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The Jaipur leg of the Pro Kabaddi League Season 12 wrapped up with an impressive win for the Tamil Thalaivas, who beat the home team Jaipur Pink Panthers 37-28 at the SMS Indoor Stadium on Saturday night. In what ended their three-match losing streak, skipper Arjun Deshwal led the charge with 13 points, while Suresh Jadhav and Nitesh Kumar completed impressive High Fives. The first ten minutes between the Pink Panthers and the Thalaivas produced a tight, hard-fought battle. The Thalaivas edged ahead 8-6, with Nitin Kumar picking up crucial raid points to steady their start. The Pink Panthers kept…

Star couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma once again lit up social media with their charming presence. The cricketer and his actress wife appeared together in a candid post that instantly brought smiles to their fans’ faces. In the photograph, the duo is seen soaking in the bright day, exuding effortless style and warmth. Virat captioned the post with a simple yet heartfelt note, writing, “Been a minute.” The rare update quickly went viral, with fans flooding the comments section with love and admiration for the power couple. Known for balancing their professional commitments with family life, Virat and Anushka…

The crowd at Vijay’s event in Karur on Saturday night was less a political assembly and more a sea of fans desperate to see their superstar from close quarters so they could have a glimpse, a selfie, a story to tell. In that frenzy, when some supporters who had climbed atop a tree branch fell on the people behind Vijay’s campaign van, panic rippled outward and turned a rally into a catastrophe.Thirty-eight people died, among them 16 women and six children, and more than 100 are admitted to hospitals across Karur and Trichy. Many are fighting for their lives. Dr…

The stage is set for one of cricket’s most high-voltage clashes at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on September 28, Sunday. For the first time in the 41-year history of the Asia Cup, India and Pakistan will clash in the final – a T20I blockbuster that promises a high-stakes drama.  Defending champions India, who have been unbeaten through six matches of Asia Cup 2025, face a resurgent Pakistan side that has clawed its way back from early setbacks.  Ahead of the much-anticipated Asia Cup 2025 final, Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha broke the silence on ‘no handshake’ controversy…

The Jaipur leg’s penultimate clash of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) 2025 saw the Patna Pirates and Bengal Warriorz battle it out 42-48 at the SMS Indoor Stadium on Saturday. The match kept the crowd on the edge right till the final moments, with both teams refusing to give an inch.  For the Bengal Warriorz, Devank Dalal was the standout performer, scoring an impressive 22 points through a mix of sharp raids and timely bonuses – his eighth straight Super 10 of the season. He finished the first half with 15 points — his career-best in a first half and the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant entered its fifth day running on emergency generators Saturday, prompting mounting safety concerns. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, announced a $90 billion arms agreement with the United States and criticized Hungary for carrying out “dangerous” intelligence-gathering drone activities over Ukraine.External power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, has been cut for more than four days in a record outage at the six-reactor facility on the front line of the war, Greenpeace Ukraine warned Saturday. Emergency diesel generators are being used to power cooling and safety systems after the final…

Amy Sussman/Getty Images Alan Cumming is known for plenty of roles, from Nightcrawler in the “X-Men” movies of the early 2000s to the host of the popular Peacock reality competition series “The Traitors,” but only one project on his resume boasts a 100% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. “Second Best,” a 1994 film starring William Hurt as a man looking to adopt a child, takes that top spot. Cumming’s career began on television with an episode of the 1985 British series “Travelling Man.” He continued to appear on the small…

After a gap of five years, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) chief Hagrama Mohilary reclaimed his dominance in Assam’s Bodo politics with his party’s resounding victory in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections Saturday, trouncing the ruling United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) and BJP.The BPF won 28 of the 40 seats in the BTC polls, while the UPPL came second with seven seats (down from 12 seats in 2020) and the BJP won five seats (down from nine). Like last time, the Congress failed to win a single seat. In 2020, though the UPPL and BJP had come together to form…

Three months after Union Home Minister Amit Shah referred to him as “mere mitr (my friend)” at an event in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was on Thursday appointed as the BJP co-incharge for the upcoming Bihar elections.While Maurya’s new responsibility is being perceived as a BJP’s move to consolidate “non-Yadav” OBCs in the Bihar polls, many in the UP BJP see his “elevation to a national-level position” as a signal of his growing stature within the party. “He (Maurya) is close to Amit Shah ji. This is not a hidden fact as Amit Shah had…

Former Pakistan greats Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram on Saturday lent their advice to bowlers of the current team on how to get out early, dashing Indian opener Abhishek Sharma in Sunday’s final of the Men’s T20 Asia Cup in Dubai.  The 25-year-old left-handed batter is in devastating form and has so far compiled the highest aggregate of 309 runs in six innings with a whopping strike rate of 204.63.  It’s clear that the Pakistani think tank has targeted Abhishek as the danger man and wants to get him back into the dugout as early as possible on Sunday. Add…