Sunil Narine and Rinku Singh (Agency Image) Kolkata Knight Riders pulled off a nerve-shredding Super Over win against Lucknow Super Giants after both teams finished tied on 155 in regulation time at Lucknow on Sunday. The contest swung wildly across 40 overs, but Sunil Narine once again proved to be KKR’s trusted match-winner in the…
After Indian military leadership warned Islamabad on the first anniversary of Op Sindoor that “no terror sanctuary across the border is beyond India’s reach”, Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir on Sunday called last year’s conflict with India a “battle between two ideologies”.Addressing a ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to mark…
Crude prices surged to their highest levels since 2022 on Wednesday while investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s policy decision later in the day.Brent crude for June delivery jumped 7.3 per cent to $119.34 a barrel by 1:15 pm Eastern time and touched an intraday high of $119.76. Brent for July delivery, where more active trading…
Coco Gauff (Image Via Google) Coco Gauff has spoken about growing up under public attention before beginning her title defense at the French Open. The American star said that living in the spotlight from a young age has not always been easy. Especially when every mistake becomes visible to millions of people. However, Gauff now…
Passengers are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius (AP photo) As the outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship triggered international concern, passengers on the quarantined vessel began disembarking on Sunday after it arrived off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.The MV Hondius reached Tenerife early Sunday after sailing from Cape Verde on May…
More water isn’t always the answer; sometimes the damage is already happening below the surface.Image Credits: Google Gemini You water your plant, but it still looks sad, so you water it again. It keeps drooping. The leaves turn yellow. Something is clearly wrong, but the ground is soaking wet, so more water can’t be the…
There is a reason chefs keep anchovy paste, parmesan, tomato paste, mushrooms, miso or dried porcini close at hand. These ingredients add umami, that deeply savoury quality that makes food taste more complete and satisfying. Umami is not a single flavour so much as a sense of fullness. It gives dishes weight without making them…
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (AI-image) US President Donald Trump on Friday said that China has agreed to buy more than 200 Boeing aircraft, with the deal potentially expanding to as many as 750 planes, following his visit to China where he met his counterpart Xi Jinping.Speaking to reporters, Trump said, “We’ve made a lot…
DeMarcus Cousins (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: In the early 2010s, if you were a 6-foot-10 powerhouse with the ball-handling skills of a point guard and the shooting range of a sniper, you weren’t called a “unicorn”, you were called a problem. Before the era of positionless basketball became the NBA’s golden rule, DeMarcus ‘Boogie’ Cousins…
File photo: Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan NEW DELHI: Sanjay Vatsayan has been appointed as the next Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command, headquartered in Mumbai.Vice Admiral Vatsayan is currently serving as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff and is set to take charge of one of the Indian Navy’s most strategically important…