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https://ift.tt/G2JTbWu Yet again, KL Rahul left his home ground on a happy note. For the Karnataka lad, coming back to the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium meant a return to a place that saw him grow from a talented youngster into an Indian cricket team regular. It was a good day for Rahul and his IPL team, Delhi Capitals, as they beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). KL Rahul said that the plan was always to continue playing good cricketing shots and that there were no nerves towards the end with Tristan Stubbs and David Miller out in the middle during the death overs. Reduced to 18/3 in the powerplay courtesy of a sensational bowling display from Bhuvneshwar Kumar , half-centuries from Rahul and Stubbs put DC back on track. However, RCB made a strong comeback in the death overs, taking the equation to 15 runs in the final over. Miller finished in style, smashing two sixes and a four to take DC to their third win of the season with a ball to spare. Speaking at the post-match presentation,...

https://ift.tt/1noV0MU Despite the constitutional amendment bill for implementing women's reservation having failed in the Lok Sabha, the path to implementing a 33 per cent reservation for women in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections remains open. Several options are currently being considered to achieve this. According to top government sources, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains committed to 33 per cent women's reservation. To implement this in the next Lok Sabha elections, discussions will be held with all political parties and if necessary, the government may even consider re-introducing the bill during the monsoon session, sources said. Despite the failure of the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill, the government has not withdrawn the two accompanying bills that pertain to Union Territories and the delimitation process, and these remain pending in the Lok Sabha, sources said. The government can bring these bills up for a vote at any time, at its own co...

https://ift.tt/mvPFRiS In a move that could expand commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said that Iran is removing sea mines from the waterway with the help of the United States. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "Iran, with the help of the U.S.A., has removed, or is removing, all sea mines!" The US Navy currently has one littoral combat ship equipped for mine-clearing operations in the region, along with other military assets capable of performing similar tasks. In addition, two more mine-clearing vessels have been deployed from Japan and are en route to the area. Last week, the New York Times reported that Iran was unable to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz because it could not locate all the mines it laid in the waterway to block the passage amid war. Iran had used small boats to mine Hormuz last month. However, it is not clear whether Iran recorded the mines' placements, the report said. According to the rep...

https://ift.tt/z5yaj1P Former India opener Virender Sehwag has recalled why Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) opted for Pradeep Sangwan instead of a young Virat Kohli during the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) season in 2008, citing team balance and a lack of bowling options at the time. Speaking on JioHotstar, JioStar expert Sehwag said the franchise had a packed top-order batting line-up, which made it difficult to accommodate all players in the XI. "So at Delhi Daredevils back in 2008, the inaugural IPL season, I remember Shikhar Dhawan was also in our team along with Tillakaratne Dilshan . Both of them were openers, but we used to make them bat at three and five because Gautam and I used to open the innings. Manoj Tiwary had taken the number four spot. So we had a lot of top-order batters in the team, and it was becoming difficult to fit all of them into the batting order," Sehwag said. He added that Kohli was also batting in the top order, but the team wa...

https://ift.tt/dRXb0Z3 An ancient Greenland shark, thought to be at least 150 years old, has been found on an Irish beach in what experts call a "very rare" event. The nearly 9.5-foot carcass was found in Finisklin, County Sligo, by two locals named Hammad Chaudhry and James Winters O'Donnell, who were out for a stroll along the beach. Initially believed to be a basking shark, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) confirmed the rare find, noting it is the first recorded stranding of its kind in the Emerald Isle. "On the evening of Saturday, April 11th, the IWDG Live Stranding hotline received a report of a two-metre dead basking shark. Photos confirmed however, that this was not a basking shark and indeed a very rare and interesting stranding," read the statement by IWDG. The Greenland shark can have a lifespan of more than 500 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. They typically reach a length of four to six metres. "Little is known about the e...

https://ift.tt/s9dZINX Days after the US-Iranian talks in Pakistan failed, US President Donald Trump said that negotiations could resume "over the next two days." Speaking to the New York Post on Tuesday, Trump confirmed that the venue is going to stay the same -- Pakistan. "...It's more likely that we go back there," he said, adding, "Why should we go to some country that has nothing to do with it?" Trump said that Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal, Asim Munir, was "fantastic" and "doing a great job", which is why the US and Iran would go back to the talks in Islamabad. Earlier, Trump had told the Post that the US would not be returning to Pakistan for any future talks with Iran but later called them back with the update. The Republican leader had hinted at a European country as a mediating country previously. When asked if it was Turkey that the US was considering as the next location for talks, Trump said, "No, some...