Krunal Pandya-led India will take on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a Group C match of the Hong Kong Sixes 2026 on Saturday, October 31. The contest will be India's second match of the tournament, having faced Pakistan in their opening fixture on Friday. India are placed in Group C alongside Pakistan and the UAE, with all three teams competing for a place in the knockout stages. India head into the contest after suffering a four-wicket defeat against arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening Group C fixture on Friday. Batting first, India managed 88/5 in their allotted six overs, with Shashank Singh top-scoring with 40 off just 11 deliveries. ALSO READ: MS Dhoni's Special WhatsApp Message To Smriti Mandhana After India's 2025 Women's World Cup Win: I Was Very Happy' Pakistan chased down the target in just 3.5 overs, scoring 92/2, with Khawaja Nafay (41 off 12 balls) and Abbas Afridi (35 off eight balls) leading the charge. Abbas Afridi smashed five sixes in ...
A fact-check has indicated that an agency report about parents putting padlocks on graves of their daughters in Pakistan to save them from a rising spate of necrophilia was incorrect. Many news sites, including NDTV, ran the report of news agency ANI that has been fact-checked by AltNews. NDTV had sent a mail to ANI late this evening. A response is awaited. The report of ANI was based on Daily Times article, and a viral tweet by Harris Sultan, an ex-Muslim atheist activist and the author of the book "The Curse of God, why I left Islam". In the tweet, he had shared photos of a padlocked grave and accused Pakistan of creating a "sexually frustrated society", where "people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from getting raped". AltNews fact checker Mohammed Zubair tweeted that the photograph in question, showing a green painted grille, was from Hyderabad. The reason grilles are used is to stop people from burying bod...