India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jasprit Bumrah secured his 16th five-wicket haul, helping India dismiss South Africa for 159 on day one of the first test match on Friday. After Shubman Gill lost his seventh toss in eight tests, South Africa chose to bat first, with Bumrah delivering an outstanding…
NEW DELHI: Staring at a political abyss in the face of continued decline post-2014 – hastened after 2019 – a flailing opposition came together to give itself the collective moniker ‘INDIA’, vowing to stick together and fight jointly. It enjoyed a surge in fortunes and gave the governing BJP alliance a scare in 2024.The INDIA…
Ravindra Jadeja (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) With the IPL 2026 retention deadline set for Saturday, attention is squarely on Ravindra Jadeja. The India all-rounder, long associated with Chennai Super Kings, is expected to make a high-profile move to the Rajasthan Royals. This transfer will close a significant chapter in Jadeja’s career, as he has…
NEW DELHI: After a brief pause during intense campaigning for Bihar polls, attention has swiftly turned to one of the BJP’s longest-pending decisions – the election of a new national president to succeed J P Nadda.The Bihar polls, which saw NDA secure a landslide victory with over two-thirds majority in the 243-seat House, have not…
Shrimoyee Ghosh and Sawon Chakraborty in a still from the film Singer-composer Neel Dutt’s directorial debut Biye Fiye Niye has earned an official selection in the Indian Panorama New Horizons section at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa. The romantic drama, which had its international premiere at Gange Sur Seine in Paris in…
NEW DELHI: Congress’s abysmal show threatens to again trap the party in the rut that it has been trying to climb out of since 2014 – an endless cycle of recriminations, dissent and defections, and whispered demands for change of personnel and strategy.Coming against the backdrop of shocking losses in Haryana and Maharashtra, this setback…
NDA’s three-fourth majority in the third most populous state, its best performance since 2010, comes as a major endorsement of the ‘double-engine plank’ of the alliance and has validated the coalition’s belief that an opposition campaign centred on targeting PM Narendra Modi carries a stiff cost.The coalition contested the polls as a united family, blurring…
Lucknow: In a nail-biting contest between BSP’s Satish Kumar Singh Yadav and BJP’s Ashok Kumar Singh in the Ramgarh constituency, the BSP candidate managed to pip his rival by a mere 30 votes. Ramgarh is the only seat that the BSP won out of the 190 it contested in Bihar this time. Yadav secured 72,689…
NEW DELHI: It may be the first time in three decades that RJD doesn’t have a single member in Rajya Sabha when the next Bihar assembly elections come around in 2030.The party now has five members in the upper house, but it will gradually lose these seats even if a non-NDA party – like AIMIM…
Lucknow: BJP-led NDA’s landslide victory in Bihar might have a cascading effect on UP politics too given the demographic similarities between the two states. The alliance in UP would see a new ray of hope for its electoral fortunes as non-Yadav OBCs and MBCs or EBCs have cemented their bond with the NDA in the…
