Toyota: India began their women’s team table tennis campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with a dominant 3-0 win over Indonesia in their opening Group F fixture, here on Sunday. Sreeja Akula put India ahead in the opening rubber, beating Ni Maharani 3-1. After dropping the second game 8-11, Sreeja bounced back to win the…
Tokyo: India’s Rishabh Das produced an impressive show by qualifying for the final after finishing fifth overall in the men’s 100m backstroke heats at the Asian Games here on Sunday. Rishabh clocked 54.85 seconds, finishing 0.63 seconds behind second-placed Japanese swimmer Hidekazu Takehara and 2.22 seconds behind the heat leader, China’s Asian record holder Xu…
Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is reportedly planning to conduct a match between India and a Rest of the World XI to mark the celebration of its 100th anniversary. After the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Mumbai on Friday, the BCCI stated in a release that the board’s general body…
Melbourne: Australia Test captain Pat Cummins described bowling to Cheteshwar Pujara as “death by a thousand paper cuts” and described the former Indian cricketer as the hardest Indian hitter he has ever faced. During a recent encounter, Cummins was asked to name the toughest opponents he had faced from different nations during his trophy-laden career….
New Delhi: Ajinkya Rahane defended the team management, consisting of head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shreyas Iyer’s decision not to give Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a chance in the playing XI during India’s three-match T20I series against Afghanistan, as the team went back to Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson as their opening pair despite the 15-year-old…
Washington: The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) has welcomed tighter scrutiny of H-1B visa applications, but cautioned that it should not come at the cost of American innovation, as jobs requiring highly specialised skills cannot always be filled immediately from the available domestic labour pool. The statement from FIIDS, an advocacy group,…
New Delhi: Domestic LPG consumers will have to complete biometric Aadhaar authentication to book refills at the regulated retail selling price with applicable subsidy from October 1, the government said on Saturday, as it seeks to ensure subsidised cooking gas reaches only eligible households. Consumers who have already completed the authentication will not need to…
Indore (MP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met the family of a student from Madhya Pradesh who died in the Satya Niketan building collapse in Delhi during his ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme here, and blamed the tragic incident on the shortage of government hostels. A multi-storey building housing paying guest accommodation collapsed in Delhi’s…
An Aggrieved Parent The announcement of Hyderabad’s Ranji Trophy squad, with Mohammed Siraj taking over the captaincy, has inevitably brought one notable omission into focus — Shaunak Kulkarni. Shaunak is not a name that has suddenly appeared on the Hyderabad cricket radar. He has progressed through the local cricket structure, performed consistently in the leagues…
K S Nagarajan Should a citizen keep knocking at the doors of justice to strengthen the fulcrum of the Constitution, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bharat—or should he simply give up when institutions meant to protect his rights appear unwilling to hear him? This is the question I am confronting as a former government servant…
