'I actually thought he punched me very hard. I didn't realise it was a knife in his hand, and then I saw the blood, and I realised there was a weapon'
Setbacks and success are both a part of your professional journey. After all, the greatest success stories often begin with a healthy dose of overcoming adversity. Use this experience to fuel your ambition and keep your eyes firmly set on achieving your career goals, asserts Sonica Aron, founder of the HR consultancy firm, Marching Sheep.
Fraser-McGurk, Stubbs or Samson? Pick your best batters
Why play it safe when you can go all out?
Black on your mind for new year's eve? Time to think again.
Real Madrid full-back Dani Carvajal was lucky to escape without a red card after he threw a punch at Atletico Madrid forward Mario Mandzukic in Tuesday's 0-0 Champions League quarter-final, first leg draw at the Calderon.
The Zone Of Interest is technically flawless but lacks emotional pull, observes Mayur Sanap.
Kudos to Shruti Haasan for making grunge look glam.
Vineeth Sreenivasan deserves applause for striving to blend the past with the present and revoking your memories, states Divya Nair.
R Ashwin is always up for a challenge and two days from his landmark 100th Test, India's premier off-spinner looked back at the on-field battles he has enjoyed in international and domestic cricket.
Having already sealed a super six berth, record five-time champions India will be expected to breeze past USA in their final group game of the U-19 World Cup in Bloemfontein on Sunday.
A captain faces a lot criticism when his team goes through a prolonged lean patch but India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni does not mind becoming a "punching bag" if it saves the other players from pressure.
Maruf set the tone for Bangladesh's success with a superb opening spell, reducing India to 13 for three inside seven overs.
You do get your money's worth simply watching these girls do what they are best at: Entertainment, feels Divya Nair.
Harbhajan Singh found himself in yet another controversy when he allegedly punched a cameraman at the Bengaluru International Airport on Wednesday before leaving with the Indian team for the tri-series in Sri Lanka. Although some sections of the media reported that he had punched the cameraman, some photographers who were present at the venue said he did nothing of that sort.
Kidambi Srikanth registered a superb come-from-behind win over World No 5 Indonesian Jonatan Christie.
Vanshaj was also beaten 0-5 by Yernur Suyunbay of Kazakhstan in his summit clash.
Biki Bora, Muay Thai/ kick-boxing instructor takes you through a series of kick boxing videos starting today!
This election will be remembered for being the first election where the Election Commission failed to take action on gross violations involving the ruling party that repeatedly used religion, communal slurs, lies and undocumented allegations, observes Ramesh Menon.
Ankur Mehta was allegedly attacked at the Red Robin Restaurant in Pennsylvania while he was working on his tablet with earbuds in his ears when the attacker grabbed and punched him with his elbow and fist.
Virat Kohli enhanced his status as a lone ranger by notching up a record-extending eighth IPL century but Royal Challengers could only manage just about par-score of 183 for 3 against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on Saturday.
New images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cassini spacecraft show rogue kilometre-sized objects punching through Saturn's F-ring and leaving glittering trails -- dubbed 'mini-jets' -- behind them.
A summary of Wednesday's action in the Champions League quarter-finals first leg.
Mumbai Indians came up with a dominant performance with both bat and ball to cruise to an emphatic seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult voice saying, 'Beta, all this is good, but try bringing in some feelings too', observes Sreehari Nair.
The zestful, satisfying mixed vegetable Italian soup makes for a special meal.
No Afghan woman has ever won a medal at the Olympic games, but taekwondo fighter Rohullah Nikpai may have paved the way by taking a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games, becoming a national hero in the process.
Naveen and Hussamuddin storm into pre-quarters at IBA World Boxing championships
Openers KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock hit fifties as LSG trounced CSK by eight wickets.
Centuries from openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan powered Titans to an emphatic victory against champions CSK.
Any shortlist of contenders for the greatest of all-time events must include the first fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
The assault allegedly took place over playing Hanuman chalisa, a Hindu devotional hymn in praise of lord Hanuman, at a shop in central Bengaluru area.
Hussamudin, who was competing in his debut World Championships, was scheduled to face Cuba's Saidel Horta in the last four clash.
Two-time Olympic-medallist P V Sindhu made a winning return from a lengthy injury lay-off as India stunned formidable China 3-2 in the women's competition of the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam, Malaysia on Wednesday.
Star batter Virat Kohli was covering the swing well although he played and missed often until one ball moved away late to send him back to the dressing room, a pleased as punch Kagiso Rabada said after getting his 14th five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Carse joins an England team struggling at the ninth place on the table after just one win in four matches.
Forget team colours! Let's build the ultimate dream team, a team that would dominate any opponent...
The yorker that cleaned up Ollie Pope's stumps on Saturday, February 3, 2024 on Day 2 of the second England-India Test at the Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA cricket stadium in Visakhapatnam.
In the evening session, Sumit faced Russia's Pavel Sosulin in his first bout and made a bright start. He used his powerful punches to good effect and took the first round by 3-2 before winning the second round by the same scoreline.
'It has incredible hand-to-hand fighting inside a steamy Hammam room so gripping, fending, landing the punches and the kicks, everything was very difficult.'
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