India’s Varun Chakaravarthy (Image: IANS) NEW DELHI: For a cricketer who made his international debut at 29, Varun Chakravarthy measures time differently.Now, at 35, he has just lived through a rollercoaster year: a T20 World Cup title on home soil where he finished as India’s joint-highest wicket-taker with 14 wickets, an IPL campaign played through…
Kishore Pai painting a sindhoor Ganesha at his workshop at Pandeshwar in Mangaluru Mangaluru: At first glance, it may seem like just another shade of red. But in a small workshop in Pandeshwar, 48-year-old artisan Kishore Pai patiently applies what he describes as a distinctly different colour: sindhoor.The orange-red hue is currently taking shape on…
Pratika Rawal replaces Jemimah (Image: IANS) Top-order batter Pratika Rawal has been included in India’s women’s cricket squad for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, as a replacement for injured Jemimah Rodrigues.Jemimah continues to recover from a hamstring injury she suffered while playing for Southern Brave in The Hundred on August 3. The injury…
Participants in the ‘Prakriti Patha’ study tour, organised by Thotagars Green Group FPO of Thotagars’ Rural Co-operative Agricultural Multipurpose Society Ltd. The tour brought together 28 participants, most of them women interested in cultivating dahlias, locally known as dere hoo Mangaluru: What began as a hobby in the home gardens of Malnad is now evolving…
East Zone take monumental 584-run lead at stumps on Day 4 (PTI Photo) The Duleep Trophy final moved closer to its inevitable conclusion on Wednesday, with East Zone ending Day 4 in a commanding position after stretching their overall lead to 584 runs with five wickets still in hand. South Zone endured a difficult day…
Mangaluru: Akhila Bharata Tulu Okkoota (All India Tulu Federation) has urged the Karnataka government to declare Tulu an official language of the state.Addressing reporters, Okkoota president AC Bhandary said Tulu, one of the oldest Dravidian languages, is the mother tongue of over 1.8 million people and the cultural language of Tulunadu. Despite its rich literary…
England’s captain Joe Root (AP Photo) Joe Root continues to add to his remarkable Test legacy, surpassing Australia great Steve Waugh for the most Test appearances as he took the field against Pakistan in the third and final Test at Edgbaston.Root, who is captaining England in the series, has now featured in 169 Tests, moving…
People waiting their turn for the documentation process for notices of SIR, in one of the schools in Mangaluru. Mangaluru: Server glitches and poor internet connectivity are slowing down the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Dakshina Kannada, making it difficult for booth-level officers (BLOs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) to upload…
Ricky Ponting has admitted he is worried about where ODI cricket is heading, with the former Australia captain fearing the 50-over format could gradually be squeezed out by the ever-growing presence of T20 franchise cricket across the globe.Ponting, one of the most successful ODI batters in cricket history with 13,704 runs in the format, believes…
Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police conducted a surprise raid at the district prison, and seized 10 mobile phones allegedly concealed by nine undertrials inside the jail. Police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH stated that acting on credible information that prisoners were using mobile phones inside the prison, Barke police registered a case under Section 323…
