Top news of the day: Former India captain and legendary spinner Bishan Singh Bedi passes away; Congress attacks government on issue of income inequality, and more
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Top news updates from The Hindu on October 23, 2023
Bishan Singh Bedi, former India captain and legendary spinner, passes away at 77
Former India captain and legendary spinner Bishan Singh Bedi passed away on October 23. He was 77-years-old. Born in Amritsar in 1946, Bedi played 67 Tests for India and took 266 wickets with 14 five wicket hauls and one 10-wicket haul. He was the part of Indian cricket’s golden quartet of spinners, others being Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chadrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, who formed the core of India’s bowling unit for more than a decade between 1966 and 1978.
Congress attacks government on issue of income inequality
The Congress on October 23 charged that the gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class in the country is widening under the Modi government. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said an analysis of the publicly available data on income tax returns for the period 2013-14 to 2021-22 confirms one of the essential themes of the Bharat Jodo Yatra — that of increasing income inequality. “The widening gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class under the Modi government is more and more apparent,” he said in a post on X.
Deep depression over Bay of Bengal may turn into cyclone by October 23: IMD
The deep depression formed over the Bay of Bengal may intensify into a cyclone by Monday evening (October 23), the IMD said in a bulletin. The cyclonic storm, after its formation, will be called ‘Hamoon’, a name given by Iran. The system is currently located in west-central Bay of Bengal after moving northeastwards on October 22 night. It lies centred around 400 km from Odisha’s Paradip and 550 km south-southwest of Digha in West Bengal.
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