A new era has been ushered into Indian Football. It is the era where former players who were eminent on the stomping grounds back in their heydays, now have a say in the administrative affairs of the game in the country.
One such name is former India International Tababi Devi – an eminent player, who represented the Blue Tigresses up until 2011 with distinction.
Having been co-opted into the AIFF’s Executive Committee earlier this month, Tababi Devi will be a part of Indian football’s highest decision-making body for the next four years. “We now have two former women footballers in the Executive Committee, and it is a great honour and opportunity for us to represent the women’s football community at the top administrative level,” said Tababi Devi.
Must fight every step of the way to climb FIFA Rankings, Executive Committee member Tababi Devi
One of the key objectives for the former India captain is to help the National Teams climb the FIFA Rankings.
“We need to go up the rankings, and we need to fight together every step of the way, to climb higher,” said Tababi. “The main aim is to take measures, because of which more quality players will keep coming through
Indian batter Robin Uthappa announced his retirement from all forms of Indian cricket on Wednesday. The batter, who last represented Team India in 2015, took to social media to make the announcement through a letter. Uthappa shared a heartfelt post announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket.
The right-handed batter said it has been the “greatest honour” to represent India and Karnataka during this illustrious career. “It has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka.
The cricketer has posted on social media and stated “It has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka. However, all good things must come to an end, and with a grateful heart, I have decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket. Thank you all”
It has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka. However, all good things must come to an end, and with a grateful heart, I have decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket.
Uthappa made his Team India debut in April 2006 against England in ODIs. Since then, he has played 46 ODIs for India, across which he has scored 934 runs in 42 innings at an average of 25.94. Six half-centuries have come out of his bat.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in the state of indulging in violence during protests against her government and said action will be taken against those creating nuisance.
“People were harassed and public properties vandalised and destroyed. You can’t have goons and bombs brought in, in the name of protests. Remember, police and fringe elements cannot go together. No anti-social activity will get any cover under the garb of politics, the police will take action if that happens,” Banerjee said.
Her remarks came after clashes broke out in several parts of the state as workers left for Kolkata to take part in Nabanna Abhiyan on Tuesday.
Banerjee also claimed that BJP had brought workers from other states for the protests. She also defended the police action against the protestors.
“The police officers could have fired in the air, but they were very measured in their response. This cannot happen, you cannot book trains and bring people from other states to create a nuisance in Bengal,” she added.
Banerjee said she was not against democratic protests. “Since they don’t have numbers, they resorted to bombs and goondaism to create violence. I have never stopped democratic protests, you work in a democratic way, and no one will stop you. But in the name of andolan (agitation), you can’t get bombs and break heads. I pray for those who were injured, and hope they get well soon.” Banerjee made the comments after addressing an administrative review meeting of Purba Medinipur.
Earlier on Tuesday, Kolkata Police detained Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and MP Locket Chatterjee ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) protest march to state secretariat ‘Nabanna’.
The BJP leaders were detained from Hastings in Kolkata when they were leading the Nabanna Chalo Abhiyan. Adhikari, Chatterjee and BJP leader Rahul Sinha were taken to Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar.
Before the detention, Adhikari said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had lost the support of people and turned West Bengal into North Korea.
“Chief Minister Mamata does not have the support of her people and so she is enforcing dictatorship, similar to North Korea in Bengal. Police will have to pay for what it is doing since Monday. BJP is coming,” Adhikari told to agencies.
Kolkata Police has put up heavy barricading at Hastings near the state government’s new Secretariat in Kolkata ahead of BJP’s Nabanna Chalo march.
Buses carrying BJP workers, on their way to Kolkata to participate in the Nabanna Chalo march, were stopped by the police in North 24 Parganas.
A clash also broke out between BJP workers and Police outside the Raniganj railway station as workers leave for Kolkata to take part in Nabanna Abhiyan on Tuesday. Police took many workers into preventive custody in Raniganj.
Police have rescued two women and arrested a 50-year-old man who was allegedly pushing them into the flesh trade in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, an official said on Wednesday.
Based on a tip-off, police raided a house in Kamla Park area on Monday and found the two women, aged 18 and 19, being forced into prostitution by the accused, police spokesperson Sachin Navadkar said.
The police sent the two women to a shelter home and arrested the accused, he said. A case was registered against the accused under provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, the official said.
‘The Crown’ team has resumed shooting after the short break they took post Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
The creator of the Netflix series, Peter Morgan, had earlier told Deadline that filming would cease “out of respect” for Her Majesty following the queen’s passing on Thursday.
However, the team is now back from their short break. CNN quoted the producers of the show earlier who said, “As a mark of respect, filming on ‘The Crown’ was suspended today. Filming will also be suspended on the day of Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral”.
New York Post now reports that the actor who is portraying Princess Diana in the show – Elizabeth Debicki, has returned to the filming sets in Barcelona.
According to New York Post, Debicki was filming the late princess’s trip to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to support the Landmine Survivors Network, which was one of her last public appearances.
The actress was spotted replicating Princess Di’s attire during her trip to Bosnia by donning a light pink button-up shirt and black pants.
In keeping with how Diana interacts with those who lost loved ones to land mines in the show, she also carried a bouquet of flowers.
With four times more people watching the show this past weekend than the prior weekend, it hit new heights globally.
It is unknown if the one-day break would cause any delays in the sixth and final season of ‘The Crown,’ which is now being filmed and is scheduled to premiere in 2023. In November, Season 5 will be available on Netflix.
Under fire from the Opposition for losing out on the mega Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project to Gujarat, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday said Prime minister Narendra Modi has assured the state will get a similar project or even a better one.
Talking to reporters in Thane, state Industries Minister Uday Samant said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to the prime minister on Tuesday after Gujarat bagged the project.
The project was proposed to come up in Maharashtra but the Vedanta-Foxconn finalised Gujarat and jointly inked a Memorandum of Understanding with that government on Tuesday, triggering a political blame game.
The chief minister put forth his views before the prime minister on Vednata (Foxconn semi-conductor project).
The CM held a detailed discussion with the prime minister on this matter. The PM has assured the youth that a similar project, or a better one, will be given to Maharashtra, Samant said
Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 881 coronavirus cases and five fatalities, the health department said in a bulletin.
With the fresh additions, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 81,12,857 and the death toll to 1,48,298.
A day earlier, the state recorded 730 infections and four fatalities.
Mumbai recorded 203 fresh coronavirus cases. Of the five fatalities, two each were recorded in Mumbai and Thane city, while one death was reported from the Raigad district, it said. Maharashtra’s case fatality rate stands at 1.82 per cent.
The state is left with 5,426 active cases after 963 patients recovered from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally of recoveries to 79,59,133, the department said. A total of 28,539 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the number of samples tested so far in Maharashtra to 8,44,38,115.
Maharashtra’s COVID-19 figures are as follows: Fresh cases: 881, total cases 81,12,857, fatalities 1,48,298, active cases 5,426, tests 28,539, recoveries 79,59,133.
Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to amend its constitution relating to the cooling-off period for the president, secretary among other office-bearers.
This amendment may enable board President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to have longer tenures in BCCI.
The Supreme Court was hearing the matter of changing BCCI rules relating to the “cooling off” period for the president, secretary and other office bearers
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli allowed BCCI to amend its constitution. “We are of the considered view that the amendment would not dilute the original objective. We accept the proposed amendment,” the bench said.
“Amendment proposed by BCCI does not detract from the spirit of our original judgment and is accepted,” it said. BCCI had sought permission to change the rules relating to the “cooling off” period for the President, secretary and other office bearers.
The petition also sought a direction for the extension of the tenure of BCCI President, Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah.
The petition was filed in 2020. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), earlier moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing on a plea for approval to amend six rules of the board’s constitution.
The tenure of Sourav Ganguly as BCCI president and Jay Shah as BCCI secretary is set to expire in September 2022.
In 2019, the General Body of the BCCI during an AGM on December 1, 2019, proposed six amendments, including one in Rule 6 of the Constitution, which had barred BCCI and state board office bearers from holding office for more than six consecutive years.
Actor Ananya Panday on Tuesday shared pictures with her “new best friend” Ranbir Kapoor from their first shoot.
The ‘Gehraiyaan’ actor took to her Instagram handle and dropped a couple of monochrome pictures with Ranbir where they can be seen flashing their big smiles. Both of them wore ethnic attire.
Calling this new friendship ‘DostAstra’, she wrote, “new day, new shoot, new best friend #DostAstra.”
Earlier, Ananya and Ranbir were spotted together and this created lot of buzz on social media. Meanwhile, on the work front, Ananya was recently seen in Puri Jagannadh’s ‘Liger’, alongside Vijay Deverakonda.
Ranbir has already won hearts with his great performance in Ayan Mukherjee’s ‘Brahmastra’. He will next be seen in Luv Ranjan’s untitled movie with Shraddha Kapoor.
Several parts of the city recorded heavy showers overnight between Monday and Tuesday. Till 8. at 30am on Tuesday, the Indian Meteorological Department’s observatory recorded nearly three-digit rainfall.
As the showers began late at night and came in intervals, no case of severe waterlogging was reported.
Rainfall figures indicated that most of the rainfall was recorded after 8. 30pm. In the 12 hours ended 8. at 30pm on Monday, the IMD’s Colaba observatory had recorded 2. 8mm rain and the one at Santacruz 4mm.
