1. Women’s Cricket: England beat India by 8 wickets in 3rd T20 to clinch series 2-1 on 14 July:
England – 154/2 18.4/20
India. – 153/6 20/20
2. England vs India: Wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant & training assistant Dayanand Garani tested positive for COVID-19 and three more members of touring party were isolated after they were deemed close contacts of Garani.
3. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has granted Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza & her husband Pakistan cricket star Shoaib Malik the much-coveted 10-year UAE Golden Visa both got married in 2010 and have been residents of Dubai for the past 7 years.
The Golden Visa was instituted by the UAE govt in 2019 as a new system for long-term residence visas.
It enabled foreigners to live, work and study in the country without the need of a national sponsor and with 100 % ownership of their business on the UAE mainland. These visas are for a period of five or 10 years and are renewed automatically.
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