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India’s Mohammed Shami being congratulated by teammates after registering a five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka during the match in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. India won by 302 runs.
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Ind vs SL | Ruthless Men in Blue demolish Sri Lanka to make the semifinals

India became the first team to secure a semifinal spot at the Cricket World Cup after Mohammed Siraj bowled a stellar opening spell to help the hosts dismantle Sri Lanka for a 302-run win on November 2.

Siraj took three wickets for nought in the first seven balls as Sri Lanka lost its first four wickets for just three runs within 19 deliveries.

Decoding the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee’s probe against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra

The story so far: The controversy surrounding Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra over charges of cash-for-query has snowballed into a political storm, with the parliamentary ethics committee examining the allegations levelled by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nishikant Dubey against her.

The matter surfaced earlier this month after Mr. Dubey accused the West Bengal MP of accepting cash and favours for asking questions in Parliament at the behest of a businessman. The Speaker in turn referred the matter to the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee for an investigation and report. The panel has since recorded statements of the BJP MP and another complainant, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai. Ms. Moitra, meanwhile, has dismissed “false, malicious and defamatory accusations” against her, and is expected to appear before the committee on November 2.

Not much progress in INDIA bloc, Congress more interested in State polls: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday blamed the Congress Party for the Opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) losing steam as. “The Congress party seemed to be more interested in assembly elections in the five States,” he said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took a jibe over Mr. Kumar’s statement and said the INDIA bloc has been a tukde-tukde (fragmented) alliance bereft of any “vision or mission”.

‘A curse to be a parent in Gaza’: More than 3,600 Palestinian children killed in just 3 weeks of war

More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in the first 25 days of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. They were hit by airstrikes, smashed by misfired rockets, burned by blasts and crushed by buildings, and among them were newborns and toddlers, avid readers, aspiring journalists and boys who thought they’d be safe in a church.

U.S.’ Antony Blinken and Llyod Austin to travel to India for 2+2 Ministerial dialogue

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin would be travelling to India for the 2+2 Ministerial dialogue with their Indian counterparts External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi this month, the State Department has said.

Bhutan King to visit India amid fresh momentum in China boundary talks

Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck will begin an eight-day visit to India on Friday, a trip that comes amid renewed push by Bhutan and China for an early settlement of their lingering boundary dispute.

Announcing the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said it would provide an opportunity to both sides to review the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation and to further advance the “exemplary” partnership.

Fresh restrictions kick in as air quality turns ‘severe’

As the overall air quality slipped into the ‘severe’ category in the national capital for the first time this season on Thursday, a ban on construction and demolition activities, barring some essential projects, was declared by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in Delhi-NCR with “immediate effect”.

Later in the evening, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that all government and private primary schools in Delhi will remain closed on November 3 and 4 in view of rising pollution.

Karnataka steps up surveillance after detection of Zika virus in mosquito pool in Chickballapur

Karnataka has stepped up surveillance after a mosquito pool in Chickballapur was found to be positive for Zika virus, a vector-borne flavivirus transmitted by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, mainly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.

Mosquito samples collected from Thalakayalbetta village in the jurisdiction of Dibburahalli Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Chickballapur during routine surveillance were found to be carrying the Zika virus, according to the molecular virology laboratory report from the National Institute of Virology (NIV) State unit in Bengaluru. The samples tested positive on October 18, and since then, intensive preventive measures have been taken up to check the spread of the disease.

Fifth edition of The Hindu BusinessLine Changemakers Awards will be held today

The fifth edition of The Hindu BusinessLine Changemaker Awards, which celebrates individuals and organisations that have brought change in society, will be held in New Delhi on November 3.

R.K. Singh, Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy will give away the awards to the winners. The awards will be given across six categories: Social Transformation; Digital Transformation; Financial Transformation; Young Changemaker; Iconic Changemaker; and Changemaker of the Year.

Weapons, ammo, police vehicles looted in Imphal mob attack

Around 700 armed miscreants attempted to storm a police camp, and snatched eight sophisticated weapons, over 600 rounds of ammunition, and over half a dozen vehicles from multiple police locations in Imphal on Wednesday evening, according to details accessed by The Hindu.

Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured as they tried to stop the miscreants from looting weapons at the 1^st Manipur Reserve Battalion camp. A police source said that three of the eight looted weapons, including AK-47 rifles, have been recovered and that raids are continuing to arrest the accused persons.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) will decide – or delay further — the fate of the exiled Afghanistan women’s cricket team at a council meeting in Dubai on Monday, even though the all-male working group has not spoken to a single member of the team.

It is expected the sub-committee, headed by ICC deputy chair and Singaporean lawyer Imran Khwaja, will recommend that no action be taken against the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) as the situation is “very complex”, leaving the women, now based in Australia, in a prolonged limbo.

During a visit by Afghanistan officials to Australia for the men’s ICC T20 World Cup in November 2022, a member of the women’s team was given the name of the restaurant where the chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, Mirwais Ashraf, was dining.

She arrived unannounced hoping to ask for some answers to the many questions they had.

“I was running very fast to meet him,” the player, whose name is being withheld for her safety, told The Ticket.

“When I was running … I was just praying that I could talk to him because it was very important for me and my teammates to have his support.

“But when I got there, he got into his car and left.

“It is very painful for me that he, and all officials of the ICC and ACB, are running away from us and they do not want to answer us, especially Mirwais Ashraf.

“He was a player like us, and no one can understand us better than him. We learned the love of cricket from people like Mirwais Ashraf.

“Players like him make us want to play cricket, but it is very painful that he runs away from what is his responsibility and ignores us.”

Firooza Afghan (left) and other Afghan women’s cricketers’ sporting future is in limbo as they wait for the ICC decision. (ABC Sport: Tracey Holmes)

The ICC working group has managed to travel twice to Doha, Qatar, in the past five months to meet with Taliban and Afghan cricket officials, yet has not been able to travel to meet the women whose future lies in their hands.

According to ESPNCricinfo, the working group has been “provided assurances that the government has not interfered in cricket affairs,” and they acknowledge that “any women’s cricket while the Taliban are in power is near impossible”.

The assurance of no Taliban-government interference is akin to the emperor’s new clothes — it simply is not true. Any recommendation based on that premise cannot be worth the paper it is written on.

Once the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, women were prevented from playing cricket and all other sport. The 25 already-contracted players had their payments stopped, and they fled the country after receiving threats and fearing for their future.

Afghanistan is one of only 12 full-members of the ICC, and is currently in breach of its obligations to support and develop women’s cricket.

The complexity of the issue referred to by the working group is also debatable.

If all the money given to Afghanistan was invested in women’s cricket only, and the men’s team suddenly found themselves banned with payments stopped, it would be hard to imagine the men who run international cricket not finding a solution — and quickly.

The ACB received more than $50 million from the ICC in the past round of funding, which was presumably to be invested in both the men’s and women’s game.

While the Taliban has banned women playing in Afghanistan, the cricketers and their supporters point out they are not in Afghanistan and they should be supported to play in Australia with the funds that should have been earmarked for their development.

Despite everything, the women still want to play for the people of Afghanistan.

“We want to put on our uniform and see our flag in the middle of the ground and play in the World Cup. [We want to] shine and make our country proud,” Firooza Afghan told The Ticket in January.

In December 2022, the women’s team wrote to the chairmen of the ICC and the ACB, asking for clarification of their situation.

“Could you please advise what the official stance is on our national playing contracts and future playing opportunities, noting that we are no longer living in Afghanistan?” they wrote.

“The funding provided by the ICC to the ACB for the women’s program – where has this money gone? And can it be redirected to an organisation in Australia to invest in our development on behalf of the ACB so we can still represent our country on the international stage?”

In a response earlier this month, the ICC told the women it was a matter for the ACB, suggesting their hands were tied.

In an editorial on the Emerging Cricket website, the ICC deferring to the Afghanistan Cricket Board in this instance was likened to the ICC’s position during the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Under the ICC’s membership criteria, a nation can only be a full member by satisfying a number of conditions, including:

“Have the appropriate status, structure, recognition, membership and competence to be recognised by the ICC (at its absolute discretion) as the primary governing body responsible for the administration, management and development of cricket (men’s and women’s) in its country.”

The founder of the Afghan women’s team, Diana Barakzai — pictured in Kabul in 2014 — now lives in Australia.(Reuters: Mohammad Ismail)

Afghanistan should not even be eligible as an associate member since even at that level a commitment to women’s cricket forms part of the criteria.

The final clause of the document does allow for the ICC to exercise an ‘exceptional circumstance’ provision:

“In its sole discretion, and where the applicant is able to demonstrate exceptional circumstances justifying its inability to satisfy one or more of the applicable membership criteria, the membership committee may recommend the acceptance of the application notwithstanding the fact that the applicant does not satisfy all of the relevant membership criteria.”

However, Afghanistan was granted full membership in 2017. At the time, women were already playing cricket, although they were not paid until 2020. The Taliban did not take over until August 2021.

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