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GUWAHATI, India (AP) -- Opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi flattened Mumbai Indians with their power-hitting and propelled Rajasthan Royals to their third straight win in a rain-curtailed Indian Premier League game on Tuesday. In a match reduced to 11-overs-a-side, Rajasthan plundered 150-3 and cruised to a 27-run win after Mumbai won the toss and elected to field. Jaiswal hit an unbeaten 77 off 32 balls with 10 fours and four sixes and 15-year-old Sooryavanshi made a 14 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's hopes of winning a first Women's Cricket World Cup title have been dented with the injury-enforced withdrawal of opening batter Pratika Rawal for the semifinal against defending champion Australia. The in-form Rawal was forced off the field after injuring her ankle attempting to save a boundary in India's last league-stage game on Sunday, which ended in a washout against Bangladesh. "Tough to sit out due to injury, but my heart is with the team," Rawal said in a socia ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck India's northeastern Assam state on Sunday, sending tremors throughout the region, officials said. There were no immediate reports of any damage. The quake had a depth of 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) and its epicenter was in the town of Udalguri, according to India's National Center for Seismology. Terrified residents rushed outside their homes in Guwahati, the state's capital. Northern India is highly seismic. It lies on a major geological fault ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Three people died and at least a dozen are feared missing after being swept away in a flash flood triggered by torrential rains in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities said on Thursday. A rescue operation has been launched to trace the missing, said Dinesh Sharma, a local government spokesperson in Kangra. The town is about 18 kilometres (11 miles) from Dharamshala, a popular tourist destination known for its Tibetan culture and as the home of Tibetan ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- A controversial legislation submitted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to change India's voting system failed to pass Tuesday in the country's lower house of Parliament. Law minister, Arjun Ram Meghwal, presented the legislation which proposed allowing elections for state assemblies and the national parliament to be held simultaneously. However, it was not approved as the vote fell short of the required two-thirds majority; only 269 lawmakers voted in favor of the ...Read More >
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