[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Umran Malik might be warming the bench in the ODI series against New Zealand as the team management has preferred all-rounder Shardul Thakur over him but the express pacer has been mighty impressive with his sheer pace in his short international career.Bowling at around 150 clicks consistently, …

[ad_1] Pripyat, Ukraine CNN  —  A few kilometers from the Belarus border, Ukrainian forces are training for what they expect to be a brutal spring. Ageing T-72 tanks – some twice the age of their crews – fire off rounds into the mist, while ground troops practise storming abandoned buildings. …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Two years into his presidency, Joe Biden has taken few substantial steps to live up to his campaign promise to abolish the federal death penalty, disappointing advocates who see a mixed bag of policies from the White House and the Justice Department. “It makes me feel like …

[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: The Indian hockey team would like to emulate what happened in Raipur on Saturday. Albeit on an entirely different pitch altogether, an Indian team shocked the living daylights out of a team from New Zealand on home soil. It was the cricketers who did that on Saturday and …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Police are investigating the death of an endangered vulture at the Dallas Zoo as “suspicious,” authorities said. Staff found the bird dead in its enclosure Saturday – about a week after the same zoo made headlines for a clouded leopard that escaped after fencing around its enclosure …

[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Women’s doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Anna Danilina — seeded eighth — crashed out of the Australian Open after going down 4-6, 6-4, 2-6 against Belgium’s Alison Van Uytvanck and Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina in the second round. Sania, who was playing her last women’s doubles Grand Slam …

[ad_1] RAIPUR: In a big boost for Mumbai, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who missed the last two matches due to a bout of gastroenteri- tis, is fit and available for the make or break last Ranji Tro- phy league match against Maharashtra, which will be- gin at the Brabourne Stadium in …

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Beth Sanner is a former deputy director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration, a position where she oversaw the elements that coordinate and lead collection, analysis, and program oversight throughout the Intelligence Community. In this role she also served as the president’s intelligence briefer. She is a …

[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: A goal down and barely five minutes into their pool match against the Netherlands in Rourkela earlier in the week, New Zealand left the spectators dumbfounded, swapping the goal -keeper for an extra player. The innovation proved suicidal as the Black Sticks eventually lost the match 0-4. But …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Women’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek is out of the Australian Open, after losing in the fourth round on Sunday. Elena Rybakina defeated the 21-year-old Polish tennis player in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 at Rod Laver Arena. Światek had been favored heading into this year’s tournament after …