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UPSC preparation tips for working professionals: 10 sure-fire strategies for CSE aspirants – Times of India

UPSC CSE Preparation Tips: Preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) alongside a busy job might seem tough, but it's doable with the right plan. First, understand how the exam works - there are three parts: Prelims, Mains, and Interview. Then, make a study schedule that fits around your work hours and sets achievable goals for each day and week.When you're balancing work and study, make the most of every spare moment.Use your commute and breaks to quickly review your notes or study on your phone. On weekends, focus on longer study sessions for mock tests or practicing writing answers. It's also important to prioritize your study materials wisely, concentrating on the most important topics and not getting bogged down in less relevant stuff. And don't forget to keep up with ...
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A kick-off to history: English Premier League gets its first Indian-origin referee

When Sunny Singh Gill blows the whistle at London’s Selhurst Park Stadium on Saturday, he will become the first person of South Asian origin to referee a match in the English Premier League. And in doing so, the 39-year-old will be carrying forward the family legacy.Sunny’s appointment to officiate the match between Crystal Palace and Luton Town was announced Tuesday by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), which appoints referees for Premier League games. While the game itself might not be a marquee clash for a majority of football followers beyond those of the two clubs, for the Gills, from Iver near London, it’ll be a moment for generations. Sunny is the elder of the two sons of Jarnail Singh Gill, 62, who remains the only referee to have worn a turban in the English...
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Delhi cricket’s steep slide: Association sits on report that flagged what’s wrong

The Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) has a “compromised and conflicted” selection process that bypasses the chief selector and is marked by “rampant interference” of its officials.This is the key point flagged in a scathing indictment by DDCA’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) in the wake of Delhi’s dismal showing last season. The group, chosen by DDCA, includes two 1983 World Cup winners Madan Lal and Sunil Valson and first-class player Vinay Lamba, was set up before the start of the 2022-23 season. Delhi had finished sixth in Group B in last season’s Ranji Trophy and failed to qualify for  the knockouts this season too. The TEG report, submitted last March, is part of a police complaint filed in December 2023 at the IP Estate Police Station by one Avdesh Sharma, that names top DD...
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Smiles are back: Officials promise land to hockey star Jyoti Chhetri to build house

THE SMILES do not leave the faces of India’s hockey striker Jyoti Chhetri, her parents and brother. Along with joy, there’s an overwhelming sense of relief. On the day The Indian Express reported that Jyoti, who was part of the national team participating in the FIH League here, has been fighting to avert demolition of her house in Panposh, Rourkela, local government officials Tuesday visited the family and assured them of help. Taking a sympathetic view of the situation, the officials promised them a plot of land where they can build a new house. Separately, the Odisha government announced a cash prize of Rs 12.5 lakh for Jyoti and other players from the state who won laurels at the recently concluded Hockey 5s World Cup, Asian Games and Asian Champions Trophy. “This morning, some peop...
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In U-19 cricketers’ journey to WC final, meet those who laid ground for them

The flight from Mumbai to South Africa for India’s Under-19 cricketers was long and tiring. The trek to the final, where they will meet Australia on Sunday in a repeat of the senior men’s World Cup final, was also tough. Their real journey, though, was several years in the making. Many of these young cricketers left the comforts of their hometown, and the warmth of their relatives and friends, so that they could realise their cricketing dreams. Uday Saharan, the captain, was only 12 when he shifted from his home in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district to Punjab’s Fazilka district, 80 km away, so that he could get better training facilities. Vice captain Saumy Pandey and his parents moved from Bharatpur in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district to a rented accommodation in Rewa, 40 km away, so t...
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WPL sets moneyball rolling for women’s game: Crore-plus for 2 uncapped players

When pace bowling all-rounder Kashvee Gautam, 20, finished her training in Chandigarh and picked her phone, she saw at least 100 missed calls. Sensing she had been picked up in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction, she dialled her father Dinesh who told her that she was bagged by Gujarat Giants for Rs 2 crore — the highest a women cricketer who is yet to represent the country has ever got.Kashvee’s earnings are more than that of the present India captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who was roped in by Mumbai Indians for Rs 1.80 crore in the first season last year. Senior Indian player Smriti Mandhana, with Rs 3.40 crore, is the WPL’s highest earner. Hard-hitting opener Vrinda Dinesh, 22, too, was at the nets with the Karnataka Under-23 team that was participating in a BCCI age-group tournamen...
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The sleeper hit this World Cup: A simple, informal show from Pakistan

FOUR FORMER Pakistan captains, one of them a living legend, an endearing anchor, a rudimentary set, no complicated data-crunching, no over-philosophising analysis, no raised voices and no hero-worship.This World Cup, a no-frills, rich-in-content talk show featuring cricket’s renowned pundits from Pakistan — Wasim Akram, Moin Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik  — along with a pleasant presenter, Fakhr-e-Alam, with an entertainment background, has cut through the clutter and proved to be a sleeper hit. The Pavilion, a flagship free-streaming show of A Sports, part of Pakistan’s largest media network ARY, is fast approaching the 1000k subscriber mark with most of its hour-long video capsules securing close to one million views. Among the lakhs of Indians following the show are former India ...
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From riding tongawala’s horse to Asian Games, how equestrian Ashish Limaye made the leap

When the equestrian Ashish Limaye competes at the forthcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou, it will be the culmination of a remarkable journey that started with him picking up the sport while riding horses owned by a tongawala (a driver of a horsedrawn cart). It is also a journey that was halted for a few years as he pursued engineering and resumed when he began training children to ride horses.Limaye — who hails from Pune but has been based in Europe for the past two years — has qualified to compete for India in the equestrian discipline known as eventing which tests horses and riders over a combination of three events: dressage, cross country and show jumping.The Pune resident’s earliest memories of himself riding a horse was from when he was just 10 and his parents had taken him to a smal...
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India pulls out of games in China over stapled visas for Arunachal athletes

As a mark of protest against China’s decision to issue stapled visas — instead of stamped ones — to three athletes from Arunachal Pradesh, India withdrew its entire wushu (martial art) team from the World University Games which begin Friday in Chengdu. The decision came hours after airport authorities in New Delhi stopped an eight-member contingent, comprising five athletes, a coach and two support staff, at the boarding gate minutes before departure Thursday midnight, according to coach Raghvendra Singh. “We were stopped at the gate by immigration officials and CISF personnel. They did not give any reason and claimed they were merely acting on the government’s instructions,” Singh told The Indian Express. The group that was not allowed to board did not include athletes from Arunachal P...
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’90s throwback: Coorg boy, Amazon exec, IPL rookie flex Karnataka pace muscle

There was a ’90s vibe about South Zone’s 75-run victory over West Zone in Sunday’s Duleep Trophy final in Bengaluru. The bowling backbone, as it was for the country for most of the 1990s and early 2000s, largely comprised those from Karnataka. Like Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad, Anil Kumble and Sunil Joshi, the pace trio of Vidwath Kaverappa, Vasuki Koushik and Vijaykumar Vyshak scythed through a star-studded batting line-up of Cheteshwar Pujara, Prithvi Shaw, Suryakumar Yadav, Sarfaraz Khan and Priyank Panchal. They picked up 16 of the 20 South Zone scalps, a performance that held the promise of another wave of bowlers from the Southern powerhouse. Between them, the three bowlers have featured in only 33 first-class games. Pujara alone has 103 Tests to his name. Shaw and Yadav, ...
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Cricket World Cup: Coming up in Oct-Nov, India vs Pak at Ahmedabad’s Modi Stadium

The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad has emerged as the front-runner to host the high-profile India vs Pakistan match in the ICC 50-over World Cup scheduled for October-November, the first match between the two arch-rivals on Indian soil since 2016. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to host the high-voltage match at the Ahmedabad stadium in anticipation of a large number of fans who are expected to travel to India from abroad for the fixture, it is learnt. With a seating capacity of 1 lakh, the Narendra Modi Stadium is the country’s largest. The BCCI will be announcing the World Cup schedule at a grand launch once the Indian Premier League, currently underway, is over, it is learnt. If everything goes as per schedule, the 50-over World Cup will kick off from...
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Women’s World Boxing Championship: India wins 2 golds, eyes set on two more today

Moments after being crowned world champions, Nitu Ghanghas, 22, ran to India’s national coach Bhaskar Bhatt and wept in his arms; Saweety Boora, 30, pumped her fist at the camera, called for an Indian flag, and waved it. On Saturday, two gold medals were at stake for India at the Women’s World Boxing Championship here – Nitu, harbouring hopes of glory at the Paris Olympics, and Saweety, a veteran of many battles. Both didn’t disappoint, setting the stage for Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain on Sunday to complete the gold rush. Nitu defeated Mongolia’s  Lutsaikhan Altantsetseg in the 48-kg final in a 5-0 unanimous decision, while Saweety (81 kg) defeated China’s Wang Lina with a 4-3 split decision. If India wins in both the categories on Sunday, it will equal its 2006 haul, when M C ...
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‘IPL franchises need to to be told to rest India players to keep them ready for WTC final and World Cup’ says Ravi Shastri

With the world Test championship just a week after the IPL and India already reeling with a few injury concerns, the former India coach Ravi Shastri believes the Indian board needs to talk to the IPL franchises to allow players a much-needed break. “Even during the IPL the board has to tell the franchise, listen we need him, India needs him, so for India’s sake, if he doesn’t play those games it will be good,” Shastri told The Indian Express on the sidelines of the Legends League Cricket (LLC) in Doha. Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer are undergoing rehabilitation for their injuries. With India playing the World Test Championship final just a week after IPL, the challenge for the board is to make sure a fit Indian team will board a flight to the UK. The ODI world cup too is ju...
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Cricket history in India today: Women’s Premier League begins

AS THE inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) kicks off in Mumbai on Saturday, with the Gujarat Giants and Mumbai Indians playing the first match, it heralds new beginnings for many. For Delhi Capitals’ top-order batswoman Sneha Deepthi, a mother of a two-year-old at 26, it’s an opportunity to return to professional sport. Then there is Royal Challengers Bangalore’s batswoman Poonam Khemnar, 28, who recalls the opposition she faced from her parents for pursuing cricket. There is also Australia legend and Delhi Capitals’ captain Meg Lanning, 32, who moved away from the game after guiding her side to the Commonwealth Games gold medal victory in August last year. She spent her time travelling and even worked in a cafe “making coffee and washing dishes”. She led Australia to the women’s T20...
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Raging Lions win Road Safety Cricket Cup

The Board for Veteran Cricket in India (Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, New Delhi), organised a one-day event ‘Road Safety Cricket Cup’ to spread awareness and social message about road safety and precautions, at Shivajinagar Police Ground, recently. Amitabh Gupta, the then Police Commissioner, Pune, Vikram Kumar, Pune Municipal Commissioner, Rahul Chavan, Assistant Charity Commissioner and their colleagues gave enthusiastic support to this initiative which was conceptualised by Meehir Kulkarni, stated a release. Under the captaincy  of Gupta, the Raging Lions (Pune Police) and SkyHawks (Pune Municipal Corporation) led by Municipal Commissioner Vikram Kumar, all the players put up a good show. Raging Lions won the toss of the match and elected to bat first. Both teams got a chance...