After Rahul Dravid’s contract, which is now good till the 2023 ODI World Cup, expires, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) may think about appointing V.V.S. Laxman as the team’s next head coach.

According to a News18 Cricketnext story, Laxman, who is now the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, might take over as head coach of the men’s squad if Dravid decides against seeking an extension.

In Dravid’s absence, Laxman, 48, has taken over as the Indian team’s head coach. He participated in the first T20I as well as the bilateral series against Ireland in June 2022 against England and the short tour of Zimbabwe.

When Dravid was ill with Covid-19 at the T20 Asia Cup in the UAE in 2022, he was also with the Indian squad. He also travelled to New Zealand as the team’s head coach for their white-ball tour just after the T20 World Cup concluded in November 2022.

Laxman not only worked at the NCA to develop the future generation of athletes, but he also travelled with the India U-19 squad to the successful 2022 World Cup and took a highly active part in the young group’s performance there.

The report also stated that split coaching will not be used right away. A top BCCI official was cited as asking, “Has that ever occurred in Indian cricket when asked about the possibility of split coaching coming into the set-up.

Since he replaced Ravi Shastri as the team’s head coach in November.

With the exception of losing the Test and ODI series in South Africa and rescheduling the fifth Test against England at Birmingham, they didn’t make it to the final of the 2022 T20 Asia Cup and lost to England in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.

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The 108th Indian Science Congress will be opened by the PM on Tuesday

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 108th Indian Science Congress through video conferencing on Tuesday. The theme of the event this year is “Science and Technology for Sustainable Development with Women Empowerment”.

The general public is welcome to attend talks and exhibitions.

The Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) is hosting the event at its Amravati Road Campus, and the opening ceremony will begin at 9.30 a.m.

The event’s “Pride of India” mega-expo is a major draw. The exhibition, which brings together and presents hundreds of new ideas, technologies, and products across the whole canvas of the scientific world, will highlight the notable advancements, big successes, and substantial contributions mostly of Indian Science and Technology to the society.

Pride of India showcases the accomplishments and strengths of the nation’s innovators, business owners, PSUs, academic institutions, and research and development organisations.

Top dignitaries like Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology & Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh, Governor of Maharashtra and Chancellor of Maharashtra Public Universities Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of RTMNU Centenary Celebrations Nitin Gadkari, Chief Minister of Maharashtra Eknath Shinde, and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra D.

The university’s Mahatma Jotiba Phule Educational Campus has separated the technical sessions into 14 parts, each of which will host parallel sessions at several locations.

In addition to these 14 divisions, there will be a section on science and society, a science communicators’ congress, a farmers’ science congress, a children’s science congress, a tribal meet, and a women’s science congress.

Experts and technocrats from a wide range of sectors, including space, defence, IT, and medical research, as well as Nobel Laureates will speak at the Plenary Sessions. Innovating and practical research in the fields of agriculture and forestry, animal, veterinary, and fisheries sciences, anthropology and behavioural sciences, and chemical sciences will be presented during the technical sessions, Chemical Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Information and Communication Science & Technology, Material Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Medical Sciences, New Biology, Physical Sciences, and Plant Sciences.

The Vigyan Jyot programme, a staple of the Indian Science Congress, was held on Monday in preparation for the occasion.

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