East Zone’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays a shot on day three of the Duleep Trophy Semi-final 1 cricket match between Central Zone and East Zone, at BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) grounds, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (PTI Photo) BENGALURU: On a day when 13 wickets fell, East Zone had the final say in the Duleep Trophy semifinal…
New Delhi: Another positive dope test has hit India’s preparations for the upcoming Asian Games, with wushu medal hopeful Surya Bhanupratap Singh becoming the latest athlete to be provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).The 30-year-old from Jammu & Kashmir, a 2018 Jakarta Asian Games bronze medallist in the men’s 60kg Sanda, failed an…
BSF recruitment 2026: Answer key, CBT result and skill test timeline after September 2 Jaipur cancellation BSF HCM ASI Admit Card 2026: The Computer-Based Written Examination for the recruitment of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Stenographer and Head Constable (Ministerial) posts in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) has entered its examination phase. A shift scheduled for…
‘Wheel of Fortune’ announcer Jim Thornton suspended; studio says role will be recast. Jim Thornton has been suspended from his announcing duties on the popular American game show ‘Wheel of Fortune’ following allegations that prompted an investigation by Sony Pictures Television.Sony Pictures Television confirmed the development to The Hollywood Reporter, saying Thornton’s position will be…
Lord Krishna’s Bhagavad Gita offers a powerful lesson for those feeling lost. Focusing on your actions, not the rewards, is key to moving forward. A closed door does not always signify a wrong direction in life. Stop carrying the future into every decision you make today. This Janmashtami message encourages living with uncertainty and finding…
Sikkim recorded the highest incidence among Northeast states, with 374 dengue cases in 2024. Using the state’s revised population estimate, the dengue incidence was 57.9 per lakh. NEW DELHI: Climate change, deforestation, unplanned urbanisation and poor drainage are creating conditions for mosquitoes and other disease-carrying vectors to spread into new areas of the Northeast, a…
In 2011, conservation teams set out on one of the biggest rat eradications ever on a tropical atoll, targeting an estimated 30,000 invasive rodents on Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific. The goal was not just to remove a pest, but to restore an entire ecosystem that had been suppressed for more than a century….
Bengaluru: In a crowded Indian pace pool, opportunities have to be seized. Punjab’s Gurnoor Brar appears to have taken that lesson to heart. The lanky pacer made an immediate impression on his India ODI debut against Afghanistan in June, claiming three wickets. A month later, representing India ‘A’, he followed it up with a 10-wicket…
NEW DELHI: The English vocabulary sometimes feels the loss for words while describing what Viswanathan Anand is to India and its chess legacy. There is a particular kind of stillness that follows the Chennai-born Grandmaster into a room, the stillness of a man who solved most of what chess could throw at him decades ago…