Sai Sudharsan plays a shot during the fifth day of the second Test in Guwahati. (Image: PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) The team’s hard-earned legacy in the five-day game is eroding fast, especially at home. But with all the focus being on chasing White-Ball glory, right from a cricketer’s junior years, an effective turnaround may require more…
Hardik Pandya with girlfriend Mahieka Sharma (Screengrabs) NEW DELHI: Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya recently found himself in an awkward situation during a Christmas dinner outing, but he handled it with calm and maturity. The incident happened when Pandya was leaving a restaurant after celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend, Maheika Sharma. In the hope of seeing…
MUMBAI: This weekend, a prestigious luxury hotel in south Mumbai is the venue of meetings for members of a posh housing society on Altamont Road, one of the priciest residential enclaves in India. Three of Mumbai’s leading developers will be meeting them separately to pitch their offers for redevelopment. The competition among developers for such…
Smriti Mandhana was set to marry her longtime friend Palash Muchhal this week. Instead, the family postponed the ceremony after her father was suddenly hospitalised with heart-attack like symptoms, followed by reports that Muchhal himself was admitted to a hospital in Sangli due to emotional stress.The news has placed an unexpected pause in what was…
NEW DELHI: In a major development in the Red Fort car blast case, Delhi Police sources on Sunday confirmed that the three cartridges recovered from the site—two live and one empty—were 9mm calibre, a type of firearm prohibited for civilian use.A senior official said that although a cartridge was recovered, no pistol or its parts…
Lucknow: A noted voice of the Bhojpuri music Shyama Yadav is no more. He passed away at a hospital in Gomtinagar on Sunday night. He was 70. He was the co-singer and long-time musical companion of the folk songs icon late Baleshwar. Born in Sitapur district, Yadav carved out a niche not as a frontman…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi spoke to Sri Lankan President Anura K Dissanayake on Monday, expressing condolences on the loss of lives and devastation in Sri Lanka in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah and assuring him of India’s continued support to the Indian Ocean neighbour under the ongoing Operation Sagar Bandhu, which has taken up…
The friendship between Satish Shah and Farooq Shaikh traces back even before their 1982 film ‘Saath Saath’. The two shared an instant connection on set, and their bond only grew stronger over the years. Even after Farooq Shaikh’s untimely passing in 2013, Satish Shah often fondly remembered his dear friend through social media posts, keeping…
Sanju Samson (Pic credit: BCCI) Sanju Samson has forever been in queue. His selection in India’s T20 World Cup team as an opener is his moment, at the age of 31 after nearly a decade of debates on him finding a definite place in India’s XI. Clearly this moment has not come without any chaos.Go…
Telugu superstar Nagarjuna Akkineni has joined a growing list of Indian celebrities taking legal steps to protect their personality rights. Following the lead of Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, and filmmaker Karan Johar, the ‘Annamayya’ actor approached the Delhi High Court to prevent misuse of his identity online. Court hears Nagarjuna Akkineni’s plea for…
