Pakistan’s women’s team slumped to their lowest-ever T20I total as India cruised to a seven-wicket win in their 2026 Women’s Asia Cup Group A clash at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday night.Opting to bat first, Pakistan made a reasonable start, reaching 27 without loss in the fifth over through openers Muneeba Ali (13,…
CHENNAI: There are five India ‘A’ ‘Test’ matches over the next two months against the Aussies at home and New Zealand away. The Duleep Trophy final here between East and South Zone here starting Sunday is an audition for that and the national selectors, including chairman Ajit Agarkar, will be in Chennai to check the…
BENGALURU: For 14 months, Avinash Sable has been fighting a battle that has had little to do with the stopwatch. At the Monaco Diamond League in July last year, the 2023 Asian Games steeplechase champion stumbled over the water jump after a competitor ahead of him lost balance. Sable went down too, limped off the…
At first glance, Utah’s rocky mountain slopes may look completely dry, with loose stones and boulders covering the ground. But beneath some of those rocks lies an enormous store of frozen water. Researchers have now estimated that Utah’s rock glaciers contain about 0.99 gigatonnes, or nearly 1 billion tons, of water equivalent. These unusual formations…
Representative Image (AI-generated) What happens when young forest communities spend more than a decade growing in air with unusually high levels of carbon dioxide and ozone? Scientists in Wisconsin set out to find the answer by changing the atmosphere around these communities and tracking how the trees responded over 11 years. The experiment, known as…
Bipasha Basu to make screen comeback with Hansal Mehta’s project (Image Credits PTI) Bipasha Basu is set to make her return to acting with Hansal Mehta’s upcoming crime thriller ‘Barabanki’. The actor has reportedly begun shooting for the series in Mumbai, marking her first major screen project in years. Based on retired IPS officer Aloke…
Father’s pride: Mohammed Riaz with daughter Shameena (left); Riaz in action during his playing days for the national team Chennai: Every dinner at the Riaz household came with a story. Two-time Olympian Mohammed Riaz would recount the setbacks, sacrifices and triumphs that defined his career as an India hockey player, hoping his daughter would understand…
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new form of the Hall effect. For more than a century, the Hall effect has been taught with a simple picture that electricity flows through a material, a magnetic field pushes the moving charges sideways, and a voltage…
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled For astronauts travelling far beyond Earth, even the most ordinary human waste becomes a serious engineering problem. On a long-duration mission, there is no convenient rubbish collection, unlimited storage space or easy way to send unwanted…
Priyadarshan reveals why Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s ‘Haiwaan’ couldn’t feature younger actors: ‘They are INSECURE’ Filmmaker Priyadarshan is teaming up with Akshay Kumar once again for their upcoming project ‘Haiwaan’, but this time, the duo famous for delivering comedy classics together is stepping into unfamiliar territory. With Saif Ali Khan also on board,…