This is Indian grandmaster Aarav Dengla’s latest column for TOI The latest Chess Olympiad began in Samarkand, a historic city in Uzbekistan, this week. Uzbekistan has been making huge strides in chess. The current challenger to D. Gukesh’s world championship title is Javokhir Sindarov, a young phenom from Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan won gold in the 2022…
The Kellogg story is also one of persistence. He began farming at 14 after his father left agriculture to care for his ill wife. By his senior year of high school, Bill was managing 700 acres, much of it through relationships with older farmers in the community. For Bill Kellogg, conservation did not begin with…
Gold medallist Japan’s Takumi Hojo celebrates on the podium (Image: Reuters) Japan got the perfect start to its home Asian Games campaign as Takumi Hojo stormed to victory in the men’s individual triathlon on Sunday, claiming the first gold medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Games.The 30-year-old produced a decisive final run to finish in 52 minutes…
India open Asian Games shooting campaign with silver in women’s 10m air rifle India opened their shooting campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with a silver medal in the women’s 10m air rifle team event on Sunday, with Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod combining for a second-place finish.The Indian trio accumulated 1898.0 points…
Vijay Sethupathi clarified his recent leadership comments on Bigg Boss Tamil 10 after his remarks about leadership and responsibility sparked discussion on social media. The actor explained that his comments were directed only at the contestants and the situations inside the reality show. The clarification came as some viewers interpreted his remarks as a reference…
‘It’s a Medical Miracle’ box office collection day 2_ Sangeeth Prathap film sees 21 Sangeeth Prathap and Sharafudheen‘s ‘It’s a Medical Miracle’ recorded a drop in its box office collection on Saturday. The Malayalam movie earned Rs 43 lakhs in India on Day 2. According to Sacnilk, the film registered the collection from 654 shows….
Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka in action between Brighton’s Olivier Boscagli, left, and Maxim De Cuyper during the English Premier League. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Arsenal lost top spot in the Premier League after suffering their first defeat of the season, going down 3-0 to Brighton. The Seagulls climbed to third after a strong week that also included…
‘Ride or Die’ Season 2 starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham gets cancelled after one season(Image Credit: promotional still from the Amazon Prime Video original Ride or Die (2026)) ‘Ride or Die’ has run into an unexpected roadblock. The action-comedy starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham has been cancelled after just one season, leaving fans…
Ashutosh Ranka said the party would continue its inspections of dilapidated school infrastructure across the state. NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) member Ashutosh Ranka took a dig at the Rajasthan government, saying the Bhajan Lal Sharma dispensation released Rs 4,000 crore for 472 schools on the day the “cockraoches entered Udaipur”.“And a double coincidence…
Quote of the day by John Lennon: ‘If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace,’ a powerful life lesson explaining that harmony comes from within, not from materialistic gains(Image Credit: Screen Grab from YouTube from John Lennon’s “One to One” benefit concerts, Madison Square Garden in New York City) It…