Unite8 Sports’ Bavesh Janavlekar is upbeat ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. (Special arrangement) In 2002, backed by Abdulrahman Bukhatir, Ten Sports made a splash in the sub-continent’s broadcast market with the FIFA World Cup. Numerous other properties followed and the company built a strong subscriber base in competition to ESPN Star Sports.Before its…

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Suryakumar Yadav (ANI Photo) Former India cricketer and selector Saba Karim believes India’s T20 setup could undergo another major transition ahead of the 2028 T20 World Cup, with incumbent captain Suryakumar Yadav among the players whose place in the side could come under scrutiny.Suryakumar has struggled to replicate the consistency that once made him one…

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Kolkata Knight Riders’ skipper Ajinkya Rahane (ANI Photo) Former India cricketer and commentator Murali Kartik has backed Ajinkya Rahane as the best captain of IPL 2026, praising the Kolkata Knight Riders skipper for guiding a depleted squad through a difficult campaign and keeping them in playoff contention until the final day of the league stage.KKR…

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Several staff and crew members were injured after a Lufthansa flight’s nose gear collapsed on Thursday at Germany’s Frankfurt airport.“Passengers ‌had not ⁠yet ⁠boarded,” a company spokesperson said in a statement, adding that crew members and ground staff were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident, as quoted by Reuters, citing Bloomberg…

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In the run-up to the West Bengal election, a video of Mamata Banerjee chastising Ritabrata Banerjee had gone viral, drawing widespread amusement. At a SIR protest meeting, Ritabrata had gone into an oratorical flourish before Mamata, in her own inimitable manner, cut him off publicly and asked him to focus on the burning issue of…

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The couple were among the 12 foreign nationals who lost their lives in Wednesday’s blaze at the Flourish Stay B&B in Hauz Rani NEW DELHI: An African couple undergoing IVF treatment in Delhi were found dead in each other’s arms after a devastating fire swept through a hotel in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area, killing…

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AI-generated representational image. NAGPUR: Days after an 18-year-old NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh allegedly died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, her family found a handwritten note in which she apologised to her parents and said she did not have the courage to appear for the re-examination of the medical entrance test.The student, Akanksha Chaturvedi, wrote…

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The minimally invasive intervention involved specialists from gastroenterology and interventional cardiology Chennai: Doctors at Kauvery Hospital in Vadapalani treated a 73-year-old woman suffering from a long-standing colovaginal fistula by repurposing a cardiac occlusion device, originally designed to close holes in the heart, to seal an abnormal connection between the colon and vagina. The procedure offered…

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NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Thursday urged supporters not to gather at Delhi airport when he arrives in India on June 6, saying the overwhelming response to his campaign had exceeded expectations and that a large crowd could cause inconvenience to the public and security personnel.He said after arriving at the…

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An assistant professor at Delhi University’s Shivaji College was found murdered in her Vasundhara Enclave apartment on Thursday. NEW DELHI: A 49-year-old Delhi University assistant professor was found murdered inside her apartment in east Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday.The victim, identified as Debosmita Paul, taught at Shivaji College and lived alone in the apartment, police…

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