How new-ball bowlers can become the real trump card in the contest of power-hitters NEW DELHI: It will be a battle of fearless batting and ruthless hitting when Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2026 Eliminator at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh on Wednesday. Despite the tournament being…
France is facing another major abuse scandal after the Gisèle Pelicot case, but this time involving children in educational institutions across Paris.More than 100 allegations of mistreatment, physical violence and sexual abuse involving children as young as three have surfaced from nurseries, primary schools and daycare centres.The allegations reportedly include cases of sexual assault and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) “did not act outside its statutory powers” while conducting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), ruling that the exercise could not be termed “ultra vires merely because it differs from the ordinary revision process”.“SIR fulfils proportionality and are not manifestely execessive….
Girish Sharma’s LinkedIn post landed in your feed and you probably scrolled past it first. But then you went back. You read it again. Because somewhere between the Zomato delivery bag and the Faculty of Management Studies acceptance letter, there’s actually something worth paying attention to, not because it’s inspirational in the way that word…
NEW DELHI: Massive forest fires broke out in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan and Kasauli regions amid extreme heatwave conditions affecting the hill state, with flames spreading through green orchard and forest areas. Videos from the affected areas showed the intensity of the blaze in Kasauli and Kyarighat village near Kandaghat.At least two Air Force choppers were…
NEW DELHI: A traveller with recent travel history to Uganda has been isolated at a government hospital in Bengaluru after reporting mild body ache, prompting heightened surveillance by the Centre amid ongoing Ebola outbreaks in parts of Africa. Authorities, however, stressed that no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease has been detected in India so…
TOI correspondent from Washington: For Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s America, there are now only two career paths: obedience or obituary.On Tuesday night in Texas, the political undertaker came for Senator John Cornyn — a four-term Republican heavyweight, former Senate whip, longtime conservative stalwart, and co-chair of the Senate India Caucus — who was steamrolled…
NEW DELHI: Delhi government has formed rapid response teams across all 13 districts ahead of Bakrid to crack down on illegal animal sacrifice, unauthorised slaughter and cruelty to animals in the national capital.The teams, constituted under the Animal Husbandry Unit on directions of development minister Kapil Mishra, have already started inspections in markets and sensitive…
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday strongly criticised Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council, accusing Islamabad of sponsoring cross-border terrorism and violating the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity through decades of aggression against India.Speaking at the UNSC Open Debate on upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centred international…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata responded to inputs of suspected pirate activity near merchant vessel MV Mashallah 1 in the Western Indian Ocean, helping prevent a possible piracy attack, as news agency ANI reported on Wednesday.The warship, deployed near the Gulf of Aden, launched an immediate operation after receiving inputs about suspicious…