Month: January 2025

Yuki Bhambri-Albano Olivetti Team Exits ASB Classic With Semifinal Defeat

January 10, 2025 admin

File photo of Yuki Bhambri and Albano Olivettti.© X/@India_AllSports India’s Yuki Bhambri and his French partner Albano Olivetti frittered away a solid start to make a semifinal exit from the ASB Classic in Auckland on Friday. The unseeded Indo-French combine had the momentum but the top seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Michael…

Sports

Kolkata Derby: East Bengal Search For First Win Against Mohun Bagan In ISL

January 10, 2025 admin

Mohun Bagan Super Giant will play East Bengal FC in the Kolkata Derby of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati on Saturday. The Mariners will look to extend their dominant record over their city rivals, having won eight out of the nine encounters between the…

Sports

Eyeing Next Year’s T20 World Cup, Pakistan Launches Special Preparatory Programme

January 10, 2025 admin

File photo of Pakistan cricket team.© AFP Pakistan has started its preparations for next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka by launching a player’s improvement, scouting and grooming programme called ‘strike force’, which will begin in Lahore from January 13. Initially the programme, headed by former Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq,…

Sports

Nick Kyrgios ‘Vows’ To Shake Up Tennis As He Eyes Australian Open Comeback

January 10, 2025 admin

Nick Kyrgios, who is set to make his long-awaited return to Melbourne Park for the first time in three years, after undergoing knee and wrist surgeries over the past year, admits that his return has been an emotional rollercoaster. After nearly a year away from competitive tennis, Kyrgios’s return has been anything but…

Sports

Chhota Rajan Taken To Delhi’s AIIMS For Minor Nose Operation

January 10, 2025 admin

Chhota Rajan will be kept in the prison hospital under doctors’ observation. (File) New Delhi: Underworld don Chhota Rajan was taken to AIIMS for medical surgery, prison officials said on Friday. The officials said he was taken to AIIMS on Thursday for a minor nose operation. The surgery was advised by the doctors and he…

Nation

Remembering Bim Bissell, ‘tireless promoter and patron’ of FabIndia

January 10, 2025 admin

Few redefined traditional Indian textile aesthetics in the vocabulary of the modern quite like Bimla ‘Bim’ Bissell, the visionary revivalist and the driving force behind the crafts-rooted ‘everything Indian’ brand FabIndia. On Friday (January 10, 2025), her friends, contemporaries and the brand she propelled to greater heights remembered the dynamic woman who was so much…

Business

Steve Smith Predicts “Bright Future” For Young Prodigy Sam Konstas

January 10, 2025 admin

Australia’s interim captain Steven Smith expects a “bright future” for young Sam Konstas after witnessing his explosive display in the Boxing Day Test against India. In front of a sold-out crowd, Konstas walked alongside Usman Khawaja to open for Australia against a proven Indian pace express. A mixed set of emotions took over…

Sports

Pratika Rawal, Tejal Hasabnis Smash Fifties As India Women Cruise To Six-Wicket Win Over Ireland In First ODI

January 10, 2025 admin

Pratika Rawal showcased maturity beyond her experience, while Tejal Hasabnis capped a memorable comeback, posting a fifty each, as India outplayed an inexperienced Ireland by six wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match women’s ODI series in Rajkot on Friday. Rawal anchored the modest run chase of 239 after stand-in skipper…

Sports

‘Don’t Think Gautam Gambhir Can Drop Virat Kohli Or Rohit Sharma’: Ex-India Star’s Brutal Verdict

January 10, 2025 admin

Rohit Sharma (L) and Virat Kohli© AFP There has been a lot of chatter around Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli‘s future following India’s disastrous loss in the Test series against Australia. Both star batters failed to score big and their performances resulted in massive criticism from both fans as well as experts. The…

Sports

Lip Readers Decipher Trump, Obama’s Conversation

January 10, 2025 admin

A conversation between former US President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, two political rivals, at the state funeral of ex-President Jimmy Carter, is going viral. Lip readers and experts have attempted to decode what Trump and Obama were talking about. Sitting in the second row, Trump and Obama were sitting next to each other…

World