Kwena Maphaka (R) of South Africa (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) South Africa’s decision to bowl first in Durban looked bold. The conditions were good for batting, the outfield was quick, and Australia’s top order had a point to prove. But by the end of the innings, all anyone could talk about was a 19-year-old…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Nishikant Dubey on Monday lashed out at Pakistan for violating the agenda of the United Nations’ Children and Armed Conflict (CAC) by carrying out attacks in India and Afghanistan.Delivering India’s statement on the “Promotion and Protection of Rights of Children” at a UN General Assembly session, Dubey thanked member nations for…
Andhra Pradesh is set to see another major AI boost, months after Google announced its AI data centre investment. This time, Reliance Industries has announced setting up a 1 GW AI-focused data centre in the south Indian state. The upcoming Reliance facility will be built as a modular unit equipped with graphic processing units, tensor…
‘Kantara: Chapter 1’ and ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ released on the same day, but their box office journeys couldn’t have been more different. The clash turned out to be a one-horse race, with Kantara racing far ahead. The Kannada epic enjoyed a pan-India release across Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada languages, while Sunny…
Lucknow: To expand access to higher education, the state cabinet on Friday approved the establishment of three new private universities in Chandausi (Radha Govind University), Jhansi (Gandhi University) and Fatehpur (Thakur Yugraj Singh University).Higher education minister Yogendra Upadhyaya said the establishment of the universities was approved through the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities (Fifth Amendment) Ordinance,…
NEW DELHI: ONGC is eyeing about $1 billion of profit from a new trading company it plans to set up for buying and selling of crude oil and refined fuels of its group companies, a top official said Monday. While most of the crude oil and natural gas it pumps out of the ground and…
Delhi enforces new law to rein in private school fees and expand parent oversight Delhi’s private school fee fights are never really about arithmetic. They are about power: who gets to decide the price of education, who is forced to pay it, and who is told to stop asking questions.The Delhi government, on Wednesday, notified…
The organised gold loan market is projected to touch Rs 15 lakh crore by March 2026 — a full year ahead of earlier forecasts — as banks tighten their dominance and expand faster than non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), according to a report by rating agency Icra.The agency had earlier estimated in September 2024 that the…
(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) As ‘Coolie’ inches closer to its August 14 release, superstar Rajinikanth is opening up about what drew him to work with director Lokesh Kanagaraj — and adding his trademark humour to the mix. At a recent promotional event, the actor revealed that it was Lokesh’s 2019 hit ‘Kaithi’ that convinced him the…
Riyan Parag (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) Former India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who has played alongside Riyan Parag at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, has offered a guarded assessment of the youngster’s immediate prospects in the national ODI side. With India struggling to find late-overs firepower during the second ODI against South Africa in Raipur,…
