India’s Tulika Maan (PTI photo) New Delhi: India’s Commonwealth Games campaign has suffered another major blow with Olympian and 2022 Birmingham CWG’s silver medallist Tulika Maan being provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for alleged whereabouts failures, ending her Glasgow 2026 participation even without flying out of India.Sources told TOI that Tulika, one…

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is taking a long-term view of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s astonishing rise, with secretary Devajit Saikia revealing that the board is closely monitoring the 15-year-old and wants to ensure his early success translates into a long and distinguished international career.Sooryavanshi’s rapid emergence…

India’s Jasprit Bumrah (Reuters) India’s growing injury list has put the Centre of Excellence (COE) under the spotlight, with several players across formats currently dealing with fitness issues.Jasprit Bumrah is battling knee swelling, while Sai Sudharsan has been sidelined by a left big toe injury. Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy are recovering from hamstring…

Five baby orangutans rescued from a forest in Baleshwar, Odisha, should be repatriated CHENNAI: Five baby orangutans rescued from a forest in Baleshwar, Odisha, should be repatriated to Indonesia in accordance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), wildlife experts have said.Primate researcher Willie Smits, founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation…

DMK deputy general secretary Kanimozhi CHENNAI: DMK leaders on Friday came down heavily on chief minister C Joseph Vijay for blaming the previous DMK regime and its leader M K Stalin for the Karur stampede incident.Rebutting Vijay’s remarks during his visit to Karur on Friday, DMK deputy general secretary Kanimozhi said people knew well who…