NEW DELHI: The player who completes the Indian playing XI for the ICC Champions Trophy next month is Hardik Pandya, according to former Pakistani wicketkeeper batter Kamran Akmal.Prior to being sidelined by an injury sustained during the campaign, Hardik was an essential part of India’s ODI World Cup 2023 campaign.Go Beyond The Boundary with our…
Second lady Usha Vance, left, Vice President JD Vance, second from left, President Donald Trump, second from right, and first lady Melania Trump (AP photo) WASHINGTON: The incoming First Lady and Second Lady were the cynosure of many eyes at the Trump inauguration with social media commentaries on their mannerisms and at tire ranging from…
The girls come from backgrounds where playing rugby is unimaginable. Their stories are inspiring young women to break free from conventions DEHRADUN: Rugby wasn’t meant to find its way to the rugged lanes of rural Uttarakhand, where traditions are deeply rooted and opportunities, particularly for women, often fall through the crevasses. Yet, breaking barriers, young…
US President Donald Trump has announced the United States’ second withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, at the Capital One Arena in Washington during his inaugural parade event. This decision by one of the world’s largest carbon polluters undermines international efforts to address global warming and sets the US apart from its allies. The announcement,…
AHMEDABAD: Present-day Vallabhipur, 40km from Bhavnagar, is a town in Gujarat with 15,000 people. But between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE, it was the seat of the Maitrakas, one of the region’s early rulers. The town was famed for its university, Valabhi Vidyapith, which was compared with Nalanda in Bihar by Chinese travellers Xuanzang…
More than 48km of anti-scale fencing were erected all over the US capital. Surveillance drones flooded the skies. But if Washington looks like a war zone again, it does not necessarily feel that way. Unlike the last time Donald Trump took the oath of office eight years ago, the bristling tension and angry defiance have…
KOLKATA: A sessions court in Kolkata Monday sentenced former traffic police volunteer Sanjay Roy (35) to jail for the remainder of his life for raping and murdering a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 last year, acknowledging that it resisted “the temptation to bow to public pressure or…
(From left) TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, BRS chief KCR and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik NEW DELHI: Regional parties received the lion’s share of their donations in 2023-24 via electoral bonds before they were scrapped by Supreme Court on Feb 15, 2024, as per annual audit reports filed by them with Election Commission. Trinamool Congress received…
BENGALURU: Three cyber frauds were arrested for digitally arresting a techie for nearly a month in Nov last year and extorting nearly Rs 12 crore from him by posing as customs and enforcement directorate officers.Police also seized Rs 3.7 crore from different bank accounts of the suspects — Karan, 24, and bullion trader Dhaval Bhai…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR/NASHIK: The Bhopal-based National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases has confirmed bird flu as the cause of mass crow deaths in Latur’s Udgir. Significantly, its findings differ from those of the Pune-based Western Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, which earlier held that a bacterial infection had caused the crow deaths.The animal husbandry departments of Latur…
