DEHRADUN: A fortnight after the lynching of Dipu Chandra Das — a 28-year-old Hindu garment factory worker who was beaten and burnt alive on accusations of blasphemy — in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, his family has now said that the real trigger was his promotion at work. Speaking to TOI from Bangladesh, they alleged that a few colleagues, unable to accept that a man of another faith, had been promoted over them, manufactured the charge after failing the same in-house exam that Dipu cleared to become ‘in-charge’.“They simply raised an objection citing his religion,” said Baburam Das, Dipu’s father-in-law. “They couldn’t accept the fact that they had to call him ‘Sir’ in the factory. On the day of the incident, they entered into a verbal altercation with him over religion. Then they accused him of blasphemy, beat him near the factory gate and handed him over to an incited mob waiting outside to kill him.”

Dipu had recently cleared the promotion exam, ahead of several others who took it, and had been elevated from supervisor to in-charge — a designation change that sparked resentment. His family insists the backlash was not about anything he had said or done but rather about what he had achieved, and who he was. “Those raising objections also sat the exam but didn’t pass,” said Baburam. “My son-in-law got the job on merit. They couldn’t tolerate it and ended up committing this inhumane, heinous act. Two families have been devastated.”Dipu’s brother, Apu Chandra Das, also confirmed the family’s version, saying he had heard similar accounts from his co-workers. “What we know is that he was falsely accused of blasphemy and murdered,” he said. “He was a calm, friendly person who respected all religions equally. It’s devastating that his colleagues, angry over a promotion, chose to take revenge in such a horrific way.”Apu filed a complaint on Dec 19, following which the local police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Bangladesh’s elite counter-terror unit, launched an investigation. Around 20 people have been arrested so far, though the FIR named approximately 150 unidentified individuals as part of the mob. The RAB, in an official statement, said no post or act by Dipu indicating blasphemy had been found on social media — the original accusation made by the attackers.Dipu’s father, Robi Lal Das, told TOI that Bangladesh’s govt has extended some support. “We’re receiving Rs 25,000 a month and 5kg of dry ration,” he said. “They’ve also promised a govt job to Dipu’s wife. But now that our son is gone, all we want is justice. He was falsely accused. That is the only truth.”His daughter, now widowed, wears white. Their one-year-old child, Baburam said, keeps looking around for her father. “Her eyes still search for someone who will never return. How do we explain to her what happened? All her happiness has been snatched away. My daughter is left alone to raise a child in mourning,” he said. “I just hope justice is served so that no other Hindu family in this country has to go through what we have.”

Sri Lanka will go head-to-head against Pakistan in the first of the three-match T20I series. This article provides detailed information on SL vs PAK Live Streaming for the 1st T20I of the tour.

Sri Lanka would like to begin the year with a win over Pakistan, against whom they lost the last game in the T20I format of the game, which was a part of the tri-series.

The home side would want to start afresh under the leadership of Dasun Shanka, who returns as the captain of the side in this format for the series against Pakistan and England, followed by the T20 World Cup.

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As far as Pakistan is concerned, the visitors would want to build on the good performances that they delivered in the year gone by and gain momentum for the T20 World Cup.

The Salman Ali Agha-led side would look to put on a strong performance with bat, ball, and in the field to take a 1-0 lead in the series.

SL vs PAK Free Live Streaming in India, Live Telecast- 1st T20I, Pakistan Tour of Sri Lanka 2026:

TV Rights In India

The rights to televise the SL vs PAK T20I series in India are with Sony Sports. The first SL vs PAK T20I will be broadcast on Sony Sports Ten 1, Sony Sports Ten 2, and Star Sports 5.

Live Streaming Platform in India:

The live stream of the SL vs PAK Test can be accessed through the Sony Liv app and website.

Fans can also buy a Vi or Jio SIM to watch the online streaming of the SL vs PAK T20I match.

When will the match take place?

The game will take place on January 7. It will start at 7:00 PM IST.

Where will the match be played?

The Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match will be played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla.

How to watch the Live Telecast of the Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match on television?

The live telecast of the first SL vs PAK Test will be available on the Sony Sports Network.

How to live stream the match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan online on mobile?

Sony Liv will live-stream the first match of the SL vs PAK T20I series. Cricket lovers in this part of the world can watch the live streaming of the match on their mobiles, laptops, and connected TVs.

Conclusion

As far as the squads for both teams are concerned, the selectors have shown faith in the core that has been with the team in the last year or so and would back it to come good in the opening match of the series.

The first match of the series promises to offer a good battle between bat and ball as both teams have players who can turn the game in their team’s favour in no time, courtesy of a match-winning performance in their respective departments.

That is the reason why fans cannot afford to miss the game and can watch the action through live telecast and live streaming.

Agastya Nanda’s inaugural film ‘Ikkis’ has hit a rough patch at the box office, reportedly falling short of Rs 25 crore even after a week of release. The war drama, featuring the legendary Dharmendra in his swan song role, only managed to collect Rs THIS amount on day six. Read on.

Agastya Nanda‘s ‘Ikkis’ failed to impress the audience, and its box office collections are proof of the same. While both the makers and the audience had high hopes for the film, it ultimately did not meet their expectations. Even after six days since the release, the movie has not crossed the Rs 25 crore mark at the box office. Let’s take a look at how much it has earned on its sixth day.

‘Ikkis’ box office collection Day 6 (first Tuesday)

The war drama starring Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson, Agastya Nanda, opened to mixed reviews from the audience and the critics as well. According to the Sacnilk report, the film has earned Rs 1.5 crore at the box office on Day 6 since the release. With this, the total collection of the film stands at Rs 23 crore.

Day-wise collection

Day 1 [1st Thursday]: Rs 7 croreDay 2 [1st Friday]: Rs 3.5 croreDay 3 [1st Saturday]: Rs 4.65 croreDay 4 [1st Sunday]: Rs 5 croreDay 5 [1st Monday]: Rs 1.35 croreDay 6 [1st Tuesday]: Rs 1.50 croreTotal: Rs 23.00 crore

‘Ikkis’ vs ‘Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri‘

The Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday starrer has witnessed the same fate as ‘Ikkis’ at the box office. The rom-com has been earning in lakhs in its second week. On day 13 (second Tuesday), the film earned Rs 25 lakh at the box office. The total collection of the film stands at Rs 32.5 crore.

‘Ikkis’ vs ‘Dhurandhar’

The Aditya Dhar directorial, ‘Dhurandhar’, has finally shown signs of slowing down towards the end of its fifth week. On day 33 since the release, the Ranveer Singh-led spy thriller raked in Rs 4.75 crore at the box office. The total score of the movie in India is Rs 781.75 crore.

More about ‘Ikkis’

Directed by Sriram Raghavan, ‘Ikkis’ is the last screen appearance of the late legendary actor Dharmendra. Apart from Agastya Nanda and Dharmendra, the film also stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Simar Bhatia, Sikander Kher, and Vivaan Shah. The movie was released in theaters on January 1, 2026.

Mustafizur Rahman (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images)

Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful has said that Mustafizur Rahman remains unaffected by the circumstances surrounding his release from Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. The Bangladesh pacer was let go by KKR following a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, issued amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Speaking in his role as assistant coach of Rangpur Riders in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League, Ashraful revealed that Mustafizur has shown no signs of distraction and is fully committed to his current assignment.

“He is completely chill. He is not worried at all about all the off-field talk – whether it’s BCB, India, BPL or ICC,” Ashraful told reporters after Rangpur Riders’ match against Chattogram Royals. Ashraful, who also serves as Bangladesh’s batting coach, said the left-arm pacer’s focus is firmly on performing for Rangpur before turning his attention to whatever lies ahead. “Right now he is focused on playing for Rangpur Riders, and after this, whatever assignment comes next, he will focus on that. He is a person of a different level,” he said. Assessing Mustafizur’s performances in the BPL so far, Ashraful acknowledged a slow start but highlighted his impact in Rangpur’s recent win over Dhaka. “If you talk about Mustafizur in the first two matches, his performances were a bit below par, but especially the way we won the last match against Dhaka was an outstanding victory. And the way Mustafizur bowled those last two overs – I think he is a world champion for this format, that’s how important he is,” he added. In the aftermath of the BCCI’s decision, the Bangladesh Cricket Board held an emergency meeting on Sunday and later confirmed that it had formally approached the International Cricket Council. The BCB has requested that all of Bangladesh’s matches in the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup be moved to venues outside India, citing safety and security concerns. India and Sri Lanka are slated to co-host the tournament from February 7 to March 8, with games scheduled across several venues in both countries. Bangladesh’s stance has the potential to complicate the tournament calendar, as they are currently scheduled to face the West Indies on February 7, Italy on February 9, and England on February 14 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, before playing Nepal on February 17 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

NEW DELHI: A day after Supreme Court rejected the bail plea of activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam by holding that delay in trial and long incarceration cannot be the sole ground to grant relief, another bench of the court on Tuesday held that an accused has fundamental right to speedy trial and it is not eclipsed by the nature of the offence.

It said delay in trial is a valid ground to grant bail and granted relief to former Amtek Group chairperson Arvind Dham who has been in jail for the last 16 months in a money laundering case.“The right to speedy trial, enshrined under Article 21 of Constitution, is not eclipsed by the nature of the offence,” said a bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe. It said SC had in multiple cases invoked long incarceration to grant bail when the jail period ranged from 3-17 months.

If state can’t ensure speedy trial, don’t oppose bail plea: Supreme Court

Prolonged incarceration of an undertrial, without commencement or reasonable progress of trial, cannot be countenanced, as it has the effect of converting pretrial detention into form of punishment,” said the SC bench.Though Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who have spent almost six years in jail, are being prosecuted for terror acts under UAPA, the bail provisions — under Section 43D(5) of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Section 45 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act — are similar. Both say an accused cannot be released on bail if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accusation against such person is prima facie true and condition is imposed under the accused to demonstrate prima facie innocence.The court’s order granting bail to former Amtek Group chairperson Arvind Dham is in contradiction to the order passed while rejecting the bail plea of the student activists but it is in conformity with orders passed by SC earlier, including in cases of former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and TN minister Senthil Balaji. It shows inconsistency in the approach of the apex court.Allowing the plea of Dham, the bench said gravity of offence is one of the factors which is to be considered while deciding bail but said that statutory restrictions (as provided under PMLA, UAPA) cannot be permitted to result in indefinite pretrial detention in violation of Article 21.“It is well settled that if the State or any prosecuting agency including, the court, concerned has no wherewithal to provide or protect the fundamental right of an accused, to have a speedy trial as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution, then the State or any other prosecuting agency should not oppose the plea for bail on the ground that the crime committed is serious. Article 21 of the Constitution applies irrespective of the nature of the crime,” it said.“The aforesaid proposition was quoted with approval by another two-judge bench of this court and it was held that long period of incarceration for around 17 months and the trial not even having commenced, the appellant in that case has been deprived of his right to speedy trial,” the court added.The bench noted that there was no likelihood of trial being concluded in near future as there are 210 witnesses to be examined in the proceeding. “There is no likelihood of trial commencing in the near future. The continued incarceration in such circumstances, particularly where the evidence which is primarily documentary in nature, is already in custody of the prosecution, violates the right of the appellant to speedy trial under Article 21 of the Constitution of India,” it said.While allowing bail plea of UAPA accused K A Najeeb, alleged to be a member of banned PFI, Chief Justice Surya Kant, who was part of a three-judge bench and penned the judgment, had said Section 43D(5) of UAPA per se did not oust the ability of constitutional courts to grant bail on grounds of violation of fundamental rights of accused.

NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP’s 15.4 crore-strong electorate at the launch of the state’s SIR exercise on Nov 4 last year, have been struck off the draft rolls published on Tuesday.These voters have time till February 6 to file claims and objections to get their names restored in the final rolls, to be published on March 6. “After the door-to-door enumeration drive across 75 districts and 403 assembly constituencies, 12.5 crore out of 15.4 crore voters were retained,” chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa said.Based on the district-wise draft voter lists, the percentage of overall deletions in 22 of UP’s 75 districts exceeded the state average of 18.7%. Rinwa said 1.3 crore, or 8.4% of voters, were found to have permanently shifted from the state. Another 25.5 lakh, constituting over 1.6% of the electorate, were enrolled at two places. A total of 79.5 lakh (5.1%) voters couldn’t be traced while 46.2 lakh (almost 3%) were dead. Over 7.7 lakh (0.5%) voters didn’t return filled-in enumeration forms.

Those Left Out Have Till Feb 6 To File Objection

Lucknow reported the highest percentage of deletions at 30%, followed by Ghaziabad (28.8%), Balrampur (26%) and Kanpur Nagar (25.5%).

Lalitpur had the least deletions at 9.9%, with Hamirpur (10.8%) and Mahoba (12.4%) just behind.“Over 1 crore (8%) out of 12.5 crore voters either couldn’t trace their lineage on the rolls or their names weren’t in the 2003 SIR list. Such voters have been put in the ‘unmapped’ category and will be issued notices in the next 31 days. These voters will have to submit one of 12 documents listed in the notice,” Rinwa said.During the enumeration phase, over 15.7 lakh people submitted Form 6, meant for enrolment of new voters. These names, if valid, will be part of the final rolls.

Can File Claims Till Feb 6; Final List To Be Out On March 6

In Lucknow, around 5.3 lakh of the 12 lakh names deleted from the draft rolls were of voters who opted to shift to their native places while 4.2 lakh couldn’t be traced.An official said the high rate of “permanently shifted voters” – at 8.4%, almost double of Bihar’s 4.6% – wasn’t a surprise. He cited a Down to Earth survey in 2021 that pegged the migration rate for UP at around 28.4%, twice as much as Bihar’s 14.2%.The original December 4 deadline for completion of enumeration extended twice – first till December 11 and then December 26 – after it was found that a large number of voters were excluded from the draft rolls.“The publication date of draft rolls was fixed as December 31, but fieldwork and ECI instructions to rationalise polling stations led to a delay,” Rinwa said. Authorities will process claims and objections till February 27.

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One of the most unforgettable moments in modern cricket history still lives fresh in the minds of fans. Yuvraj Singh smashing six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad in Durban during the ICC T20 World Cup 2007 became an image that defined an era.

That explosive assault turned Yuvraj Singh into a global superstar overnight and became a golden chapter in the legendary Indian all-rounder’s glittering career. For Stuart Broad, it was a painful early moment, but it later shaped everything that made him one of England’s greatest fast bowlers.

Stuart Broad Relives the Carnage of the 2007 T20 World Cup Over

Years later, Stuart Broad once again looked back at that night on a cricket podcast hosted by Matthew Hayden. He openly accepted that the over in Durban was one of the lowest points of his career.

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At the same time, the former England fast bowler explained how that brutal experience pushed him to grow, improve, and eventually become one of the most successful fast bowlers in Test history with more than 600 wickets.

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Stuart Broad said on Matthew Hayden’s All Over Bar the Cricket podcast, “I wish it never happened, but weirdly, it was the making of me, in a sense. I look back and think maybe if it didn’t happen, I would have floated around for five years thinking I’m pretty cool and not had the career that I have had. Although it was an awful experience, it didn’t cost us the World Cup because we were already out.”

‘The Hard Slap on the Face’

The Englishman admitted that he was young, inexperienced, and mentally unprepared for that match. Stokes said that the only positive was that England was already out of the 2007 T20 World Cup, so the India clash was a dead rubber, and they already had our flights booked for the next morning.

Stuart Broad recalled it was the second match of a doubleheader at the same ground, leaving very little time for preparation, and he felt completely lost before stepping onto the field. Broad recalled that there were barely 20 minutes between the two matches.

Like many young players, Broad felt confident and carefree, only to be brought crashing back to reality in the harshest way possible, thanks to Yuvraj. He further noted, “When I reflect on it, my preparation was very poor; I didn’t attach anything to what ball I was going to bowl.

I didn’t get myself in the right headspace for an international fixture. At that stage I’ve only played seven or eight ODIs and haven’t played a Test by then. I’ve got the long blond hair, thinking I’ve got a bit going on here. And then smack them in the face, as hard as you can.”

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The Reinvention: How Broad Used Humiliation as Fuel

Stuart Broad explained that moment forced change much earlier than it does for most cricketers. He pointed out that many players only realize the need to improve in their late twenties after facing setbacks. Broad said his wake-up call came when he was just 20 or 21.

The criticism after those sixes pushed him to work harder, plan better, and take every detail of preparation seriously. He built a strict system around his game, focusing on mindset, discipline, and preparation as he learned how to recognize when things were going wrong and how to pull himself back into rhythm, both in skill and body language.

He signed off by saying, “For me, that slap in the face came at 20-21, so I didn’t waste five years going, ‘I need to get better, I need to learn this delivery.’ I built this structure around my game called Warrior Mode, which connected everything around preparation to get it right. By the time I was actually 25-26, I was where I wanted to be as an elite performer. I knew when I bowled crap, when my body language was bad, and how to get it back.”