Steve Smith etched his name into the Test record books on Day 2 of the first Test against Bangladesh, equalling Joe Root’s world record for the most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in Test cricket. Smith started the match with 215 catches and completed the landmark by taking three catches at second slip during Bangladesh’s first…
MP schoolkids fall ill ‘waiting’ for minister at ‘Tiranga Yatra’. BHOPAL: Twelve students fell ill after they walked several kilometres for a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ at Chitranga in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district, only to be allegedly made to wait for nearly an hour for state panchayat and rural development minister Radha Singh to arrive.It was alleged…
PC: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP via Getty A huge swarm of jellyfish has forced France’s Gravelines nuclear power plant to shut three reactors and reduce output from a fourth, after the animals clogged parts of the seawater cooling system. EDF took reactors 2, 3 and 4 offline as a precaution, while reactor 1 was limited to…
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Awarapan 2 OTT release (Image Credits IMDb) Emraan Hashmi and Disha Patani’s ‘Awarapan 2’ hit theatres on August 14, 2026. The action thriller marks Hashmi’s return as Shivam Pandit from the 2007 cult favourite ‘Awarapan’ and has generated a significant buzz among fans of the original. After its theatrical run, the film will stream on…
File photo: People cross Westminster Bridge during a heatwave (Picture credit: Reuters) Searches for homes with air conditioning in the UK have more than doubled this summer, as repeated heatwaves prompt buyers to pay greater attention to how well properties can stay cool.Property portal Rightmove recorded a 104% rise in searches for homes with air…
Representative Image of an ancient Bronze Age stone circle hidden within a dense forest (AI-generated image) For years, a lone stone standing in Farley Wood near the town of Matlock in Derbyshire was thought to be an isolated monument with nothing much around it. That changed after George Bird, a 24-year-old amateur archaeologist and student,…
Newfoundland introduced moose for food in the region more than a century ago. Today, about 110,000 of their population are reshaping the island’s forests, eradicating them slowly. Initially, the animals had been brought in as a dependable source of meat, but the expansion of the herd has unleashed somewhat of an ecological juggernaut on the…
Abishek Porel, the Delhi Capitals and Bengal cricketer, has been denied bail in an alleged rape case involving a medical student. A court on Friday sent him to judicial custody for 14 days.Porel was arrested on August 11 in Hooghly after being questioned over a complaint filed by a young woman, who accused him of…
Representative Image of ancient Lake Mega-Chad contrasting with the dry deserts that now occupy the region (AI-generated image) Roughly 6,000 years ago, the middle of what is now the southern Sahara held a lake larger than all five North American Great Lakes combined, spread across about 361,000 square kilometres of open water. Today, only Lake…