Lucknow Super Giants’ Akash Singh (Image: X) NEW DELHI: The now-famous ‘chit’ celebration has evolved into one of IPL 2026’s most fascinating off-field talking points, right alongside Punjab Kings’ and some of its players’ social media antics.From Abhishek Sharma’s heartfelt note for the ‘Orange Army’ last season to Deepak Chahar mockingly mimicking the trend with…
BATHINDA: US authorities have arrested Manvir Singh, an undocumented Indian national, following a hit-and-run near Lodi, California, that killed two people.Singh’s arrest marks the fifth time in nine months that an Indian-origin trucker has been detained following a US road fatality, bringing the death toll across these incidents to 11. The Department of Homeland Security…
MURSHIDABAD: A train on Friday collided with a school van in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, leaving several students injured.Visuals from the accident site showed the school van crushed after the collision, with more than 100 people gathered along the railway tracks. Several injured students were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.(This is a developing story)…
Lucknow: Kanpur-born wicketkeeper-batter Vinayak Shukla has been named the new captain of the Oman national cricket team, succeeding long-serving skipper Jatinder Singh ahead of key international assignments, including the ACC Men’s Premier Cup and the final leg of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 campaign.Vinayak, 31, who hails from Shyamnagar in Kanpur, made his…
A giant FIFA World Cup match ball (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) The FIFA World Cup 2026 has entered the Round of 32. With Canada and South Africa kicking off the knockout stage, fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the next phase of the tournament.So, who will the favourites face?BrazilThe most successful nation in FIFA World…
Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy. Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests. Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium into China, after the Qing…
Representative image credits: AP Saudi Arabia carried out a series of unpublicised airstrikes on Iran in late March in retaliation for attacks inside the kingdom during the Middle East conflict, according to sources cited by Reuters.The strikes marked the first known case of Saudi Arabia directly conducting military action on Iranian soil, underscoring a major…
NEW DELHI: Honda Cars India is preparing an aggressive product expansion in the country, with plans to introduce more than 10 new models by 2030 as the Japanese automaker revs up to take on competition in one of its most important global growth markets.The company on Friday unveiled the updated hybrid version of the City…
NEW DELHI: The risk of being hospitalised in India doubles after the age of 45 and rises sharply among the elderly, signalling a shift in the country’s healthcare burden, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office (NSO) data.The survey shows that hospitalisation rates climb from 23 per 1,000 people in the 30-44 age group…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi strongly condemned the drone attacks on Fujairah in the UAE, which resulted in injuries to three Indian nationals, saying targeting civilians and infrastructure is unacceptable. Like in his past condemnation of attacks on the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Modi didn’t name Iran, but said India stood…