Chennai: Tilak Varma did it in the first innings, and it cost Vaibhav Sooryavanshi his wicket shortly after as the teenager missed out on a half-century. The 15-year-old did not forget. He returned the favour during South Zone’s batting innings on Day 4 of the Duleep Trophy final, which concluded on Thursday at the MA…
Mumbai: Rohit Sharma has offered his clearest indication yet on his uncertain ODI future, but stopped short of confirming whether he intends to play at the 2027 ODI World Cup. Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, the former India captain suggested there was little point in making a decision about an event that…
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday began a three-day visit to India to participate in the BRICS summit and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expand bilateral trade, investment and energy cooperation. Putin is accompanied by a high-level delegation. It will be his first in-person participation at a BRICS summit outside Russia since…
A Genuine Parent For those of us who have watched our daughters pursue cricket in Hyderabad and Telangana, the recent developments in women’s cricket at the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) offer something that has been missing for quite some time—hope. Is women’s cricket finally getting back on track? The answer, perhaps, is yes, but with…
M Jaishree “Tac cakṣur devahitaṃ śukram uccarata; paśyema śaradaḥ śataṃ, jīvema śaradaḥ śatam, śṛṇuyāma śaradaḥ śatam, prabravāma śaradaḥ śatam, adīnāḥ syāma śaradaḥ śatam, bhūyaś ca śaradaḥ śatāt.” This ancient Vedic aspiration expresses a remarkably comprehensive vision of human life: may we behold the light of the divine for a hundred autumns; may we live for…
There is nothing wrong with questioning the outcomes of foreign policy. In fact, a healthy democracy must encourage such scrutiny. But when a senior Congress leader like P. Chidambaram, a former Finance and Home Minister, publicly asks what tangible benefits Bharat has derived from BRICS, the timing and tone of the criticism deserve to be…
AI has discovered the perfect time machine: one that can also fix our hair, clothes and questionable fashion choices There is a new epidemic sweeping across social media. Thankfully, it is neither contagious nor fatal. It merely threatens to make us look considerably better than we actually did four decades ago. I first noticed it…
For decades, Bharat was told that manufacturing was not its natural strength, that its future lay primarily in services and that China and the East Asian economies had already occupied the industrial space. That narrative is now being challenged by reality. A manufacturing transformation is underway—and its scale would have appeared almost unimaginable a decade…
Gone are the days of “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. We are now confronting a new blurb: “an Apple a day keeps the client in sway.” The way new models are being pushed into the market, it may soon be an Apple a day, every day! Today’s news of Apple launching its…
Silver has had a wild ride. It went from about $30 an ounce in early 2025 to an all-time high of $121.67 on January 29, 2026. Then it fell hard. As of early September 2026, it is trading around $66 to $67, which is about 45% below that peak. Along the way, a lot of…
