Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
With age, I know I have to work extra hard to keep up with everyone else, says Manpreet Singh | Photo Credit: File photo: K. MURALI KUMAR Having crossed the milestone of 413 international matches and becoming the highest-capped Indian hockey player, Manpreet Singh is in no mood to slow down. With his landmark coming…
Read More “HOCKEY | Milestone man Manpreet in no mood to slow down” »
U.S. President Trump suggested the U.S. could allow the re-imposition of the sanctions by ending the waiver. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) did not publish an extension of its waiver of sanctions on Russian seaborne oil that ran out at midnight, but U.S. President Donald Trump and administration…
Read More “U.S. quietly allows waiver on Russian oil to expire” »
India’s Gurnoor Brar in action during the second One-Day International cricket match against Afghanistan at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on June 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Well begun is half done. Cricket careers do not necessarily conform to this saying, for they are long, arduous and years-long projects. But Gurnoor…
Read More “CRICKET | Gurnoor validates selectors’ decision to fast-track him into national side” »
Members of Parisarakkagi Naavu inspecting the trees felled next to the railway track near Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysuru on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram A day after staging a protest against the felling of trees near Kukkarahalli Lake, members of Parisarakkagi Naavu, an environmental organisation, met Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Mudit Mittal on Thursday…
Read More “Activists question railway tree felling near Kukkarahalli Lake” »
Shiv Bajrang Singh, Executive Director and Chairman of SLBC, Indian Bank, releasing the Annual Credit Plan for Puducherry. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The State-level Bankers Committee (SLBC) has proposed a ₹17,500 crore Annual Credit Plan for 2026-27 for the Union Territory of Puducherry as against the previous year’s plan of ₹12,100 crore. The ACP…
Messi produced a sensational hat-trick against Algeria . | Photo Credit: Reuters The World Cup has opened like an old Broadway theatre suddenly finding new light. Some curtains have risen on unfamiliar faces, some scripts have been torn up before the second act, and yet, at the centre of the stage, football’s great names have refused…
The government said that crude prices had [earlier] touched $120 per barrel and is now coming down. File picture | Photo Credit: The Hindu The government is aware of the decline in crude oil prices, and an appropriate decision on the corresponding change in fuel prices would be taken in line with the evolving global…
Women passengers show their zero-fare tickets aboard a KSRTC bus on the launch day of the Kerala Government’s Priyadarshini scheme, in Palakkad | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah While observing that the ‘Priyadarshini’ free travel scheme in KSRTC’s ordinary buses for women and transgender persons was a policy decision of the State Government that was aimed…
Shedge has made rapid strides. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement On most evenings, after the noise of the game fades and the dressing room empties out, Suryansh Shedge reaches for a notebook. There is no elaborate ritual. No motivational quotes. No grand declarations. He simply writes — a lesson from the day, a mistake worth remembering….
Read More “Shedge’s success mantra is to note down the lessons” »
The police have arrested a person for allegedly snatching the gold chain of a woman near Madukkarai in Coimbatore district. Nizharuddin alias Arath Nizar (29) of Kuniyamuthur was arrested on June 17 based on a complaint lodged by a 30-year-old woman from Madukkarai. The woman complained that an unidentified person approached her from behind on…
Read More “Man held for snatching gold chain of woman in Coimbatore” »