Auckland: India captain Shubman Gill and batting stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma met rugby legend Keven Mealamu before the start of the first ODI against New Zealand here on Wednesday and were presented with personalised jerseys by the All Blacks great. Mealamu, who made 132 appearances for New Zealand’s national rugby team, is among…
Pune: A constable, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, rammed his car into the gate of Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar’s bungalow, following which he was detained, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday evening at the commissioner’s official residence in the Cantonment area. “The constable was allegedly under the influence of…
Guwahati: The prime accused in the Guwahati hotel firing incident that had claimed five lives was killed in police firing in Assam’s Sivasagar district on Wednesday while he was allegedly trying to escape from custody, a senior officer said. The encounter took place in the Gaurisagar area while he was being brought to Sivasagar in…
The real malice behind a decade of administrative decay Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) does not suffer from a shortage of cricketing talent, capable administrators or judicial intervention. What it has suffered from, for well over a decade, is something far more damaging: an entrenched class of self-serving office-bearers and club power-brokers who…
Neha Bora’s politics raises uncomfortable questions about the limits of political agitation, the responsibility of student activists and the dangers of romanticising street movements that can destabilise democratic institutions. The AISA leader appears increasingly comfortable borrowing inspiration from Bangladesh’s Gen Z uprising, speaking of regime change and invoking the struggle there as a model for…
Online Sports Desk Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar heaped praise on England captain Joe Root, who is closing in on his long-standing Test run-scoring record, saying he had rated the Englishman highly since his debut Test match in 2012. During an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit on Tuesday, Tendulkar was asked about Root’s…
Varanasi (UP): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said he would not contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, quipping that he would take the oath as the chief minister “directly” without entering the electoral fray. Asked by reporters here whether he would contest the next year’s assembly polls, Yadav, in his trademark witty…
Gorakhpur: BJP MP and actor Ravi Kishan on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and asserted that BJP national president Nitin Nabin’s proposed visit to Gorakhpur would sound the bugle for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Kishan challenged Gandhi to defeat Prime Minister Narendra…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the CRPF, the country’s lead internal security force, for recording no casualties in 12 consecutive months – the first time in 47 years. “A zero speaks volumes,” he said in a post on X. The prime minister’s social media post carried a graphic of zero along…
The Congress-led INDIA bloc’s sustained challenge to the Election Commission raises an uncomfortable question: if it has lost faith in the electoral system, will it have the courage to stay away from the next big electoral test, or is the boycott talk merely another political weapon? MS Shanker An intriguing debate is gaining traction in…
