London: Iga Swiatek, nicknamed as ‘Queen of Clay’, has finally cracked the grass as she bagged her maiden title on the surface by winning the Wimbledon 2025 women’s singles on Saturday, July 12. Swiatek bossed the final at SW19 as she squashed the American Amanda Anisimova in straight sets without dropping a single game. Swiatek…
Thiruvananathapuram: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday slammed both the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and the opposition Congress-led UDF alleging the regimes steered by them only created corruption, followed appeasement politics and made Kerala a haven for “anti-national forces”, like the Popular Front of India (PFI). Addressing party workers here, Shah said only the BJP-led…
London: Stylish opener KL Rahul on Saturday became only the second India batter to score more than one century at the hallowed Lord’s, after yesteryear middle-order mainstay Dilip Vengsarkar. Rahul reached the landmark with a single off Jofra Archer to covers right after the lunch break on the third day of the third Test against…
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will embark on a two-day visit to New Delhi from July 15 to meet several union ministers, attend former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s memorial and also participate in a CII conference, the government said on Saturday. The CM will depart from Amaravati on July 15 to…
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strongly condemned the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) “illogical and baseless” objections to the Centre’s upcoming delimitation exercise, terming it a constitutionally mandated process aimed at ensuring fair representation for all citizens. BJP Telangana Chief Spokesperson and Media In-Charge, N V Subash, said the DMK’s accusations are not only…
New Delhi: Air India on Saturday said it is working closely with regulators and other stakeholders, and will continue to cooperate with the authorities in the ongoing probe into the Ahmedabad plane crash after AAIB released its preliminary report. On June 12, the airline’s Boeing 787-8 plane operating flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London…
New Delhi: As the preliminary report into one of the country’s worst aircraft accidents has been released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), here is a brief look at the related happenings since June 12. * Air India’s nearly 12-year-old Boeing 787-8 aircraft, VT-ANB, en route to London Gatwick, crashed soon after takeoff into…
New Delhi: Both switches feeding fuel to the two engines of Air India flight 171 were cut off, followed by pilot confusion, before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, seconds after taking off, the first investigation report into the crash has revealed. It said that one pilot asked why he had shut off the fuel, and…
London: By his admission, Jasprit Bumrah is no spring chicken and doesn’t have energy to celebrate like a 21-year-old. Instead of overt celebrations, he is creating milestones, one game at a time and saving those stories for his son Angad’s grown-up years. Like his 5/74, which will be on the Lord’s Honours board following a…
Batumi (Georgia): Indian woman grandmaster Vatika Agrawal battled through a roller coaster contest before breaking through the defences of former world champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine in the tiebreaks of the second round at the FIDE Women’s World Cup. However, Padmini Rout lost to another former world champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk of Switzerland, to bow out…
