In a revelation that stunned the cricketing world, former India captain Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on May 12, drawing curtains on a glorious 14-year red-ball career. Reacting to the announcement, Kohli’s close friend and former RCB teammate AB de Villiers offered deep insight into what might have driven the legendary cricketer’s…
Valmik Thapar walked with tigers, now he rests JAIPUR: Valmik Thapar was 24 – fresh out of St Stephen’s with a gold medal in sociology and an old boy from The Doon School. He stood at a crossroads. Life had questions, but no answers. Then the jungle found him. In Ranthambhore, 1976, he met Fateh…
Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics and then retold in movies and other modern media, archaeologists have never found direct physical evidence, like the skeletons of gladiators bearing animal-induced wounds. At…
Walked into his girlfriend’s building… Late Friday, a senior Houthi military official believed to be the group’s top missile commander was killed in a US airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen. The strike, confirmed by multiple US officials in internal communications, came after the individual was positively identified entering a residential building reportedly linked to his girlfriend….