Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli NEW DELHI: India captain Shubman Gill continued his prolific run in ODI cricket and etched his name into the record books during the second ODI against Afghanistan at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Wednesday.The 26-year-old became the fastest Indian batter to complete 1,000 ODI runs in terms of…
Julian Nagelsmann, Jürgen Klopp Julian Nagelsmann has stepped down as Germany head coach after the team’s shock exit from the FIFA World Cup, bringing an end to his tenure less than three years after taking charge.The German Football Association (DFB) confirmed Nagelsmann’s resignation on Friday, four days after Germany were knocked out by Paraguay in…
NEW DELHI: Gujarat government on Tuesday imposed an immediate ban on the storage, sale, and distribution of rolling papers and pre-rolled cones, citing health risks, the state home department said.These ultra-thin paper sheets and cones are commonly sold at grocery stores and paan shops across the state. They are mainly used by tobacco smokers to…
New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is likely to raise India’s GDP growth forecast for the current fiscal year closer to 7%, former IMF deputy managing director Gita Gopinath said on Wednesday.“This Oct, IMF revised up India’s growth for 2025 to 6.6%. But that came in before the second quarter growth numbers came out….
NEW DELHI: In the Stick to Cricket podcast, former England captain Michael Vaughan recently said: “Pound for pound, they (New Zealand) might be the best team.”Vaughan is right.Since the inception of the ODI World Cup in 1975, New Zealand have reached the semi-finals nine times and finished runners-up twice. In the T20 format, the BlackCaps…
PUNE: India’s summer heatwaves – the humid, suffocating kind that impact more than dry heat – are not just getting more frequent, but also more intense through a now-identified specific atmospheric chain reaction. A Jan 2026 study by scientists from IMD and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, published in the Journal of the…
The Directorate of Technical Education on Wednesday released the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2026 rank list, with 2,36,017 students figuring in the list ahead of this year’s counselling process. Higher Education Minister P. Viswanathan released the rank list. This year, 53 candidates secured the maximum cut-off score of 200 out of 200, underlining the…
A post shared by IIT Roorkee on Saturday has set off a battle on social media after the institute highlighted research on the antiviral potential of Gau Mutra Ark, or Ayurvedic Cow Urine Distillate. Led by Prof. Shailly Tomar and her team from IIT Roorkee’s Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, the study identified bioactive compounds…
NHAI (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Over half a crore highway car users have bought FASTag Annual Pass in past six months since this scheme was launched and there have been 26.5 crore toll payments using the pass @ Rs 15 each at plazas. Data show that there has been a 50% increase in trips of…
DHAKA: Bangladesh high commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday noted that external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, during his visit to Dhaka, conveyed the condolences of the people and government of India as Bangladesh mourns the passing of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.In a post on X, Hamidullah said, “HE @DrSJaishankar, Hon. External Affairs…
