Phil Salt thrashed a brilliant 87 not out off just 47 balls as defending champions England romped to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in their T20 World Cup Super Eight clash on Wednesday. Salt smashed seven fours and five sixes during a swashbuckling innings at the Daren Sammy National Stadium in St. Lucia while Jonny Bairstow hit an ...

South Africa beat the United States by 18 runs in the first T20 World Cup Super 8 game in Antigua on Wednesday to move top of Group 2. After the US won the toss and put South Africa into bat, Quinton de Kock (74) and Aiden Markram (46) cut loose, sharing a 110-run partnership off 60 balls before Heinrich Klaasen’s ...

Powered by Quinton de Kock’s 74 runs and Aiden Markram’s 46, South Africa posted 194 losing only 4 wickets after 20 overs against USA in the first Super-8 group match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua on Wednesday. For the co-hosts, Saurabh Netravalkar and Harmeet Singh struck twice. Earlier, United ...

Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen on Wednesday asked the authorities of all public hospitals in flood-affected Sylhet region to keep an adequate stock of saline and medicines to tackle the outbreak of water-borne diseases including diarrhoea. He gave the directives during an urgent meeting — with the concerned officials of the Sylhet division’s health service sector — through videoconferencing ...

Nearly seven lakh people in the Sylhet metropolitan area and throughout the district have been stranded as continuous heavy rainfall over the past three days has worsened the flood situation in Sylhet for the second time in just 20 days. . In the metropolitan area, 50,000 people across 21 wards have been affected by flooding, according to Sylhet district administration ...

Labour will lift “the Conservatives’ onshore wind ban in England” within days of coming to power, Ed Miliband told an industry conference in Manchester earlier. It is part of a massive deregulation of the UK’s planning system that lies at the heart of Labour’s growth strategy. At the top of the list of the projects Labour wants to usher through ...

Secret documents show a scramble to safeguard critical public services from the potential collapse of tech giant Atos, which works with billions of pounds worth of government contracts. Files seen by the BBC show work has been underway with consultants since January, aiming to limit “severe implications” to essential services by lining up alternative IT providers. The UK government outsources ...

Visitors to Kew Gardens are still able to catch a glimpse – and whiff – of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom on Tuesday. The flower, which is said to stink like rotting flesh, usually only emerges once every two years. According to the website of the famous south-west London botanic ...

Chip-maker Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company after its share price climbed to an all-time high on Tuesday. It is now worth $3.34tn (£2.63tn), with the price having nearly doubled since the start of this year. The stock ended the trading day at nearly $136, up 3.5%, making it more valuable than fellow tech giant Microsoft. It overtook Apple ...

With summer temperatures reaching new records every day, uneasiness, profuse sweating, and constant exhaustion often come with heat rashes. Heat rash, often termed miliaria, commonly occurs during hot and humid seasons. It usually results from the inflammation or blockage of the eccrine sweat glands. Common remedies include over-the-counter medications, cold compresses, cooling your body with air conditioning, or lifestyle changes ...