Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Suryakumar Yadav may have entered an exclusive Mumbai Indians club during the defeat to Rajasthan Royals, but the milestone also arrived in the middle of one of the toughest IPL seasons of his career. The MI batter became only the second player in franchise history after Rohit Sharma…
Chennai Super Kings (ANI Photo) Former India greats Sunil Gavaskar and Cheteshwar Pujara have lauded the fearless approach shown by young batters Ayush Mhatre and Priyansh Arya, highlighting how the new generation is redefining T20 batting with a focus on the present rather than past setbacks. Priyansh Arya set the tone for Punjab Kings’ daunting…
Every new government gets a small honeymoon with history. Franklin Roosevelt used his to tell a broken America that the first task of power was not perfection, but motion: “Above all, try something.” Suvendu Adhikari, a month after taking oath as CM of West Bengal on Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary on May 9, seems to…
The comtempt petitions referred to relaxations allegedly granted in October 2025 to multiple carriers, including Air India, InterGlobe Aviation that operates IndiGo and SpiceJet. NEW DELHI: Jan 1 onwards, IndiGo will increase pilots’ domestic layover, deadhead, transit and night allowance, apart from introducing a new tail swap allowance.Tail swap means pilots hop over to another…
Virat Kohli of India (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia has addressed recent media speculation regarding Virat Kohli‘s potential return to Test cricket. The rumours suggested that the cricket board was planning to approach Kohli about reversing his Test retirement decision. These speculations gained momentum following India’s recent struggles in Test cricket….
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday declined to accept the ‘Veer Savarkar Award’, calling the organisers “irresponsible” for announcing his name without him having agreed to receive it.Tharoor was named among the first winners of the newly instituted Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, to be presented by Highrange Rural Development Society India….
US tech stocks came under heavy pressure on Friday, with semiconductor giants leading the decline as investors grew cautious about artificial intelligence-fuelled valuations and digested stronger-than-expected US jobs data.The sell-off was most severe in the chip sector, where the PHLX Semiconductor Index plunged 10.3%, marking its steepest single-day fall since March 2020. The decline followed…
PAHALGAM: His phone rings often. As president of one of Pahalgam’s largest Ponywallah associations, Abdul Waheed Wani, 39, is rarely out of demand. But he also keeps himself busy to push away memories that still haunt him.Wani was among the first to reach Baisaran valley after the April 22 terrorist attack that left 26 tourists,…
Lok Sabha secretariat director found dead at Noida flat NEW DELHI: A director in the Lok Sabha Secretariat allegedly died by suicide at his flat in a Noida housing society, police said on Wednesday.The deceased, identified as Gaurav Gautam, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his apartment at Kendriya Vihar-II Society in Noida’s…
There is an old saying, borrowed from Latin and later made popular in English: Nulla nuova, buona nuova- no news is good news. In 1640, writer James Howell noted that Italians believed no news was better than bad news. Even before that, King James I of England had said much the same thing.But 2025 did…