Cricket South Africa loses second independent director

Aquib was among the players felicitated by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, and MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh for their recent Ranji Trophy win, a landmark moment in J&K cricket as it marks their first-ever Ranji title win.

Pybus has a distinguished international coaching career. He is a three-time ICC Cricket World Cup-winning Head Coach & Director of Cricket and brings a wealth of elite-level experience and a proven record of building high-performance systems.

The 62nd edition of the cycling movement was organised at more than 1000 locations across the subcontinent in collaboration with the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), coinciding with their celebration of 75 years of service and social security. Rupinder was joined by Ashok Kumar Singh (IAS), Director General, ESIC, Mayank Srivastava (IPS), Deputy Director General, Khelo India, apart from Fit India champions Tanvee Tutlani and Atul Jindal.

Navya Patel, a cricket player, shared similar sentiments, adding, "I am very excited about this World Cup match. India will make it 8-1 in our favour. Pakistan always loses to us, and I believe that tradition will continue. They are fearful to play against us."

During the meeting, Asimakopoulos said that he was impressed to see "The Plan, the strategy and the vision that the Sports Ministry has put in place in order to play a major role in the Olympic Movement." He added that after seeing all the sports programmes being run by the government, the IOA is keen to extend help to strengthen Olympic education in the country, as per a press release by the Union Sports Ministry.