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There would be a T20 Champions Cup in 2024 and 2028 and an ODI Champions Cup in 2025 and 2029, as proposed by the ICC. The International Cricket Council (ICC) plans to hold a T20 Champions Cup in the 2023-31 cycle.

The competition would have 48 matches contested for the top ten teams in the world. This is the same number of games that were played during the 50-over World Cup last year, according to ESPN Cricinfo.

According to the ICC’s proposal, there would be a T20 Champions Cup in 2024 and 2028 and an ODI Champions Cup in 2025 and 2029, alongside the T20 World Cups in 2026 and 2030, and the ODI World Cups in 2027 and 2031. The T20 Champions Cup can, however, be viewed as a World Cup.

Within the 2023-2031 period, full-member nations of the ICC were granted until March 15 to submit expressions of interest in bidding for global events.

This plan may not go well with the BCCI, Cricket Australia and ECB as previously these three boards expressed interest in having wide windows for bilateral cricket.

If these events are held as proposed by the ICC, then the window for holding bilateral series would come down significantly and may result in losses for the boards in question.

The apex cricketing council also plans to hold a Champions Cup for the women’s game, for both T20 and 50-over matches.

Under ICC bidding terms, the host nation would maintain ticketing, lodging, and catering revenues for each event, while the ICC would retain all other commercial and broadcast rights for each event.

Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire, is merging its media and distribution companies spread across multiple entities into Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. to help simplify the asset structure.

The broadcasting company, TV18 Broadcast Ltd., will be housed in Network18, while cable and internet services will be folded under Network18’s two separate wholly-owned entities, Reliance Industries said late Monday in a statement.

Under the recast, the share exchange ratio would be 92 Network18 shares in every 100 TV18 78 Network18 shares in every 100 Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. 191 Network18 shares in every 100 Den Networks Ltd shares.

The holding of Reliance Industries in Network 18 will be from 75% to around 64% as a result of the recast, the Mumbai-based company said in the statement.

The recast could be the first step by the richest man in Asia towards bringing strategic investors on board in a business that is being reshaped by streaming giants around the world. Bloomberg News reported in November that although the discussions are preliminary, Sony Corp. is conducting due diligence on Network18 as part of talks to acquire a stake.

Fight for Viewer An investor like Sony will bring in foreign content and bolster Network18’s offerings in a market where rivalry heats up for paying viewers. Streaming titans such as Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. made inroads in India, where more than half a billion smartphone users consume content using data bandwidth made cheaper by Mr. Ambani’s wireless carrier, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

Netflix has been pouring billions into movies recently in its efforts to win Oscars and please its 167 million members, including projects from or featuring the likes of Dwayne Johnson, Martin Scorsese, and Michael Bay.

One of those — the Irishman — racked up 10 streaming service nominations at the 2020 Oscars, though with a single prize it failed to get away with.

Also in the past year, Netflix has expanded its film efforts in India, announcing projects from like Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar.

For now, though, acquisitions are still the strength of its portfolio. Netflix offers more choices than any other platform in India, with more than 3,500 movies.

A tiger’s sudden appearance in a remote cement factory has been keeping the forest department on its toes. For the last two days, the tiger has been seen prowling the roads within the factory area.

Officials claim that it is a dispersing tiger from the Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) and that the nearby factories and villages have issued an alert.

Earlier at Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS), near to Chandrapur, two dispersing tigers were spotted. They had settled near Chandrapur and had recently moved out through the Irai River. The chief forest conservator (wildlife) issued orders to trap both tigers, taking into account the threat they posed to Chandrapur people.

It now appears that one of those tigers has begun to move ahead and entered the cement factory in Ultratech.

The cement factory is located more than 50 km away from the city of Chandrapur. But, as the crow flies, the distance between the two places could be some 25 km. In the 20 km periphery factories have no forest, but thick patches of plantation similar to CSTPS.

Truckers and police squad on the patrol saw the tiger prowling through the factory premises along the transportation lane. A few images of tigers prowling the roads within the grounds of the factory have gone viral on social media. Vansadi Forest Range Foresters have swung into action and issued a warning in the region.

Range Forest Officer SN Basanwar ratified the Tiger(s) presence but said they did not know their exact number or sex. In the track tiger movement, the department has installed eight camera traps.

“In the factory premises, we’ve intensified patrolling and are guiding people about preventive measures to be observed in such a situation,” he said. More than 40 foresters were deployed for surveillance and monitoring, he said.

However, SV Ramarao, the chief forest conservator (CCF), Chandrapur maintained that it is the tiger from the Super Thermal Power Station in Chandrapur. “The CSTPS tiger is likely to migrate away from Chandrapur city and have reached the premises of Ultratech. Our teams are on alert and monitoring the situation,” he said.

The CCF said they would try to drive the tiger out of the factory grounds, so it would be able to move forward on its journey. “Nevertheless, if the situation becomes volatile, we can trap the beast,” he said, claiming he already got the orders for it.

Nagpur: The high court Nagpur Bench of Bombay has placed the ball in the court of the state government on the grant of 3,000 hectares of forest area under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, in Madizadap in Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) in Amravati district.

The HC had taken suo motu notice of the report published on December 5 by TOI entitled’ Grant of CFR in Melghat tiger reserve in violation of the law.’ On April 20, 2011, the Madizadap gram sabha had claimed community forest rights (CFR) on over 3,000 hectares, and also fishing rights.

The District Level Committee (DLC) headed by district collector accepted CFR, even though the assertion of this village was dismissed four times earlier by the Sipna Wildlife Division’s deputy conservator of forests. The DLC had the CFR claim considered for the fifth time.

The rights were measured in 11 Melghat wildlife sanctuary compartments, now part of the tiger reserve. According to a correspondence from Sipna DyCF Dr. Sivabala S to DLC chairman and district collector, the claims under consideration were inadmissible as there is no evidence to prove that these people occupied forest land before the 13 December 2005 cut-off date.

According to Sivabala, even before the date of entry into force (September 6, 2012) of the amended laws, the forest rights committee (FRC) started the process of verification of claims.

Judges RK Deshpande & Amit Borkar took the matter up for hearing on Monday along with a criminal PIL filed by Akot’s environmental lawyer Vijay Singh Chauhan.

Government pleader Sumant Deopujari, arguing on behalf of the forest, tribal and income departments, told the court that there is a difference of opinion between the Amravati district collector and forest department and, therefore, requested the court to refer the matter to a state-level committee (SLC) set up to monitor the process of recognition.

The SLC, which has 12 members, is headed by the chief secretary. Its members are the PCCF and tribal, revenue, forest, and panchayat raj department, secretaries.

Counsel for petitioner Manish Jeswani argued that forest land is being systematically diverted to tiger-reserve villagers under alleged pressure from the tribal department in contravention not only of the FRA but also of the Forestry Conservation Act (FCA), 1980, and the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

“The SLC may, therefore, be required to take a decision in accordance with the law and within a time frame,” he told the court.

Ultimately, the HC bench disposed of the PIL and referred Madizadap’s CFR question to SLC and asked to take a decision within four months.

अबुजमाड जंगल परिसरात सी-60 दलाची कामगिरी

दोनशे ते तीनशे नक्षलवाद्यांना जेरीस आणल्याचा पोलिसांचा दावा

नक्षल्यांचा गड समजल्या जाणाऱ्या अबुजमाड जंगल परिसरात झालेल्या नक्षलवादी आणि गडचिरोलीचे विशेष नक्षल विरोधी दल सी-60 यांच्यात झालेल्या चकमकीमध्ये एक नक्षली ठार झाला तर एका जवानाच्या पिट्ठूतून त्याला नक्षल्यांची गोळी लागली असल्याची घटना घडली.

अशी माहिती गडचिरोली पोलिसांनी सोमवारी माध्यमांकडे पाठवलेल्या पत्रातून दिली आहे. मात्र ही चकमक केव्हा झाली याचा कोणताही ऊल्लेख वार्तापत्रात केलेला नाही

Nagpur: The Nagpur Central Railway Division’s decision to run 12289-90 Nagpur-Mumbai-Nagpur Duronto Express from Ajni has come in for sharp criticism from the body of rail users and members of the public.

BJP MLA from Central Nagpur Vikas Kumbhare said the decision is not in people’s interest, particularly traders who prefer this train because of the few stops and convenient timings. “From Nagpur, four assembly segments from the town are gained. I’ll give my report to the divisional railway manager (DRM) on Monday, “he said.

“Some traders have protested to me calling for the train to be rolling back from platform number 8 as before. It is easier for them to enter the station side of Santra Market instead of Ajni where there is always logjam when they arrive and board the train, “said Kumbhare.
“If the railways want to run more Ajni trains, it should continue with lower-occupancy passenger trains,” he said.

Rail Yatri Sangh (RYS) passenger body president Brijbhushan Shukla submitted a memorandum to DRM Somesh Kumar on Wednesday requesting train service from Nagpur. “Diverting these luxury trains from Ajni will not only diminish the Nagpur station’s significance but is also inconvenient for passengers,” he said in a statement.

On 9 February Central Railway suddenly began running the Ajni train for three months until May. Beginning January 8, Duronto, which used to run beginning home platform number 8 on the Santra Market side, was temporarily moved to Ajni because of washable apron work on platform number 1 at the main station. Nevertheless, the train was moved to Ajni even as work on the apron was completed.

Shukla said separate DRMs promised to give Ajni facelift by building two more platforms, two pitline FOBs, enhanced passenger amenities, etc. However, despite an increase in train numbers, Ajni was not developed over the years.

“Now plans are in the pipeline to build Ajni as an intermodel station by road transport ministry and Central Railway. The project will however take at least five years to complete. We can’t afford to run premium Ajni trains till then, “Shukla said.

Nag Vidarbha Chamber of Commerce (NVCC) Railway committee convener Pratap Motwani too opposed the move. “Railway officials are citing disputes with Sevagram Express and other trains over Duronto timings, but how far are trains on time?”Ajni station is overcrowded and lacks waiting rooms, adequate toilets, food stalls, required ramps, lifts, escalators, protection, facilities for moving different passengers and enough parking. Passengers face many obstacles. We’ll write to the railways on the issue and speak with the highways minister Nitin Gadkari, “he added.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) posted a tribute tweet on Friday, one year after 40 of its troops were killed in a car bomb attack in Pulwama.

In a tweet posted at 12 a.m., the CRPF said they had not forgiven or forgotten the attack.

“The songs of your bravery are not lost in the loud noise / We were so proud that we haven’t been weeping for a long time,” the power tweeted in Hindi.

“We did not forge, we did not forge: we salute our brothers who sacrificed their lives in the name of the nation of Pulwama. Indebted, we stand with the families of our courageous martyrs, “he added in English.

The Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber targeted the CPRF convoy on February 14, 2019, on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, killing 40 people in the Pulwama district.

Tensions erupted between India and Pakistan following an attack on a convoy of 78 busses, in which some 2,500 CRPF personnel travelled from Jammu to Srinagar.

“I sense the same fire in my heart that rages within you,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 17, days after the attack.

A day before, he had said that “all tears will be avenged” and that the armed forces were granted “complete freedom to decide the place, time, strength and essence of the enemy’s revenge.”

The Pulwama attack led India to launch an airstrike on 26 February 2019 against a militant base in Pakistan, which was retaliated a day later. After an air war, Pakistan captured and later released an Indian pilot.

The United Nations and several countries have condemned the Pulwama terrorist attack and extended their assistance to India in the fight against terrorism.

Pakistan’s “all-weather ally,” China, also supported the UN Security Council resolution on the “heinous and cowardly” Pulwama terror attack, which was overwhelmingly adopted by permanent and non-permanent member countries of the global body.

India has also launched robust diplomatic efforts to establish JeM Chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after the attack. It was classified as a global terrorist on 1 May 2019, when China lifted its legal hold on the initiative put forward by the United States, the United Kingdom and France in the 1267 Committee of the United Nations Security Council.

On Thursday, a senior official said that a memorial to the CRPF personnel killed in the Pulwama terrorist attack in February last year would be inaugurated at the Lethpora camp on Friday.

The names of all 40 staff members, along with their memories, will be part of the memorial. It will also reflect the motto of the CRPF— Seva our Nishtha’ (Service and Loyalty).