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Pakistan captain Babar Azam has been in stunning form with the bat across formats, but on Thursday, he found himself involved in a horrendous mix-up that led to the run-out of teammate Fawad Alam. The incident happened on Day 5 of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Galle International Stadium. Fawad Alam drove a ball towards mid-on and took off for a single, but Babar Azam at the non-striker's end was caught ball-watching, and when he realised Fawad was half-way down the pitch, he first looked to start off for the run but then sent his partner back. The indecision and lack of communication between the two meant Sri Lanka pulled off a simple run-out at the striker's end. Fawad had to walk back for just 1 run off 9 deliveries in Pakistan's chase of 508. Babar, meanwhile, put up a strong fight, but was eventually dismissed by Prabath Jayasuriya for 81 as the hosts went on to register a 246-run win to draw the two-match series 1-1. Jayasuriya finished with a five-wicket haul in the second innings to go with the three he claimed in Sri Lanka's first outing with the ball. The left-arm spinner continued his brilliant form since his debut against Australia, and finished the series with 17 wickets. Listen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com With the win, Sri Lanka moved back up to 3rd on the World Test Championship points table, while Pakistan dropped down to 5th, behind India. South Africa remain table-toppers, while Australia are second. link:https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/sri-lanka-vs-pakistan-fawad-alam-and-babar-azams-mix-up-spells-calamity-for-pakistan-watch-3202823
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As Ukraine's military steps up its strikes on Kherson, hinting at a new offensive to recapture the region, there is another force working alongside. They are Ukraine's shadow army, a network of agents and informers who operate behind enemy lines. Our journey to meet the resistance fighters takes us through a landscape of sunflower yellow and sky blue to Mykolaiv. The first major town on Ukrainian-controlled territory west of Kherson, it has become the partisans' headquarters on the southern front. Driving through military checkpoints, we pass giant billboards showing a faceless, hooded figure alongside a warning: "Kherson: The partisans see everything." The image is designed to make the region's Russian occupiers nervous and boost the morale of those trapped under their rule. "The resistance is not one group, it's total resistance," the man standing in front of me insists, his voice slightly muffled by a black mask he's pulled up from his neck so I can't see his face as we film him, in a room I can't describe so that neither can be found. I'll call him Sasha. Shortly before this war, Ukraine bolstered its Special Forces in part to build and manage a resistance movement. It even published a PDF booklet on how to be a good partisan, with instructions on such subversive acts as slashing the tyres of the occupier, adding sugar to petrol tanks or refusing to follow orders at work. "Be grumpy," is one suggestion. But Sasha's team of informers have a more active role: tracking Russian troop movements inside Kherson. "Say yesterday we saw a new target, then we send that to the military and in a day or two it's gone," he says, as we scroll through some of the many videos he's sent from the neighbouring region each day. One is from a man who drove past a military base and filmed Russian vehicles, another is from CCTV footage as Russian trucks pass by, daubed with their giant Z war-marks. Sasha describes his "agents" as Ukrainians "who have not lost hope in victory and want our country to be freed". "Of course they're afraid," he says. "But serving their country is more important." Working alongside Sasha are a team who fly drones into Kherson to spot targets for the military. Civilians, not soldiers, all are volunteers and they fundraise on social media to pay for their expensive kit. The man in charge cultivated decorative plants before the war, but Serhii tells me he joined the fight to free the south after seeing the bodies of civilians executed in Bucha during the Russian occupation there. "I couldn't just stay at home after that," he says. "I didn't know what else I could do or think of, while this war is going on." The task he chose instead is extremely dangerous. His team of four get shelled by the Russians every single time they go out, though no-one has been killed. "I know to some extent it's a matter of chance," Serhii shrugs, and breaks into a soft smile. "But at least if it happens to me, then I will know it was for a cause." The partisans are fighting to prevent Russia's hold over Kherson becoming permanent: to block a referendum that Moscow appears to be planning to stage. Russia has already introduced the rouble and its own mobile phone networks to the region and is pumping its propaganda from state-run TV channels into Ukrainian homes. Local journalists have either fled, or gone to ground. The acting head of the region, Dmytro Butrii, now exiled to Mykolaiv and a small back office protected by sandbags, insists that a vote on joining Russia would be a sham, a "total fake" and unrecognised by any "civilised" government. These days, that wouldn't matter much to Moscow. For Russia, the region is strategic: it's the source of water for Crimea, which it annexed illegally in 2014, and the last section of a much-discussed 'land bridge', or stretch of territory that links Russia-proper to the peninsula. Some locals have switched sides to help the Russians. So Sasha's team are building a database of those "collaborators", using information from the inside. "It's so that no one can claim later that they were with the resistance," he explains. But it's also for intimidation. Partisans are encouraged to stick threatening posters outside the collaborators' homes with designs that include the person's face and a coffin, or a "Wanted" poster offering big rewards for their death. The activists then photograph the results to send to Sasha. "There's a lot of graffiti. People write things like 'stuff your referendum' as well as sticking up their posters," Sasha describes his latest reports from Kherson. "It shows how many people are not afraid: in a city with military patrols everywhere, they manage to print leaflets then walk round with glue when they could be stopped at any moment and things would end very badly." There has been a spate of assassination attempts against those who've joined the Russians. A blogger was shot, an official in the Russian-installed administration was killed and others have been injured in car bombs. The most prominent figures to switch sides now wear body armour as a matter of course. The men I meet all say they have nothing to do with the attacks, but they have no sympathy either. "Other than the word traitor and scum, I have no other words for them," Sasha shrugs. "They're our enemy." Short presentational grey line Vladimir Putin still claims his invasion of Ukraine is a "liberation" operation but in Kherson, his troops rule through force and fear. Since Russian forces occupied the region in March, hundreds of people have been detained, many of them tortured. Some have disappeared, unheard of for weeks. Others have been discovered dead or returned to their relatives from Russian custody in body bags. Sources inside the city describe soldiers patrolling the streets and buses stopped at random for everyone inside to be checked. The slightest hint of support for Ukrainian rule, as little as a message or photo on your phone, can get you arrested. Every time Oleh smiles in the mirror, the gaps in place of his teeth are a reminder of the beatings he endured by his Russian interrogators. He tells me they also broke seven ribs - three still haven't mended. His name is not really Oleh, but he's asked me not to reveal his identity. A member of the resistance, he witnessed the torture of another prisoner, Denys Mironov, who then died in Russian custody. Oleh talks in chilling detail about what happened after 27 March when he and Denys were snatched from the street: he describes constant beatings in the first hours involving electric shock, suffocation and death threats. He's sure his interrogators were from the FSB security service. At some point, his spirits fell so low that he contemplated ending his life, even attacking a guard so they would shoot him. "They were looking for Nazis, so they beat me because I was bald. They reckoned they'd caught a damn Nazi," he answers, when I ask what information his captors had wanted. "When they stripped me, they saw I had Simpsons underpants so they said I was an American agent and punished me for that." A month earlier, when the Russians invaded, Oleh and Denys had joined the territorial defence, Ukraine's volunteer army. But much of the military melted away with the first explosions and Kherson's remaining forces were quickly overwhelmed. So the men became partisans, working against the Russians from the inside. "We got information on where their forces were based, and when they were on the move, and we passed that on to the military," Oleh explains, adding that he was involved in a lot more activity that he can't talk about. Another partisan I met described helping Ukrainian forces escape in boats across the Dnipro when they were surrounded - and stealing weapons from the Russians. "I'll tell you the rest when we win," he laughs when I press him for more. Denys, a 43-year-old with a wife and son - and a fruit and veg business before the war - began driving a bread van around Kherson, handing out food and scouting for intelligence as he went. He and Oleh were also collecting weapons, preparing to join the battle to liberate Kherson as soon as Ukraine launched the counter-offensive that everyone expected. Instead, the two men were detained and tortured. I asked Russia's FSB to explain what happened to these men and others. They didn't respond. It was the middle of the first night before Oleh saw Denys again, and by then he could barely walk and was struggling for breath. Even so, the guards beat him some more. "They hit him in the groin, then the face, then two men with batons took down his trousers and started to beat him near his kidneys," Oleh says, recalling how the tape holding a bag over his own head had worked loose enough for him to see. "It was clear his lungs had been punctured and he'd been really badly hurt," he says. "But if he'd been helped in time, his death could have been avoided. It's awful." On 18 April the men were transferred to a facility in Crimea and the next day, Denys was finally taken to a military hospital where Oleh was sure he would recover. The first Denys Mironov's family knew of his death was over a month later, when he was returned to Ukraine as part of a body swap. Short presentational grey line Many people left Kherson for safety soon after the Russians seized control. The government in Kyiv recently urged others to evacuate, warning that a military operation to retake the region was imminent. But getting out isn't easy. Russian officials limit the number of vehicles crossing the frontline and only permit one route into Ukrainian-controlled areas, the road that heads north to Zaporizhzhia. Multiple military checkpoints on the way make it a no-go for Ukrainian men of fighting age. Even women and children face waiting weeks for places on free evacuation buses, or an exorbitant fee for a place in a private car. But hundreds still flee each day, tumbling off buses or unfolding themselves from crowded, stuffy cars just before dusk into a supermarket car park that doubles as a reception area for those forced into exile in their own country. The adults look exhausted, the children's smiles are timid, as if they're not quite sure whether they're safe yet. Steam gushes from beneath the bonnet of a blue Lada like it's about to explode. After security checks, volunteers offer food and clothes and, for some, there are tearful reunions with waiting relatives. We can't travel into Kherson now it's occupied, but the mood in this crowd reveals plenty about life there. Even on Ukrainian-controlled soil, people are wary of what they say. "Will the Russians see this?" some of the new arrivals want to know before I film or even record them speaking. Others shake their heads as I approach, and turn away from my microphone. "It's tough there, the Russians are everywhere," Alexandra tells me, bouncing baby Nastya on her knee in the back of a car. Inside the aid tent an older woman is standing with two carrier bags at her feet looking lost and lonely. Struggling with tears, Svitlana tells me she's fled Kherson because her nerves are in shreds but her husband has refused to come with her. "He said he's waiting for the Ukrainian army to come and liberate us," she says. As night begins to fall, and more vehicles pull in, a man admits that his own family are running from more than the missiles. "We know people are disappearing, it's true," he tells me, without giving his name. "In Kherson, you don't go out in the evening." The danger from shelling has increased in recent days, on both sides of the southern frontline. In Mykolaiv the days usually start with explosions from 4am: down south, the Russian launch sites are so close that the warning siren only goes off after the first missile hits. One morning, sheltering in our hotel basement, I counted at least 20 explosions in the city, some close enough to shake the building. Once the curfew lifted, we found a nearby school in ruins, the playground swings blanketed in the thick grey dust of the collapsed sports hall. But Ukrainian attacks have also increased, both in number and impact, as more powerful weapons supplied by the West have made it to the region and are making a difference. Residents in Kherson city have recorded multiple strikes on Russian ammunition depots. Bridges across the Dnipro, including the Antonivskiy, have also been hit multiple times, disrupting Russian supply lines. The push to retake Kherson could be approaching. Sasha believes many of those who have remained in the city are ready to stay and fight; those I've spoken to say support for Russian rule is minimal and the searches, detentions and beatings in recent months have shrunk that still further. "When the army starts to invade, then people will be ready and will help," Sasha says. After his own brutal experience in Russian custody, Oleh is already back on the southern front to fight for his hometown, alongside Ukraine's partisan army. "They can take the land, but they can't take the people," is how he puts it. "The Russians will never be safe in Kherson, because the people didn't want them there. They don't like them. They won't accept them." link:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62333795
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Touching a new high, India's three equestrians, including ace rider Fouaad Mirza, have qualified for the Dressage and Eventing World Championships to be held in August and September. Anush Agarwalla and Shruti Vora will compete in the FEI Dressage World Championships, which is set to be held at Herning, Denmark from August 5 to 11. Both are preparing for the championships in Germany. Mirza will compete in FEI World Championship Eventing, which is scheduled to be held at Pratoni, Italy from September 10 to 12. India's Eventing team had won a silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. In 1982, Indian riders had won the country's first gold medals at the Asian games and finished with an astounding haul of three gold, one silver, and a bronze. "The high cost associated with the sport had turned equestrian into a niche sport which made the growth and development painstakingly slow. But the efforts of the EFI despite various challenges, with complete support of Indian Army and the athletes has not been in vain," Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) Secretary General Colonel Jaiveer Singh said. "Today, the level of competition in the country has evolved and Indian riders have achieved podium finishes in important world and regional competitions." GOLF Tvesa joins Aditi and Diksha at Women’s Scottish Open Indian golfer Tvesa Malik hopes her return to action after a short gap at the women's Scottish Open will end her none-too-good run this season on the Ladies European Tour. Tvesa, who was in Top-20 of the LET Order of Merit last season, has been struggling to make cuts and finishing way down on the leaderboard this season. Now she hopes her fortunes will turn as she tees up at the Dundonald Links in Troon as the Scottish summer of golf continues. The other Indians in the field are Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar. Aditi comes to Europe after numerous starts with modest results on the LPGA, while Diksha Dagar, after some moderate results, had Top-20 finishes in Amundi German Masters and Big Green Egg Open. Aditi will play with Yealimi Noh of the US and Swiss golfer, Kim Metraux, while Tvesa plays with the 2019 Hero Women's Indian Open winner Christine Wolf, who is back after a four-month break from golf, and Allisen Corpusz of the US. Diksha Dagar tees off in the company of Scot Hannah McCook and Lauren Stephenson of the US. SHOOTING Vivaan in the lead after round four at Digvijay Singh shotgun championship Vivaan Kapoor faltered a bit, but stayed in the lead with 97 after four rounds in two days of men’s trap in the Digvijay Singh shotgun championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabar, on Wednesday. The 22-year-old Vivaan shot rounds of 23 and 24, after having shot two perfect rounds on the opening day of the competition. Olympian Kynan Chenai was breathing down the neck with 96, following rounds of 23, 25, 25 and 23. Rayyan Rizvi and Shardul Vihan folowed with 94, while Jasbir Singh, Shapath Bhardwaj and Prithviraj Tondaiman were on 93. Zoravar Singh was on 92 along with Lakshjeet Singh Sindhu, while Asian Games silver medallist Lakshay Sheoran had slipped to the 27th spot with 86. In women’s trap, Manisha Keer jumped to the lead with 91, two points ahead of overnight leader Kirti Gupta. Rajeshwari Kumari had recovered with rounds of 24 to climb to the third spot with 88, the same as Preeti Rajak. Mahima Vishwakarma (87), Shreyasi Singh (86), Pragati Dubey (85), Sabeera Haris (84) along with Seema Tomar and Neeru (83) were trying to consolidate their chances of making it to the second stage of competition, which will be decided after one more round on Thursday. Olympian Shagun Chowdhary slipped to the 23rd spot with 77, following rounds of 19 and 16 this day Vivaan Kapoor led in the junior men’s section, ahead of Shardul Vihan (94) and Shapath Bharadwaj (93). In junior women’s section, Preeti Rajak led with 88, four points ahead of overnight leader Sabeera Haris. -Kamesh Srinivasan TENNIS Qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan was beaten 6-2, 7-5 by Ben Shelton in the first round of the $792,980 ATP tennis tournament in Atlanta. The 27-year-old Ramkumar, ranked 229 in the world, who had made the qualifying draw as an alternate, won 12 ATP points for making the main draw and $7,600. In the $25,000 ITF women’s event in Nottingham, Ankita Raina made the quarterfinals, with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Gao Xinyu of China. link:https://sportstar.thehindu.com/other-sports/indian-sports-news-updates-july-27-2022/article65690018.ece
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For the first time since he broke with tradition and left town before Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in January 2021, Donald Trump has returned to Washington DC. In an address before Republican members of Congress and former administration officials at the America First Policy Institute summit, the former president set out what he believes should be the focus of the Republican party if they gain control of Congress in November and the presidency in 2024. So, what did we learn? A focus on crime Mr Trump led with a seven-part plan for cracking down on what he said was rampant crime in cities across the US. Some of the proposals were familiar, such as increasing liability protection for police officers, more funding for law enforcement and a return to stop-and-frisk policies that allow impromptu warrantless searches of suspects. Others were somewhat new. He again called for the death penalty for drug dealers, but added praise for the "quick trials" that authoritarian countries like China use to combat the narcotics trade. He suggested construction of government-run tent compounds outside of urban areas to rehabilitate homeless people so that American cities could again be "clean, safe and beautiful". He also called for the presidential authority to deploy National Guard soldiers to fight crime in cities without a local governor's permission - harkening back to the clashes between the president and Democratic governors over whether to use US military forces during the sometimes violent Black Lives Matters protests in 2020. The former president has always leaned into tough-on-crime rhetoric, but it's ironic that perhaps the biggest bipartisan policy achievement of his term in office was criminal justice reform, which granted thousands of prison inmates early release and revised federal sentencing guidelines. Going off script The first half of the former president's speech focused on crime, and as he ticked through his seven-part policy outline his delivery was monotone, almost as though he were bored by his own words. This was set-piece Trump, not the unscripted Trump from his raucous rallies. Then he complained about how transgender athletes were allowed to compete in women's sports, and the audience gave him one of the largest cheers of the afternoon. Mr Trump came to life. "Sir, don't say that, it's very controversial," he said his advisers had told him about that line. "It's not written down anywhere, I just said it." And it was off to the races. Mr Trump said he wanted to start a women's basketball team with NBA star LeBron James on it. He railed against Biden's immigration policies. He complained about the "China virus" and claimed that as president he had done the opposite of whatever federal infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had recommended. This was Mr Trump in his natural habitat, free to go wherever his mind took him. A presidential hint After listing a number of other policy prescriptions - stopping inflation, protecting parents' rights, making it easier to fire high-level federal employees, restoring free speech, bringing back manufacturing jobs and welfare reform - Mr Trump ventured back to a favourite pastime: complaining about the 2020 election results. "I won a second time, did much better the second time," he said of his 2020 re-election effort. "Did a lot better. Very corrupt. We got millions, millions more votes. That's going to be a story for a long time, what a disgrace it was." He groused that he was the "most persecuted president ever". He complained about his twin impeachments and the ongoing 6 January committee hearings. He defended his supporters who marched to the Capitol before its attack, saying many were being unfairly prosecuted and "tortured and handled so horribly". "Something is going to have to happen," he said. "People are not going to take it much longer." Earlier in the day, Mike Pence - Mr Trump's 2020 running mate - also gave a speech in Washington. When asked about whether there was a division within the Republican party, and whether he was attempting to draw distinctions between himself and his former boss, the former vice-president demurred. "I don't know that our movement is that divided," he said. "I don't know that the president and I differ on issues. But we may differ on focus. I truly do believe that elections are about the future. And it is absolutely essential at a time when so many Americans are hurting, so many families are struggling, that we don't give way to the temptation to look back." Clearly Mr Pence, who has 2024 ambitions of his own, sees Mr Trump's continued fixation with his election defeat as an opportunity. "Let's focus on the future" is a line he has repeated multiple times and in multiple ways as he has travelled the country, laying the groundwork for a potential presidential bid. But if the former vice-president wants the White House in 2024, his path may have to go through his former boss, who once again hinted on Tuesday that his career in politics may not be over. "We may just have to do it again," Mr Trump said of running for president. "We have to straighten out our country." At one point, the crowd chanted "four more years". The former president thanked them, adding that if he quit politics his enemies would leave him alone. "But that's not what I do," he said. "I can't do that because I love our country, and I can't do that because I love the people of our country." link:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62314119
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Musician Name: Billy Joel Birthday / Location: May 9, 1949/New York, New York, United States Main instrument: piano and organ Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Best Performance: 1 Captain Jack. Billy Joel's earlier grabs for fame hadn't played out well. ... 2 Piano Man. ... 3 Prelude/Angry Young Man. ... 4 New York State of Mind. ... 5 Scenes From an Italian Restaurant. ... 6 The Stranger. ... 7 Don't Ask Me Why. ... 8 Goodnight Saigon. Other Information: Joel, whose father was a German Jewish immigrant, was raised in Hicksville, a middle-class suburb on Long Island, New York. He was steered toward classical music by his parents and began piano lessons at age 4. At age 14, enamoured of the British Invasion and soul music, he began playing in bands.
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Musician Name: Barry Manilow Birthday / Location: June 17, 194/Brooklyn, New York, United States Main instrument: Vocals piano Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Best Performance: Other Information: nop
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Nickname: -Kenzo Age: 17 Link with your forum profile: @-Kenzo How much time do you spend on our channel ts every day?: 2 hrs to much for me Where do you want to moderate? Check this topic: stories section How much time you can be active on the Journalists Channel?: 1 hr Link with your last request to join in our Team: first Last 5 topics that you made on our section:1,2,3,4
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Only English and Romanian language are allowed here in this community.. 🙂 Just to know that.
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But bro every country has the opportunity to speak there own language with there country friend xd