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England will play 12 international matches -- four Tests, three One-day Internationals, and five Twenty20s -- on their tour of India in February-March, and Ahmedabad will host seven of those, including a pink ball day-night Test. All the matches will be played at only three venues -- Chennai and Pune are the others -- and in bio-secure environment due to Corona pandemic, it was announced on Thursday. ....

The Congress has reiterated its demand to include a chapter on the role played by interim party President Sonia Gandhi in the formation of Telangana state in school syllabus. ....

The health of veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has improved slightly but remained critical on Thursday, hospital sources said. He is on ventilator support now. ....

Former wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel who recently announced his retirement from professional cricket has joined five-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians (MI) as a talent scout, the franchise said in a statement on Thursday. Parthiv Patel, 35, will "work closely with the Mumbai Indians coaching staff and scouts' group", the franchise said. ....

Football great Paolo Rossi, who died of lung cancer aged 64 on December 9, won the Italian Serie A twice and the European Cup once in his illustrious career, but the tournament that he is most widely associated with, for good reason, is the 1982 World Cup. ....

The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Friday opened on a positive note. ....

Fresh and rested from a part of the white-ball series against India, Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins has said he is ready to take on Virat Kohli in the first Test of the upcoming four-match series to be played at the Adelaide Oval from December 17. ....

Two years after the Supreme Court directed a three-member committee under retired SC judge D.K. Jain to probe if there was a conspiracy among the then police officials to falsely implicate top ISRO space scientist S.Nambi Narayanan, will have its first sitting in the state capital on December 14 and 15. ....

Durgamati; Cast: Bhumi Pednekar, Arshad Warsi, Jisshu Sengupta, Mahie Gill; Direction: G. Ashok; Rating: * * (two stars) ....

An unidentified woman allegedly set herself afire in Buddh Jayanti Park in south-west Delhi on Friday morning, suffering 90-95 per cent burn injuries in the process. The middle-aged woman was admitted to the DDU Hospital. ....