Sunil Gavaskar and Jasprit Bumrah (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Jasprit Bumrah is enduring a torrid IPL 2026 season. The bowler known for dismantling any batting line-up in the world is currently struggling for wickets. Ten matches and just three wickets – that sums up Bumrah’s campaign so far, and it has been one of…
Rishabh Pant and Justin Langer (ANI Photos) NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants head coach Justin Langer has thrown his full support behind captain Rishabh Pant despite another disappointing outing in the IPL 2026, insisting the wicketkeeper-batter is “not far off” rediscovering his best.LSG slumped to yet another defeat, against Mumbai Indians on Monday, leaving them…
Filmmaker Karan Johar was on a mission on his Met Gala debut, and no, it was not to win the red carpet with his jaw-dropping appearance, but rather to ‘meet Sabrina Carpenter‘.The Bollywood director shut the show down when he stepped up on the iconic stairs, in a bespoke ensemble by Manish Malhotra, titled “Framed…
The assembly election emerged as a critical stress test for chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the durability of what was once a highly centralised leadership model often described as‘Brand Pinarayi’.The electoral signals suggest that this model—built on administrative authority, political control, and a presidentialstyle campaign approach—is now facing visible strain under governance fatigue and shifting…
Supreme Court (File Image) NEW DELHI: Castigating Orissa high court and judiciary for imposing “clean police station bail conditions” on tribal and Dalit villagers arrested in cases of violent protest against Vedanta’s bauxite mining in Rayagada and Kalahandi, Supreme Court Monday quashed these conditions, terming them “abhorrent, cruel, degrading and unknown to law”.The HC, while…
Jaipur, April 30 (IANS) NEET UG exam 2026 NEET UG answer key 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) provisional answer key and recorded response sheets shortly on the official website, nta.ac.in. The NEET UG was conducted in a single shift from 2…
Riteish Deshmukh‘s ambitious project ‘Raja Shivaji’ received overwhelming love over its first weekend in theatres. The movie is based on the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha empire. Reportedly, the movie was shot in Hindi and Marathi simultaneously. While the Marathi version is raking in good box office numbers, the Hindi…
Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress in Kerala is entering a crucial phase following the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) sweeping victory in the Assembly elections, with the party now tasked with choosing its chief ministerial candidate amid competing claims from senior functionaries.The tussle surfaced even before results, with senior Congress figures openly debating the chief minister’s post after…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to test the validity of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, as a bunch of petitions challenged the constitutionality of the new provisions annulling self-perceived gender identity of persons and stripping trans men and trans masculine identities of statutory recognition.Senior advocate A M Singhvi,…
NEW DELHI: Government’s net direct tax collections grew 5.1% to over Rs 23.4 lakh crore in 2025-26, but missed the revised target set for the fiscal year that ended March 2026.In the revised estimates (RE) for the 2025-26 fiscal, govt lowered the direct tax collection target to Rs 24.2 lakh crore. The original budget estimate…