NEW DELHI: Former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu is certain that “once-in-a-generation” player Virat Kohli will play for another two to three years because of his unrelenting tenacity over the last six months, which was highlighted by his undefeated century against Pakistan. With a spectacular comeback to form, Kohli hammered his 51st ODI century to help…
Trump administration appointees running the main United States aid agency have in recent days fired hundreds of employees who help manage responses to urgent humanitarian crises around the world, according to two U.S. officials and four recent employees of the agency. The firings add to doubts raised about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio is…
Shubman Gill celebrates his century during the ICC Champions Trophy match between India and Bangladesh. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: In-form Shubman Gill etched his name into the record books with a composed, unbeaten 101 as India began their ICC Champions Trophy campaign with a six-wicket victory over Bangladesh on Thursday. Gill’s knock anchored India’s chase…
Todd Boehly (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has reached an agreement to purchase a 49% stake in The Hundred franchise Trent Rockets.The deal, valued at just under 40 million pounds, will be executed through Cain International, a company co-founded by Boehly and British businessman Jonathan Goldstein. The investment values the entire Rockets…
The Mumbai Indians (MI) have found their way through to The Hundred, England’s 100-ball competition. On Monday, February 10, the owners of MI, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through its subsidiary, RISE Worldwide, partnered with Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) for the Oval Invincibles, a London-based club. Surrey, in the meantime, retained 51 percent of its…
Hundreds of people, including dozens of children, have been killed in Sudan in recent days, according to civilian witnesses, medical workers and the United Nations, as fierce clashes have escalated in an internal conflict that is approaching its third year. The war between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has unleashed a…
NEW DELHI: A consortium of US-based Indian techies have won the bid to own 49% of The Hundred‘s Lord’s franchise London Spirit.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, Times Internet Limited vice chairman Satyan Gajwani, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Silverlake Technology CEO Egon Durban, Sequoia’s Jim Goetz and…
Hundreds of public schoolteachers are among the Southern Californians who lost their homes to raging wildfires in the last week. Some are scrambling to find places to live, even as they hope to return soon to their classrooms to restore some normality for their students — and for themselves. In the Pasadena Unified School District,…
Stranded passengers (Image credit: X @amitrathod8991) NEW DELHI: An IndiGo aircraft bound for Istanbul from Mumbai, which was scheduled for departure on Saturday morning, was grounded due to technical difficulties, stranding several passengers.Flight 6E17, initially set to take off at 6:55 am, was cancelled after passengers were reportedly left waiting without updates for approximately 10…
The Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad on Wednesday rejected Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s alleged threat to disrupt key bathing dates during the upcoming Maha Kumbh, describing it as a futile attempt to create rifts between Hindu and Sikh communities.Earlier this week, the banned outfit Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), led by designated terrorist Pannun, issued a…