Vinay Rao A letter lands like any other government notice—until you read the questions. A majority of the affiliated cricket clubs of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) have reportedly received notices from the Income Tax Department’s Investigation Wing. The notices seek bank statements, including those from previous years. More significantly, they ask club secretaries to…
Online Sports Desk France striker Kylian Mbappe became the World Cup’s all-time leading scorer with 22 goals when he netted twice in Les Bleus’ 6-4 defeat by England in the third-place game on Saturday. The 27-year-old leapfrogged Argentina’s Lionel Messi (21), who is due to play in Sunday’s final against Spain, and although that will…
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games medallist Trupti Murgunde believes PV Sindhu’s run to the Japan Open final has come at the perfect time and could provide a much-needed boost to the two-time Olympic medallist ahead of the BWF World Championships. The Worlds are scheduled to be held here from August 17 to 23. Sindhu, who…
Kolkata: Former Army chief Gen Manoj Pande (retd) on Saturday said Kolkata and the northeast have “tremendous potential” to emerge as a defence manufacturing hub. Pande also asserted that conventional warfare and the role of the soldier would remain decisive despite the rapid integration of advanced technologies into modern battlefields. Addressing a seminar on ‘National…
Mumbai: Actors Mammootty, Yami Gautam and Kartik Aaryan have expressed their gratitude for winning top honours at the 72nd National Film Awards announced on Saturday. Veteran Malayalam actor Mammootty and Aaryan shared the best actor award for “Bramayugam” and “Chandu Champion”, respectively. Mammootty, who plays a menacing role in the period folk horror film, posted…
Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he was not surprised by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s decision to allow separate seating for the 20 rebel TMC lawmakers, who have joined a little-known party, the NCPI. Tharoor, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a book launch event, said the rebel Trinamool Congress MPs…
More than Revanth’s voter card The controversy over Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s alleged dual voter registration has once again exposed a much larger and more uncomfortable truth: Bharat’s electoral database management remains a bureaucratic maze where government agencies work in silos and accountability is often the first casualty. The issue is no longer…
K S Nagarajan The increasing demand for energy and the continuous depletion of conventional energy resources have encouraged researchers and engineers to explore alternative methods of energy generation and utilization. Modern engineering focuses not only on producing energy efficiently but also on recovering and utilizing energy that would otherwise remain unexploited. Consequently, human-powered machines, energy-harvesting…
Navi Mumbai’s first international flight isn’t the real story. The new economic geography taking shape around it is. Airports possess an odd talent for misleading people. They appear to exist so that aircraft can land, passengers can depart and duty-free shops can persuade travellers that another bottle of perfume is somehow an investment. In reality,…
A 48-year-old businessman had just returned home after a long international flight. Apart from a mild pain in his left calf, which he dismissed as a simple muscle strain from travelling, he felt perfectly well. Two days later, while climbing the stairs at home, he suddenly became breathless and developed severe chest pain. Within minutes,…
