Sachin Tendulkar leads the cricket world to hail New Zealand's triumph.
Shamshera's problem is a shocking inability to support its bombastic ideas with gripping drama. The result is the wastage of not one but two Ranbir Kapoors, observes Sukanya Verma.
Asking Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to adopt a humanitarian approach, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the premier engineering institute to allocate within 48 hours a seat to a young Dalit boy, who missed out, as he could not deposit his fees due to the non-functioning of his credit card.
India's skipper missed out on what would have been his 99th Test on the morning of the second match of the series against South Africa in Johannesburg, adding to an intriguing drama that is unfolding around him on an almost daily basis now.
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The Argentine then lifted his shirt to reveal a red and black replica kit of his hometown club Newell's Old Boys bearing the number 10 which Maradona wore during his brief spell at the Rosario side in 1993.
With the abundance of flair and attacking talent Tottenham Hotspur acquired knowing Gareth Bale was leaving, it has perhaps been surprising that their impressive start to the season owes a lot to a watertight defence.
A BCCI official in the know of developments said that the Indian cricket board stands with the boys as such behaviour is 'unacceptable'.
Prasidh said he has been practising a lot and the few Vijay Hazare matches he had played helped him to keep in rhythm.
England will head to the World Cup on the back of a six-match winless sequence but with at least some pride and confidence restored after a thrilling 3-3 draw at home to Germany in the Nations League on Monday.
Sam's brother, Tom, has been drafted into England's squad for the World Cup. In addition, Surrey's left-arm seamer Reece Topley has been added as a travelling reserve. Topley will join the England party in due course
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri said that there was a 'gang of people in India', who always wanted him to fail.
In a freewheeling interview with a daily, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has admitted that corruption has influenced the CPI-M's rank and file and some of its leaders are behaving like 'local kings'. "We are living in a society which is basically corrupt" and it had influenced "our leaders and our boys" too, he said. But the Bengal CM was quick to add that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress was not the change the state needed.
These tough cricketers have a soft and mushy side.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the newcomers, who will make up the Class of 2021.
We present a collection of the most stunning photographs clicked across the globe in the last 48 hours.
'It's probably something I'll look back on at some point, and it's a nice accolade to have'.
'When I realised that I was to take the pictures of Pandit Nehru, I was very nervous and scared.'
'I wanted to know whether I should stay in Paris or do something else, and in less than a week, I got the call for The Last Hour.'
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Rahul Dravid says the just-concluded Sri Lanka series is an opportunity to reflect that not all wickets are going to be flat. 'We need to find ways to scrap and score 130, 140 on these wickets'
Five-times European champions Barca, with their trident of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar subdued, have not exited in the last 16 since going out to Liverpool in the 2006/07 season and the score equalled their worst Champions league loss.
New Zealand pacer Trent Boult is hopeful that achieving game fitness rather than bowling in the nets will put him in 'good stead' in the upcoming ICC World Test Championship final against India.
Ajax wary of attacking Napoli.
The uncle of the missing youth, who is suspected to be in Iraq fighting for the ISIS, denies that Arif Majeed wrote the alleged letter expressing his disillusionment with his family and his wish to migrate to 'Allah's land'.
The government on Tuesday said four youth from Maharashtra have disappeared after leaving for Mosul from Baghdad in Iraq.
The most impressive players at the FIFA World Cup 2022 after Round One.
'This hundred is because of my Abbu (father). The celebration was for Sidhu Moosewala. I love his songs'
'He could be the franchise player for KKR for the best part of the decade'
Deez Nuts, the independent candidate from Iowa, filed to run for the President of the United States with the Federal Election Commission last month.
'There's no point making grand plans all our lives when life itself is so fragile.'
Aliens, serial killers, time loops, disasters, Sukanya Verma gives you your OTT fix of the week.
On Father's Day, June 20, Joginder Tuteja looks at onscreen fathers who have impressed over the years.
I don't think Rahul Mukerjea once referred to Sheena as killed or murdered and always referred to it as her disappearance. It felt like he still used the word 'disappear' because killed had a finality to it that he didn't want to face.
The league has ruled out a 'pause' to the season to allow clubs to recover their squads, although the surging Omicron variant has put paid to half of the weekend's fixtures including Manchester United's home game with Brighton & Hove Albion.
Barcelona crashed out of the Champions League following a 3-0 defeat at Bayern Munich on Wednesday, failing to make it past the group stage of the competition for the first time since the 2000-01 season.
The incident comes days after the decomposed and mangled body of a three-year-old boy, Sujith Wilson, was pulled out from deep inside an unused borewell, after a futile 80-hour attempt to save the child who had fallen in while playing near his house in Nadukattupatti in Tiruchirappalli.
The boys, aged between 11 and 16, went missing with the 25-year-old after soccer practice on June 23 after they set out to explore the Tham Luang cave complex in a forest park near by the border with Myanmar.
As his new film World Famous Lover gets ready for release, Subhash K Jha lists five roles that define Vijay Deverakonda's superstardom.
