NEW DELHI: India pulled off an astonishing victory against Sri Lanka, completing a 3-0 clean sweep, in a nail-biting finish to the third and final T20I of the series in Pallekele. The hosts required just 9 runs off the last two overs with six wickets in hand, but the game took an unexpected turn when…
NEW DELHI: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran‘s Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday, along with one of his bodyguards.In a statement, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in ‘a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran’. “With condolences…
KOCHI: The kind of fear a persisting downpour brings to ones mind can be a saviour at times. Shakkira felt it when it poured on Monday night and pestered her husband, children and in-laws to leave Mundakkai for her house at Meppadi. Initially reluctant, Mohammed Alis heeded finally. Hours later, tragedy struck the area and…
Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina’s remarkable wave ride in Tahiti, captured by AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet, has garnered global acclaim with the photograph becoming a viral sensation and possibly the defining image of both the sport and the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Brouillet, stationed in a boat in the channel, managed to photograph Medina exiting…
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka needed 30 runs off the last 30 balls with nine wickets in hand against India but they stuttered again as Suryakumar Yadav took the 3rd T20I at Pallekele into a Super Over on Tuesday.Sri Lanka batted first in the Super Over with Kusal Perera and Kusal Mendis – their top-scorers –…
NEW DELHI: Suryakumar Yadav is known to play match-winning innings with the bat. But the third T20I against Sri Lanka saw the Indian captain for the series rolling his arm over and taking the match into a Super Over at Pallekele on Tuesday.Sri Lanka had bowled well to restrict India to 137/9. The hosts were…
American forces carried out a “defensive” air strike against combatants who were attempting to launch drones deemed a threat to US and allied troops, according to a US official. This strike, reported by Iraqi sources to have resulted in at least four deaths, is the first by American forces in Iraq since February. During that…
NEW DELHI: Commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday ruled out an immediate rethink of India’s stance on Chinese investment, while slamming UPA‘s economic policies, which had made the country dependent on imports and investments from the neighbouring country.Amid demands from industry for a review of the visa regime for Chinese professionals, the Economic…
MEPPADI (WAYANAD): Kerala’s worst natural disaster since the 2018 floods struck the state’s hilly Wayanad region early Tuesday when two monster landslides in as many hours buried a small town and several plantation villages, killing 126 people, injuring 196, and leaving around 100 people marooned or missing in swathes of slush, mud and misery triggered…
The first edition of the Constitution of India – considered a work of architecture rather than art – was sold for Rs 48 lakh, its highest price so far, at an auction recently. The rare book, one of the only 1,000 copies made by Survey of India Offices in Dehradun and published by Centre in…
