Lucknow Super Giants’ captain Rishabh Pant, left, and Rajasthan Royals’ Riyan Parag. (File photo) NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals stand-in captain Yashasvi Jaiswal won the toss and opted to bowl first vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their IPL 2026 match at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Tuesday. RR’s full-time captain Riyan Parag was not available…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral ties in areas such as clean energy, trade, sustainability and digitalisation during separate meetings with his counterparts from Iceland, Finland and Denmark. The Prime Minister held the meetings ahead of the 3rd India-Nordic Summit. During his talks with Iceland Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir,…
FOUR FEET UNDER: Archaeologists uncover an intact 3rd century BC vessel during the latest phase of excavations There’s excitement at Keeladi in Sivaganga as a cluster of pots, buried for more than two millennia, has been unearthed during the 11th phase of excavations in Sivaganga district.Among them, say archaeologists, is an almost perfectly preserved complete…
ERODE: A man was arrested on Tuesday on charges of abetting the suicide of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Erode district. The Anthiyur police arrested Sathish,32, of Kallakurichi district from his hideout at Thaniyalampattu in Villupuram district.Dharani, daughter of Murugesan of Thavittupalayam near Anthiyur in Erode district, hanged herself in a bathroom at her home on…
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday rescheduled the first ODI between India and Afghanistan, just hours after announcing the squads for the upcoming Test and ODI series.The first ODI, which was earlier scheduled to be played on June 14, will now take place on June 13,…
Playback singer Sonu Nigam has sold five adjoining land parcels in Karjat for a combined consideration of Rs 95 lakh, according to property registration documents accessed by CRE Matrix. The latest sale comes nearly a month after the singer sold multiple land parcels in the same region for Rs 1.95 crore.The transactions pertain to five…
PV Sindhu and Virat Kohli (Instagram Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s badminton icon PV Sindhu shared a heartfelt message for Virat Kohli after meeting him at the RCB Innovation Lab Indian Sports Summit in Bengaluru. The badminton star posted a picture with Kohli on Instagram and thanked him for always supporting and guiding her during difficult…
An helicopter of the NATO Special Operations Forces is seen during the Trojan Footprint 2026 (TFP26) military exercise at sea in Constanta, south-eastern Romania. | Photo Credit: AFP A Romanian F-16 jet belonging to The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air policing forces in the Baltics on Tuesday (May 19, 2026) shot down what is…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay has recalled the genocide that happened in Mullivaikkal in Sri Lanka back in 2009 where lakhs of Sri Lankan Tamils were killed by Lankan armed forces. Vijay on X expressed solidarity with Tamils living across the world on Mullivaikkal remembrance…
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced squads for the one-off Test and the three-match ODI series vs Afghanistan, both set to be played in the month of June in India. KL Rahul replaced Pant as the vice-captain of the Indian Test team that is being led by…