Новости за 28.08.2020

Noted athletics coach Purushotham Rai, who was to receive the Dronacharya award for lifetime contribution in a virtual ceremony on Saturday, passed away in Bengaluru on Friday night following a massive heart attack. Rai, who had three of his wards — Rosa Kutty, MK Asha and Pramila Aiyappa — competing for India at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was happy to receive the honour.

While the wait to hear from Lionel Messi goes on, Barcelona continues to do everything it can to try to convince him to stay. The club has told Messi that president Josep Bartomeu will resign if that is what it takes to keep the playmaker, but Barcelona said on Friday there was no word yet from Messi on the offer.

Namish Taneja will soon be seen in the upcoming TV show Aye Mere Humasafar and is working with actress Tina Philip and a few others for the first time.

More than 87,000 healthcare workers have been infected with Covid-19, with just six states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, West Bengal and Gujarat — accounting for three-fourths (around 74%) of the case burden and over 86% of the 573 deaths due to the infection, official data showed.

The National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada) has made some amendments to the proposed anti-doping legislation and the revised draft of the bill has been circulated among various stakeholders, including the sports ministry and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), for wider consultation. The legislation was in abeyance for more than a year.

In the latest episode of Kundali Bhagya, Mahira keeps lashing out at Preeta but the latter doesn't say anything. Preeta says she wants to leave this place and go to her mother's house.

England batsman Ollie Pope has been ruled out for up to four months after dislocating his left shoulder during the third Test against Pakistan at the Ageas Bowl, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced Friday.

While the monsoon in July was 10% below normal in the country, August is set to be one of the wettest in decades. Rainfall during the month has been 25% surplus so far (till August 28), the highest deviation from normal in 44 years, with monsoon rains pounding central and south India in recent weeks.

Upasana Singh, who is back in action with the TV show 'Gangs of Filmistan', is all excited about it

The World Bank has said that it is pausing the publication of the Doing Business report that ranks countries on the basis of their business competitiveness, pending investigation into a “number of irregularities” in its 2018 and 2020 surveys.

The makers have roped in actress Anushka Sen, who was last seen in ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’, to play the protagonist. The story of the show revolves around a girl and her unique journey. How she achieves her goals despite coming from a modest background and facing numerous problems forms the crux of the story.

When a 48-year-old man from Ghaziabad, whose lungs were totally damaged following Covid-19 infection, was wheeled into a Chennai-based hospital on Friday, he had just a thin hope of survival. About a few hours later, in faraway Mumbai, Monika More’s dream of having her hands, which had got severed in a train accident seven years ago, back came true with a double hand transplant.

In the latest episode of Kumkum Bhagya, Rhea is in tears listening to what her father Abhi had said about Prachi being so important.

Major Dhyan Chand, the hockey wizard, who registered some of the biggest wins in the game, was an instant star at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics after winning the gold for India. Remembering his father on his 115th birth anniversary, Ashok said that India honours the hockey legend by celebrating National Sports Day on his birthday on August 29 every year.

Two months before a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Facebook had turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and right-wing groups, national convenor of BJP’s IT cell Amit Malviya had written two emails to the technology giant in June, calling for action against an employee for “anti-BJP bias”.

IIT-Indore has introduced a one-of-its-kind course to teach classical scientific texts to students in Sanskrit, starting with Bhaskaracharya’s mathematical treatise ‘Lilavati’ of almost a thousand years ago, reports Meenakshi Sharma.

The sitting of the standing committee on information technology scheduled on September 2 is expected to be a stormy affair and might see Facebook representatives caught in a crossfire with the rival sides preparing to grill them for allegedly favouring the other.

India made it to the semifinals of the FIDE online chess Olympiad after beating Armenia on Friday. The two-legged clash saw India beat Armenia 3.5-2.5 in the opener.

Barbed wire has become synonymous with images of security cordons, especially in the context of Kashmir. But for years the Valley has been putting it to an unusual use: supplying electricity to scattered households in rural and hilly areas, a recent survey of the union territory’s (UT) power distribution network has found. Thin galvanised iron wire is also used to power homes.

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat and her personal Om Prakash Dahiya have tested positive for covid-19 and will not attend the ‘virtual’ national sports day awards ceremony on Saturday. Vinesh and Dahiya were set to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Dronacharya award, respectively, at Sonipat SAI centre.

Actress Neelu Vaghela returns to the small screen after a while, and she says it feels good to be back on the set.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Friday sentenced up to five years three top leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and close aides of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on terror related charges.

The actor, who will be seen reprising the role of King Akbar, talked about resuming work during pandemic and taking a pay cut in an exclusive chat with ETimes TV.

India captain Virat Kohli is likely to travel to Australia later this year despite his wife expecting their first child in January, a key Indian cricket board (BCCI) official said on Friday. Media reports Down Under said Cricket Australia and its broadcasters would be "holding their breath" over the availability of one of the biggest drawcards of world cricket.