Gujarat Titans’ Mohammed Siraj celebrates with teammates (PTI Photo) Gujarat Titans are setting the benchmark with pace this season, leading the charts for most wickets by pacers using short balls in IPL 2026. With 29 wickets, GT are comfortably ahead of the rest, underlining how effectively their quicks have used bounce and hard lengths to…
State elections 2026 top developments: BJP eyes third term in Assam, NDA-INDIA face-off in Puducherry and a three-way contest in Kerala NEW DELHI: Voting began across Kerala, Assam and Puducherry on Thursday, with early turnout figures till 9 am indicating steady participation. According to the Election Commission of India, Kerala recorded 16.23% turnout, Assam 17.87%,…
Fresh off her win as Femina Miss India World 2026, Sadhvi Sail’s return to Bengaluru turned into a city-wide celebration of pride, purpose and possibility. From a warm meet-and-greet with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to meaningful interactions with Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and Legislative Assembly Speaker UT Khader, the 24-year-old was met with admiration…
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NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress on Monday raised fresh objections against alleged mass enrolment of new voters in Bengal, forcing an already exasperated Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant to sarcastically observe that he would have to create a dedicated special bench to deal with the volume of pleas relating to SIR and elections.TMC…
NEW DELHI: The Strait of Hormuz remains technically open, but commercial shipping is far from normal, according to Anil Devli, chief executive of the Mumbai-based Indian National Shipowners’ Association. With 14 Indian vessels trapped in this chokepoint and with Indian ships earlier hit by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , Devli said, there is bound…
Standard Chartered will eliminate roughly 7,800 jobs by 2030, around 15 per cent of its corporate functions, as the Asia-focused lender leans on AI to slim down its back office. The bank employs nearly 82,000 people worldwide, and more than 52,000 of them sit in the corporate functions being targeted.CEO Bill Winters, the UK’s longest-serving…
Bengaluru: Bus services across Karnataka are likely to be disrupted from May 20 as transport employees’ unions prepare for an indefinite strike after conciliation talks with state-run corporations failed on Monday. The meeting, convened by the labour commissioner, was attended by representatives of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of trade unions and officials of the…
Yuzvendra Chahal (Getty Images) CHANDIGARH: As the countdown to the new IPL season begins, Yuzvendra Chahal has struck a candid note, both about his team Punjab Kings’ ambitions and his own resurgence. After what he admits was a tough previous year marked by injuries and illness, the leg-spinner is entering the season with renewed purpose….
CHENNAI: Ahead of the April 23 election for the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday replaced the state’s chief secretary, N Muruganandam, with senior bureaucrat M Sai Kumar and DGP (armed police, vigilance and anti-corruption) S Davidson Devasirvatham with Sandeep Mittal, a 1995-batch IPS officer, a decision that drew an…
