- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
HEAD coach Gautam Gambhir is not overtly worried about the transition Indian team has to face in near future and defended under-pressure skipper Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli, saying they will bounce back in Australia. "We are going to Australia to play five Test matches and there are…
A SIGNIFICANT percentage of young adults are increasingly preferring to directly invest in equity markets rather than opting for the mutual fund route, a report has said. According to the report by Fin One, an initiative of fintech brokerage firm Angel One, 93 per cent of young adults are consistent…
RENOWNED actor Kamal Haasan announced that he is renouncing all titles and honorifics, including ‘Ulaga Nayagan’ (Universal Hero), that have been conferred upon him over his career. Haasan, who is also the president of the political party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), has expressed gratitude for the accolades but said he…
THERE is a trend towards a more diverse, multipolar world but older, industrialised economies have not gone away and remain prime investment targets, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. Speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Aditya Birla Group's Scholarships programme in Mumbai, Jaishankar said while a…
JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA commenced judicial proceedings on Monday, his first day as Chief Justice of India (CJI), and thanked lawyers for wishing him well. Justice Khanna was sworn in as the 51st CJI earlier in the day by President Droupadi Murmu at a brief ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. "Thank…
US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has won the election in Arizona, defeating his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states. The seven battleground states in this election cycle were Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. The victory in Arizona took Trump's electoral college tally to 312…
ACE Indian cueist Pankaj Advani clinched a historic 28th world title, seventh in a row, defeating England’s Robert Hall 4-2 at the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Doha on Saturday. Advani’s winning streak began in 2016 and survived two years (2020, 2021) of vacuum created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Hall…
IRISH actor Paul Mescal is in discussions to lead Ridley Scott’s next directorial project, “The Dog Stars”, which will follow the upcoming release of Gladiator II. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is an adaptation of Peter Heller’s 2012 novel and is slated to begin shooting in 2025. “The…
STAR Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Saturday roped in Jan Zelezny, one of the greatest the sport has produced, as coach to help prepare him for the upcoming season. Zelezny, 58, is widely considered the greatest javelin thrower of the modern era and is a world and Olympic champion.…
RECORD-BREAKING heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn. The latest round of UN climate talks begin next week during what is expected to be the hottest…
