IPL: Pant, LSG fined for slower over rate

Lucknow:  Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant has been fined Rs 30 lakh for maintaining a slow over rate during his team’s defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their last IPL match here. The rest of the playing XI, including the Impact Player, were handed a penalty of Rs 12 lakh for the breach on…

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Jitesh, Kohli make thrilling fifties as RCB beat LSG by 6 wickets to enter Qualifier 1, to face PBKS

Lucknow:  Stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma conjured up a sensational unbeaten 85 to help Royal Challengers Bengaluru trump Rishabh Pant’s exceptional 118 and seal the team’s place in the IPL Qualifier 1 with a sensational six-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants, here on Tuesday. The Royal Challengers will now face Punjab Kings in the Qualifier 1…

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India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail and will strike decisively at terrorist hideouts: All-party delegations

Singapore/Paris/Kinshaw:  All-party parliamentary delegations on Tuesday made it clear that India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail and will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail. During a meeting with Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs, Sim Ann in the city-state, the…

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France together with India in fight against terror: Ravi Shankar Prasad-led team concludes Paris visit

Paris:  France on Tuesday reiterated its solidarity with India in the fight against terrorism emanating from Pakistan and agreed that the democratic world needs to speak in one voice on this issue, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said after the Paris leg of his all-party delegation’s visit to European capitals. The nine-member delegation was joined…

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Terrorism is Pakistan’s deliberate `war strategy’, India to respond accordingly: PM Modi

Gandhinagar:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said terrorism was not a proxy war but a deliberate war strategy adopted by Pakistan, and India will respond to it accordingly. Speaking at a Gujarat government programme here, he also batted for buying Indian products to boost the country’s economy. Refusing to make any distinction between non-state…

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Naidu’s HAL Masterstroke

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s offer of 10,000 acres of land in Lepakshi, Anantapur district, to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is more than just a pitch for industrialization—it’s a bold strategic move. A seasoned administrator with a proven development track record, Naidu is again playing the long game, blending visionary politics with national…

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Made in Beijing, presented in Islamabad

In a farcical twist worthy of a low-budget action flick, Pakistan’s military top brass attempted to rewrite military history – armed not with facts, but with a photograph pinched from a 2019 Chinese army drill. At a ceremony organised to commemorate a supposed military ‘success’ (details classified, perhaps even from reality itself), Pakistan’s Chief of…

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