New Delhi: As the preliminary report into one of the country’s worst aircraft accidents has been released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), here is a brief look at the related happenings since June 12. * Air India’s nearly 12-year-old Boeing 787-8 aircraft, VT-ANB, en route to London Gatwick, crashed soon after takeoff into…
New Delhi: Both switches feeding fuel to the two engines of Air India flight 171 were cut off, followed by pilot confusion, before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, seconds after taking off, the first investigation report into the crash has revealed. It said that one pilot asked why he had shut off the fuel, and…
London: By his admission, Jasprit Bumrah is no spring chicken and doesn’t have energy to celebrate like a 21-year-old. Instead of overt celebrations, he is creating milestones, one game at a time and saving those stories for his son Angad’s grown-up years. Like his 5/74, which will be on the Lord’s Honours board following a…
Batumi (Georgia): Indian woman grandmaster Vatika Agrawal battled through a roller coaster contest before breaking through the defences of former world champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine in the tiebreaks of the second round at the FIDE Women’s World Cup. However, Padmini Rout lost to another former world champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk of Switzerland, to bow out…
London: England’s first innings centurion Joe Root has offered an interesting but permanent “solution” to teams asking for a change of ball when it doesn’t do much in air or off the surface — allow bowling captains three challenges in 80 overs just like it is there for Decision Review System, taking slow over-rates into…
Bhubaneshwar: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and stalwart Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the BJP of making attempts to “steal (chori) the elections in Bihar, as it did in Maharashtra” last year. Addressing the party’s ‘Samvidhan Bachao Samavesh’ here, the Congress leaders also accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of not doing its duty but…
London: Jasprit Bumrah’s five-wicket haul and Joe Root’s sublime century set up an absorbing contest before KL Rahul’s composed unbeaten 53 guided India to 145 for three at stumps on day two of the third Test against England at Lord’s on Friday. At stumps, India trailed by 242 runs with Rahul and Rishabh Pant (19…
When National Security Advisor Ajit Doval stood before the graduating class at IIT Madras and asked a blunt question — “Can anyone show a single image of damage on Indian soil?” — it wasn’t just a rhetorical flourish. It was a direct challenge to the orchestrated chorus of sceptics, naysayers, and geopolitical rivals desperately trying…
“Merit Is Dead”: Former Hyderabad All-Rounder Slams Rot in State Cricket MS Shanker As part of my continuing series, “How to Revive Hyderabad Cricket,” this week I sat down with one of the city’s most quietly impactful cricketers—M.V. Ramanamurthy. A gritty allrounder who played his cricket in the 1980s and early ’90s purely on merit,…
Lack of dialogue, loss of values, and violence in schools are the result of society’s silence The brutal murder of teacher Jasvir Patu in Hisar has shaken the entire society. This incident is not an ordinary criminal act, but it is a harsh mirror of our falling moral values, communicative family system, and insensitive education…
