NEW DELHI: A magical Jasprit Bumrah fifer was followed by fireworks from Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav as Mumbai Indians blew away Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 7 wickets for their second win in a row in Mumbai on Thursday.Making a mockery of the 197 chase, the MI batters were in carnage mode as they slammed…
OBRA: Each time the choppers carrying politicians hover in the sky, or their campaign vehicles enter the village, Ajit Kumar takes pilot seat on his static helicopter on the roof of his building and waves at them. This is his style of greeting politicians reaching his village for votes.Meet 60-year-old Kumar, a former school principal…
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru‘s Reece Topley came up with a stunning fielding effort to get rid of Mumbai Indians batter Rohit Sharma in their Indian Premier League match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.The incident happened on the second ball of the 12th over of the innings when off-spinner Will Jacks bowled…
NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma‘s stump-mic chatter gained significant attention during the India-England Test series at home and the former Mumbai Indians captain was caught again by the stump mic in the IPL 2024 match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.Dinesh Karthik went hammer and tongs against MI bowlers in the death overs, prompting Rohit to tickle his…
NEW DELHI: In an attempt to woo Indian tourists back to Maldives, a major tourism body in the island nation has revealed plans to conduct road shows across several key Indian cities. The move comes as the number of Indian visitors to the Maldives has seen a decline in recent times.The Maldives Association of Travel…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Modi’s relentless attack against the DMK government over alleged corruption charges has evoked a unique poster campaign in Tamil Nadu. Posters titled ‘Ji Pay,’ bearing the face of the Prime Minister, have appeared in several districts of the state.The posters have a barcode that encouraged people to ‘scan the code and…
NEW DELHI: Will Rahul Gandhi contest Lok Sabha elections from Amethi? Will Priyanka Gandhi be fielded from the Raebareli seat vacated by Sonia Gandhi? Well, the Congress is yet to open its cards on the two prestigious seats of Uttar Pradesh, which have been represented by the Gandhi family several times. However, on Thursday the…
Ravi Bhalla, the Indian American Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, is currently vying for the Democratic primary in the US House race from New Jersey’s eighth district. Over the past few weeks, he has accumulated robust backing and endorsements. If successful in the November 2024 elections, Bhalla would mark a historic milestone as the first…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday slammed Congress for accusing the BJP-led government of ‘undeclared Emergency’ and recalled his time in jail during the 1975 Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi-government, stating that he served an eighteen-month jail sentence without being granted parole to even visit his ailing mother or attend her last…
