Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Team India clinched back-to-back Border-Gavaskar Trophy victories in Australia — first under Virat Kohli’s captaincy in 2018-19 and then under Ajinkya Rahane in 2020-21. Now, with Rohit Sharma leading the side, India are aiming for an unprecedented third straight series win on Australian soil.The build-up, however,…
LONDON: British pubs are facing something of a crisis: They cannot get enough Guinness. The trouble became evident last week when the Irish beer’s parent company, Diageo, started limiting the number of barrels of Guinness British pubs and bars can order each week.“Over the past month we have seen exceptional consumer demand for Guinness,” Diageo…
After Delaware elected the first openly transgender member of Congress earlier this month, a Republican introduced a bill aiming to bar her from using the bathroom aligned with her gender identity. South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace proposed the legislation, which comes just under two months before Sarah McBride is set to be sworn in as…
NEW DELHI: A devotee who accidentally dropped his iPhone into the offering box of a temple was refused to get it back after a minister told him “anything that is deposited into the offering box, goes into god’s account.”In a peculiar situation, the devotee identified as Dinesh, dropped his iPhone in the hundial of the…
NEW DELHI: Indian-American Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who was defeated by Donald Trump in the Republican primary in South Carolina, has vowed to continue the fight for a real choice in the upcoming Super Tuesday states.Haley, a two-time former governor of South Carolina, expressed her determination to give the American voters a choice instead…
DUBLIN: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Ireland Saturday to meet his Irish counterpart, in what is being billed as an attempt to reset relations between the two countries after years of tensions following the U.K.’s departure from the European Union. Starmer’s visit to meet Irish premier Simon Harris is the first by a…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle deeply ‘hurt’ by German documentary ‘Harry – The Lost Prince’, claims source (Picture credit: Reuters) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have found themselves at the centre of fresh controversy following the release of a German documentary, Harry – The Lost Prince. The programme, which aired last week, critically examines their…
RAIPUR: MBBS students at AIIMS-Raipur have alleged that they were ragged through the night on Nov 16, causing a few girls to fall unconscious after being forced to stand till 3am.A group of students have written anonymously to Supreme Court lawyer Meera Patel, who is the convenor and legal head of ‘Society Against Violence in…
China on Saturday accused a Philippine Coast Guard vessel of intentionally colliding with a Chinese ship, further escalating tensions over contested areas in the South China Sea. Chinese Coast Guard spokesperson Liu Dejun said that the Philippine ship with hull number 9701 collided with the Chinese ship 5205 just after 12.06 pm (04:06 GMT) on…
After protesting King Charles’ speech in the parliament shouting ‘you are not my king’, indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe later on Monday shared a cartoon of Charles beheaded on her Instagram — stoking another controversy. The cartoon was drawn by Matt Chun and it said ‘you are not our king’. Thorpe is the first Aboriginal…
