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The lives of students also got affected in an adverse manner due to the coronavirus pandemic as the schools were closed in order to ensure that the kids don’t get infected with the lethal virus. Well, the schools arranged for online classes so that students’ studies remain unaffected but the problem came as far as conducting examinations was concerned. While carrying online examinations was not possible, the offline examinations were also not possible as no parents were in the mood to send their kids to schools in the times of the coronavirus pandemic. Representational Image The education ministry then came up with a formula based on which the students were promoted to the next class without giving examinations and the same thing happened in the classes in which students have to give board exams (10 th and 12 th standards). Recently the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) released the results of class 12 and 99.37 % students cleared it while last year, the pass percentag...

The Indian cricket has produced some really good all-rounders and there is no denying the fact that Irfan Pathan is also one of them. However, a huge number of the Indian cricket fans believe that he could have achieved more in his career if he had got more chances to play for India. The Baroda cricketer played last for India in the year 2012 in a match against Sri Lanka which was played at Pallekele and in this match, Irfan Pathan was adjudged as the Player of the Match for his superb performance as he not only took a fifer but also scored valuable 29 runs not out. It was really shocking that he was dropped from the team after he won the Player of the Match award and what’s more hurtful is that he was just 27 years old at that time. Irfan Pathan never got a national call after that despite the fact that he performed well in the domestic circuits and in 2020, he decided to take retirement from all the formats of the game. Presently, Irfan Pathan is working as a commentator and is al...

The Indian tour to Sri Lanka came to an end after the hosts defeated India in the third T20I and won the 3-match series by 2-1. The Indian squad won the first T20I of the series but after Krunal Pandya tested COVID-19 positive, not only he was isolated but eight other players who were in close contact with him were also isolated and then the Indian side played with four debutantes in the second T20I which Sri Lanka won. The head coach of Shikhar Dhawan led squad was Rahul Dravid who has been praised a lot for his coaching efforts not just during this tour but earlier as well when he was the coach of the U-19 Indian team that won the U-19 World Cup and he has also served as the coach in the National Cricket Academy. The term of Ravi Shastri as the Indian team’s head coach is ending with the T20 World Cup which will be played in UAE and many Indian cricket lovers are demanding that Rahul Dravid should replace Ravi Shastri as India’s head coach. However, the former Indian cricketer wh...

The cricket boards of various cricketing nations are trying their best to make cricket popular in their country and while the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) came up with the Indian Premier League, the England and Wales cricket board has come up with The Hundred, a professional franchise 100-ball cricket tournament in which eight men’s and eight women’s cricket team battle it out to win the trophy. James Neesham, the popular New Zealand cricketer, is also taking part in The Hundred and he is playing for Welsh Fire which is being lead by Jonny Bairstow. On 27 th July, Welsh Fire defeated Southern Brave by 18 runs in a match which was played at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Batting first, Welsh Fire put up a score of 165/4 on the score board with the help of the brilliant knock played by the skipper Jonny Bairstow who made 72 runs is just 39 balls and his innings included 5 fours and the same number of sixes. Tom Banton and Ben Duckett also played useful innings of 34 and 53,...

The Sri Lankan team has leveled the 3-match T20I series against India by 1-1 after winning the second T20I match which was played yesterday at R. Premdasa Stadium, Colombo. Earlier the second T20I was scheduled to be played on 27 th July but it was postponed for 28 July after the Indian cricketer Krunal Pandya tested positive. As a precautionary measure, the Indian team management sent eight Indian players – Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, K Gowtham, Deepak Chahar, Prithvi Shaw and one more player, whose identity is not known, into isolation as they were identified in the list of close contacts of Krunal Pandya. With this, the Indian team management was left to deal with a peculiar situation as to who all will be a part of the playing eleven in the second T20I. Four Indian players- Nitish Rana, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chetan Sakariya and Devdutt Padikkal made their debut in the shortest format on July 28. While talking to the mediapersons before the star...

The veteran Bollywood actor Bobby Deol has been going great in the second innings of his career and he is seen not only in movies but also in web series and audiences are loving his performances too. While there are some who love his acting skills, many others love the actor for the memes that are made on him. In fact in the online world, Bobby Deol is known as Lord Bobby who has already lived the future. Some time ago, a Twitter handle posted memes showing that Bobby Deol was using airpods in one of his movies in 2008 while Apple launched them in the year 2016. In another film, Bobby was seen taking nasal swab of his co-actor Aishwarya Rai even when people had no idea of COVID-19 and the method of its testing. We all know that the biggest sporting event of the world Olympics is taking place in Tokyo nowadays and at the same time, a tweet with four photos of Bobby Deol is going viral. The Twitter user wants to convey that Lord Bobby Deol is also an athlete and he would have won some...

The Indian cricket team which is in Sri Lanka at the moment is facing a new problem as the Indian cricketer Krunal Pandya has tested COVID-19 positive and he won’t be playing further in the T20I series. The 2 nd T20I which was scheduled to take place on 27 th July was postponed and re-scheduled to be played on July 28. However, the Indian camp will now have difficulty in selecting the playing eleven because eight Indian cricketers who are found to be in close contact with Krunal Pandya have also been sent to isolation as a precautionary move despite the fact that they have tested COVID-19 negative. With this, the nine Indian cricketers won’t be available for selection and now the Indian fans are coming up with their views as to how the Indian team management can form a playing eleven for the second T20I. The former Indian cricketer Wasim Jaffer has also come up with a suggestion for this purpose but in a funny style as he has shown in his meme that the head coach of the Indian t...