Новости за 01.05.2020

Veteran batsman Ross Taylor won New Zealand Cricket's top award for the third time Friday and vowed to bat on until the 2023 World Cup in India. The 36-year-old was awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal in a virtual ceremony held online because of COVID-19 restrictions.

India dropped in the ladder largely because the record of 12 Tests victories and just one Test defeat in 2016-17 was removed in the latest chart, the ICC said in a statement. Virat Kohli's men had won all five series during that period including against Australia and England.

Mumbai: Bombay high court rejected a plea a Mumbai man to quash a 2016 criminal case against him of rape and forcible abortion at gun point despite consent given by the complainant a TV actress from Delhi. The court held that her consent, on the face of it, doesn’t appear to be free from coercion.

Retired Qatari midfielder Adel Khamis, 54, "was unfortunately diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19," the Supreme Committee for the organisation of the 2022 FIFA World Cup wrote in a tweet. The number of confirmed infections among those involved in construction for 2022 facilities stands at eight across three stadium projects, as per April 17 update.

Former world snooker champion Peter Ebdon on Thursday said he was retiring from the sport to avoid having to endure daunting spinal surgery.

The starting point of Lionel Messi was May 1, 2005, exactly 15 years ago today. Messi roared into the consciousness of the football aficionados when he scored his first-ever goal against Albacete at Camp Nou. Ever since his debut for Barcelona in 2004-05, he has been scoring goals as naturally as breathing and has a tally of over 700 goals, including 29 this season.

Many workers are caught in a dilemma on whether to go home or not. There are some who worry about lack of work once they reach their homes

NASCAR will be the first major sport in the United States to return to action amid the Covid-19 pandemic after the organisers of the popular racing series said on Thursday that the season will resume without fans in mid-May. NASCAR, which postponed racing in mid-March due to pandemic, said its season will resume on May 17 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.

The PGA Tour will extend its exempt player membership status into next season due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has interrupted this year's schedule, it said on Thursday.

Andy Murray won the Virtual Madrid Open title on Thursday, helped by a semi-final walkover when opponent Diego Schwartzmann, logging in from Argentina, suffered a connection glitch. Diego kept being awarded points even though they were winners from Murray. With Murray exclaiming "this is madness", Diego withdrew. In the final, Murray downed David Goffin.

Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami, the legendary forward, who at 82 breathed his last in Kolkata on Thursday, was the poster boy of Indian football, a cricketer par excellence who once took Bengal to the Ranji Trophy final (1971-72) and helped India demolish the West Indies in a tour match. In short, he was an 'expert' at everything, be it a tennis racket or a hockey stick.

Dipika, who played his mother in the show spoke about him as a child actor. She called him very good looking and says he always knew that he will become an actor.

The Election Commission of India on Friday granted permission for holding elections to the legislative council (MLCs) in Maharashtra before May 27, giving Uddhav Thackeray an opportunity to become a member of the state legislature within the six-month deadline to remain the CM. Thackeray, on the occasion of Maharashtra Day had met governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

In an official statement released by his wife Sutapa Sikdar and his sons Babil and Ayan, they ask his fans and well wishers to take his news not as a loss but as a gain.

Recently, Mahira joined ETimes TV for a live chat and when we quizzed her about her current equation with Paras, the Kundali Bhagya actress stated that their bond is forever.

According to a tweet on the national channel’s official Twitter handle, Ramayan’s rebroadcast has smashed viewership records worldwide and it has become the most watched entertainment show all over the world with 7.7 crore viewership on April 16th.

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it did not sell a single unit in the domestic market last month due to coronavirus-led nationwide lockdown. The company had zero sales in the domestic market in April 2020, MSI said in a statement. This was because in compliance with govt orders all production facilities were closed, it added.

In an exclusive interview with TOI’s Pravin Kumar, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath talks about how dealing with challenges is a habit now, but watching lakhs of workers marching towards UP was both emotional and stressful for him. The CM talked about how the state is controlling the infection and if creating 15 lakh jobs is a realistic target.

The United Nations chief said he hopes many countries in the world will follow the ``remarkable example'' of South Korea, which he said has been ``extremely successful'' in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and is planning to tackle climate change in its recovery from COVID-19.