New Zealand

Indian men’s hockey team hammers NZ 5-0 to win Olympic Test Event

1:40 pm August 21, 2019

Tokyo: The Indian men’s hockey team won the Olympic Test event here on Wednesday, beating New Zealand 5-0 to avenge the loss it endured in their round robin clash. Captain Harmanpreet Singh (7th minute) set the ball rolling before Shamsher Singh (18th minute), Nilakanta Sharma (22nd minute), Gursahibjit Singh (26th minute) and Mandeep Singh (27th […]

Overthrow involving Ben Stokes and Guptill to be reviewed in September

12:53 am August 13, 2019

London: The throw from the deep that ricocheted off Ben Stokes’ bat to the boundary during the World Cup final, will be reviewed in September, the custodians of the game’s laws, Marylebone Cricket Club said on Monday. The overthrow rules drew MCC’s attention after New Zealand were left to rue a fortuitous, last-over overthrow […]

Evidence of ‘Herculean’ parrot found in New Zealand

10:56 pm August 7, 2019

Wellington: The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand. Judging by the size of the leg bones, the bird would have stood about one metre (39 inches) tall and weighed up to […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Germany orders Google to take humans out of audio loop

10:41 pm August 2, 2019

Frankfurt am Main: A German data protection official has convinced Google to stop human workers from listening to audio recorded by its digital assistant across the EU, after a leak showed staff could hear private conversations. “To provisionally protect the rights of privacy of data subjects for the time being,” Hamburg commissioner for data protection […]

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ICC World Test Championship will add context to five-day game: Kohli

3:11 pm July 29, 2019

Dubai: India captain Virat Kohli on Monday said the ICC World Test Championship (WTC), that gets underway on August 1, will add context to the longest format of the game. The inaugural edition will see top nine Test teams — Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies […]