According to reports, the 7th edition of the IPL will see a reduction of the salary cap and the players will be played in Indian rupees as opposed to US dollars. The new proposed salary cap for this season is Rs. 60 crores, which is significantly lower than what was there in the last edition. In 2013, the teams could spend up to an amount of $12.5 million on salaries which roughly came to Rs....
Rajkot, Oct 4 (PTI) Former West Indies all-rounder Carl Hooper says the lure of bagging an IPL contract has hurt the Caribbean outfit in Test cricket as most talented youngsters’ “ultimate goal” is to play in the cash-rich T20 league. The past disputes between the players and the West Indies Cricket Board are well-documented and the IPL has contributed to the team’s travails in the longest format, feels Hooper....
The Super Over has been used as a tie-breaker in modern day cricket for a while now. In this method, each team gets a chance to bat for one over. The team which scores the higher amount of runs wins the match. Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab have played the most number of Super Overs in IPL history (3 each). Chennai Super Kings, meanwhile, have played only one Super Over in the league....
Barrett didn’t own an iPod at the time, and he says that “90 percent of practicing doctors over 30 probably still don’t.” But his students do, and today they have beat-heavy tracks like “innocent systolic murmur,” “aortic regurgitation” and “mitral stenosis” at the top of their playlists. They’ve put the so-called “heart songs” on repeat and listened to them at the gym, on their commutes, while walking around town. In the process, apparently, they’ve become better doctors....
China—where the virus originated—and Iran are two of the worst affected nations to date, and both have been accused of covering up the scale and severity of their national outbreaks to limit the political damage to the regime. China has claimed to have passed the peak of its outbreak, and there have now been more reported cases and deaths outside the country than inside. The number of new daily cases in Iran is still increasing....
Iranian navy commander Admiral Hossein Khanzadi touted his country’s underwater military capabilities during a speech Thursday in the northeastern province of Razavi Khorasan. He stated that “the most complex pieces equipment in the world are those found in the military and among the military equipment, the most complex are those found in the navy, especially submarines,” according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency. “But today, thanks to the efforts of the youth of this land,” he added, “the country has made significant progress in this area....
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Wednesday it had conducted a new round of missile and drone attacks against positions of “terrorist” groups in northern Iraq. The strikes were part of an ongoing operation launched Saturday targeting exiled left-wing Kurdish dissident groups, including the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). The groups have a history of conflict with the Islamic Republic, and the Revolutionary Guard accused them of infiltrating Iran’s borders to attack security personnel and engage in riots amid nationwide protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died last week in police custody....
“We possess equipment that could punish the enemies in the furthest points if need be,” Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras warned, the Tehran Times reported. “Today, many of our equipment are unveiled, but our more effective equipment are not unveiled and they would appear when they are needed to strike a tough blow to the enemy [sic],” he said. According to Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the commander “underlined that Iran’s secret defense facilities and capabilities could scare enemies to death if necessary....
A long-standing opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Newsweek that the U.S. State Department should not grant a visa for Raisi, who still faces U.S. sanctions over human rights violations. On Monday, Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori-Jahromi said “preliminary planning” had been undertaken for Raisi to go to the U.N. General Assembly, which opens on September 13. But it comes on the heels of a video on Iranian state media which said that Tehran could use its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), “to turn New York into ruins and hell in case of a hostile act by the U....
Rouhani said that “major issues like sanctions” were agreed upon by diplomats, but other issues were still being discussed, the Associated Press reported. Diplomats from Russia and China alongside a European Union official in charge of the talks expressed that more progress is needed in the discussions that will resume next week in Vienna. In a display of positivity, Rouhani said “we have taken a major and big step and the main agreement has been done....
Lashing out in an interview Friday with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Trump dropped the F-bomb on a country he has accused of funding militant groups, targeting U.S. interests in the Middle East and secretly pursuing a nuclear weapon. “If you f*ck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before,” a COVID-19-positive Trump said, arguing Tehran “knows that and has been put on notice....
Aghdashloo talked to Newsweek about the tumult in her home country after the September 13 killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for failing to wear a hijab. Iranian authorities said that she suffered sudden heart failure, but her family and those protesting say she died, after spending three days in a coma, because they beat her. Her death sparked a national movement—videos of women cutting their hair and burning their hijabs flooded social media before the country enforced a media blackout—and a global outcry against the Islamic morality code....
In January 2020, Trump announced that the U.S. had terminated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani via drone strike at a Baghdad airport. Trump had described Soleimani as a threat to overseas U.S. forces. Iran threatened retaliation over Soleimani’s killing. Tasnim tweeted the image with a caption that translates to “Revenge is inevitable.” Roughly translated, the text inside the graphic says, “Revenge must be taken on those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who did it....
Iratus is essentially the inverse of Darkest Dungeon, allowing the player to take control of a necromancer unexpectedly released “from an eternal prison” who uses their army of the dead to kill heroes and take over a corrupt world. It still retains the same dark, Lovecraftian horror art style as its inspiration, in spite of the role reversal. RELATED: Darkest Dungeon Update adding Multiplayer The ripple effects of Darkest Dungeon on the independent game development scene are hard to overstate....
South Africa Women won the first ODI and arrived in the second game with an eye on the series victory. A solid performance saw them beat the Irish Women comprehensively to win the series on Tuesday itself. They will now be eyeing a whitewash, whereas the hosts will be hoping to finish the series on a high. In the second ODI, South African skipper Sune Luus won the toss and opted to bowl first....
“I can’t believe I’ve had to write this, let alone release the news,” Cara’s publicist Judith Moose wrote on the songwriter’s Twitter account. “The Academy Award winning actress, singer, songwriter, and producer passed away in her Florida home.” Cara’s cause of death is currently unknown, but will be released when more information becomes available, Moose confirmed. In 1983, Cara won an Academy Award for “Flashdance…What A Feeling,” which was her biggest hit, according to the songwriter’s website....
With respect to the Iron Man VR pre-order bonuses, two have been revealed: four custom Armor Decos and an Iron Man VR Dynamic PS4 theme. The four custom Iron Man VR Armor Decos are listed as the Origin Armor, Vintage Armor, Silver Centurion Armor, and Ultraviolet Armor, and they can be seen below. These Iron Man VR pre-order bonuses are available through all retailers, but those that chose to pre-purchase the game through the PlayStation Store will additionally receive a free month trial to Marvel Unlimited....
The latest payment round applies to “veterans and their beneficiaries who receive Compensation and Pension (C&P) benefit payments who don’t normally file a tax return,” and the majority of these payments will be issued electronically, the Internal Revenue Service said. The IRS was expected to begin processing VA payment files at the end of last week “if no additional issues arise,” the federal body advised on April 7. The IRS has not announced when paper checks will be mailed to VA benefit recipients....
Set in the 1980s, the show sees Charlie Hunnam portray Lin, and viewers will no doubt wonder how much of the story that unfolds is true. Here is everything you need to know. Is ‘Shantaram’ Based on a True Story? Why the Truth Is Blurry Shantaram is based on the novel of the same name by the Australian author Gregory David Roberts. While the book is a work of fiction, it is based on a lot of real events that happened in the author’s life....
