Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister-designate D K Shivakumar and outgoing CM Siddaramaiah will leave for New Delhi on Monday to finalise the new cabinet with the Congress high command, party sources said. According to their travel itineraries, both leaders are scheduled to land in Delhi in the afternoon, with their return journeys left “open-ended” as high-stakes…
MS Shanker Tamil Nadu BJP leader K. Annamalai finds himself at a crucial crossroads in his political journey. Speculation that the former state BJP president may be contemplating a departure from active party politics to launch a non-political movement has triggered concern among his supporters and well-wishers. Whether these reports are accurate or not, the…
Vinay Rao The early signs are encouraging. The new Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) Secretary, Jeevan Reddy, appears determined to translate promises into action. Having pledged to revive cricket in Telangana, he has wasted little time in launching a series of initiatives that deserve appreciation. Credit must also go to the state High Court-appointed former judge,…
Ahmedabad: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi blew the IPL 2026 away with his record-breaking strokeplay but the 15-year-old batting sensation says he also has learnt to shift gears according to the game situation, remaining calm under pressure, and working on his fitness to remain injury-free. While his team, the Rajasthan Royals, failed to make the final after losing…
Ahmedabad: Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar couldn’t thank Virat Kohli enough for his invaluable suggestions on the technical aspect of his batting but also for having his back by standing like a pillar for all the junior members of the squad. Patidar, who himself scored 500-plus runs in RCB’s second successive IPL title triumph,…
Mumbai: The BJP on Sunday announced its candidates for 10 of 16 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from local authorities’ constituencies and named Dr Rajiv Potdar as its nominee for the Nagpur constituency by-election. Out of the total 17 seats, the BJP is contesting 11, ally Shiv Sena 4 and the NCP 2. The…
Ahmedabad: For someone who has carried the weight of expectations season after season, Virat Kohli on Sunday acknowledged the current RCB outfit doesn’t expect him to step up every time with multiple match-winner in its ranks. Kohli stood tall with an unbeaten 75 after RCB bowlers set up their five-wicket win in the final of…
MS Sparsha Decades before the world cheered for the Nano, a 7th-grade dropout from Kolhapur was already doing the impossible. In 1945, while the British Raj was packing its bags, Shankarrao Kulkarni was hand-beating a revolution out of scrap metal in a backyard workshop. He did not have a degree/a factory/a single foreign bolt, just…
Cricket continues to remind us that talent alone is rarely enough. The teams that go the distance are often the ones that read conditions better, adapt faster, and think a step ahead of the opposition. The IPL playoffs have once again reinforced that simple truth. Winning the toss and choosing to bat first is usually…
Forget the old English proverb, ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do.’ That may work for Romans. It certainly does not work for Indians. We are perhaps the only people on earth who carry our culture in hand baggage, check-in luggage and, if necessary, excess baggage. Whether it is Europe, America, Australia, Africa or…
