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Bangladesh cricket team players (left), and BCB Bangladesh’s top domestic T20 tournament, the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), will not be held this year as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) plans to restructure the competition, board president Tamim Iqbal said on Thursday.Tamim said the tournament has been suspended because several franchises failed to follow the league’s...

73-year-old cricket legend facing health issues after 3 years of imprisonment Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday returned to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail shortly after undergoing a medical examination at Shifa Hospital in Islamabad.The development was confirmed to Reuters by a member of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.The 73-year-old cricket legend has been facing...

8 on board as Cessna charter plane crashes near Alaska radar station A twin-engine Cessna charter plane carrying eight people crashed Thursday near a remote radar site in western Alaska while flying from Anchorage to Cape Newenham, the National Transportation Safety Board said.The aircraft, operated by Security Aviation, was headed to Cape Newenham, about 40...

A 25-year-old airhostess was allegedly raped by a man posing as transgender MUMBAI: A 25-year-old airhostess was allegedly raped by a man who posed as a transgender and entered her flat on the pretext of using black magic to cure her ailing husband, police said.The accused, identified as Anil Shinde, 28, was arrested from a...

File photo: US treasury secretary Scott Bessent speaks to members of the media in Washington (Picture credit: AP) The United States is preparing what treasury secretary Scott Bessent described as the “toughest sanctions in history” against Iran, as Washington seeks to intensify economic pressure on Tehran and force the country towards a settlement.Bessent said the...

4 workers killed after train hits track workers in Japan Four workers carrying out weed-control work on a railway track in Japan were killed after they were struck by an express train as it entered Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo.The collision occurred around 10.46 am (local time) on Thursday while the workers were spraying herbicide...

Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas is bowled out by England’s Josh Tongue (Reuters) Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad has delivered a blunt verdict on Pakistan, describing them as a “poor side” and backing England to complete a 3-0 clean sweep in the three-Test series.Speaking on The Love for Cricket Podcast, Broad was critical of Pakistan’s current...

Rajya Sabha member’s son booked after Aston Martin kills Hyderabad woman. HYDERABAD: Madhapur police booked the son of Andhra Pradesh Rajya Sabha MP and Jana Sena functionary Lingamaneni Ramesh for rash and negligent driving after his Aston Martin allegedly killed a 26-year-old mall employee near Inorbit Mall on Aug 16.According to the FIR, Bharati Mukhi,...

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Facing an impending quarterly earnings miss driven by shifting enterprise IT budgets and rising AI distractions, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna opted for radical transparency — a move that triggered a historic stock plunge but is reported to have aligned with his core leadership philosophy. In an interview with CRN,...

SC flags ‘serious flaws’ in UP Gangsters Act, warns of misuse against innocents NEW DELHI: Pointing out various flaws in Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, Supreme Court on Thursday said the law is prone to misuse as there is no safeguard against vindictive and malicious action against innocents.A bench of Justices J...