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NEW DELHI: If assembly polls since the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 reiterated BJP’s dominance and deflated hopes of its rivals emboldened by their LS poll bump, the fresh round of electoral battle will test the party’s mettle and determine if it can build on its momentum to make new strides in regions considered most…
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center right, and his daughter, center left, attend a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, March 14. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) North Korea tested nuclear-capable rocket launchers, state…
Cian Shields to drive for Cupra Kiro at Madrid Rookie Test (Image credit: Instagram) Days after confirming Bianca Bustamante for the Madrid Rookie Test, Cupra Kiro has announced another rookie, Cian Shields, for the test. Shields will be making his Formula E debut at the Circuito del Jarama. He previously took part in a Free…
A Chinese national has been arrested in Kenya after authorities discovered more than 2,000 live queen ants hidden inside his luggage at Nairobi’s main international airport. The unusual wildlife smuggling case unfolded at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, where security officers intercepted the passenger during a routine inspection before a flight to China. Investigators say the…
VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid share a chat in the dressing room during the Eden Test. (Getty Images) Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman forged a series-defining partnership in the Eden Gardens Test to script one of the greatest turnarounds in cricket. Talking to TOI, the former India captain reflects on the tactical calls, the marathon…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a Ludhiana-based cloth trader after he admitted using artificial intelligence tools to draft the petition and could not explain complex legal terms used in it. According to news agency PTI, the exchange took place before a…
File Pic: Image from the historic India vs Australia Test in 2001 at Eden Gardens. This week, twenty-five years ago, few were giving Indian cricket any hope. Bruised, sullied from the match-fixing scandal barely a year before and fighting to save face, here was a rudderless team hosting Steve Waugh’s ‘Invincibles’. What unfolded would change…
File Pic: Harbhajan Singh during the Eden Gardens Test in 2001. The other day I was having a chat with Matthew Hayden in Goa. I asked him, “Why did you play that shot in the first innings at Eden Gardens?” It was in the second session on Day 1, he was batting on 97, and…
An SUV taken out for a test drive crashed into a parked auto and two bikes, rammed the barricades of a construction site, and nosedived into a 30ft deep pit filled with slush after its driver lost control in Thane’s Pachpakhadi on Tuesday. Its three occupants—Priya Paswan (36) and Mithilesh Paswan (48) from Kalyan, and…
Sunetra Pawar and Ajit Pawar (File photo) Sunetra Pawar’s elevation as the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) marks a defining moment for the party. Her promotion was necessitated by what is arguably the NCP’s gravest crisis yet — the untimely demise of her husband and the party’s then-chief, Ajit Pawar, in a…
