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KKR registered their second win of the season against the Punjab Kings on Monday night. But they suffered early blows again while batting, with Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana scoring 9 and 0 respectively. Shubman Gill, in particular, has looked out of form, scoring just 89 runs in six games in IPL 2021. Sunil Gavaskar said in this regard that KKR should look to change their opening combination. The former India captain went on to highlight how Nitish Rana has been successful at the no....

IPL 2021 will resume in the UAE with a match in Dubai between the league’s two most successful sides. The last time these two sides met in India, MI chased down a mammoth target of 219 in a game that was decided off the last ball. On Sunday, Jaffer took to his Twitter handle and shared a Bollywood still featuring Juhi Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan from the movie ‘Darr’....

The Australian has won the Orange Cap winner three times in his IPL career, the most by any player. Warner has always been synonymous with the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), also leading them to their maiden IPL title in 2016 However, things took a sour turn between the franchise and their captain last season. After SRH went through a lean patch in the first leg of IPL 2021, the team management decided to unceremoniously drop Warner from the side....

Bangalore - Virat Kohli played a captain’s knock in Royal Challengers Bangalore‘s chase of 162-run target set by Sunrisers Hyderabad here at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Tuesday. Delhi boy Kohli made an unbeaten 47-ball 93, studded by 11 fours and four sixes, to take the home side past Sunrisers’ 161/6 with seven wickets in hand and 14 balls to spare. Mayank Aggarwal (29) was the second highest scorer for Bangalore....

The much awaited IPL auction is back with all fanfare, pop and splendour. The brand IPL has perennially been categorized as a double edged sword, which has taken the game to heights unprecedented before and to pits unfathomed before. Yes, controversy with chaos has been IPL’s middle name, but it was an institution the BCCI persisted with recalcitrant authoritativeness because, for all its vices IPL offered what the fans, the game’s biggest stakeholders craved for....

Despite finishing just one point behind the fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad, RCB had finished at the bottom position on the points table in IPL 2019. Virat Kohli and co. could not get going in the initial phases of the season and ultimately, it led to their exit from the tournament. RCB had invested a lot of money in Hetmyer last year. However, the West Indian batsman could not live up to the expectations that came with the price tag....

Day 1 of the IPL auction concluded earlier today with Yuvraj Singh grabbing the headlines for the highest price tag, 14 crores to be precise. There were some surprises as big name players such as Ross Taylor, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Brett Lee went unsold despite the fact that their base price was at most 2 crores. A total of 145 capped players still remain unsold and will get their opportunity tomorrow....

Delhi and Chennai both won their respective opening matches last weekend. While Delhi Capitals prevailed over the Mumbai Indians in a run-fest at the Wankhede, Chennai Super Kings spun a perfect web around Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore to take the two points in a low-scoring encounter. When the two teams clashed last time at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi defended a total of 162 to win the match by 34 runs....

Kane Williamson is set to return as captain of SRH after sitting out the opener due to injury. This match seems like it will have a lot of runs in it and the prospect of fantasy points is very high. So on that note, let’s take a look at who our Fantasy X-Factor for the match will be. Ben Stokes, the England all-rounder might well turn out to be the X-Factor in today’s game....

It’s a pleasant surprise given this is a phone from the sub-brand of Vivo, a company that barely sells phones in Europe and has no presence in the US. iQoo itself doesn’t sell the iQoo 11 or any other phones officially in those regions. That’s a real shame as this is a superb phone. It’s the first to ship with Qualcomm’s high-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and it shows....

Shortly after Ahmadinejad announced the release of the 15 British sailors and Marines taken prisoner after Tehran claimed they had trespassed in Iranian waters, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, returned a long-delayed phone call to the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana. The two diplomats discussed sitting down for the first time since February, Solana’s spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach, told NEWSWEEK. “The Iranians were in a mood to talk today, which was not the case a few days before,” she said....

The drills came as the neighboring Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict occasionally spills over Iran’s northwestern border, giving Iran an opportunity to flex its military muscle through impressive displays of firepower. The fiery exhibition provided an additional bonus for Tehran. With the lifting of a longstanding UN embargo against arms sales, the military exercises have allowed the country’s defense industry to showcase a variety of domestically produced weapons that they are now free to sell to other countries....

Forged under President Barack Obama, it was vehemently opposed by Donald Trump as a private citizen, a candidate, and then as president, when he left the accord in 2018. Ever since, the U.S.-Iran relationship has been defined by unrest across the Persian Gulf and deadly tensions in the Middle East, with an impasse at attempts to rekindle diplomacy with Iran. While the Trump administration has repeatedly said its door was open for talks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has insisted that the U....

Raisi offered a far more outspoken assessment of U.S. foreign policy than former president Hassan Rouhani had in previous meetings of the U.N. General Assembly. A conservative cleric and former judiciary chief close to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Raisi said the perseverance of nations is stronger than the power of superpowers. He mocked political slogans used by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. “Today, the world doesn’t care about ‘America First’ or ‘America is Back,’” Raisi said....

According the the report, the drone can carry up to 13 bombs over 1,200 miles and has a flight duration of 35 hours, the Associated Press reported. General Hossein Salami, chief of the Revolutionary Guard, said that “we called it Gaza so that God willing it can be an eternal honor for those who are resisting the Zionist invasion.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. TV also said in addition to military surveillance, combat, reconnaissance missions, the Gaza drone can monitor forests, help rescue operations and providing assistance in natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes....

Zarif released a video on Wednesday marking the country’s national day, and claiming that America’s long-standing policy of trying to combat and contain Iran has failed. The video was released as United Nations inspectors confirmed that Tehran has been producing uranium metal that could be used in the core of a nuclear bomb, representing another violation of the terms of the JCPOA. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi announced Wednesday that Iran had followed through on its intention to produce uranium metal, one of the measures passed by parliament following the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh....

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi announced Thursday that his country was “ready to help America control the coronavirus,” advising that Washington reassess its handling of the COVID-19 crisis. “The American health care system is incapable of controlling the coronavirus pandemic,” he said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. “It’s not that we’re happy about America’s inability,” he added. “As a Muslim country, we are not happy about anyone’s illness....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif argued on Monday that the U.S. “sold $50 billion of weapons to this region” last year, pointing out that “some of the countries in the region with less than a third of our population spend $87 billion on just military procurement.” Highlighting the disparity, he noted that his own country “spent last year $16 billion on all its military with almost one million people in the army....

Polygraph.info, a fact-checking site, reported that Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi posted the tweet with text that translates as “Space suit #brightfuture,” shortly before Iran attempted to launch a satellite to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Social media users in the country quickly began mocking Jahromi and pointing out where the outfit came from, with several creating images using the costume through Photoshop. One placed the shiny suit on the astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission, while another compared the material to glittery sneakers....

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) shared a brief video on Twitter, originally posted by another account with the handle @Iranworkers, showing demonstrators and bystanders who had gathered outside the mosque where Iranian security forces were purportedly stationed inside. The PMOI describes itself as “the largest and longest-standing Iranian opposition group with a five-decade history of struggling for freedom and democracy in Iran.” Any gunfire was not fully discernible in the few seconds of footage and none of the protesters appear to be struck with bullets....