TimesofIndia.com in Leeds: Head down, Shubman Gill started that walk back to the change room with his team right behind him. Jamie Smith had clobbered Ravindra Jadeja for a maximum to seal the record chase, and give high-flying England a 1-0 lead over India in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.Smith and Joe Root were greeted by their…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a meeting with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national spokespersons, during which he urged them to uphold the party’s core principles and ideologies in their public conduct.The interaction, held in the morning, was part of PM Modi’s ongoing engagement with the party’s organisational leaders, a practice he…
Tech mogul Elon Musk has revealed the results of his X poll, where he asked users whether it was time to create a new political party in the US. “The people have spoken,” declared Musk in a now-viral post on X. “A new political party is needed in America to represent the 80% in the…
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla (File photo) NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday took a dig at the Congress amid disquiet within the grand old party over statements by its leaders who are members of the multi-party delegations for India’s diplomatic outreach post Operation Sindoor.Poonawalla said that top Congress leaders Rahul…
Everything South Korean is banned in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, a country that enforces strict censorship across all forms of media to shield its citizens from the realities of the outside world. A mobile phone smuggled out of the country has now revealed fresh insights into how one of the world’s most extreme censorship…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has sharply criticised Bangladesh’s interim government for suppressing fundamental freedoms and targeting supporters of the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. While the government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus had promised a democratic reset, rights advocates now accuse it of replicating the same abuses it vowed to end. “Instead…
NEW DELHI: “Strong, accurate and effective,” was Indian Army‘s response to the Pakistani shelling in border regions of Jammu and Kashmir that came in retaliation to Operation Sindoor. The shelling killed nearly 27 people in the region.Describing the impact of the response, an Army Major said, “Goli unhone chalayi thi par dhamaka humne kiya (They…
Carlos Alcaraz completed his fourth successive victory over World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, with the latest coming in the final of the Italian Open – the last Masters 1000 tournament in the lead-up to the French Open. Alcaraz handed Sinner his first defeat of the year, halting his dream run in Rome with a 7-6…
South Korea’s ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Saturday that he is leaving the conservative People Power Party (PPP), according to his Facebook post. The announcement comes as the PPP’s presidential candidate is badly trailing liberal Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung in the polls before the June 3 snap election. According to a…
A video showing French President Emmanuel Macron on a train journey to Ukraine has gone viral for all wrong reasons on social media after some users alleged that he was hiding a pouch of cocaine. The short clip sparked a flood of rumours online. A Russian official added fuel to the fire by indirectly accusing…