Sohail Akhtar

Lahore Qalandars have named Pakistan pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi as the skipper of the team ahead of the upcoming season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL).

The Congress has announced the names of candidates on five seats in the city. Son of former UP governor Motilal Vora and Chhattisgarh MLA Arun Vora has been given the charge of Cantt assembly seat as observer.

Joint team of Talaiya police and the Crime branch on Wednesday arrested the thief, who stole the top part of metal dome installed on the minaret of 160-year-old Moti Masjid around 20 days back. The accused was arrested from his native town in Bihar near Nepal border.

A clinical display of accurate bowling and powerful hitting helped Qalandars to trounce Pune Devils by nine wickets in the fourth match of the Abu Dhabi T10 at the Abu Dhabi Zayed Cricket Stadium.

Wahab Riaz and Daren Sammy were allowed to rejoin their Peshawar Zalmi team in the Pakistan Super League after their appeal against a quarantine for breaching COVID-19 protocols was accepted by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Veteran Shahid Afridi shone with the ball as Qalandars recorded their second consecutive nine-wicket win, over Team Abu Dhabi, in the Abu Dhabi T10 here.

Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi were involved in a heated argument during the Lahore Qalandars and Quetta Gladiators match of the PSL taking place in Abu Dhabi.

Madhya Pradesh athletes began on a medal winning note in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games that started in Guwahati on January 9. State players won 9 medals, including three golds and two silvers.

The city unit of Bharatiya Janata Party is gearing up to unleash its star campaigners in Aryanagar, Sisamau and Cantonment assembly constituencies — the key segments it had lost in 2017 UP assemby elections.

KOLKATA: A 20-year-old boy died on Monday after ‘winning a bet’ with his friends who challenged him to drink cup of boiling hot tea in one gulp. Sohail Akhtar felt he could with an additional Rs 20.

Several opposition leaders, including Samajwadi party MLA from Arya Nagar Amitabh Bajpai, Congress party MLA from Cantt and district president of Congress Har Prakash Agnihotri, have been put under house arrest since early Tuesday morning in view of 'Bharat Bandh' call by farmers against the Centre's new farm laws.

Qalandars extended their winning streak in the Abu Dhabi T10 Super League with a four-wicket win over Maratha Arabians on Tuesday.

The mighty Qalandars extend their winning run by scuttling Bangla Tigers' spirited show in the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament at the Abu Dhabi Zayed Cricket Stadium. Qalandars registered an exciting seven-runs win to register their fifth victory in five matches.

Crawford Market shopkeepers have approached the police for help against extortion by fake anti-piracy activists. The shopowners, who have been duped by such “activists”, want the police to lay down a standard operating procedure for raids.

Three uncapped Pakistani players have walked out of their first-class teams, insisting they wanted to play for a franchise in the T10 league in Abu Dhabi, giving a new turn to the ongoing tussle between players and the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Pakistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan continued to impress with the bat as he led Multan Sultans to their first win in the Pakistan Super League, beating Lahore Qalandars by seven wickets on Friday.

The District Election Office released the list of the expenses incurred by the party candidates during the month-long election campaigning for the assembly polls. The Election Commission has set the limit of expenses to Rs 28 lakh.

Fate of as many as 93 candidates contesting for ten state legislative assembly seats will be decided on March 10,2022. The district administration has made elaborate preparations for counting and to check the victory processions.

Shaheen Afridi's ferocious pace and David Wiese's late charge spurred Lahore Qalandars to a six-wicket win over defending champion Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League.

Karachi Kings posted their third straight victory in Pakistan Super League 2018 when they beat Lahore Qalandars by 27 runs on Monday at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Munindra Shukla was the first to file his papers on the first day of nomination here on Tuesday.Munindra, who had won the 2012 assembly election on the SP ticket from Bithoor assembly seat, has again been fielded by the party from this seat.

Narendra Mohan of Mashakganj area in the city had gone to cast his vote on Sunday but not finding his name in voters’ list was not the only disappointment he had to face. When Mohan took up the matter with the booth level officer (BLO), he was shouted at and pushed around by constables on duty. “Sotey raho tum jaise aaj tak sotey rahe” (Go and asleep as you have been sleeping till now) was what he got to hear while being sent away. In Maulviganj, 70-year-old Arshad Ali also could not find his name and complained of misbehaviour by constables.

While mayor Sunil Prabhu will officially open the festival on January 10, on January 6, an Urdu heritage march comprising school students, writers and poets, will start from the festival venue.

The returning officers of all the ten constituencies declared the final list of the contesting candidates after 3 pm on Friday and allotted symbols to them.As many as three independent candidates have withdrawn their names.