Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma. (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: A year before the 50-over World Cup at home in 2023, India played 30 ODIs in order to find the right balance and the right combination. As a result, India had a near faultless show – up until that forgettable evening in Ahmedabad.With the ICC Champions…
Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Australian cricket legend Ricky Ponting has expressed his preference for Arshdeep Singh over Harshit Rana as a replacement for the injured Jasprit Bumrah in India’s opening match of the Champions Trophy against Bangladesh. Ponting’s recommendation comes despite Rana’s commendable performance ahead of the ICC event, citing…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC has upheld the sentence of a dismissed Lt Col to five years of imprisonment under Pocso Act for sexual assaulting and sexual harassing an 11-year-old girl. “The statement of the prosecutrix-minor girl inspires confidence… Her instinct of identifying a bad touch of the petitioner must be believed,” said a bench of Justices…
Former India captain MS Dhoni with ex-Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed’s son during the 2017 Champions Trophy. A heartwarming photograph from 2017 captured MS Dhoni holding Abdullah, the three-month-old son of Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, on the eve of the Champions Trophy final between India and Pakistan.Eight years later, as Champions Trophy 2025 approaches, Sarfaraz has…
LUCKNOW: A man, 22, charged with raping a three-year-old girl when he was 17 and tried as an adult in a Lucknow Pocso court since 2019 was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined Rs 1 lakh after being convicted this week, reports Pathikrit Chakraborty.Legal clearance for the then teenage suspect to be tried…
MUMBAI: The customs department on Monday informed Bombay high court that it will not stop the clearance of consignments of German auto major Škoda Auto Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd, facing allegations of $1.4 billion duty evasion.N Venkataraman, additional solicitor general from Delhi representing the Indian customs, made the statement before the HC bench of Justices…
UDAIPUR: The 2nd All India State Water Ministers’ Conference took place on Tuesday, with Union Minister CR Patil, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, and other officials in attendance.Addressing the event, Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma praised PM Modi’s vision for “Viksit Bharat 2047”, a roadmap…
NEW DELHI: Tesla Inc. has initiated recruitment in India, indicating its imminent market entry following the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its chief executive officer Elon Musk in US.The company advertised 13 positions on its LinkedIn page on Monday, encompassing both customer-facing and administrative roles.The available positions were distributed across Mumbai and Delhi,…
NEW DELHI: Led by record production of iPhones, India’s mobile phone exports surged nearly 50% in the first 10 months of this financial year with the value of shipments estimated at Rs 1.5 lakh crore during April-Jan, compared with Rs 1 lakh crore in same period last year.The surge has been primarily led by a…
MUMBAI: Stock markets snapped the eight-day losing run in a volatile session on Monday with benchmark sensex closing higher by 57 points on the back of value buying in blue-chip stocks HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries.Helped by fag-end buying, the 30-share BSE sensex climbed 58 points to settle at 75,997. During the day, the barometer…
