NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders are enduring a nightmare run in IPL 2026, still searching for answers after slumping to their fifth defeat of the season. They sit rock bottom with just one point, which came from a rain-hit fixture against Punjab Kings. The 2024 champions have faltered across departments – batting, bowling and fielding…
New Delhi: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday stoutly defended the delimitation proposal, saying the existing freeze on the number of Lok Sabha seats since 1976 violated the constitutional principle of “one person, one vote, one value”, reports Kumar Rakesh. The number of electors in many seats had swelled so much that one MP could…
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Cameron Green (AP Photo/ Str) Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Ajinkya Rahane struck a balanced tone after his side’s defeat to Gujarat Titans in IPL 2026, where KKR’s winless run continued despite a strong fight with the bat led by Cameron Green. GT chased down 180 with five wickets in hand, powered by…
COIMBATORE: Nine tourists from Kerala died and four others suffered serious injuries after the van they were travelling in veered off the Valparai-Pollachi ghat road and plunged several hundred feet into a deep gorge on Friday evening. The deceased, including five teachers of Govt LP School at Palliparambu, Pang, in Kerala’s Malappuram district, have been…
Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go from Saturday to Supreme Court’s deadline for adding voters cleared by SIR tribunals, and Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal assembly polls on April 23. More…
NEW DELHI: A united opposition on Friday spurned PM Narendra Modi’s last-minute appeal for a “conscience vote” and home minister Amit Shah‘s offer to write into the women’s reservation bill that Lok Sabha seats in all states will go up by 50% to inflict on govt its first legislative defeat in 12 years, with the…
Leema Rose Martin (ANI image) Trichy: The narrow rural road to V Thuraiyur, a remote hamlet 15km north of Lalgudi, an agrarian pocket in central Tamil Nadu, is packed with villagers on either side as the campaign vehicle drives through. On the vehicle is AIADMK candidate Leema Rose Martin, wife of lottery baron Santiago Martin…
New Delhi: The main priest of Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry of menstruating women was struck down in 2018, on Friday told Supreme Court that the rights and wrongs of modes of idol worship, which is central to Hinduism, is judicially indeterminable when rituals are peculiar to each deity’s manifestation, reports Dhananjay…
NEW DELHI: After Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman raised the issue of Sheikh Hasina’s extradition during his visit to India last week, India govt reiterated Friday that the request is being examined as part of the ongoing judicial and internal legal processes. However, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also reiterated India’s position that it will continue…
Kolkata: Income tax officials on Friday raided Mamata Banerjee’s poll nomination proposer, Miraj Shah, and TMC candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the Bengal CM to call BJP “spineless cowards”.Shah was Banerjee’s proposer in Kolkata’s Bhowanipore. Kumar is seeking re-election from Rashbehari, a high-profile constituency nearby.The I-T raids mark a significant escalation of the face-off between the…
Allan Border. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) BENGALURU: There will be an IPL debut of a rather special kind at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Former Australian great Allan Border is set to watch his first-ever match in the competition when Royal Challengers Bengaluru take on Delhi Capitals.Border last visited the venue as…
MUMBAI: Three days after the successful splashdown of Artemis-2, the Trump administration on Tuesday issued a memorandum which among other things includes safely deploying nuclear reactors in space orbit as early as 2028, and on the moon in 2030.Dated April 14, the document issued by Michael J Kratsios, assistant to the President for science and…
