Virat Kohli (left) and Arshdeep Singh during India’s fielding session at Eden Park AUCKLAND: The Eden Park outfield was buzzing with activity as soon as the Indian cricket team got down to business ahead of the first ODI of the five-match series against New Zealand. Divided into groups of four, the players ran between two…
Air India CEO Tewolde Gebremariam speaks at an aviation event in New Delhi Air India plans to increase its wide-body aircraft order as it looks to strengthen its international operations and improve its financial performance, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said on Tuesday while acknowledging that the carrier was currently “punching below its weight” in the international…
AUCKLAND: New Zealand holds a special place for Shubman Gill. In 2018, he was part of the U-19 team that triumphed here. A year later, he made his ODI debut also on these shores. Now seven years after those two memorable ‘firsts’ in his cricketing journey, the 27-year-old is set to lead the side. From…
Sanjay Manjrekar on the field (PC:X) There’s no doubt that Alibaug in Maharashtra has become a favourite real estate destination for a number of Bollywood celebs, business personalities and cricketers too. Many affluent homebuyers looking for properties away from the bustle of Mumbai are choosing Alibaug. Adding to the list of high-value property transactions in…
PC: Diversity in the squid family Ancistrocheiridae and description of a new family of the order Oegopsida (Cephalopoda) A single squid recovered from the stomach of a sperm whale has led scientists to propose an entirely new family of oceanic squids. Malcolm Clarke collected the specimen from a male sperm whale hunted in 1955–56 and…
The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has declared the Computer-Based Test (CBT) result for the Head Constable (Ministerial)-2020 recruitment examination. A total of 1,725 candidates have been shortlisted for the next stage of the selection process against 115 vacancies. The shortlisted candidates will have to appear for the Skill/Typing Test…
General:The Moon is in Leo in your tenth house, and this influence lasts all day. Responsibilities and the way you handle them are likely to occupy your attention. Jupiter in Leo in your tenth house places emphasis on sound judgement at work, rather than automatic promotion or praise. You may have a useful opportunity to…
‘Mangal Rang’, a song from ‘Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend’, has set off a debate over how it has been composed. Critics say the track leans on Sufi-qawwali influences, which they feel look out of place in a film based on the Hindu epic. Sung by Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal, it captures the wedding…
Virat Kohli shakes hands with Pakistan’s Shadab Khan following the T20 World Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan in Melbourne, Australia. AP/PTI The India-Pakistan clash at the 2027 ODI World Cup has received 8.4 million ticket requests, despite the match being scheduled at a venue that can accommodate only 34,000 spectators. The contest will…
The rupee opened at 94.68 against the US dollar and touched an intraday high of 94.60 before trading at 94.72 in early deals. NEW DELHI: The rupee strengthened in early trade on Tuesday, recovering from the previous session’s decline, as softer crude oil prices on Monday and continued foreign fund inflows into domestic equities supported…
