Sanju Samson (Getty Images) TimesofIndia.com in Dubai: Sunil has been driving a taxi in Dubai for the past 18 years and vividly recalls two occasions when he had the chance to drop Sanju Samson — who hails from his own village, Vizhinjam, a coastal town near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala — to the airport.There is a…
Al Hilal SFC is the wealthiest club in Saudi Arabia in 2025, with a net worth of $248 million and a €223.88M wage bill/ Image: X As Al Hilal SFC face Al-Qadsiah tonight at Kingdom Arena, the Saudi powerhouse enters the fixture as the league’s wealthiest club — both on the pitch and on the…
Gautam Gambhir hosted Team India and the support staff for a team dinner at his residence on Wednesday (Screengrabs/ANI) With the second Test against the West Indies set to begin in Delhi on Friday, Team India took a brief pause from preparations for a different kind of team activity, and attended a relaxed dinner hosted…
Lucknow: Accusing the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the BJP government of conspiring to delete votes in regions where BJP lost elections, Samajwadi party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said instead of aiming to increase voter turnout, the ECI was all set to delete 3 crore names from the electoral rolls in Uttar…
NEW DELHI: Centre Monday sanctioned 25 lakh additional ‘Ujjwala’ LPG connections for current financial year, having transferred Rs 58,000 crore in subsidies to over 10 crore beneficiary women since the scheme’s launch in May 2016 to give poor households access to clean cooking fuel.“On the auspicious occasion of Navratri, I extend my best wishes to…
Lucknow: MPA Kathak student, Anshika Kataria, who scored 85.3% marks in Kathak discipline will be awarded eight gold medals, including the prestigious Rai Umanath Bali Megha Gold Medal, for topping in Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, in the institute’s 15th convocation on Sept 10.A total of 40 medals will be awarded — 25 gold medals, 7 silver…
Mitchell Johnson (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) Former Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has criticised Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg’s recent statements about Test cricket’s future. Johnson disagrees with Greenberg’s view that not all countries need to aspire to play Test cricket or bear its financial losses.Test cricket, the traditional five-day format of the sport,…
Prenelan Subrayen (5/61) spun a fine web as India ‘A’ were bowled out for 234 in 58 overs. (Image credit: X) BENGALURU: The BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) is like a second home to most Indian players. If they are not undergoing rehabilitation here, they are either playing matches or training at the expansive facility….
Rohit Sharma (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Former Indian cricketers Mohammad Kaif and Irfan Pathan commended Rohit Sharma‘s performance as he scored his 61st ODI fifty during the third match between India and South Africa in Visakhapatnam.Opening the innings with Jaiswal, Rohit scored 75 runs from 73 balls. The duo established a 155-run partnership at a…
NEW DELHI: An Air India Express’ Delhi-Indore flight on Friday had a mid-air scare after it suffered an engine fault. The pilot issued a ‘PAN-PAN’ alert to signal a non-critical emergency, but the aircraft eventually landed safely at the airport with a 20-minute delay.“After receiving information about a technical fault in one of the engines…
