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Punjab Kings players (ANI Photo) In any tournament or league with a home-and-away system, teams usually try to make their home venue a fortress, aiming to collect as many points as possible there so that their fate does not rely heavily on away results.The Indian Premier League is no exception. With IPL 2026 entering the…
Delhi Capitals players (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Arun Jaitley Stadium was painted yellow on Tuesday evening. Everywhere the eye went, in every stand that celebrated the best that Delhi has ever produced, a trove of yellow jerseys was unmissable. They were there in groups and in small numbers, but their presence was hard to…
Lotus blooms in West Bengal Khela hobe …For 5 years, this was the slogan Mamata Banerjee used to taunt her rivals. But this time, ‘khela hoye geche’ and not in the way the Trinamool Congress (TMC) imagined. The unthinkable has happened, and “Lotus has bloomed in West Bengal.”The result has redrawn Bengal’s political map, ending…
NEW DELHI:The Bharatiya Janata Party has not just returned to power in Assam but secured a third consecutive term with a commanding mandate, underlining its transformation from a marginal player into the state’s dominant political force. At the centre of this emphatic victory stands Himanta Biswa Sarma — widely seen as the chief architect of…
An armoured vehicle and CAPF personnel on patrol in Kolkata Tuesday Kolkata: West Bengal’s final phase of assembly polls unfolds under a security grid rarely seen in Indian elections, stretching across 142 constituencies in seven districts. Numbers define the scale – over 2.3 lakh Central Armed Police Forces personnel, 38,297 state police, 142 general observers,…
Mumbai Indians have several overseas players to choose from this season. The squad includes Quinton de Kock, Ryan Rickelton, Sherfane Rutherford, Corbin Bosch, Mitchell Santner, Will Jacks, AM Ghazanfar and Trent Boult. Boult is expected to play an important role with Jasprit Bumrah in the pace attack. However, the team will be without Will Jacks…
With campaign activity picking up across Tamil Nadu, the 2026 assembly election is shaping up as a high-stakes contest that could test the durability of the state’s long-standing Dravidian political order. What was once a largely bipolar contest is now evolving into a more complex, multi-cornered fight, with new entrants and shifting voter alignments adding…
WASHINGTON: In a sweeping overhaul of America’s global footprint, President Donald Trump has authorised the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations, marking one of the most significant retreats from multilateralism in modern history.The move, announced on January 7 via a presidential memorandum, affects 31 United Nations entities and 35 non-UN groups, including…
The United States launched pre-dawn airstrikes on Venezuela early Saturday, triggering explosions across Caracas and setting the stage for the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, a dramatic escalation that was confirmed hours later by US President Donald Trump. Venezuelan authorities declared a state of emergency as panic spread across the…
NEW DELHI: Kerala got its first BJP mayor, VV Rajesh, after the National Democratic Alliance won Thiruvananthapuram civic body elections, marking an end to 45 years of Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) rule in the city.Thiruvananthapuram was treated like “inherited property under Left–Congress dominance for decades,” said state BJP general secretary Anoop Antony Joseph.Prime Minister Narendra…
