Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head (AP Photo) Australia will head into their upcoming white-ball tour of Bangladesh without three key players, with skipper Mitch Marsh, star opener Travis Head and spinner Tanveer Sangha all set to miss matches for different reasons.Marsh has been ruled out of the three-match ODI series due to an ankle injury,…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 28 June 1712 “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”Few opening lines in political philosophy are as famous as this one. Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762 as the first sentence of…
Few state assets attract as much attention as a presidential aircraft, particularly when it begins life in the fleet of a foreign royal family. Yet while debate in Washington centred on Qatar’s decision to present one of its luxury Boeing 747-8 aircraft to the United States, another project involving the same royal household unfolded almost…
Bobby Deol recently opened up about his school days, first crush and a memorable attempt to impress a girl by donating blood. In a recent interview, the actor shared candid anecdotes from his younger years, revealing a shy side that fans rarely get to see. ‘My friend ended up trying his luck with the girl…
Dehradun: Women shop for �rakhis� ahead of the �Raksha Bandhan� festival, in Dehradun. (PTI Photo)(PTI08_23_2026_000210B) The final week of August and the first half of September are set to bring a string of festival-linked holidays for school students across several parts of India. With Eid-e-Milad, Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, Onam, and Ganesh Chaturthi falling during this…
Equity benchmarks ended lower on Thursday as weak global cues, rising crude oil prices, geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and sustained selling in IT stocks weighed on investor sentiment.The session saw heightened volatility, with both indices swinging between losses and recovery before closing in negative territory.The BSE Sensex ended 150.63 points, or 0.20%, lower…
Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi NEW YORK CITY: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi and Ukraine’s Antonina Sushkova pulled off another upset on Thursday, shocking the fourth-seeded Russian combine of Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas and Anna Pushkareva 6-4, 6-4 in 64 minutes to reach the US Open junior girls’ doubles semi-finals.It was another clean performance from the Indo-Ukrainian duo, who had knocked…
Federal education research set for overhaul under ‘Reimagining IES’ blueprint The U.S. Department of Education has initiated a significant review of its research division, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), following the submission of a reform report to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The report, titled Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences, was prepared…
Saudi Arabia introduces electronic travel authorisation for UK citizens/Image: AI Representative Image British citizens travelling to Saudi Arabia will be able to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) from July 1, 2026, under a new entry system announced by the Kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The new service will be available to holders of all…
Ajinkya Rahane‘s career will always leave Indian cricket wondering what might have been.On paper, his numbers are respectable rather than extraordinary: an average of 38.46 across 85 Tests, 5,077 runs, twelve hundreds, twenty-six fifties. For most cricketers that would count as an outstanding career. For Rahane it somehow feels short of the mark. The figures…
