R Praggnanandhaa is Norway Chess 2026 champion (Photo by Michal Walusza for Norway Chess) NEW DELHI: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, what have you done?Just this Thursday, Norway’s national football team came up with an avant-garde Viking-themed photoshoot with their squad destined for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. With superstars like Erling Haaland and Martin Ødegaard donning the…
NEW DELHI: CBSE on Friday extended the last date for submission of applications for verification and re-evaluation of Class 12 answer sheets after several students flagged issues in accessing the board’s post-result services portal.According to the board, students can now submit their applications till June 7.“In the interest of students, the CBSE has decided to…
India’s Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill (PTI Photo) India’s Shreyas Iyer (PTI Photo) India’s Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill (PTI Photo) India’s Shreyas Iyer (PTI Photo) India’s Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill (PTI Photo) Former India batter Mohammad Kaif has strongly backed Shreyas Iyer as the ideal candidate to take over India’s T20I captaincy if…
Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (ANI Photo) Former England captain Nasser Hussain believes India should not wait too long before handing teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi an international debut, insisting the Rajasthan Royals opener has already done enough to force his way into the national conversation.Speaking on The ICC Review, Hussain was full of praise for the…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress was jolted Friday by speculation of an impending split in its parliamentary wing as several of the party’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs converged on Delhi, prompting party chief Mamata Banerjee to clip her nephew and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wings in a last-ditch attempt to stall a repeat of what the…
India’s captain Shubman Gill, left, and India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir (AP Photo) India’s one-off Test against Afghanistan in New Chandigarh may mark the beginning of their red-ball season, but the result will have no bearing on their World Test Championship (WTC) ambitions. The match, scheduled from June 6 to June 10 at the Maharaja…
KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari made an unscheduled trip to Delhi on Friday and met BJP’s central leadership, the trip coming close on the heels of the state cabinet expansion.Sources said Adhikari met BJP president Nitin Nabin and national general secretary Sunil Bansal. “They discussed the allocation of portfolios. A few other political issues…
NEW DELHI: On the eve of its much-touted NEET protest, newly minted online outfit Cockroach Janta Party is learnt to have approached Indian Youth Congress for coordination, even though the overture was not reciprocated by the latter.Sources said a key CJP figure met IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib at the latter’s office. While the details…
MUMBAI: Former India captain Rohit Sharma is likely to report to the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru on June 8 for a fitness assessment ahead of the upcoming three-match ODI series against Afghanistan. Rohit injured his hamstring during the IPL and was picked for the ODIs, subject to fitness clearance.“Yes, Rohit is supposed…
NEW DELHI: JEE (Advanced) authorities on Friday said a cloud storage misconfiguration identified by an ethical hacker earlier this week did not result in any mass extraction of candidate data and had no impact on examination records, results or rankings. The clarification came after social media claims that candidate records and admit card documents linked…