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Every April, young cricketers from small towns across India enter the world of IPL — five-star hotels, foreign coaches, franchise millions, parties they would have never imagined. This series tells their stories, in their words, of what that crossing feels like. Pradeep Sangwan remembers the first time he saw his idol Adam Gilchrist in the…

US President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his claim that he is in talks with Iran to end the nearly month-long war, even as Tehran flatly denied any negotiations were underway. Speaking at a Republican fundraiser, Trump went further, making the extraordinary assertion that Iran’s leadership had informally floated the idea of him…

Dhurandhar 2 has been on a bumper run at the box office ever since it released nationwide last week. Not only Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal or R Madhavan received praise, viewers even singled out key performers from the supporting cast of the film who added to the impact. One of them was actor Vivek Sinha,…

The newly inaugurated air-conditioned waiting hall at the Tambaram railway station. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Commuters at the Chennai Central railway station will soon have a new air-conditioned waiting hall to escape the city’s searing heat. Southern Railway, which established an air-conditioned waiting hall at the Central station a few years ago, has now…

MUMBAI: Sammaan Capital (formerly Indiabulls) shares rose 6% after the RBI approved the acquisition of a controlling stake by UAE-based International Holding Company (IHC) through an initial investment of about Rs 8,850 crore. In a regulatory filing on March 24, Sammaan Capital said RBI had cleared applications related to the proposed transaction involving Avenir Investment,…

BENGALURU: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has hired former JioStar CEO Kiran Mani as managing director for Asia-Pacific, as the AI firm steps up its regional expansion amid strong user growth in markets including India. Mani is set to join in June. He will report to Jason Kwon and lead regional strategy and operations across…

“Fossil fuel dependency is ripping away national security and sovereignty, and replacing it with subservience and rising costs,” UN climate change arm executive secretary Simon Stiell told European Union officials and Ministers in Brussels on March 16, 2026, against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war. He added that the disruption serves as an “abject lesson” on the pitfalls…

At a time when action-heavy, hyper-masculine protagonists are dominating the big screen, Imran Khan has made it clear he isn’t looking to join that wave. During a recent Reddit AMA, the actor addressed a fan’s suggestion about avoiding “macho roles” and responded with a remark that quickly caught attention. At a time when action-heavy, hyper-masculine…

3 min readNew DelhiMar 25, 2026 09:20 PM IST Two Bangladeshi men who were allegedly involved in the murder of a prominent Bangladeshi political activist last year have been remanded in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for 11 days. The two men, Faisal Karim Masud alias Rahul (37), and Alamgir Hossain (34),…

The Bharatiya Janata Party released third list of candidates on Wednesday for the upcoming assembly polls in West Bengal. Among those fielded named in the third list is also the mother of the RG Kar medical college student who was raped and murdered. She has been fielded from Panihati constituency. The BJP named 19 candidates…