Online Sports Desk Tilak Varma is only 23 years of age but he is already carrying the massive responsibility of being the vice-captain of Indian T20I side. It is a massive responsibility considering India are the reigning T20 World Cup champions. The star India batter scored a match-winning fifty in the Asian Games 2026 gold…
Online Sports Desk Former England cricketer Monty Panesar has said that ace India batter Virat Kohli plays with tremendous intensity, pays great attention to his fitness and motivates everyone around him, adding that he won’t retire from international cricket soon after the 2027 ODI World Cup. Panesar believes Kohli’s mindset and passion for the game…
New Delhi: India on Wednesday said it has sought an update from Russian authorities on the whereabouts of 69 Indian nationals who are reportedly working for the Russian Army. New Delhi has been consistently urging Moscow to release all the Indian nationals serving with the Russian military. The government’s efforts have led to the release…
Bhubaneshwar: Union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth on Wednesday called upon friendly nations to reaffirm their commitment to safeguarding lives at sea and to strengthen the spirit of cooperation that underpins effective Search and Rescue (S&R) across the region. The minister said this after inaugurating the Multinational Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX-2026) near…
New Delhi: INDIA bloc MPs will stage a bigger protest on the ground on Thursday against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, opposition leaders said on Wednesday, after they were stopped from reaching Jantar Mantar during a coordinated mobilisation involving the members of Parliament of several parties. The decision to hold another protest was discussed…
Questions Over Women’s Selections Special Correspondent Is performance really the only passport to Hyderabad women’s cricket teams? That is the uncomfortable question increasingly being asked within sections of the Hyderabad cricket fraternity following concerns over the manner in which players are being retained, promoted and repeatedly considered for selection despite what stakeholders describe as prolonged…
U Lakshman Rao Marriage in the Hindu tradition is not merely a social agreement between two individuals; it is a solemn passage from one stage of life into another, sanctified by prayer, sacred fire, vows, family participation and the invocation of divine witness. Every ritual has a symbolic purpose, and the sequence in which the…
Muralidhar Varaganti Jeffrey Archer spent his life inventing stories about ambition, betrayal, revenge, money, power and redemption. The irony was that he never really needed to invent very much. His own life contained enough twists and reversals to rival almost any of his celebrated page-turners. Archer joined Oxford for what was supposed to be a…
Former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has suddenly discovered that the Election Commission needs to be lectured on electoral purity, constitutional propriety and democratic values. How convenient! Before preaching to the present Election Commission, perhaps Quraishi should spare a little time to revisit his own record as CEC and explain why standards that appear so…
Oil price shock and rising inflation in India Why does life in India become more expensive as global crude oil prices rise? Inflation isn’t simply a rise in the price of goods in the market; it’s driven by numerous domestic and global factors. When the price of goods or raw materials imported from abroad increases,…
