NEW DELHI: Team India, led by Shubman Gill, are all set to begin their preparations for the 2027 ODI World Cup with a three-match ODI series against Afghanistan, starting at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Saturday.India head into the series brimming with confidence after recording their biggest-ever Test victory – an innings and 300-run…
Independence Day is a good excuse to bring a little colour to the dining table, but you do not need artificial food colours to do it. Carrots and pumpkin can bring a warm saffron-orange hue, spinach and coriander give a natural green, while rice, coconut, paneer and idli batter provide the white. Here are 10…
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) captain Rajat Patidar said opener Phil Salt is fit ahead of their IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 clash against Gujarat Titans in Dharamshala on Tuesday, but added that the team management is yet to decide whether he will be part of the playing XI.Salt had missed the latter part of…
As environmental concerns continue to shape the future of construction, architects around the world are increasingly designing buildings that work in harmony with nature. In sustainable architecture today, there is a shift not only toward energy conservation but also toward using eco-friendly construction techniques and locally sourced materials. The following five projects showcase such innovation….
Women voters in a queue to cast their vote in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly on Thursday. (@AITCofficial X/ANI Photo) Kolkata: The SIR slash notwithstanding, woman voters have outnumbered men in 23 out of the 142 Assembly segments going to polls on Wednesday.Topping the list is Jadavpur, which now has 11,759 more…
Portrait of Morgan seated with his granddaughter Mabel Satterlee, 1906. (Photo: Muller Ury.com) In 1900, financier J P Morgan bought 117 acres in Maine, including Sand Beach and Great Head, as a wedding gift for his daughter Louisa. The land is now part of Acadia National Park.The land around Great Head and Sand Beach was…
Long before houses, mattresses, and woven fabrics became part of daily life, humans were already creating dedicated places to sleep. Deep inside a South African cave, traces of ancient grass bedding have preserved a small but revealing detail of prehistoric life: our ancestors cared about where they rested. The remains suggest that hunter-gatherers were not…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Video grab) Diplomacy took a footballing turn as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre exchanged light-hearted barbs ahead of their countries’ FIFA World Cup quarterfinal clash, with the two leaders posing in their national team jerseys during…
US Secret Service agents quickly escorted Vice President JD Vance and other senior officials off the stage after gunfire was reported outside a media gala attended by US President Donald Trump in Washington DC on Saturday night.The incident occurred at the Washington Hilton, where a man armed with multiple weapons opened fire near a security…
Isro dismisses privatisation speculation, says role will only strengthen NEW DELHI: Allaying fears of some of its staff that the organisation will be privatised and its role reduced to an R&D lab, Isro on Sunday dismissed “speculations and misinformation” about any diminution of its role, calling such reports “baseless and incorrect”. “We wish to categorically…