Savita training with Pirmin Blaak With ten days to go before India’s opening match against China at FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup at Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, the Indian women’s team is fine-tuning every aspect of its preparation. For goalkeepers Savita Punia and Bichu Devi Kharibam, that has meant learning from one of…
Delhi student Panshul Bansal secures AIR 2 with 715 out of 720 NEW DELHI: Panshul Bansal has secured All India Rank (AIR) 2 in the NEET UG 2026 examination, scoring 715 out of 720 marks to emerge among the country’s top performers in the undergraduate medical entrance test.• NEET UG 2026 cutoff rises sharply, students…
Rose Metcalf was just 23 and starting her first day as a professional dancer aboard the Costa Concordia when the cruise ship struck a reef near Italy’s Giglio Island on January 13, 2012. As the vessel began taking on water and listing heavily, Metcalf found herself helping organise hundreds of people in a rapidly deteriorating…
Pakistan’s head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed (AP photo) Pakistan head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed has said he and his players were completely unaware of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s reported threat to withdraw from the Lord’s Test after Sky Sports aired an interview with Imran Khan’s sons.The controversy emerged during the lunch break on the first day of…
Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara reacts during her Round of 64 women’s singles match against Turkey’s Ozge Bayrak (REUTERS) NEW DELHI: It was Day 5 of the BWF World Championships in New Delhi, but the smooth rhythm of the tournament was suddenly disrupted. Injuries to Thailand’s Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara, both suffering from knee problems,…
NEW DELHI: Coming month is likely to witness an IPO rush with more than a dozen companies, including Zepto, Truhome Finance and logistics platform Shiprocket, gearing up to launch their initial share-sale. The upcoming issues, expected to collectively raise over Rs 25,000 crore, include a mix of fresh equity issuances and offer for sale (OFS)…
For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia. Then, around 50,000 years ago, this tiny hominin known as Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the hobbit because of its small stature, disappeared entirely, leaving behind one of the most puzzling mysteries in human evolution. Scientists…
Foreign currency assets rose by $9.482 billion to $591.333 billion during the reporting week (representative image) India’s foreign exchange reserves surged by $12.422 billion to a new all-time high of $729.328 billion in the week ended August 21, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed on Friday.The country’s forex reserves have now risen for eight…
On the import side, there is some pressure due to higher prices of oil and fertiliser. (File photo) NEW DELHI: India’s goods exports hit the $200-billion mark during the financial year up to Aug 21 on the back of a sustained over 15% rise in shipments from the country, raising expectations within govt that this…
ZZ Top cancelled the Hollywood Bowl show. (Image credits: Instagram) ZZ Top, the renowned rock band, abruptly cancelled their concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, which they were set to perform on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Citing ‘personal matters’ and ‘insurmountable obstacles,’ the band announced their withdrawal from the performance at the last…
