Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel with Mahatma Gandhi and Anshul Bhatt with chess legend Viswanathan Anand NEW DELHI: As a young barrister in Ahmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel spent his evenings at the Gujarat Club, where he would play bridge and smoke cigars, and it was there that he first heard about a man named Gandhi returning from…
Amid the unendurable, inside hospital wards, in the rubble after a calamity, or in the quiet devastation of personal loss, dark, absurd jokes bubble up like twisted lifelines.“We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to,” wrote novelist James Grippando. It’s morbid, it’s wrong, yet it cuts through the horror,…
In a complaint emailed to the NCW chairperson in New Delhi, Waghmare sought the immediate registration of a criminal case against Raut NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Jyoti Waghmare has approached the National Commission for Women (NCW) against Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, accusing him of repeatedly using abusive language,…
How Parthenium quietly became one of India’s biggest invasive plant problems (Photo: Canva) Not every invasion arrives in a country with pomp and show; some happen silently without us even noticing, with something as simple as a sack of grains. This is what happened with Parthenium hysterophorus, a wiry, white-flowered weed that entered the country…
Andrew McDonald (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to increase World Cup squad sizes from 15 to 17 players for the 2027 ODI World Cup. His comments come after the ICC introduced a new format that could see finalists play up…
10 injured after student opens fire at school in Thailand At least two people were killed and 15 were injured after a student opened fire at a school in Thailand, north of Bangkok, on Friday, authorities said.Lt Col Pasakorn Chaitawiwong, head of the Plai Bang subdistrict police department, told Reuters that the number of fatalities…
VIJAYAWADA: A dispute over a household water connection turned into a shocking act of violence in Guntur city after a 46-year-old woman was allegedly stripped, assaulted and publicly humiliated by a group of people, including a local Telugu Desam Party (TDP) functionary. The incident, which occurred in Krishnababu Colony under Nagarampalem police station limits, has…
Afghanistan’s skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi has been handed an official reprimand by the ICC for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the third ODI against India at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.The left-handed batter was found guilty of violating Article 2.10.10 of the…
Veteran Marathi theatre legend Vijaya Mehta passes away at 91 (Image credits: Instagram) Veteran theatre director, actor and producer Vijaya Mehta, one of the most influential figures in modern Marathi theatre, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 91. She breathed her last at her residence, leaving behind a rich legacy that transformed the…
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has stirred a row after using a stand-up style joke to mock FBI Director Kash Patel and calling him incompetent.The clip was shared by commentator Richard Hanania on X and shows Fishback criticising Patel’s competence while comparing him to a failed food delivery investigation. In the short excerpt, Fishback…