The India-Sri Lanka series was set to commence on 13^th July but it was rescheduled to start from 18^th July after some Sri Lankan players and staff members tested COVID-19 positive. The first ODI of the 3-match series was played yesterday at the R. Premdasa International Cricket Stadium and the young Indian team registered a comfortable win over the hosts.

The toss was won by the Sri Lankans and they decided to bat first. The hosts managed to put up a decent total of 262 runs on the score board and the highest scorer for the Sri Lanka team was Chamika Karunaratne who scored 43 runs not out.

The Indians had a great start as the opener Prithvi Shaw smashed the Sri Lankan bowlers in all corners of the field. He scored 43 runs for which he played only 24 balls and his innings included 9 fours. While Ishan Kishan played a blistering innings of 59 runs in 42 balls (8 fours & 2 sixes) in his debut match, the skipper Shikhar Dhawan led from the front and remained not out at 86 runs for which he played 95 balls and his innings included 6 fours and 1 six. Suryakumar Yadav also played a quick innings of 31 runs in 20 deliveries (5 fours) and India won the match by 7 wickets with 80 balls remaining in their innings.

With this win, the Indian team led by Shikhar Dhawan has completely silenced their critics who were calling them a second string team. The senior players of the Indian cricket team such as Rohit Sharma, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, etc. are in England at the moment as they will be facing the English team in the five-match test series under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. Hence, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) sent this relatively less experienced team for the tour to Sri Lanka under the leadership of Shikhar Dhawan while the former Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid was appointed as the head coach of the team.

Earlier the former Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Ranatunga called this Indian squad the second-string squad and slammed the Sri Lankan Cricket Board for getting agreed to play with this Indian team just for earning revenues from the broadcasting. Arjuna Ranatunga also termed it as an insult to the Sri Lankan team and at that time, the former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra responded in a strong manner, informing Arjuna Ranatunga that this team played in 471 matches in total and asked him to wait and see how strong or experienced the Sri Lankan team will be which will face the Indian squad.

After team India defeated the Sri Lankan side, Aakash Chopra took it as an opportunity to take a jibe at Arjuna Ranatunga and stated in his YouTube channel that it feels as if the Indian team has taken the second-string comment on their heart. Chopra said that the 262 was not so less as the Indian team made it look and achieved the target in style, showing that they know how to silence the opposition.

The second ODI will be played on July 20 and it will be interesting to see which team will win the match.

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A huge number of aspirants, approximately one million, appear every year in the Civil Services examinations which are conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) but only less than a thousand are able to clear them and serve the country. Uttar Pradesh has contributed in a great manner in terms of giving IAS officers to the nation but today we will tell you about a UP village where there are only 75 households yet quite amazingly, there is at least one member of each household who is serving as IAS or PCS.

The name of this village is Madhopatti which is in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh and till now, this village has given more than 50 IAS officers to the country. What is really heartening is that it is not just about the sons and daughters of the village but the daughter-in-laws are also IAS officers.

Madhopatti also has a unique record to its name which is of four siblings getting selected for the IAS, the eldest was Vinay Kumar Singh of the 1955 batch who retired as the chief secretary of the Bihar state. Khan Bahadur Syed Mohammad Mustafa was the first person from Madhopatti who cleared the Civil Services examinations in the year 1914.

Many other people from the village have been working with other highly esteemed organizations such as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

However what is a little heartbreaking is that despite giving so many IAS officers to the nation, the infrastructure condition of the village has not improved much. Moreover, there is no coaching institute for helping students prepare for IAS examinations even today.

Well, people should work towards improving the condition of infrastructure in Madhopatti and develop the village apart from arranging for coaching classes so that it produces more talents and students get proper guidance.

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Advertising is all about creativity and out of the box thinking but sometimes the advertisers come up with commercials which leave people confused and perplexed.

Brands tend to promote their products on all the available mediums such as print media, electronic media, billboards, social media networks, etc. and they also provide discounts and offers to attract customers. However, a billboard advertisement related to real estate in the city of Pune became the talk of the social media networks after an online user shared the photo of the billboard ad on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The ad was about introducing +0.25 BHK homes and it also asked the consumers to be a NeoCosmopolitan. People were also quite confused after seeing this new word; while neo means new, cosmopolitan stands for those who are influenced by cultures of other countries.

In his tweet, the online user asked about the 0.25 BHK and NeoCosmopolitan as he wrote, “What size is a 0.25 BHK home? And who is a NeoCosmopolitan?”

What size is a 0.25 BHK home? And who is a NeoCosmopolitan? #Pune #Realty #Signage #Advertising pic.twitter.com/MYNZipeNBw

— Sameer Nair (@nairsameer) July 15, 2021

Soon Twitterati started reacting and while some tried to have fun at the expense of this ad, few others tried to interpret what this ad might mean.

Here are some of the selected reactions:

#1

I believe it’s the WFH thingy so there’s a separate ‘compact’ office/ study area to work out of
Heard some builders in mumbai talk about this configuration for future construction

— atul kasbekar (@atulkasbekar) July 15, 2021

#2

Damm true, Pune uses words on an advertisement board similar to the novels of @ShashiTharoor !

I have seen many

— Shivansh Srivastava (@shivansh_rocky) July 15, 2021

#3

I like the advertiser. Logically we know that this doesn't make any difference. But for the probable customer, this becomes a thing to remember. As anybody reading it first try to decode the words, and hence easy for seller to get into mind of buyer.

— Master of None (@Bishnoirajesh29) July 15, 2021

#4

Eventually That 0.25 will be given to Balcony space and all the buyers will get lured with this offer. In short C****A banaao Paisa kamaao

— Vishal Oza (@VishalOza82) July 16, 2021

#5

Punekar be like.. pic.twitter.com/Bds6jgNmiF

— Sagar Raskar (@Sagarthetiger) July 15, 2021

#6

0.25 BHK

Like Company Quarters.

— Being Kunal (@LuckyKP16) July 15, 2021

#7

They’ve finally given a new name to the Guest Room

— Narayan! Narayan! (@NarayanK86) July 16, 2021

#8

It’s PLUS .25 in other words it’s like a pack of potato chips but you get 25% extra

— Masko Da Vama (@SridharHari) July 16, 2021

#9

0.25 is automatically increased by Mumbaikars by adding box grills to their windows

— Mohammed Futurewala (@MFuturewala) July 15, 2021

#10

Hahaha! Perhaps it’s the beginning of Tokyo like pods?

— Rishabh Anupam Sahay (@sahaysahab) July 16, 2021

#11

Quarters is what people refer to as a small shack. Maybe, 0.25 BHK is the neocosmopolitan way of referring to a Quarters.

— Anantha Narayan (@ThisIsAnantha) July 15, 2021

#12

I guess they are bringing office cubicals at home.

— Rohits_twitts (@Rohits_twitts) July 15, 2021

#13

Parking a leg should fill up the .25 flat nicely.

— Indranil Mukherjee, Author (@indranil9) July 15, 2021

#14

Someone went over board to showcase “innovation”

— Sachiin Guptaa (@sach304) July 15, 2021

#15

This is what happens when you want to be honest about lack of space but also need marketing on point https://t.co/4BuEvDGtY9

— Rahul Natekar (@rahulnatekar) July 15, 2021

What is your take in regard to +0.25 BHK homes and the term NeoCosmopolitan? Share with us.

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Marriage is undoubtedly one of the biggest events of a person’s life and each one of us likes to make it memorable. There will be rarely a person who will want his marriage function to be remembered by everyone for wrong reasons.

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Well, a couple has crossed all the limits of decency while planning their wedding as they have set weird rules and regulations for the guests who are invited to attend the wedding. An email was sent to the guests by the wedding planner of the bride and groom in order to do the headcount and also for informing the guests about the do’s and don’ts that they need to take care of while attending the marriage.

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The first instruction is that the guests should arrive at least 15-30 minutes early while the second point says that they should not wear white, cream and ivory and as per the third point, the guests can’t wear anything other than ponytail or basic bob. Whereas the fourth point limits the amount of makeup that one can have, the fifth point bans recording of the ceremony and the sixth point restricts the use of Facebook until instructed.

The seventh point gives a particular #(removed) to use when the guests post their photos online and the eighth point is written in capital letters as per which nobody should talk to the bride at all. The ninth points instructs everyone to toast with Remy and the tenth point informs everyone that their gift should be of at least $75 (Rs 5,500) or more otherwise they won’t be allowed to enter.

Here is the post:

Kindly refrain from upstaging the bride on her big day — oh, and no admission without a gift of $75 or more from ChoosingBeggars

Who will like to attend such a marriage ceremony and even if someone does, will there be the same zeal, excitement and happiness? What is your opinion in regard to this list of rules and regulations? Let us know.

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Space tourism is going to be pretty popular in the coming future, however everyone won’t be able to take a trip to space as it will be a very costly affair. The founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos is leaving for space on July 20 with some other selected people in the rocket system New Shepherd which has been developed by Jeff Bezos owned company Blue Origin.

Many Indians have made the country proud in the past and the latest one to join the list is the 30 years old Sanjal Gavande who is a part of the team which has built the spacecraft New Shepherd. Sanjal Gavande is basically from Kalyan, Mumbai, and she is employed in Blue Origin as a systems engineer.

Before joining Blue Origin, Sanjal has used her expertise in marine and car racing organizations. While talking to a leading daily, Sanjal says that she is really happy and proud of being a part of the Blue Origin team, adding that her childhood dream has also come true with this.

Talking about Sanjal Gavande’s educational background, she did her mechanical engineering in the year 2011 from the Mumbai University and after that, she pursued her Masters from the Michigan Technological University, USA.

Sanjal Gavande’s father has retired from Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation while her mother has retired from Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).

Sanjal’s mother stated that her daughter was interested in space from her childhood and as parents, they are very proud of her because she started from making cars and now she is building spacecrafts and also for the fact that she has been selected for an international project which is quite a big achievement.

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While working at Toyota Racing, she started attending flying classes on weekends and in 2016, she got the pilot license. Sanjal’s mother also revealed that she applied for a job in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) but wasn’t able to get that job because of the citizenship issue.

However later on, she applied for job of the systems engineer in Blue Origin in Seattle which she got and now she has become an inspiration for many Indian youngsters.

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There is no denying the fact that the whole world is going through a tough phase because of the coronavirus pandemic and it is the time when we need to show courage, resilience and sensibility in order to save ourselves from getting infected with the lethal virus.

If we talk about the situation of COVID-19 in India, the second wave has subsided in majority of the states and the state governments have also unlocked the state with some restrictions. However, it has been observed that people are going on trips to tourist places in huge numbers and they are not following the COVID-19 protocols such as wearing masks, maintaining social distancing, etc.

This behaviour of the citizens is a matter of serious concern for everyone and not just the government because it will increase chances of the third wave and we should have no doubt that the third wave is going to be stronger and more harmful than the first and the second waves.

The former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev who has a huge fan following has now joined the campaign of Nissan India for educating people by comparing the present situation with the game of cricket and his career. In the video, Kapil Dev is seen with a cricket ball which has been modified into the shape of the COVID-19 virus.

He says that in his career, he has played many do-or-die matches; while in some he tasted victory, in few others he got defeated but the match against corona is the toughest match that India has ever faced. Kapil Dev under whose leadership the Indian cricket team won the first cricket World Cup in the year 1983 referred to test matches while speaking in the video as he said that when we thought that we defeated COVID-19 in the first innings, the virus made a strong comeback in the second innings. He further stated that no matter how hard it may be to defeat the opponent but we need to be well-prepared for this match and defeat coronavirus.

Nissan India shared the video with the caption, “The pandemic is the toughest match India has ever faced. To help us prepare better and be match-ready for this challenge, Nissan India has brought in our legendary Indian captain, @therealkapildev. Here’s what our champion has to say about getting ready. #IndiaVsCorona”

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The pandemic is the toughest match India has ever faced. To help us prepare better and be match-ready for this challenge, Nissan India has brought in our legendary Indian captain, @therealkapildev .
Here’s what our champion has to say about getting ready. #IndiaVsCorona pic.twitter.com/ZZcmfogrS0

— Nissan India (@Nissan_India) June 29, 2021

Click here to watch this video directly on Twitter

In simple words, the manner in which helmets save the batsmen from injuries, masks save us from corona in the same manner so we should ensure that we wear masks and maintain social distancing whenever we are out of the house.

Follow the COVID-19 protocols and stay safe.

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Greece is the perfect destination for a summer holiday. With its rich history, culture, and delicious cuisine, Greece has something to offer everyone. It is also one of the best places in Europe to enjoy your sunbathing while relaxing on some of the world’s most beautiful beaches.

The country offers so many different options for you to explore including museums, galleries, archaeological sites and so much more, not to mention the best and most authentic Greek food. And with this being their prime season, they’ve got plenty of festivals lined up too, there is even more reason to make your way over.

If you are looking for a sunny getaway as a new place to visit for your next summer vacation, then Greece should be at the top of your list, and here is why.

There is so much to explore

In Greece, you will never find yourself bored. Here, there is so much to do, whether you are on one of the islands in the Cyclades or if you are on the mainland. For those who have a bit of extra spending money, there are so many different activities for you to partake in and even some tours around various cities that you could do. For those who don’t have much to spend, there are things that you can do for free, such as visiting ancient sites and historical sites, as well as visiting some museums, or even just going for a walk in a lush forest. A ferry trip to some of the many Greek islands is an affordable way to enjoy your holiday, and also a great way to explore the country. You can choose a unique destination, such as Chania in Crete, and book your tickets online via Lets Ferry for an unforgettable experience. Ferry trips are always an adventure, so make sure to choose the most unique destination possible.

There is so much that you can do while in Greece, and if you find yourself doing nothing, a quick google search of what you can do in your area will immediately give you ideas.

It is very sunny

Greece is a summer vacation destination, and this means that it has sunshine all summer long. For those looking to catch a tan while on holiday, or even just spend their time outside enjoying the sunshine, Greece is the place to be.

With temperatures ranging from 31 to 35 degrees Celsius, or 88 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, there is no shortage of heat here. Visiting Greece in its summer months of July to August is one of the best times to go if you are looking for a sunny and warm vacation. Just remember that this is peak season and everyone else has the same idea as you.

Although summer is only 2 months long, the heat lasts longer and ranges over about 4 months. Sometimes the heat can get blistering hot, so make sure to pack some sunblock when you go.

It has amazing beaches

Next up we have the beaches. By far the biggest reason why people from all over the world visit Greece for their summer vacation is because of the fact that it is home to some of the most incredible beaches in Europe, and even in the world.

From beaches on the various different islands to beaches on the mainland, there is something for everyone wherever you find yourself. For those who are interested in more of a busy and activity-filled beach, some present themselves with bars, cabanas that can be rented, water sports for everyone to take part in, and so much more. And for those who aren’t into being on a packed beach and would rather be on one that is more secluded and emptier, there are plenty of near-empty beaches where you can walk for miles and miles and not see another person. This is a great place for those who just want a relaxing day by the beach to read their books with no interruptions.

It is always fun

Last but not least, it is always fun! As mentioned in the previous points, there is no shortage of things to do when you are in Greece or in the Greek Islands. However, for those who want to experience a bit of nightlife, Greece is definitely the place for this too.

After a long sunny day at the beach, many tourists get ready for an evening of dancing at various different clubs, and into the summer months, there are also a multitude of festivals that one can attend.

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