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Leading off-spinner R. Ashwin and some Australian players have withdrawn from the IPL amid the escalating Covid crisis but the BCCI insists the league will continue. The crisis has spawned questions: Is it appropriate for the league to go on and shouldn바카라™t the BCCI and players do more to express empathy?

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15 BRO workers from Jharkhand were killed in an avalanche in Sumna, in Uttarakhand바카라™s Chamoli district on April 23. Sumna is near the confluence of the Girthigad and Kiogad where a glacial avalanche in February killed 80 people, while 126 remain missing.

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Lalu Yadav, 73, got bail in the last pending fodder scam case more than a week ago, but his release from jail has been delayed till May 3 in view of the coronavirus surge. The RJD chief got bail on April 17 in the Dumka treasury case of the Rs 950-crore scam after he completed half of the term. Yadav is in AIIMS, Delhi, since January.

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