Kuldeep Yadav (Photo by @BCCI on X) TimesofIndia.com in Mullanpur: On the eve of the one-off Test against Afghanistan, Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir categorically stated that one of Manav Suthar or Harsh Dubey would be the fourth spinner for the two-match series against Sri Lanka, scheduled for August this year.Suthar, who eventually got…
The Akrotiri evacuation remains one of archaeology’s most uncomfortable puzzles because it does not behave like a disaster site. On Santorini, where a massive volcanic eruption buried entire settlements in ash around 1600 BCE, researchers expected a Bronze Age version of Pompeii, chaos frozen mid-moment, bodies left where they fell, daily life interrupted violently. Instead,…
Dean Cain and Milly Alcock Veteran star Dean Cain, who was attached to the ‘Superman’ franchise in the 90s, recently shared a comment about rising actress Milly Alcock that has made fans worry about his views. Cain played the superhero’s role in the TV show ‘Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.’ Presently, Milly…
Congress on Wednesday urged the Election Commission (EC) to immediately reverse the rejection of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh, calling the poll body’s decision ‘egregious’ and ‘blatantly unlawful’.A delegation of senior Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha and Abhishek Singhvi, met Election Commission…
Referee Omar Artan, center, of Somalia (AP Photo) Somalian referee Omar Artan received an emotional welcome on Wednesday after returning to Mogadishu, days after being denied entry into the United States despite being selected to officiate at the FIFA World Cup.Artan had been on course to make history as the first referee from Somalia to…
In July 2013, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano found himself in a situation no astronaut ever wants to face. While performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, water began leaking into his helmet. What initially seemed like sweat soon turned into a life-threatening emergency as the water rose around his face, impairing his vision and…
Veteran singer-composer Suresh Wadkar has opened up about the contrasting personalities of two of Bollywood’s biggest superstars – Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. He called SRK a calm, well-mannered individual, while Salman is a true ‘dabang’ at heart, according to the music veteran. Suresh Wadkar on Shah Rukh Khan During a candid conversation with…
PM Modi with Italian counterpart Meloni in Rome (File photo) NEW DELHI: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru‘s record to become India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister.PM Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days in office, overtaking Nehru’s tenure as an elected prime minister. He has served…
Shubhi Gupta (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: Imagine it is your first international chess tournament on your own. Your parents have burned a hole in their pockets to take you to the scenic country of Uzbekistan. There, you are supposed to play the toughest of opponents from across the globe. You reach the venue, and you…
Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…