Новости за 30.05.2020

In keeping with the increasing easing of the lockdown, the Centre on Saturday set out a three-phase "unlock" plan that will restrict curbs to containment zones and permit reopening of malls, hotels and restaurants, inter-state travel and religious places in keeping with rules (SOPs) to be issued by the health ministry.

Tokyo Olympics quota winner Yashaswini Deswal of India shot 243.6 to claim the top spot in the 10m air pistol event of the 4th Online International Shooting Championship on Saturday.

The Asia Cup match is best remembered for Virat Kohli's extraordinary 183, which remains his highest score in his prolific ODI career and was also the highest score by an Indian in ODIs against Pakistan.

Indian football icon Bhaichung Bhutia on Saturday picked Kerala Blasters youngster Sahal Abdul Samad to be the next big scorer for the country after captain Sunil Chhetri's retirement.

The actor, who was constantly shooting before the lockdown, speaks to us about his learnings from the lockdown

With Nepal’s chief opposition party Nepali Congress endorsing Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s constitutional amendment, the move to "update" Nepal's map to include Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani in the national emblem is likely to go through with the required two-thirds majority, a development that will worsen the crisis in India-Nepal relations.

Reliving his 'special knock' of 133 off just 86 balls, Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Saturday revealed that he and Suresh Raina had decided to chase the target of 321 runs in 40 overs against Sri Lanka by breaking it into two T20 games.

Virat Kohli is one "funny man" having the whole of India on his back, says former ICC elite panel umpire Ian Gould, who also appreciated the modern-day great's timely change in behavioural approach.

Sunil Grover recently shared a heartwarming video on his social media handle saluting the Covid-19 frontline warriors. Not only doctors and cops, but many other people have also been working on the frontline braving the heat, dust making sure we live a smooth life.

Every high and low-tech method is being used to drive the locusts. Authorities have armed themselves with aerial sprayers (15 brought from the UK) in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, MP and Maharashtra while drones have been deployed to sprinkle chemicals in inaccessible areas. Drums, thalis and even mobile DJs used for wedding celebrations have been pressed to service.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Saturday nominated Rohit Sharma for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020 while Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Deepti Sharma have been nominated for the Arjuna Awards. The sports ministry had sought invitations for the respective awards with the period of consideration beginning Jan 1, 2016 to Dec 31, 2019.

Despite more storms in the forecast, two NASA astronauts climbed into their capsule on Saturday for a second attempt at a history-making ride into orbit aboard a rocket ship built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. With the flight already delayed 3 days, forecasters put the odds of acceptable conditions at 50-50 for the 3:22pm liftoff of the 270-foot Falcon 9.

Former India captain and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly on Saturday recalled an instance when the Indian team played an April Fool's Day prank on him. The 47-year-old said that the incident worked well for him as he went on to regain his form with the bat.

A small portion of the marble and red sand stone railings behind the Taj Mahal’s main mausoleum on the side of Yamuna river were damaged after an iron scaffolding fell on it due to the heavy thunderstorm that hit Agra last night. It would require Rs 20 lakh for the ASI to repair the damage. According to ASI officials, the scaffoldings were put for cleaning the dome.

Formula One's truncated coronavirus-hit season will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 5, the Austrian government announced on Saturday. The Spielberg circuit has also been given the green light to stage a second race the following weekend.

As Indian & Chinese troops remain engaged in a border standoff, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asserted that the government will not allow India's pride to be hurt under any circumstances even as he said bilateral talks were on at military and diplomatic levels to resolve the row. Asked whether India can be arm-twisted, he said: "you cannot even think of it."

The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Saturday with one more person losing his life and over 3.7 lakh people affected by the deluge in 6 districts, officials said. According to the flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, one person died in Kampur in Nagaon district, taking the toll in the first wave of flood in the state to 6.

The White House went into a lockdown in Washington DC, the CNN headquarters in Atlanta was vandalized, and a protester and police officer were killed in gunfire during clashes in California and Michigan, respectively on Friday as the US was roiled by unrest for the fourth successive day after a black man was allegedly kneed to death by a white police officer.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has said that he is confident that cricket will get back to normal in "6 to 7 months' time" if a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed. "It is something which caught the world in sheer shock. We did not have any vaccines to take care of it, but I think over a 6-7 month period, once the vaccine comes up everything will be normal," he said.

Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra has urged all National Sports Federations and National Olympic Committees to get their employees checked for Covid-19 after Hockey India staff members tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. Two staffers were found to be Covid infected after tests were conducted on 29 Hockey India employees on Friday.

Virat Kohli on Saturday said his elevation to captaincy has a lot to do with Mahendra Singh Dhoni keenly observing his cricket smarts for six-seven long years. During an Instagram chat with teammate Ravichandran Ashwin, Kohli spoke about how he was always keen on taking responsibility and becoming the India captain was a part of that process.