The Mumbai Indians’ dreams of IPL 2026 playoff qualification are hanging by a thread following an emphatic eight-wicket defeat to the Chennai Super Kings. The alarming trend of middle-order collapses, most recently in the battle against CSK, has been the story of MI this IPL 2026, and that has now propelled the 5-time champions into…
NEW DELHI: A 40-year-old man allegedly smothered his two young sons before dying by suicide in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district, police said on Saturday.The incident took place in Alakere village under Kunigal police limits, where Shivanna and his sons, aged six and eleven, were found dead at their home.Police said Shivanna, who worked at a private…
Kidambi Srikanth (Image credit: BAI) France are on a roll at the Thomas Cup. After knocking out 14-time champions Indonesia in the group stage, France drubbed 2022 champions India 3-0 by winning all three singles.Christo Popov drubbed Ayush Shetty 21-11, 21-9 to give France an early lead. Alex Lanier also registered a straight-game victory, defeating…
An aerial photo taken on Wednesday shows the rescued humpback whale in a special barge, after it beached on a sandbank off the German coast in late March FRANKFURT: A humpback whale that had been struggling to survive after beaching near the German coast was released Saturday into the North Sea off Denmark, after being…
NEW DELHI: At least four people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a four-storey residential building in Vivek Vihar in east Delhi’s Shahdara area, officials said on Sunday. “Early in the morning, we got a call about a fire. Fire tenders rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control….
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party and Election Commission after fresh polling was announced in the Falta assembly constituency following reports of “severe electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process” during the second phase of polling on April 29.Reacting to BJP leader Amit Malviya’s social…
Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav has heaped praise on the much-anticipated Michael Jackson biopic ‘Michael’, saying the film left him deeply moved, particularly by its revelation that the King of Pop was a devoted fan of silent-era comedy legend Charlie Chaplin. Rajpal Yadav channels his inner Michael Jackson on Instagram On May 2, Rajpal Yadav took…
Spirit Airlines, one of America’s most recognisable low-cost carriers, is ending its journey after more than three decades in the skies, announcing an immediate shutdown. Speaking on Saturday, the airline said that it had begun “an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately,” closing the chapter on a 34-year run that transformed budget travel with…
Mangaluru: Acting on a tip-off, Punjalkatte police of Dakshina Kannada unearthed a fake currency operation near Pandavarakallu in Bantwal taluk, arresting two accused and seizing counterfeit notes and other items.According to police, complainant Rajesh KV, PSI (law & order), received credible information on Friday that two persons were in possession of counterfeit currency notes near…
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilise the domestic labour market with a global race to develop AI technologies.The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused…
