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting produced no change in positions. China is making it clear that it will not make any concessions on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and that India must accept the new realities on the ground. India, on the other hand, has reiterated several times in 2023 that for ties to be normal, the situation on the border has to become normal.

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar's five-day visit to Russia in late December was politically necessary in the absence, again, last year of an India-Russia summit. Any feeling that the relationship was losing its vitality needed countering. Jaishankar's visit sent a clear political message - India will continue to nurture its ties with Russia, undeterred by pressures by the West.

Jaishankar was received by Putin who does not usually meet Foreign Ministers. Putin has in fact been publicly praising Modi for refusing to be intimidated and for pursuing India's national interest despite pressures. Jaishankar delivered a personal message from Modi to Putin, who, during the meeting, invited his "friend Modi" to visit Russia in 2024, a prospective Jaishankar endorsed. Jaishankar noted that after talks with Sergey Lavrov, "what clearly came out was that India-Russia relations remain very steady, remain very strong, they are based on our strategic convergence, on our geopolitical interests, and because they are mutually beneficial".

All in all, India steps into 2024 with greater self-confidence and a higher international profile.

(Kanwal Sibal was Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France, and Russia, and Deputy Chief Of Mission in Washington.)

Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author.

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टीम इंडिया में होगा बड़ा बदलाव, मिलेगा नया कप्तान, सूर्यकुमार और पंड्या अनफिट

भारतीय क्रिकेट टीम में जल्दी ही बड़ा बदलाव दिख सकता है. यह बदलाव भारत और अफगानिस्तान टी20 सीरीज में नजर आने वाला है. खबर है कि इस सीरीज के हार्दिक पंड्या और सूर्यकुमार यादव फिट नहीं हैं. ऐसे में बीसीसीआई नए कप्तान की ओर देख सकता है.

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रोहित-विराट का फ्यूचर प्लान जल्द होगा साफ, चीफ सेलेक्टर करेंगे मुलाकात

T20 World Cup 2024: रोहित और विराट (Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli) का फ्यूचर प्लान लगभग साफ हो चुका है. दोनों खिलाड़ियों ने टी20 वर्ल्ड कप में खेलने की इच्छा जाहिर की है. इस मुद्दे पर चीफ सेलेक्टर अजीत अगरकर दोनों दिग्गज खिलाड़ियों से बात कर सकते हैं.

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All You Need To Know About Bangladesh's 83-Year-Old Jailed Nobel Laureate

Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated around the world for helping millions of people out of poverty, but at home in Bangladesh he has a powerful enemy.

The 83-year-old, known as the "banker to the poorest of the poor", was awarded the Peace Prize in 2006 for his work loaning small cash sums to rural women, allowing them to invest in farm tools or business equipment and boost their earnings.

Grameen Bank, the microfinance lender he founded, was lauded for helping unleash breakneck economic growth in Bangladesh, and its work has since been copied by scores of developing countries.

"Human beings are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty," Yunus said during his Nobel lecture, daring his audience to imagine a world where deprivation was confined to history museums.

But his public profile in Bangladesh has earned him the hostility of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who once accused him of "sucking blood" from the poor.

On Monday he and three colleagues from one of the companies he founded were sentenced to jail terms of six months -- but immediately bailed pending appeal -- by a Dhaka labour court which found they had illegally failed to create a workers' welfare fund.

All four had denied the charges and the case has been criticised as politically moviated by watchdogs including Amnesty International.

Yunus still faces more than 100 other charges on alleged graft and labour law violations.

Hasina's administration has been increasingly cracked down on political dissent, and Yunus's popularity has for years earmarked him as a potential rival.

The year after winning the Nobel Prize, Yunus announced plans to set up his own "Citizen Power" party to end Bangladesh's confrontational political culture, which has been punctuated by instability and periods of military rule.

He abandoned those ambitions within months, but the enmity aroused by his challenge to the ruling elite has persisted.

Since Hasina returned to power in 2008, Yunus has been hit with a series of criminal cases and a smear campaign by a state-led Islamic agency that accuses him of promoting homosexuality.

The government unceremoniously forced him out of Grameen Bank in 2011 -- a decision fought by Yunus but upheld by Bangladesh's top court.

A telecom firm he chairs was hit with a graft probe in 2022 over accusations it had embezzled employee funds -- claims that critics say are politically motivated.

Hasina also blamed Yunus for the World Bank's decision to cancel funding for a bridge near the capital Dhaka after the project was embroiled in a bribery scandal.

The bridge finally opened in 2022 after years of construction delays, and at its opening ceremony, Hasina said Yunus should be "dipped in the river" for jeopardising its completion.

Yunus has adamantly denied influencing the World Bank's decision and his office has described the claims as "purely imaginary".

'Poverty was all around me' 

Yunus was born into a well-to-do family -- his father was a successful goldsmith -- in the coastal city of Chittagong in 1940.

He credits his mother, who offered help to anyone in need who knocked on their door, as his biggest influence.

Yunus won a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and returned soon after Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in a brutal 1971 war.

When he returned, he was chosen to head Chittagong University's economics department, but the young country was struggling through a severe famine and he felt compelled to take practical action.

"Poverty was all around me, and I could not turn away from it," he said in 2006.

"I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom... I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me."

After years of experimenting with ways to provide credit for people too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans, he founded Grameen Bank in 1983.

The institution now has more than nine million clients on its books, according to its most recent annual report (2020), and over 97 percent of its borrowers are women.

Yunus has won numerous high honours for his life's work, including a US Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama.

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2023 में कई भारतीयों ने क्रिकेट को कहा अलविदा, वर्ल्ड कप जिताने वाला लिस्ट में

Indian Cricketers Who Retired in 2023: भारत के लिए खेल चुके कई दिग्गज क्रिकेटरों ने साल 2023 में संन्यास की घोषणा की. इस लिस्ट में मुरली विजय, अंबाती रायुडू जैसे खिलाड़ी शामिल हैं. लिस्ट में एक ऐसा भी नाम है जिसने भारत को विश्व कप जिताया था.

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Punjab Man With PhD, 4 Master's Degrees Sells Vegetables To Make Ends Meet

With four Master's degrees and a PhD to his name, a man in Punjab is selling vegetables to make ends meet. Dr. Sandeep Singh, 39, was a contractual professor at Punjabi University in Patiala. However, unfortunate circumstances led him to leave the job and take up selling vegetables to earn money.

Dr. Sandeep Singh was a professor in Punjabi University's law department for 11 years. He has done his PhD in law and has four Master's degrees in subjects including Punjabi, journalism and political science and is still pursuing studies. He left his job after facing hurdles such as salary cut and irregular pay. "I had to leave the job because I didn't use to get my salary on time and there was frequent pay cut. It had become difficult for me to make ends meet with that job. That's why I switched to selling vegetables for the survival of me and my family."

With his vegetable cart and a board saying "PhD Sabzi Wala", Dr. Sandeep Singh goes home to home every day to sell vegetables. He says he earns more money by selling vegetables than he did as a professor. After a full day of work, he goes back home and studies for his exam.

Even though he has taken a break from teaching, Dr. Sandeep Singh has not given up his passion. He aspires to save money and open his own tuition centre one day.

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Jaipur ATM Cut Open, CCTV Sprayed Black, Thieves Escape With Lakhs

Two unidentified burglars cut an ATM of the State Bank of India here with a gas cutter and fled with Rs 29 lakh, police said on Sunday.

Kotwali SHO Vikrant Sharma said that two unidentfied burglars cut the ATM installed on the Bajaj Road on Saturday night.

Sharma said that on the basis of a complaint lodged by the bank on Sunday, a case has been registered and an investigation is on.

He said that the burglars had also cut the wire connections of the ATM and sprayed black colour on the CCTV cameras installed inside and outside the ATM.

The SHO said that efforts are being made to identify the burglars from the surrounding CCTV footages. 

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डेब्यू पर 171 रन, 22 साल का खूंखार बैटर द. अफ्रीका के खिलाफ रन बनाने को बेताब

कप्तान रोहित शर्मा और कोच राहुल द्रविड़ का लक्ष्य साउथ अफ्रीका के खिलाफ दूसरे मुकाबले को अपने नाम कर सीरीज बराबर करने की होगी. पहले मैच में फ्लॉप रहे 22 साल के ओपनर का इरादा इस मैच में धमाका करने का है. डेब्यू पर इस युवा ने 171 रन की पारी खेल सबको अपना मुरीद बनाया था.

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Top Colleges To Pursue Veterinary Science From Abroad

Students who are aspiring to pursue Veterinary Science can refer to the list of top ranking universities in this subject as per THE World University Rankings 2024.

The listing is based on the new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution's performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

Here is the list of top 25 universities across world for pursuing a courses in Veterinary Science: 

1. Stanford University
2. University of Cambridge
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. University of California, Los Angeles
5. Cornell University
6. University of Washington
7. The University of Tokyo
8. University of Edinburgh
9. University of Melbourne
10. LMU Munich
11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
13. Monash University
14. Zhejiang University
15. University of California, Davis
16. The University of Sydney
17. Seoul National University
18. University of Wisconsin-Madison
19. United States
20. Wageningen University & Research
21. University of California, Santa Barbara
22. The University of Queensland
23. University of Zurich
24. University of Bristol
25. City University of Hong Kong
26. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

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ऑस्ट्रेलियाई कोच ने डेविड को लेकर कहा- 'वॉर्नर कोई सेलेक्टर नहीं है...

ऑस्ट्रेलिया के धाकड़ ओपनर डेविड वॉर्नर के बाद ऑस्ट्रलियाई टेस्ट टीम में ओपनिंग की जिम्मेदारी कौन संभालेगा? इसको लेकर खूब चर्चा हो रही है. ऑस्ट्रेलियाई कोच एंड्रयू मैकडोनाल्ड ने कहा है कि वॉर्नर कोई सेलेक्टर नहीं है. हमनें उनसे बस राय पूछी और हम इससे खुश है.

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"He Supported Us...": Zerodha's Nithin Kamath On Father's Role In His Professional Journey

Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zerodha Nithin Kamath recently shared a heartwarming post about his father. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Mr Kamath shared how his father supported him and his brother Nikhil Kamath whenever they attempted something on their own. "Luck is a big part of any success in life. It starts right from birth, with our genes, parents, family, etc.-all of these are the luck of the draw," Mr Kamath, who founded online trading firm Zerodha in 2010, wrote. 

"None of the success that's ascribed to us would have happened without my father. He was not only the biggest cheerleader of  (Nikhil Kamath) @nikhilkamathcio and me but also the first customer whenever we attempted something. In a way, he was our VC," the post read. 

"He gave me the initial seed capital when I decided to trade, he was my first customer when I did multi-level marketing, and the first customer when I started a sub-brokerage and portfolio management business. He supported us in anything that we tried, no matter how foolish it seemed in hindsight. All of this with the limited resources he had access to," Mr Kamath added. 

Luck is a big part of any success in life. It starts right from birth, with our genes, parents, family, etc.—all of these are the luck of the draw.

None of the success that's ascribed to us would have happened without my father. He was not only the biggest cheerleader of… pic.twitter.com/tVNbyqlgVE

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Further, the entrepreneur revealed that his father gave him the initial seed capital when he decided to trade. His father was also the first customer when he did multi-level marketing, and the first customer when he started a sub-brokerage and portfolio management business. "He supported us in anything that we tried, no matter how foolish it seemed in hindsight. All of this with the limited resources he had access to," Mr Kamath said. 

The Zerodha CEO went on to recall an emotional moment in his professional journey as well that involved his father. He said he was once invited to speak at Canara Bank where his father worked his entire life and was also sitting in the audience as he delivered his speech. 

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"One of the most emotional moments in my professional journey was when I was invited to speak at Canara Bank, where my dad worked his entire life until he retired a decade back, with him in the audience and in tears when I was giving the talk," he wrote. 

Mr Kamath concluded his post by giving a shoutout to all fathers and mothers involved behind the scenes of almost every successful person. 

The founder and CEO shared the post on Thursday. Since then it has accumulated more than 392,000 views and hundreds of likes and comments. 

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