There has always been a debate about the greatest player in T20 cricket. Some consider Virat Kohli to be the best, while others call Chris Gayle’s explosive batting the real face of T20. While deadly bowlers like Lasith Malinga have also had great influence in this format, South African batsman AB de Villiers has given a different opinion about the greatest player of T20 cricket. Interestingly, the name of De Villiers himself is included among the greatest T20 players of all time. However, he neither took the name of himself, nor Kohli, nor Gayle nor Malinga. In a video, De Villiers described such an Indian bowler as the greatest T20 bowler, hearing whose name even big batsmen tremble. The name of that bowler is- Jasprit Bumrah.
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Bumrah with family – Photo: PTI
What’s in the video? Cricket commentator Nikhil Uttamchandani has shared an old video. In the caption of this video, Nikhil wrote, ‘ABD already knew that Bumrah is great. After his statement, Bumrah has given two T20 World Cup titles to Team India. In the video, Nikhil asks ABD – Who is the greatest T20 player of all time? On this De Villiers replies – This is going to be controversial. I wouldn’t call it controversial, but people will definitely taunt it. I think Jasprit Bumrah is the greatest T20 player of all time. After this De Villiers quipped, ‘However, I am not great at bowling.’
De Villiers told the specialty of Bumrah De Villiers, popularly known as Mr. 360 Degree, also told the specialties of Bumrah in the video. ABD said, ‘His consistency is excellent. He can bowl in any conditions in a 20 over game and also has the amazing ability to take wickets under heavy pressure. Be it new ball or old ball, he can bowl to anyone. If there is a super over, give him the ball and he will give you victory. This is Jasprit Bumrah.
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Bumrah – Photo: ANI
Aaqib Javed’s absurd statement On one hand, De Villiers, who is considered among the best T20 batsmen, is calling Bumrah the greatest of all time, while on the other hand, Pakistan’s senior selector Aaqib Javed had given an absurd statement. Aaqib Javed praised Bumrah’s unique bowling action and compared him with Pakistan’s mystery spinner Usman Tariq. However, cricket fans did not like this comparison and Aaqib was criticized a lot. Fans said that it is absurd to compare a world-class fast bowler like Bumrah with a relatively lesser-known player. Shoaib Akhtar, one of Pakistan’s legendary fast bowlers, has compared Bumrah with the king of swing Wasim Akram in terms of match awareness.
6 year old child created history by crossing 17 km of sea in just 4 hours 49 minutes, his courage is being praised!
Maharashtra’s little swimmer Manas Patil has done such a feat at just 6 years of age, which has surprised everyone. He swam the distance of about 17 kilometers from Pirwadi Beach to JNPT Port in the Arabian Sea in just 4 hours 49 minutes. During this time, he had to face strong waves, dangerous currents and difficult sea routes, but every challenge became small in front of his courage and self-confidence. By achieving such a big feat at such a young age, he made the record of being the youngest person to swim such a long distance. This achievement of Manas Patil has become an inspiration not only for India but for the whole world. His courage, determination and never-say-die spirit teach everyone that if intentions are strong, no goal is impossible. Video Credit: Instagram- @mi_belpadkar
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Women feel put under pressure to have medical procedures such as caesareans during their maternity care, according to a report.
The charity Birthrights collated the experiences of 300 people in England who said they had felt or witnessed coercion within a maternity setting.
It said caregivers used authoritative language that undermined the idea of women being able to make informed decisions regarding their maternity care.
Experiences shared in the report include healthcare professionals telling women they must accept a vaginal examination or they will not be able to be admitted to the birth centre, and women feel put under pressure to accept an induction without it being explained why it was necessary.
One woman recounted feeling forced into have a caesarean without having the reasons why it was necessary explained. “I remember a doctor saying to me: You can choose to have a C-section now or you can wait a few hours and I’ll press that buzzer behind your head and you’ll have one anyway,’” the woman said.
Megan Rogerson, a 37-year-old domestic abuse practitioner from Hull, said she had felt forced into having a caesarean. She said it was never explained why she could not have a vaginal birth.
“For my second birth, I was all set and approved for a VBAC [vaginal birth after caesarean],” Rogerson said. “But when I went to hospital experiencing Braxton Hicks I was told that I’d be scheduled for a C-section without any conversation as to why. I was just told that I couldn’t give birth that way.”
She added: “I felt like I didn’t have a choice, I felt that I was spoken to like a child doing something wrong. It was a really sort of belittling experience. I was just told we can’t do that rather than it being explained why that was the case.”
Hazel Williams, the chief executive of Birthrights, said: “This crucial report documents the rise in coercive practices as a systemic problem across the maternity system, with Black and Brown women and birthing people facing the worst attacks on their human rights, choice and bodily autonomy.
“Women and birthing people are repeatedly being told you are ‘not allowed’ or threatened with children’s services referrals, not given full facts and denied genuine informed choice. Coercion has no place in safe maternity care and must stop now.”
According to guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, women using maternity services should be provided with evidence-based information to make an informed choice and should be able to stop conversations around their care, regardless of their reason for doing so.
The law requires clinicians to support pregnant women to make their own informed decisions about their care, and if an individual is coerced to make a particular decision, that legal standard is breached.
Dr Alison Wright, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: “The RCOG absolutely agrees that coercion and racialised risk profiling have no place in maternity care. However, we know the extreme pressure maternity services are under is creating barriers to staff having time for training, including on delivering culturally sensitive care, informed choice and consent processes.
“Maternity staff need the time and space to have conversations that help them understand what each woman wants for her pregnancy, labour and birth, and how best to provide this safely. Therefore, we must see sustained investment in maternity services and better support for the workforce, so that every woman and family can receive the safe, personalised and equitable care they need and deserve.”
Voters are broadly split over whether Sir Keir Starmer is handling the Iran war well, exclusive polling by YouGov for Sky News shows.
41% of voters think the prime minister has responded badly to the US’s actions against Tehran, versus 37% well.
However, 59% of people who voted for Labour in 2024 think Sir Keir is handling the crisis well.
And voters for all parties believe the government should be doing more across the board to help all households with energy bills.
84% of voters, meanwhile, think action should be taken to reduce energy prices for all households.
That’s actually higher than the 73% who think action should be taken to support the least well-off households.
Significantly more Conservative and Reform UK voters, as well as slightly more Labour voters, think action should be taken for all households to help with energy prices than think the poorest households should get support.
The figures are based on who respondents said they voted for in the 2024 general election.
They suggest that if energy prices do rise significantly in the months ahead as a result of the war, the government will come under pressure to step in.
Has Sir Keir Starmer reached the point in his premiership where voters will simply not allow him to do anything they approve of? I ask that, because on paper his position on the Iran war should be pretty popular.
This YouGov polling shows deep scepticism about the conflict and a decisive majority who want the UK to avoid becoming directly involved. Given that, it should follow that people would look favourably on the prime minister’s largely ‘hands off’ approach.
But they don’t. Just 37% say he has responded well to the crisis with 41% saying the opposite.
The mismatch suggests to me that Starmer’s broader unpopularity may now be polluting policies that the public actually approve of and bending them out of favour because of the standing of the man who is coming up with them.
The data on energy suggests a coming challenge for government too. There is extremely high and broad support for the government to act to lower bills for everyone if the war forces prices up.
Conservative and Reform voters are less supportive of targeted help, but strongly in favour of a universal offer. It all suggests if the Iran conflict does start to seep into energy bills, ministers will be under huge pressure to act.
Meanwhile, three quarters (75%) think the government should take action to reduce energy prices for businesses.
They are also not covered by the price cap – although often sign fixed price contracts, so may not see an immediate increase in costs.
Voters strongly oppose UK joining Iran war
70% of voters oppose the UK joining the US’s military offensive against Iran, against only 17% who support.
That may bring some relief to Sir Keir, who has resisted Donald Trump’s attempts to draw the UK further into the war.
Those polled also think Mr Trump was wrong to take military action against Iran at all. 57% think the US president was wrong, and only 18% think he was right.
Only 11% think the US’s actions against Iran will leave the world a safer place – while 34% think it will leave the world less safe, and 37% think it would make little real difference.
The national football federation wants to relocate its group matches to Mexico due to the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran.
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Iran’s football federation is in discussions with FIFA about moving its World Cup 2026 matches from the United States to tournament co-host Mexico due to concerns about the safety of players, Iranian football president Mehdi Taj has said.
“When [US President Donald] Trump has explicitly stated that he cannot ensure the security of the Iranian national team, we will certainly not travel to America,” Taj said on Monday in a post on the Iranian embassy in Mexico’s X account.
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“We are negotiating with FIFA to hold Iran’s World Cup matches in Mexico.”
The Iranian sports minister said last week its players could not participate in football’s global showpiece after the US and Israel launched air attacks on the country in late February, killing the supreme leader and several other political and military leaders.
Trump has said the Iranian team is welcome to participate, but suggested it might not be appropriate for them to play in the country “for their own life and safety”.
Iran qualified for the 48-team tournament to be held in the US, Canada and Mexico from June 11 and are scheduled to play two group matches in Los Angeles and one in Seattle.
They were the first Asian nation to qualify for the World Cup, securing their spot on March 25, 2025.
The US-Israel war on Iran started on February 28, 2026, and is now in its third week.
This week’s YouGov/Sky News/Times voting intention poll has the following headline results:
• Reform UK 25% (+2) • Green 19% (nc) • Conservatives 17% (-2) • Labour 17% (nc) • Liberal Democrats 14% (nc)
The poll was taken on Sunday 15 March and Monday 16 March, with a sample of 2,329 respondents from YouGov’s online panel.
This is the first poll since Nigel Farage and Reform UK publicly challenged YouGov’s approach, and the pollster agreed to supply more underlying data about each poll.
How YouGov carries out voting intention polls
During the last election campaign in 2024, YouGov changed how it conducts its weekly voting intention polls in an attempt to pick up tactical voting that has become an increasing feature of UK elections in recent years.
It has continued to use this methodology since the election.
Unlike other pollsters, YouGov’s methodology involves asking its online panel two voting intention questions:
• How they would vote if a general election was held tomorrow • How they would vote in a general election if they were thinking specifically about their own constituency
The results are then put through an MRP model (or, to give it its full name, a “multi-level regression and post-stratification” model) to turn the raw data into headline voting intention – the figures Sky News reports each week.
What is an MRP poll?
MRP polls first ask a large representative sample of people how they will vote.
They then use that information on how different groups say they will vote combined with information about the sorts of people who live in different constituencies.
This allows the pollster to estimate how people will vote in each constituency across the country – even when they may have surveyed just a few people, or even none, in some places.
This can then be broken down into smaller groups to see how voters in different areas say they plan to vote.
Rather than making more generalised assumptions that everyone behaves the same way in different constituencies, it takes into account the fact that every constituency is its own race and local issues and trends may be at play.
YouGov uses these two techniques – a pair of voting intention questions and then putting the results through an MRP model – because it believes this allows it to get the closest to the result of an election held tomorrow.
There appear to be significant differences between pollsters in their respective treatment of Reform UK: there are a lot of irregular voters currently telling pollsters they will go out and vote for Nigel Farage’s party in an election tomorrow, and different companies take a different view on how likely this would be to happen in practice.
Why Reform UK disputes the methodology
In recent months, YouGov has reported lower polling shares for Reform UK than other firms – although other pollsters also reported a decline from its peak – and Mr Farage’s party has challenged the pollster’s methodology.
It says it believes the first voting intention question – that makes no reference to constituencies – is a better representation of what is happening in the country, as well as questioning the use of the YouGov MRP model.
It points to the pollster Peter Kellner, a one-time employee of YouGov, who said the use of a second voting intention question about how a respondent would vote if thinking about their constituency would advantage the Liberal Democrats over Reform UK.
‘How many Tory defections are too many?’
So what now?
From this week, following the Reform UK challenge, YouGov has agreed to publish the results to the question without the constituency prompt, as well as the one with the prompt, which was already automatically part of the data.
Mr Farage is claiming this as a victory for transparency. YouGov’s methodology, however, has not changed, and it stands by its approach.
So here are YouGov’s raw voting intention numbers this week without a constituency prompt, and before YouGov applies the MRP model:
• Reform UK 19% • Green 16% • Conservative 11% • Labour 11% • Lib Dems 7% • SNP 2% • Plaid 1% • Other 4% • Would not vote 10% • Don’t know 15% • Refused to say 3%
These are the numbers Reform UK says are the “real” figures, which each week it is likely to highlight.
Note the figure here for Reform UK is the same this week when the question is asked both with and without the constituency prompt – 19%.
Who is right?
All pollsters use modelling and a range of techniques to generate the headline voting intention they believe best reflects reality.
Ultimately, these results can only be tested at a general election, and at these moments, polling companies are judged by clients and shareholders.
This wait can be frustrating for political parties, since in between elections, polls drive momentum and, at worst, can be used to justify a change of leader.
However, at the last election, the final YouGov MRP poll put Reform UK on 15%, the exact number it received at the ballot box, and the final MRP was the most accurate by seats of any pollster, with 92% of constituencies called correctly.
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Jeffrey Epstein urged Canadian-American media and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman to relinquish control of his financial affairs over what he claimed was the magnate’s “potentially dangerous” cognitive impairment, according to files released by the United States Department of Justice.
While Epstein’s business ties with Zuckerman, now 88 years old, have been a matter of public record for over two decades, the files suggest that the late sex offender also served as a confidant with access to the most intimate details of the billionaire mogul’s personal life.
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After a meeting with Zuckerman and the Norwegian diplomat Terje Rod-Larsen in October 2015, Epstein wrote an email urging the tycoon to enter a guardianship or conservatorship for his own protection.
Epstein told Zuckerman, the owner and publisher of US News & World Report, that the mogul had requested his help during their meeting several days earlier, but that he “might not remember”.
“Your friends including me are very concerned that your cognitive impairment has now reached a serious and potentially dangerous level. There is serious concern for your financail, emotional physical and psychological safety,” Epstein wrote, using his typically idiosyncratic approach to spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Epstein suggested that Zuckerman grant Rod-Larsen, Zuckerman’s nephews, and “anyone else you trust” authority to manage his affairs, warning that his “remarkable abilities” were no longer enough to protect him.
“I am aware that your condition makes you prone to suspicion but that being said, the future predictable decline will be an ever increasing danger,” Epstein wrote.
“Admittting you have a problem will take courage and determination.”
Zuckerman, who previously owned The Atlantic and the New York Daily News, appeared to take Epstein’s advice seriously, thanking him for his “thoughtfulness and friendship” and asking for recommendations for a lawyer with “experience in such matters”.
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York state’s sex offender registry on March 28, 2017 [Handout/New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services via Reuters]
Zuckerman suggested the two men meet after he returned from an upcoming trip to San Francisco, but Epstein advised him to cancel the trip and said the mogul had told him about his travel plans on four separate occasions.
“I know you dont remember each time. . MORT , you need a Guardian,” Epstein wrote. “you should choose one now, while your judgment peeks through the haze. waiting too long. will mean most likely a court imposed solution. NOT FUN.”
Epstein also discussed Zuckerman’s health with his nephew, Eric Gertler, advising the relative to oversee the sale of the businessman’s stocks, art collection, helicopter and plane.
“my expertise is the financial . take any other suggestion as merely transmitting from others skilled in this terrible situation,” Epstein wrote to Gertler, who is the current executive chairman of US News & World Report, in one email.
It is not clear if Zuckerman followed Epstein’s advice to pass over control of his affairs.
Zuckerman announced that he would step down as chairman of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the US, about six months after his correspondence with Epstein.
Zuckerman did not cite any health concerns at the time and kept the title of chairman emeritus at the company, which he cofounded in 1970.
His philanthropic organisations – the Zuckerman Institute and Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program – and Gertler did not reply to Al Jazeera’s requests for comment.
Zuckerman’s relationship with Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, occasionally made headlines during the early 2000s, before Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
In 2003, Zuckerman partnered with Epstein and several other prominent businessmen, including the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in an unsuccessful bid to buy New York Magazine.
The two men teamed up again the following year to invest $25m in the short-lived relaunch of the entertainment and gossip magazine Radar.
Investigative files released by the US Department of Justice in January showed that the late financier viewed Zuckerman as a client and close associate, as well as a business partner.
In 2013, Epstein drew up a $21m proposal to provide Zuckerman with “analysing, evaluating, planning and other services” related to the passing on of his estate, according to emails in the files.
It is unclear whether Zuckerman accepted Epstein’s proposal or otherwise employed him to manage his estate planning.
Epstein also pressured Zuckerman to alter coverage of his alleged sexual abuse of girls in the New York Daily News, suggesting a “proposed answer” to questions put to him by the newspaper in 2009. Zuckerman owned the New York Daily News at the time.
Congress MLA Surendra Prasad Kushwaha, who abstained from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, has given clarification through Facebook. He did not reach Bihar Assembly during voting last Monday (March 16, 2026). Now he has told the reason behind this. Surendra Kushwaha has clearly said that on behalf of the Grand Alliance, RJD made a candidate from a class whose votes the Grand Alliance does not get, hence he did not consider it appropriate to vote for it.
On behalf of the Grand Alliance, RJD had made AD Singh the Rajya Sabha candidate. He belongs to Bhumihar caste. When voting took place on Monday, three Congress MLAs and one RJD MLA were missing. There was talk of everyone having contacts in NDA. Meanwhile, Surendra Kushwaha has made it clear that he was not in touch with NDA.
In a clarification through a Facebook post on Tuesday (March 17, 2026), Surendra Kushwaha said, “The Grand Alliance had a chance for one seat. Who could have been a better candidate than Deepak Yadav ji, if not Mukesh Sahni ji, but by not giving him a chance, a person from a class whose support base is against the Grand Alliance was made the candidate.”
He further wrote, “I cannot support NDA and RJD chose the wrong candidate so I thought it better not to vote. As for blaming me, we had won the Assembly elections by defeating the entire government machinery on the most favorite seat of the Chief Minister and I am repaying the debt of public blessings by carrying out development works at the fastest pace in the whole of Bihar, then when the opponent is not able to match, he will defame me. I hope the public will appreciate my sacrifice and dedication for the Dalit, backward and minority class. Will understand the sentiment and will not fall into the trap of opponents.”
Let us tell you that Deepak Yadav had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Valmiki Nagar from RJD and the 2025 Assembly elections also from RJD from Valmiki Nagar. Lost both elections. He is the son-in-law of UP’s strongman DP Yadav.
A new taskforce has been set up to help improve the quality of NHS maternity and neonatal care in England, the government has announced.
The taskforce, made up of family representatives, senior NHS leaders, campaigners and academics, has promised to deliver “safer and higher-quality care” and “tackle deep-rooted inequalities”.
The group will also “deliver urgent action” on the recommendations of an independent investigation into maternity and neonatal services in England, which Baroness Amos – who is leading the probe – said are “failing too many women, babies, families, and staff”.
‘There needs to be justice’ for maternity failings
Sky News has been putting a spotlight on maternity care in the UK and will today host an event featuring women sharing their birth experiences with an expert panel.
Birth Experiences: Your Stories will take place from 10am until 12pm at Millie & Maisie Play Cafe in Clapham, and people are invited to attend the event in person or watch the livestream here.
‘Truly meaningful change’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who will chair the new taskforce and who ordered the national investigation last year, said he wanted to make sure “families harmed by maternity care get the truth and accountability they deserve”.
In a statement, he said that “to deliver truly meaningful change – so that other families do not face the ordeals too many are already enduring – we must be ready to act swiftly”.
“This 17-strong taskforce will start work straight away, so we will be ready to drive improvement from the moment the investigation’s recommendations are published,” he added.
Image:Wes Streeting
As well as the findings from Baroness Amos’s investigation, the taskforce will also look at recommendations from the Thirlwall Inquiry – a public inquiry into the crimes of former nurse Lucy Letby – and the independent review into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Helen Gittos, a family representative on the taskforce, said the group would work to ensure “the changes that are so urgently needed are properly implemented”.
“No one can be in any doubt about the scale and seriousness of the problems in maternity services,” she said.
“I hope the professional bodies concerned will come together to bravely, boldly and decisively take the decisions that will create services that women can trust.”
Duncan Burton, chief nursing officer for England, added: “Every woman and baby deserve safe, compassionate care during pregnancy and birth, and the very best start in life.
“Although NHS maternity and neonatal teams work incredibly hard to support women and families every day, we know there is more we must urgently do to improve care and experience.”
If you’ve got a story to tell, we’d like to hear from you. Share it with us via Your Report or by email at maternitystories@sky.uk
