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Aryna Sabalenka revealed that she struggled with a lower back issue during her Italian Open clash against Sorana Cirstea. On Saturday, the World No.1 suffered a shock third-round defeat to the Romanian, going down 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in Rome. The loss also marked Sabalenka’s second successive upset after her earlier defeat to American Hailey Baptiste…

Bobby Cox, the folksy manager of the Atlanta Braves whose dominance in the 1990s gave the city its first major title as well as World Series trips that fell short, has died at the age of 84. The Atlanta Braves announced Cox’s death Saturday; details weren’t immediately available. Cox had a stroke in 2019. “Bobby…

3 min readMay 9, 2026 02:34 PM IST The Centre has come out with revised instructions to ensure timely payment of wages to contractual workers engaged in central ministries, departments, autonomous bodies and Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs). The instructions, which are in line with the four new Labour Codes effective November 2025 and their…

The ITEP intends to provide hands-on experience through classroom activities, field placements and internships. However since its launch, there have been some inherent systemic issues related to management, administration and implementation. | Photo: G. Ramakrishna Two years ago, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) launched an Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), a flagship programme…

Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan continued their incredible partnership streak in IPL 2026 during Saturday’s clash against Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. The Gujarat Titans opening pair once again laid a rock-solid foundation, tormenting the Rajasthan Royals bowlers…

Students at Ramakrishna Mission Polytechnic College’s lab in Mylapore. As summer temperatures spike in Chennai, air-conditioner technicians are working overtime, with households and businesses scrambling to install, repair and service cooling systems. All major service providers note that they are struggling to meet the spurt in demand. That wheels in a question: is the market…

छह बार के इटालियन ओपन चैंपियन नोवाक जोकोविच दुनिया के 79वें नंबर के खिलाड़ी डारियो प्रिजमिक से तीन सेट हारकर टूर्नामेंट से बाहर हो गए। प्रिजमिक ने पहला सेट हारते हुए जोरदार वापसी की और दूसरा और तीसरा सेट जीतकर मुकाबला अपने नाम किया। प्रिजमिक ने जोकोविच को 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 से हराकर टूर्नामेंट से…

Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Renowned Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta has been left frustrated in his attempts to secure the prize money for the Odisha Open title he won earlier this year, with repeated assurances from the organisers yielding no result. Despite writing several letters to the All India Chess…

Two men, who were on their way back home from an IPL match, were killed after a car allegedly rammed their motorcycle from behind near Bhajanpura Metro Station in Northeast Delhi early on May 9, the police said. The police have identified the victims as Rohit, 31, son of Shiv Prakash, and Hemant, 33, son…

NEW DELHI: After Congress lost seven states in 1967, a popular saying went that one could travel by train from Delhi to Howrah without passing through a single Congress-ruled state.Nearly six decades later, Bharatiya Janata Party has turned the saying on its head with another saying that a journey from Chandigarh in Haryana to Howrah…