Bangladesh vs Pakistan (AFP Photo) Pakistan have suffered a double blow after their historic defeat to Bangladesh, with the ICC slapping the side with a hefty fine and docking crucial points in the ICC World Test Championship 2025–27 standings.The ICC on Friday confirmed that Pakistan had been fined 40 per cent of their match fee…
India’s foreign exchange reserves jumped by $6.295 billion to $696.988 billion during the week ended May 8, helped largely by a sharp rise in gold reserves, PTI reported citing Reserve Bank data released on Friday.The overall forex kitty had declined by $7.794 billion to $690.693 billion in the previous reporting week.India’s reserves had touched an…
Udupi: Udupi MLA Yashpal Suvarna Friday visited the Baje Dam, the drinking water source for Udupi city, and inspected water storage levels.During the visit, he reviewed the dam’s storage capacity and inflow situation and directed officials to take precautionary measures to ensure an uninterrupted water supply to city residents.He noted that water is also being…
Virat Kohli, regarded as one of the greatest ODI batters of his generation, may have retired from Tests and T20Is, but the 50-over format still remains his strongest domain. With 14,797 runs in 311 ODIs at a staggering average of 58.71 and strike rate of 93.82, including 54 centuries and 77 fifties, Kohli continues to…
Galileo Galilei (Image: Wikipedia) People often assume old quotes survive because they sound wise. Sometimes they survive because they sound uncomfortably accurate.The quote: “There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly” by Galileo Galilei feels like one of those lines.It does not sound poetic. It is not…
Govt, in an affidavit, said the issue is not what the appointment process should be, but whether SC can examine Parliament’s chosen mechanism at all NEW DELHI: Justifying the decision to drop the CJI from the appointment panel for the chief election commissioner and election commissioners (ECs), Centre has told Supreme Court that the Constitution…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost for the country’s stealth aircraft programme, defence minister Rajnath Singh and Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday laid the foundation stone for the core integration and flight testing centre at Puttaparthi in Sri Sathya Sai district of the state to fast-track the development of 5th-generation Advanced Medium…
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan may be signing on some of the biggest films in the Bollywood film industry, but according to the actor, he has done so without even reading the scripts. Salman Khan never reads film scripts The actor made a candid revelation about his filmmaking process, surprising all with his admission that he…
Virat Kohli and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (IPL Photos) For the first time in IPL history, all the 10 teams have at least a player who has scored a century after Virat Kohli completed his 9th IPL century for RCB against KKR in Raipur. IPL 2026 which has been shattering the record books, is the first season…
After the hike today, petrol is now retailing at Rs 97.7 per litre in Delhi. (AI image) A hike in petrol and diesel prices has been in the offing for some weeks now, and hence today’s Rs 3 per litre raise comes as no surprise. This is especially true since there is no early resolution…
