NEW DELHI: The BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia has confirmed that the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) will handle refunds for ticket holders after fog and poor visibility led to the abandonment of the fourth T20I between India and South Africa.The match cancellation left spectators seeking refunds. According to BCCI policy, ticket holders are entitled to reimbursement, excluding fees, when matches are cancelled without a single ball being bowled.

“That is under the domain of the state cricket association, which is UPCA. So, this game’s hosting state is the UPCA. So, they will be able to tell you about this, and they are the competent authority,” Saikia told IANS on Thursday.“Everything in ticketing is done by the state association, as the BCCI just gives them the hosting rights and all these things are taken care of and are under the domain of the state association.”The match was called off at 9:30 pm after multiple inspections by umpires K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan, Rohan Pandit, and reserve umpire JR Madanagopal failed to yield positive results.India maintains a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, with the final game scheduled at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday.The cancellation has sparked discussions about BCCI’s winter scheduling of international games, particularly as this series serves as preparation for the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup in February-March.This December match marked Lucknow’s first T20I game and now holds the record for India’s first major international match cancelled due to fog.The severe fog and hazardous Air Quality Index (AQI) conditions were evident when Hardik Pandya was seen wearing a mask on the field.“No, it is a solitary weather situation. Normally we have this kind of weather in the month of January. This time it is quite early, number one, and number two, we had a match in Dharamsala also the other day. Dharamsala is a much colder place. So you cannot predict fog, and rain. Nowadays cricket is a throughout the year annual event for 12, and we have to have the matches,” he added.“When we saw that there were big disturbances from fog in northern India in the month of January, we already restructured our domestic cricket matches. That’s why there is a big gap between Ranji Trophy matches in North India. If you look at our schedule, we have bifurcated the Ranji Trophy matches into two parts. During the first part of January, we are not scheduling any matches in North India from last year onwards, if you follow that. This Lucknow incident is an exceptional weather condition. We had three matches in North India — one in Chandigarh, Dharamshala and one in Lucknow — all are in the same build.“If we had got any sense that there will be something like this, you can take the example of rescheduling or swapping of the Test match in New Delhi. If you look at the West Indies match, the second Test was played in New Delhi. In fact, the second Test was scheduled to happen in Kolkata. The first Test match against South Africa was originally scheduled to happen in New Delhi. But when we got to know about this smog situation after Diwali, we swapped the matches of Kolkata and New Delhi. But Lucknow is an exceptional situation. It was not foreseen, and this kind of predictability is not there in weather conditions.“I don’t think Lucknow always has this kind of fog at this part of the time. Maybe in the first part of January, it is normal, but we are still in the second or third week of December. We still have 15 days time to be in that situation. That is one of the tough things we saw yesterday, and for this, we cannot have any kind of rescheduling.”

Mumbai: Bombay high court on Thursday cancelled the bail granted to a businessman who misbehaved with a woman in a lift and assaulted her along with his friends “to such an extent that she suffered a miscarriage”.Justice Neela Gokhale ordered Goregaon West resident Rhythm Goyal (25) to surrender before the trial court within “two days from today, failing which the police concerned are directed to arrest the respondent and produce him before the trial court…”The woman (33) challenged the Dindoshi sessions court’s Dec 8 order granting him bail. She works as a guest relation manager in an Andheri nightclub. She was eight weeks pregnant at that time. According to FIR, on Nov 15, after completing her shift, around 1.30pm she took the lift. Goyal accompanied by two men and a woman boarded it in an inebriated state. He pointed a laser torch at her inappropriately. When she objected, he abused her saying “It’s women like you who leave home to work at night”. She tried to take the torch from him. He hit her with it and was joined by his friends. One punched her on her nose, another tried to hit her with a liquor bottle. She pleaded with them to stop hitting her as she is pregnant. Goyal punched her on her stomach. She was rescued by bouncers and taken to a hospital where she learnt of her miscarriage.Goyal was booked under BNS sections including 89 (causing miscarriage without a woman’s consent). The sessions court granted him bail for non-compliance by police of BNSS sections pertaining to notice to appear and to inform grounds of arrest. From documents submitted by prosecutor Anamika Malhotra, Justice Gokhale observed that Goyal was issued a notice to appear before the police, and he and his father acknowledged receipt of grounds of arrest. She agreed with the woman’s advocates Bahraiz Irani and Shane Santos that the provisions apply to cases where the offence is punishable for a term less than or up to seven years, whereas Section 89 is punishable with life imprisonment or may extend to 10 years.Justice Gokhale said it is a settled law that while considering bail in serious criminal offence as “in the present case”, courts must consider factors including the nature of accusations and manner in which crime alleged is committed. While Goyal sought bail on merits, the trial court “limited its finding on the alleged procedural lapses”.There were witnesses who saw the woman with blood oozing from her head. “The applicant has lost her child on account of the assault on her by the respondent… The trial court has ignored relevant material on record, failed to consider the gravity of offence and misconstrued provisions… of BNSS,” she concluded. She refused to stay the order for 3 weeks.

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NASHIK: NCP minister Manikrao Kokate on Thursday resigned from his post in the state cabinet in the wake of his conviction and two years of jail sentence in an EWS housing quota cheating case of 1995.A team of Nashik police reached Mumbai late in the evening to execute the arrest warrant issued against him by a Nashik court. However, sources said no arrest would be made while Kokate was still in hospital against medical advice from the doctors. The police earlier visited the residence of Kokate’s brother, Vijay, who is also facing the warrant but could not trace him.Officials in the Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Thursday night confirmed that Kokate’s resignation has been forwarded to the Governor.Hours earlier, deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar said in a post on X that he has accepted in principle Kokate’s resignation and forwarded it to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for “due consideration and acceptance, in accordance with the Constitutional procedure”.Kokate’s resignation followed a series of developments over the last two days, starting with a Nashik sessions court upholding and confirming on Dec 16 the trial court’s order of Feb 20 convicting and sentencing Kokate and his brother to two years of rigorous imprisonment in the case of securing two flats in 1995 under the state’s 10% EWS quota by showing less income. The sessions court directed the trial court to take appropriate steps to execute the jail sentences.On Wednesday, Kokate was divested of all his ministerial portfolios, hours after Nashik’s additional chief judicial magistrate Rupali Narwadiya rejected a plea by Kokate’s lawyer seeking four days’ time on humanitarian grounds to surrender as Kokate was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. The court went on to issue the arrest warrant. All eyes were on the Nashik police regarding execution of the warrant.A 13-member Nashik police team, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Sandeep Mitke, left Nashik around 5.30pm on Thursday for Mumbai. “We have received the arrest warrant, and we are in the process of executing it. We are going to Mumbai to take Manikrao Kokate into custody and produce him before the court. We received information that Kokate has been admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. We are going there to secure his custody.“The police are also searching for Kokate’s brother, Vijay. A seven-member Nashik police squad is pursuing leads relating to Vijay Kokate’s whereabouts. “A second team is working on the leads and has tracked him down. The team is after him. We expect to take him into custody soon,” the officer said.(With inputs from Mumbai)

NEW DELHI: The new nuclear energy bill, which was passed in Rajya Sabha by voice vote after a four-hour discussion while rejecting many amendments moved by opposition to send it to a parliamentary panel for scrutiny, marks a decisive shift in India’s nuclear governance, embedding safety oversight in law across the lifecycle of an atomic plant, unlike the existing framework that relied largely on executive discretion and post-accident accountability.Sustainable Harnessing of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill will allow private participation in India’s tightly controlled civil nuclear sector as the country seeks to meet its clean energy goals by 2047. As opposition raised safety and liability concerns, officials said it establishes a statutory safety regime that ensures continuous compliance rather than reliance on one-time permissions. It seeks to provide for a “pragmatic civil liability regime for nuclear damage and confer statutory status to Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)”.Officials said unlike the previous law – in which nuclear safety oversight was shaped largely by broad executive authority and administrative rules – SHANTI fundamentally recasts the framework by shifting to a “statutory, lifecycle-based regulatory regime”. Govt manages radiation risks and radioactive waste, but does not mandate separate safety authorisations or legally bind safety obligations to each phase of a nuclear plant’s life. AERB’s stage-wise consent process for construction, commissioning and operation existed only as an administrative practice. Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act, 2010 further reinforced a post-accident approach by focusing on compensation and insurance rather than prevention.“These laws (Atomic Energy Act and CLND Act) treated safety primarily as a post-damage responsibility, rather than a proactive governance requirement,” said an official. SHANTI separates “permission to operate” from “permission to operate safely”, requiring both a licence and an independent safety authorisation. Any activity involving radiation exposure risk – including construction, operation, transport, storage, decommissioning, or waste management – will now require explicit safety approval.It also consolidates regulation, enforcement, civil liability and dispute resolution within a single statute, reducing legal complexity and compliance uncertainty. “It grants a clear statutory authority to AERB to inspect facilities, investigate incidents, issue binding directions, and suspend or cancel operations that do not meet safety standards. Regulatory action is no longer dependent on executive discretion. Accident prevention is significantly enhanced by legally recognising serious risk situations as nuclear incidents, even without actual damage,” said the official. Core functions such as fuel enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing, and heavy water production will remain exclusively under Centre’s control.Anujesh Dwivedi, partner at Deloitte India, said continuing with the existing legal framework would make it difficult for nuclear energy to replace thermal power in the long run. “Over decades, India added only about 8GW of nuclear capacity. Scaling this up to 100GW by 2047- and potentially 300GW or more by 2070 – required major reforms, which these regulations seek to address,” he said.Meanwhile, PM Modi said passing of the bill marks a “transformational moment for our technology landscape”.

Flu, COVID-19 and the common cold are all respiratory infections that share many symptoms, so it is often hard to tell them apart, just by how you feel. However, while only a test can confirm Covid, here are some symptoms that tell the 3 of them apart...Typical cold symptomsThe onset of a cold usually starts with throat discomfort, pain, nasal discharge and sneezing, which develops into full symptoms during a two-day period. Fever is uncommon in adults with a cold, when it occurs it is usually low-grade. body aches and strong fatigue are also less common, and stay mild.

Most colds have a brief duration with minimal symptoms because they peak during day 2 or 3 before starting to improve within 7–10 days; however, coughing and congestion may persist longer. The respiratory system of healthy people remains unaffected by colds, because these illnesses do not lead to breathing difficulties or dangerous lung infections. However, if one has asthma, it can lead to wheezing.

Typical flu symptomsThe onset of flu occurs rapidly when patients develop fever, along with chills, headache, dry cough and severe body pain. People who have the flu commonly report fatigue and muscle pain so severe that they feel like they have been ‘struck by a truck’.Fever is common in the flu, especially in the first 3–4 days, and may be accompanied by sore throat, runny or stuffy nose and sometimes, vomiting or diarrhoea (more often in children). The flu virus creates dangerous health issues, including pneumonia, and it worsens heart and lung diseases, often requiring hospital care, mainly affecting the elderly, pregnant individuals, or those with existing medical conditions.Typical COVID-19 symptomsCOVID-19 symptoms keep changing, but usually include a stuffy nose, sore throat, headache and tiredness. The illness causes fever and cough, along with breathing difficulties, chest pain and stomach problems leading to diarrhea. Loss or change of smell and taste was very typical earlier in the pandemic and can still occur, though it is now less common.Key differences in how you feelThere are some broad patterns that can help you guess which illness you might have, although there is a lot of overlap. The flu starts suddenly when patients experience severe fever, intense body pain and complete fatigue. Cold symptoms develop gradually; the illness remains mild and affects only the nasal and throat areas, causing sneezing and congestion.

COVID-19 can mimic some cold/flu symptoms but can also cause tiredness, headache and sometimes shortness of breath, or chest tightness.Symptom overviewColdA typical cold develops over a 1–2 day period, bringing occasional slight fever, some body pain, light fatigue, nasal discharge, congestion, frequent sneezing, occasional throat discomfort and light to moderate coughing. It can also alter your taste and smell, though complete loss is not common.FluThe onset of the flu (influenza) occurs rapidly within a few hours, developing into high fever, intense body pains, extreme fatigue, nasal congestion with occasional sneezing, throat pain and coughing, which may produce mucus and cause breathing difficulties if complications occur. The duration of the flu (influenza) typically spans one to two weeks, while patients experience prolonged fatigue after recovery.COVIDCOVID-19 symptoms can have either a sudden or gradual onset but can include fever, tiredness, body ache and shortness of breath. Loss of taste and smell, though less common, is still seen in many Covid cases.The only way to know if you have COVID is to get tested. The main reason for testing is to stop you from contracting a dangerous infection.How to protect yourself:

Disclaimer: This article is informational only and not a substitute for medical advice