Allu Arjun’s son was overjoyed to see RCB win the 2025 IPL (Image via X/@RCBTweets & Instagram/@alluarjunonline) RCB’s IPL triumph has elicited wild reactions on social media, with congratulatory messages, celebrations and excitement pouring in from all sides. One such moment came from Allu Arjun’s 11-year-old son Allu Ayaan, who was overcome with emotion as…
RCB players with the IPL trophy; former owner Vijay Mallya NEW DELHI: The long wait is finally over — and no one felt the moment more than Vijay Mallya, the first-ever owner of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). As the team lifted its maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy after 18 years of heartbreak, Mallya led…
Eighteen years of heartbreak. Eighteen years of hope. And on the night of June 3, 2025, it all came rushing out like a dam burst. The moment Josh Hazlewood finished delivering the final ball of the match – sealing Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first-ever IPL title – the city of Bengaluru erupted. Not with chaos, but…
After Iran elected a more moderate president last year, Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, thought something may have changed in the country, which she had been covering from afar. For two years, Iran had rejected her application for a journalist visa, but it granted her one after the election. Colleagues and friends told her Iran’s…
Italy’s justice minister has requested the revocation of the arrest of an Iranian man sought by the United States for allegedly providing material used in a drone attack that killed three American soldiers, the Italian government announced on Sunday. Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, 38, was arrested last month in Milan and the U.S. Justice Department had…
Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained last month in Iran while on a reporting trip, was released and on her way back to Italy on Wednesday, the Italian government said in a statement. “The plane that is taking journalist Cecilia Sala home took off a few minutes ago from Tehran,” the Italian government…