- Sunday, June 22, 2025
THE LEGENDARY Adam Gilchrist has advised the beleaguered Australian batters to stay longer at the crease to nullify the threat posed by the Jasprit Bumrah-led Indian bowling attack in the pink-ball second Test in Adelaide. The swashbuckling former keeper-batter also backed the out-of-sorts Marnus Labuschagne to regain form. After Bumrah…
ACTOR Allu Arjun has expressed gratitude to the Andhra Pradesh government for approving a hike in ticket prices for his upcoming film, “Pushpa 2: The Rule”. The decision, which makes tickets for the sequel the highest-priced for a Telugu film, has been lauded by the actor as a boost to…
A DAY after the Sikh clergy pronounced the 'tankhah' (religious punishment) for Sukhbir Singh Badal, the Shiromani Akali Dal leader on Tuesday performed the duty of a 'sewadar' outside the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Holding a spear in one hand, Badal, in blue 'sewadar' clothes, was at the entrance of…
ACTOR Nargis Fakhri's sister has been charged with the murder of her boyfriend and another woman after she set a building they were in on fire, and faces a potential maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Aliya Fakhri, 43, has been charged with the murder of her boyfriend…
A HOTELIERS association in Tripura has said its members would not serve Bangladeshi guests in view of the insult meted out to the Indian flag in the neighbouring country. The All Tripura Hotel & Restaurant Owners' Association (ATHROA) general secretary, Saikat Bandyopadhyay, said the decision was taken at an emergency…
TWO-TIME Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu will tie the knot on December 22 in Udaipur. The former world champion, who ended a long title drought with victory at the Syed Modi International in Lucknow on Sunday, will marry Hyderabad-based Venkata Datta Sai, who is an executive director at Posidex Technologies.…
GOOGLE CEO Sundar Pichai has been issued a contempt notice by a Mumbai court after its subsidiary YouTube failed to comply with an earlier order to take down an allegedly defamatory video targeting an animal welfare NGO. On November 21, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Ballard Pier questioned…
A COURT in Delhi has convicted five men of culpable homicide and unlawful assembly charges in a 2020 northeast Delhi rioting case where a mob brutally killed a man. The court, however, acquitted two men of all charges. Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala was hearing the case registered by the…
INDIA on Monday described as "deeply regrettable" an incident of breach of premises at the Bangladesh assistant high commission in Agartala and said consular properties should not be targeted under any circumstances. The comments by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) came hours after thousands of people took out a…
THE SUSPENSE over who will be Maharashtra’s new chief minister will end on December 4, when the BJP legislature party elects its new leader, a senior party functionary said on Monday. Earlier in the day, the BJP named finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani as…
