Hardik Pandya (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Former India captain, 1983 World Cup winner and former selector Kris Srikkanth believes Mumbai Indians have rediscovered the high energy and dominance they are known for, even in the absence of captain Hardik Pandya. Pandya has missed Mumbai Indians’ last three matches.Sidelined with a back spasm, Pandya first…
The feeling of comparison or being compared has quietly become a part of our lives. People compare careers, salaries, looks, relationships, lifestyles, and even happiness. Social media has strengthened this behaviour by constantly showing ‘polished’ versions of other people’s lives that have been out on their feeds after utmost work through extensive editing and correct…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday approved the Union Cabinet’s decision to increase the sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court from 33 to 38 judges, including the Chief Justice of India. In a post on X, Meghwal said the ordinance amended the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956, raising the number of judges…
VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday announced that the state govt will give incentives to families that go for third and fourth child, as the declining population is worrisome. He said the govt will give Rs 30,000 for a family having a third child and Rs 40,000 for the fourth child.Naidu…
With 10 games remaining in the league stage, LSG and MI are already out of contention for the playoffs. GT can only miss out through the net run rate route and RCB have almost qualified while SRH would have to do really badly from here on not to make the playoffs. RR has a better…
NEW DELHI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a major international drug trafficking network and seized captagon, a highly addictive psychotropic substance used by Islamic State operatives in West Asia, which gave it the name, ‘jihadi drug’. This is India’s first-ever seizure of captagon.The mega operation resulted in the arrest of a Syrian national, Alabras…
A Canadian passenger who travelled aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has tested “presumptive positive” for the Andes strain of hantavirus, raising fresh concern as health authorities continue monitoring passengers linked to the outbreak that has already claimed three lives. Officials in Canada’s British Columbia province said the patient, one of four Canadians who returned…
GURGAON: A woman was forced to deliver her baby in the park of a govt hospital in Faridabad in the dead of night after her family found the main gate locked, could not get immediate help from any doctor or nurse, and was left to manage the childbirth on their own under the beam of…
Arshdeep Singh (BCCI/IPL Photo) DHARAMSHALA: Arshdeep Singh didn’t look like his usual self during practice here on Saturday afternoon. On the eve of a nearly make-or-break match against table-toppers Royal Challengers Bengaluru, he eschewed the customary banter with teammates for intense conversations with Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting. For a man who has built…
With PM Narendra Modi in The Hague, Dutch foreign minister Tom Berendsen decodes the new India-Netherlands strategic partnership, semiconductor focus and the geopolitical imperative for trust-based ties in an exclusive interview to Sachin Parashar.This is the second visit by PM Modi to the Netherlands and the first since the India-EU FTA was announced. What are…