India will need to travel back in time and seek inspiration from football greats Tulsidas Balaram and Chuni Goswami to deftly dribble around and sidestep the West-imposed price cap on exports of Russian seaborne crude oil. India depends on imported oil to meet 86 per cent of its needs, of which nearly a quarter now comes from Russia. The copious flows are roughly 10 per cent cheaper than competing suppliers helping India save billions of dollars in fuel costs.
'Gullak feels like your story or the story of someone you know.' 'The stories are heart-warming, joyful. You laugh at them.' 'It's like a drug that gives you happiness.'
I binged on various shows this year -- some for work, some for pleasure, few I couldn't spare time for, others I didn't have access to while some started out fabulously only to fizzle towards the end.
'If we go in the same direction as them, we cannot expect a different result from them.' 'Our fall is going to be very swift.' 'Within a decade, we can expect the situation to change for the worse.'
Spin great Anil Kumble congratulated New Zealand's Ajaz Patel, who matched the Indian's feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings in Test cricket.
'In the 1971 War my battalion suffered 4 casualties after fighting for 14 days.' 'In Operation Blue Star, I lost 19 men in just one hour.'
'Already, the temperature has touched 39 degrees in some parts of Gujarat and now we are in the last week of February.' 'We need to activate the heat action plan from March 1.'
A summary of Thursday's action at the US Open.
The political fall-out of the US downgrade is not over. Republicans and Democrats are both trying to pin the blame on the other party, displaying their great skill in spinning news to score partisan political points.
Baz Luhrmann's new film Elvis got a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes film festival.
The depreciation in rupee may pose a problem for students who have taken loans from Indian lenders.
Shreyas Iyer has been in impressive form in the ODI series agaisnt West Indies but the batter is unhappy with his failure to convert back-to-back fifties into centuries.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Wednesday.
Harry & Meghan, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel realises, is just a sequel to Diana's Story.
The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today? Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it. By just being brilliant, captivating crowds, and behaving like a being from the future, doing things that STILL provoke oohs and aahs from watchers. Vaibhav Raghunandan salutes the Incomparable Pele.
'Badlapur,' says Sreehari Nair, 'proves that sometimes there are more personal truths to be discovered in our trash cans than in our neatly arranged book-shelves.'
You are not a bad mom if you go out on a few dates, says Megha Vohra who found her partner on a dating app.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes the pressure and demand of captaincy took a toll on Ravindra Jadeja and affected the all-rounder's mind, resulting in his below-par showing for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2022.
Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and migration, points out Ramesh Menon.
'My aim is to do something special for the country. This is part of my journey'
Chennai Super Kings' head coach Stephen Fleming compared the dew during his team's IPL 2022 match against Lucknow Super Giants in Thursday to the Niagara Falls.
India pacer Harshal Patel expressed happiness after being included in the playing eleven for Friday's T20 International against New Zealand, in Ranchi, saying it's an honour to be representing the country.
Rafael Nadal will become the first man to win 21 Grand Slam titles if he defeats the Russian in Melbourne.
'The day the power shifts, they will run across to the other side.'
It was history in the making as Quinton de Kock scored a century and shared a record opening stand with skipper K L Rahul.
The Wife could have been a game-changer in the horror genre, but falls prey to listless execution, complains Moumita Bhattacharjee.
Australian swimmers have swept the podium, broken world records, set milestones and won a mountain of medals at the Commonwealth Games pool but all anyone wants to talk about is a supposed 'love triangle' with golden girl Emma McKeon at the centre.
'He is a perennially positive guy.' 'He is generous with advice and never petty about anything.'
'Before going to Kashmir, we were apprehensive because of what we had heard.' 'But what we saw when we reached Kashmir was altogether different.'
'Her work ethic, disciple, dedication, determination and hunger to score runs for herself and for the team makes her stand out from the rest.'
Xi's ascent to power and the quick consolidation of his leadership of the party with a shock anti-graft campaign securing the title of the "core leader" of the party bequeathed only to Mao has indeed forced his rivals in the party to submission and caught the attention of the world.
Pole says she feels much better prepared to handle the pressure of her latest career milestone.
Smith said the team trusted the security arrangements in place.
'And it always should be.' 'I believe nothing should come easily to anyone because then there is no thrill in it.'
So, while it is great that India's numbers look relatively good, don't raise a cheer just yet, points out T N Ninan.
The Lodgy feels easy to drive, more like a sedan than an MPV.
HR Guru Mayank Rautela offers practical advice.
Baahubali: The Conclusion doesn't enlarge the scope of the first picture or deepen its meaning, feels Sreehari Nair.
It was Rahul Tripathi, who eventually saved his team the blushes with a six off Ravichandran Ashwin in the final over, which sealed KKR a place in the final against Chennai Super Kings.
The top court said the distinction between married and unmarried women under the abortion laws is "artificial and constitutionally unsustainable" and perpetuates the stereotype that only married woman are sexually active.
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