India women’s cricket team NEW DELHI: India have largely stayed with experience while making a few bold calls in announcing their 15-member squad for the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup in England, with the return of Yastika Bhatia and the omission of Pratika Rawal emerging as the biggest talking points from Saturday’s selection meeting at…
Oil prices rallied on Monday after conflict between the United States and Iran intensified, raising fresh concerns over crude supplies from the Middle East as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz came under increasing pressure.Brent crude climbed above $90 a barrel, rising 2.30% to $90.13, while US benchmark WTI crude gained 2.07% to $84.20. The…
NEW DELHI: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), in an order dated August 4, held a Ludhiana hospital and two doctors responsible for deficiency in service after a 36-year-old woman developed paralysis of her lower limbs following treatment for leakage of fluid from her nose. The commission directed them to pay Rs 15 lakh…
Royal Birkdale (Southport): There was no dearth of drama at the 154 th Open which literally went to the wire. No less than seven players reached at least eight-under at some point and no one went past 11-under, before the roulette ball got stuck at nine-under for more than two and half hours.Then, first gingerly…
Trump invites Xi to White House after Beijing summit talks (Image credit: AP) US President Donald Trump wrapped up talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing by extending a formal invitation to Xi and China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan to visit the White House on September 24.The meeting, held at the Great Hall of…
Abhishek Banerjee’s Amatala office demolished. KOLKATA: A demolition drive targeting a Trinamool Congress party office linked to the party’s national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee began in Amtala on Saturday.According to news agency PTI, the district authorities alleged that the five-storey building had been constructed without an approved building plan and in…
Spain star Lamine Yamal was reportedly the target of an attempted burglary just hours after helping his country secure a place in the FIFA World Cup final. The 19-year-old winger played a key role in Spain’s impressive 2-0 victory over France, winning a crucial penalty as his side booked their spot in Sunday’s title clash.However,…
The first reactions to Nitesh Tiwari‘s much-awaited ‘Ramayana‘ trailer are slowly trickling in, and they are overwhelmingly positive.Ahead of the global release of the ‘Ramayana’ trailer, several filmmakers and industry insiders who attended a special screenings in New Delhi and Mumbai, have praised the film’s scale, visual effects and performances, calling it a ‘landmark moment’…
Gyaneshwari won the silver medal in the 53 kg Weightlifting event at CWG 2026. Long before Indian star weightlifter Gyaneshwari Yadav stood on the podium with a silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she was lifting gas cylinders and concrete slabs in a modest home in Chhattisgarh. Because that’s what her father…
Journey from secret to saturated follows a pattern recognisable across almost every offbeat destination in India There was a time when planning a holiday was itself the holiday. Families would spend evenings hunched over railway timetables and dog-eared travel magazines, tracing routes with their fingers, arguing over which train to take and whether the overnight…