‘Consider me retired’: MS Dhoni retires from international cricket

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"What a player he has been for the country and world cricket. He will finish with no regrets on the field," said BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.

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In a surprising announcement, former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday evening. The announcement by the two-time World Cup-winning cricketer has ended an era where his often unorthodox leadership and finishing skills became the stuff of legends. The 39-year-old will, however, play in the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL), which is set to commence from September 19 in the United Arab Emirate. The 39-year-old will, however, compete in this year's IPL, which gets underway in the UAE from September 19 after being moved out of India due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Thanks a lot for ur love and support throughout. from 1929hrs consider me as retired," Dhoni posted on his instagram handle. The announcement came a day after he joined his Chennai Super kings teammates at the side's home base for a short training camp ahead of the players' departure to the UAE next week. The BCCI sent out a statement, detailing each one of his historic achievements and lauding "a legacy that will be difficult to replicate." Board president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah paid rich tributes. "It is the end of an era. What a player he has been for the country and world cricket...He will finish with no regrets on the field," said Ganguly. "He is leaving the game richer from the time he joined," added Shah. The Board also stated that Dhoni "changed the face of Indian cricket with his calm demeanour, sharp understanding of the game and astute leadership qualities." His last outing in India colours was during the lost World Cup semifinal against New Zealand in July last year. One of the best runners between the wickets was run out following a hard-earned 50 in that tense game, shattering Indian hopes and leaving him in a state of disbelief. Ever since he went on a sabbatical after that match, speculation raged over his future but he stoically avoided a response for over a year. The reticent man from Ranchi will, however, go down as one of the finest to have played the game for India, turning up for the country in a whopping 350 ODIs, 90 Tests and 98 T20 Internationals. The last leg of his career was, however, marred by a drop in form, prompting several critics to question his resolve to continue. But he nevertheless signs off as an ODI legend with 10,773 runs, averaging more than 50 despite batting between No.5 and 7 for a major chunk of his career. In the Test format, from which he retired in 2014, Dhoni accumulated 4876 runs at an average of 38.09 and led India to more wins (27) than anyone else before him. However, runs are not the parameter on which Dhoni's career can be truly judged. Considered a punter by some and a master strategist by several others, it was Dhoni's captaincy, wondrous reading of match situations and the jaw-dropping hand-speed behind stumps that had the cricket world mesmerised. A leader even after he gave up the official tag of the leader, Dhoni will be remembered as the nonconformist, who made risks look like well thought-out strategy. Whether it was handing the ball to rookie Joginder Sharma in the final over of the 2007 World T20 or pushing himself ahead of man-in-form Yuvraj Singh in the 2011 50-over World Cup, Dhoni's instincts rarely failed him. For the record, India lifted the trophy on both occasions, propelling him to cult status in a country which remains hopelessly in love with all things cricket. The IPL was also his happy hunting ground where he was the revered 'Thala', leading the Chennai Super Kings to three trophies. The most significant of those titles came last season when the side made its return to the event after a two-year suspension for its official Gurunath Meiyappan's role in the 2013 spot-fixing scandal. CSK CEO Kasi Vishwanathan recently stated that the big-hitting batsman will continue to play for the franchise at least till 2022. Dhoni spent the past year training with his unit in the Territorial Army, where he is an honorary lieutenant colonel, trying his hand at organic farming at his home in Ranchi, and occasionally hitting the nets to send the media and fans into a tizzy. His larger than life persona was also brought alive on the celluloid by the late Sushant Singh Rajput-starrer M S Dhoni: The Untold Story. The blockbuster film was a rare insight into one of the greatest cricketing minds of all time. Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence in June and his family is currently demanding a CBI inquiry into the tragedy.    

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Man accused in Bengaluru violence dies in hospital, tests positive for coronavirus

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He had complained of chest pain, stomach pain and breathlessness

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A 24-year-old man, who the police have accused of having been part of mob attack in eastern Bengaluru, died on Saturday after complaining of chest pain, stomach pain and breathlessness. The deceased was confirmed as Sayyad Nadeem, a resident of KG Halli, who was arrested on August 12 in the morning. He was operated for a blunt force injury and he also tested positive for the coronavirus, Additional Commissioner of Police Hemant Nimbalkar said.  "He has been found to be COVID-19 positive and did not respond to post operative treatment due to subsequent complications and lost his life," a police statement said. Police clarified that he did not have a bullet injury.  The patient was sent to Bowring Hospital on Saturday morning, a doctor at the hospital said. "He was injured in the riot and was taken to another hospital. His injuries were examined and he was sent back. He was arrested the next day and developed complications and he was brought to Bowring Hospital on Friday night. He needed an operation because of a hole in the stomach. The operation was done this morning but he was hypertensive following the operation. He subsequently died," a hospital source said.  Bengaluru police have arrested over 200 people in connection with the mob violence triggered by a Facebook post on Tuesday night in Banaswadi sub-division. Two police stations and the residence of Congress MLA Akhand Srinivas Murthy were attacked after the MLA's nephew made a derogatory Facebook comment on Prophet Mohammed. The nephew Naveen has also been arrested by the police. Leaders of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the husband of a Congress corporator are among the persons arrested.  Three persons were reported dead after sustaining gunshot wounds during the riots. The police opened fire on the mob after the violence escalated on Tuesday night. The situation was brought under control in the early hours of Wednesday morning.  A curfew placed in Banaswadi sub-division following the riots was extended till 6 am on Sunday. The area has a heavy police and paramilitary presence taking out regular route marches and the movement of residents has been restricted.  Bengaluru reported 3495 COVID-19 cases on Saturday taking the total number cases in the city to 87680.  

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COVID-19: BBMP launches portal for Bengaluru citizens to become booth-level volunteers

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People can log into blcares.in website to register for booth-level volunteering.

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Bengaluru's civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), along with several NGOs, on Friday launched a portal blcares.in where residents of the city can sign up to become volunteers for the booth-level COVID-19 management committees. Spearheaded by various civil society and advocacy organisations including Janaagraha, Naavu Bharatiyaru, Reap Benefit, Sensing Local Foundation, Citizens for Bengaluru, Slum mahila Sanghatane and Hasiru Dala, the booth-level committees aim to decentralise operations related to COVID-19.  What will volunteers do?    Residents of the city can sign up to become volunteers of these committees at their respective booths. The training of volunteers will be conducted by the NGOs working with BBMP. The volunteers will have to identify people in high-risk categories in their respective booths including senior citizens, pregnant women, people with comorbidities. They will conduct door-to-door surveys and create a pool of resources.  ಕೋವಿಡ್19 ಸೋಂಕು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸಲು ಬೂತ್ ಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಣಾಮಕಾರಿಯಾಗಿ ಸರ್ವೇ ನಡೆಸಲು ನಗರದ ಸಂಘ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಸಹಯೋಗದಲ್ಲಿ https://t.co/fB77JkV2NH ಜಾಲತಾಣಕ್ಕೆ ಗೌರವಾನ್ವಿತ @BBMP_MAYOR ಚಾಲನೆ ನೀಡಿದರು. ಬೂತ್ ಮಟ್ಟದ ತಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಲು ಇಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು https://t.co/fB77JkV2NH ಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಾಗಬಹುದು. pic.twitter.com/b1rtN2GSoH — N. Manjunatha Prasad,IAS (@BBMPCOMM) August 14, 2020 "Some booths may have slums, where people cannot afford to maintain physical distance. Volunteers will identify if there are people with breathing difficulties or those who have Influenza-Like Illness and Severe Acute Respiratory Illness. They will determine whether a positive patient within the booth needs to be taken to a COVID Care Centre, or a COVID-19 hospital, or whether they will remain in home isolation," said Srinivas Alavalli, a member of Janaagraha.  He maintains that managing the cases at booth-level would make it easier to ensure that all patients receive necessary care. "Even if people from high-risk categories have illnesses other than COVID-19, the volunteers will help them. There are around 1000 to 1500 people in each booth and decentralised management will definitely make the job easier," he added.  BBMP officials said that having booth-level volunteers can help reduce the stigma attached to COVID-19 patients as those who will be contacting patients or their neighbours will be a person from the same locality. "They will be essentially neighbours. So we are hoping the stigma will be reduced," Manjunath Prasad, BBMP Commissioner said.  The booth-level teams will also help BBMP in tracing contacts of COVID-19 patients within their respective booths. In July, when the number of cases began increasing drastically in Bengaluru, the BBMP stopped tracing primary and secondary contacts as they did not have adequate manpower. The existing personnel were overwhelmed with work. "These booth-level committees will have health officers, booth-level BBMP officers and also citizen volunteers. This will ensure that both bureaucratic and field work are streamlined," Manjunath Prasad added.  How to register to become a volunteer You can visit the website blcares.in and this will directly lead you to the dashboard. As soon as you open the website, it will ask your permission to use your current location. You can select that option or manually enter the location. Once you have selected you location, you can see a red pin on the map on the website. If you click on that, a drop down menu will appear on your right hand side. This will contain your booth number and a button which says "volunteer". Once you click on it, it  will take you to a page, which has a basic form in both Kannada and English. You will have to fill this form and attach any government-issued identity proof like Aadhaar card, voter ID or passport.  For people who do not know how to use the internet, the BBMP is sending out PDFs of the forms on WhatsApp. People can also go to their local ward office, pick up a form, fill it and submit it with an attested photocopy of their ID proof.  So far, there are 5000 volunteers. The BBMP is hoping for more. "We will release data next week on which booths have enough volunteers and which booths need more," Srinivas Alavalli said. 

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Bengaluru adds 34 new containment zones, total active at 13482

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However, the total number of containment zones in the city has increased by 544, and stands at 33,041.

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Bengaluru, which reported 2,452 coronavirus cases on Friday, added 34 new containment zones, taking the active zones’ tally to 13,482. However, the total number of containment zones in the city increased by a larger number of 544 and is at 33,041. West zone was found to have a majority of active containment zones in the city as per the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) COVID-19 War Room report on August 14. Bengaluru West had 2,723 active containment zones, followed by South (2,521) and East (2,362) zones. However, South zone has reported the most containment zones in total till date (8,694). It also has the most zones that have returned to normal status. Out of all the zones, Dasarahalli and Mahadevapura are the only ones to have a higher number of active containment zones than ones that have returned to normal. West zone has reported a quarter of the new cases in the city over the last 10 days, followed by East (18%) and South (16%) zones. In the last 24 hours though, both West and East zone accounted for an equal proportion of the new patients – 18% each – while Bommanahalli came next, reporting 17% of the new cases. Bengaluru East reported 13% of the cases, followed by Mahadevapura (11%), Dasarahalli (10%), RR Nagara (9%), and Yelahanka (4%). People between ages 30 and 39 formed a majority of the new patients reported on Wednesday. The same age group also reported the highest number of recoveries. An equal number of men and women succumbed to COVID-19 in the 50 to 59 age group on Friday, but a majority of COVID-19 casualties were reported in men above the age of 70. Karnataka reported 6,940 new coronavirus patients on Friday and the total number of active cases in the state is at 79,201. Bengaluru has an active rate of 40%, recovery rate of 60% and a positivity rate of 17.29%.

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UP man fixes Rs 51 lakh bounty on Cong MLA Akhanda Murthy's nephew, arrested

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Shahazeb Rizvi, former member of the Samajwadi Party was arrested in Meerut on Friday.

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A social worker and former leader of the Samajwadi Party was arrested on Friday for allegedly announcing a bounty on the head of Pulakeshinagar Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy’s nephew P Naveen.  Media reports stated that the Shahazeb Rizvi, a resident of Rasoolpur village in Phalwada town of Meerut, had circulated a video on WhatsApp, where he purportedly announced a bounty of Rs 51 lakh on the head of P Naveen for putting up the Facebook comment, which hurt religious sentiments. He was arrested after the video went viral.  “The sentiments of the Muslim community have been hurt due to the social media post of Congress MLA’s nephew. Whoever will get me the head of his nephew, will get Rs 51 lakh in return. The money will be collected with the help of the people who support me in the cause,” Rizvi can be heard saying in the video, according to the Times of India (ToI). According to The Hindu, Avinash Pandey, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Meerut, told the media that Shahazeb Rizvi was booked under sections 153 A (promoting enmity between religious groups) and 505 (2) (intent to incite one community against the other) of the Indian Penal Code.  ToI reported that Rizvi could be heard making an appeal to people for contributing to the bounty money. The report stated that Shahazeb Rizvi was formerly associated with the minority cell of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and also contested the zilla panchayat elections on an SP ticket.  The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has written to the Meerut police that the sections invoked against Shahazb Rizvi were weak and has demanded that he also be booked under relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989.  The violence in Bengaluru allegedly began after P Naveen, nephew of Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, put up a comment on Facebook that was derogatory towards Prophet Muhammed. Huge mobs gathered at DJ Halli and KG Halli and vandalised the police stations. The under-construction building adjacent to Srinivas Murthy’s residence was set on fire and Naveen’s home was also vandalised. The Bengaluru police have so far arrested 206 people in connection with the riot, including the husband of BBMP corporator from Nagawara, Kaleem Pasha.   

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Bengaluru violence: BBMP corporator’s husband arrested for allegedly instigating mob

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Kaleem Pasha, husband of Nagawara corporator, was arrested on Friday.

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The Bengaluru police have arrested 60 more people in connection with the violence that broke out on Tuesday night, including the husband of BBMP corporator from Nagawara, Kaleem Pasha. In a midnight operation on Friday, the police arrested Kaleem Pasha for allegedly instigating the mob gathered outside the Kadugondanahalli (KG Halli) Police Station on the evening of August 11.  According to Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Kaleem Pasha allegedly visited KG Halli Police Station on Tuesday evening, before the violence broke out and allegedly instigated the mob to resort to violence. However, he allegedly left the spot as soon as protesters began pelting stones at the police station.  Police said that Kaleem Pasha allegedly returned to KG Halli Police Station at midnight on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, and allegedly “pretended to help the police diffuse the situation.” “He wanted to ensure that he would not be held responsible for instigating the mob. He also told the KG Halli police the names of some of the people who were present during the vandalism,” a senior police officer with the Central Crime Branch said.  According to Deccan Herald, Kaleem Pasha is listed as accused number 7 in the FIR registered on Wednesday night. Police said that Kaleem Pasha’s role was allegedly revealed after perusing through the 40 cellphones that were seized in connection with the incident, in addition to the interrogation of SDPI member Firoz.  Sandeep Patil said that 81 suspects, who were arrested, were sent to judicial custody to Parappana Agrahara Central Prison and were later moved to Ballari Central Prison.  Bommai says political differences caused the riots Speaking to the media on Friday after the meeting with Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that political differences within the Congress party and the “larger conspiracy of the Social Democratic Party of India” were the reasons for Tuesday’s riots.  “We have learnt so far that it is the political differences within the Congress. We have also learnt in the investigation that the Congress’ differences with the SDPI and the SDPI’s larger conspiracy to disrupt law and order, in relation to the previous elections and the upcoming (BBMP) elections, played a role in the violence,” Basavaraj Bommai said.  The violence in Bengaluru allegedly began after P Naveen, nephew of Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, put up a comment on Facebook that was derogatory towards Prophet Muhammed. Huge mobs gathered at DJ Halli and KG Halli and vandalised the police stations. The under-construction building adjacent to Srinivas Murthy’s residence was set on fire and Naveen’s home was also vandalised. The Bengaluru police have so far arrested 206 people in connection with the riot, including the husband of BBMP corporator from Nagawara, Kaleem Pasha. 

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Masks, surgical gowns, testing supplies on FDA shortage list

The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.

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