Gujarat Titans’ Mohammed Siraj celebrates with teammates (PTI Photo) Gujarat Titans are setting the benchmark with pace this season, leading the charts for most wickets by pacers using short balls in IPL 2026. With 29 wickets, GT are comfortably ahead of the rest, underlining how effectively their quicks have used bounce and hard lengths to…
While Indian cities struggle with a shortage of affordable homes, thousands of completed flats remain either vacant or used purely as investments (Photo: ANI). Imagine a housing complex with gleaming towers, landscaped gardens, elevators and parking lots, but almost no one lives there. These are what the real estate industry informally calls “ghost properties”.Such properties…
“Veni, Vidi, Vici” — “I came, I saw, I conquered.”Just three words. Yet they have echoed across history for more than two millennia.They were written by Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman general and statesman whose military brilliance, political ambition and sweeping reforms transformed the ancient world. More than 2,000 years after his death, Caesar’s influence…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s proposed ‘millionaire home tax’ is drawing attention beyond second-home ownership. By requiring owners of high-value secondary residences to establish whether a property is their primary home, the proposal also highlights a long-running issue of residency claims that overlaps with “garage fraud”. This is a practice in which residents register…
Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has come out strongly in support of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after the latter faced online criticism over her recent appearances at the Cannes Film Festival.Taking to Instagram Stories on Sunday, Kangana slammed trolls targeting Aishwarya’s looks and weight, while stressing that fashion is a personal form of expression and women do not…
Activist Sonam Wangchuk (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) of Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to protect patients’ rights after reports claimed that climate activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk was not allowed to take Leave Against Medical Advice (LAMA) despite being a “competent patient.“The doctors’ body…
Glenn Phillips (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru completely outplayed Gujarat Titans in IPL 2026 Qualifier 1, winning by 92 runs after posting a huge total of 254/5. Rajat Patidar led the charge with a stunning unbeaten 93 off just 33 balls, smashing nine sixes and five fours. Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya also chipped…
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren (picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday said his government would “soon take action” over the ongoing protests against alleged irregularities in state recruitment examinations after meeting Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar.“I met the Governor today and discussed the situation; it is being looked into, we…
Students display placards during the protest against the JPSC and JSSC CGL paper leak issue, in Ranchi NEW DELHI: A day after the student protestors were lathi-charged in Jharkhand during the ‘Vidhan Sabha Gherao’ march, Independent MP Parimal Nathwurged Chief Minister Hemant Soren to sympathetically address student protests over alleged JPSC and JSSC irregularities, emphasising…
Shobhaa De calls Salman Khan’s Sonam Wangchuk post ‘cringe’, criticises Kangana Ranaut, Hema Malini and Anupam Kher over CJP protest comments Author and columnist Shobhaa De has sparked a fresh debate with her latest column, where she criticised Bollywood’s response to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests and questioned whether celebrities still understand the mood…