The mood inside the Indian dressing room must be difficult to read right now. Images from London showed head coach Gautam Gambhir sharing a laugh with Rohit Sharma on the Lord’s balcony on the eve of Sunday’s third ODI against England. Yet they could not mask the intense pressure the team’s oldest player must be…
A Type 901 replenishment ship, center, together with the aircraft carrier Liaoning, at top, and escorting surface combatants China is building what defence analysts believe could become the world’s largest naval replenishment ship, a move that would significantly strengthen the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s ability to sustain aircraft carrier strike groups during long-range deployments.According to…
“Your silence now in the face of such crime is unacceptable,” the letter read. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling his silence over the theft of Ram Mandir donations “unacceptable” and former Temple general secretary Champat Rai a “disgrace”.“Your silence now…
Mumbai : For Farokh Engineer, Sir Garfield Sobers was more than cricket’s greatest allrounder. He was a teammate, an opponent, a golfing partner and one of his closest friends. As the cricket world mourned the death of the West Indies legend at the age of 89 on Friday, the former India wicketkeeper remembered Sobers as…
Sonam Wangchuk, shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, and CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, who has taken over the indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. NEW DELHI: A day after activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital from the Jantar Mantar protest site, he appealed to supporters to make the proposed July 20 march to Parliament…
Sunil Gavaskar, Garry Sobers Garfield Sobers was the greatest allrounder of all time. Over 93 Tests, he smashed 8,032 runs, captured 235 wickets and snared 109 catches, some absolute gems in the slips. But during India’s 1971 tour to the Caribbean, the West Indian maestro dropped Sunil Gavaskar no less than three times, providing an…
Safdarjung Hospital issues Sonam Wangchuk health update NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk remains in stable condition but continues to need sustained medical intervention and continuous monitoring after his prolonged hunger strike, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital said on Sunday, while sharing his health update.Wangchuk was shifted to Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday after Delhi Police removed him…
In celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “El Aleph”, the eponymous character is a mystical point in space that contains all other points in the universe, allowing whoever looks into it to see every place on Earth from every angle simultaneously without distortion.According to the giant of Latin American literature who died on…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday accused the United States of repeatedly violating a 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Tehran and Washington, saying the developments had proved that US President Donald Trump’s signature was “utterly worthless and devoid of credibility”.In a written message addressed to the Iranian nation, Khamenei alleged that repeated…
The HC bench upheld the conviction by the trial court, relying on a combination of CCTV footage, forensic evidence and circumstantial evidence. BHOPAL: The Gwalior bench of Madhya Pradesh high court Friday commuted the death sentence of a man, convicted of raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl, to life imprisonment, holding that while the crime…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday shifted activist Sonam Wangchuk to Safdarjung Hospital after his health deteriorated during his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, saying the move was made on doctors’ advice and in compliance with Delhi high court’s directions.According to police, doctors visited the protest site at around 7am as part of a…
Officials including Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (Reuters image) Iran’s most hardline political factions have accused senior government officials of staging a “soft coup” against the country’s revolutionary leadership, deepening internal divisions as a fragile ceasefire with the United States comes under…
