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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes England’s prospects in this year’s all-important Ashes will depend heavily on whether their top-order can give them a strong start. England recently had a 2-2 series draw against India and will next play Tests when the opening Ashes Test begins on November 21 in Perth.  “I’m as Aussie as anyone, and I love watching the way they (England) play. The Aussies embraced it and learnt about it the last time they were here. They’ll have an understanding now of what is a slightly more refined version of what England started a few years ago,”…

Gangasamudra, a small village in Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya district, Karnataka, may seem an unlikely starting point for a transformative figure in education and social work. Yet, it is here that Dr Eregowda GB, born to uneducated parents Bhadragowda and Nengamma, began a journey that would not only defy his circumstances but also reshape the educational landscape for thousands of students.Eregowda’s early life was shaped by struggle. “Until the 10th grade, we didn’t even have slippers to wear,” he recalled, recalling the challenges he faced while growing up. His parents, though unable to provide material wealth, offered unwavering support for his…

India wicket-keeper batter Sanju Samson has revealed how a special message from head coach Gautam Gambhir during a challenging phase, transformed his international career. Notably, Samson’s international career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Despite making his India debut at the age of 20, the talented batter never got the consistent run to show his ability. However, things changed for Sanju after Gambhir became India’s new head coach post the 2024 T20 World Cup. Under Gambhir’s coaching tenure, Sanju has batted at the top in the T20Is and has been very successful for India in the last few…

During his visit to Bengaluru on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the Bengaluru to Belagavi Vande Bharat train at KSR railway station in the city at around 11 am.He will also virtually flag off Amritsar to Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra and Nagpur (Ajni) to Pune Vande Bharat trains. Thereafter, he will inaugurate the Yellow Line of the Bengaluru Metro and undertake a metro ride from RV Road (Ragigudda) to the Electronic City metro station. Story continues below this ad The Bengaluru Metro Phase-2 project (RV Road to Bommasandra) spans over 19 km with 16 stations and…

West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday approved the prosecution of state Cabinet minister Chandranath Sinha in connection with the alleged school teachers’ recruitment scam that is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Sinha, popularly known as Chandu, has been a Cabinet minister in the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government since 2011. At present, he holds the Correctional Administration portfolio. He was previously handling the departments of Panchayat and Rural Development, Fisheries, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles. Sinha, the MLA of Bolpur, is from a small town in the Birbhum district. His father moved…

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast a day after departing the orbiting lab.“Welcome home,” SpaceX Mission Control radioed.Splashing down were NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov. They launched in March as replacements for the two NASA astronauts assigned to Starliner’s botched demo.Starliner malfunctions kept Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams at the space station for more than nine months instead of a week.…

Buena Vista Motion Picture Distribution First conceived as a theme park ride at California’s Disneyland in the late 1960s, “Pirates of the Caribbean” has come a long way from its animatronic roots. Later going global with versions at other Disney parks, the ride went on to become one of the earliest entries in a small but growing number of Disney rides that were adapted into big budget movies.  On paper, it might have seemed like a risky proposition to invest over $100 million into a movie based on a theme park…

Amid a public outcry against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for issuing property tax notices to citizens based on recently processed e-khata data, the civic body has stated that the notices were being issued only to those property owners who have not declared the full extent of their property as per the digital data. “What some citizens have been doing is that they declared less area in the property tax system than what is in their sale deed. Now in e-khata as sale deeds are obtained from Kaveri therefore area therein has been compared with area for which tax…

In the wake of Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s questioning of the 2024 Lok Sabha poll verdict in the Bangalore Central constituency – by alleging the “theft” of 1,00,250 votes in its Mahadevapura Assembly segment – BJP leader Aravind Limbavali has been busy collecting information through his booth-level agents (BLAs) and party workers to refute the LoP’s charges.Limbavali has controlled the Scheduled Castes (SC)-reserved Mahadevapura Assembly seat since it was created in 2008 – first as its three-time MLA and indirectly since 2023 when his wife Manjula S was elected. He has called Gandhi’s…

A day after ‘Udaipur Files’ was released in theatres across India, producer Amit Jani claimed that he has been receiving “death threats” over the film. In a X post on Saturday, Jani stated that he has been getting repeated calls from an unknown number, with the caller threatening to kill him with a bomb or shoot him. Jani added that the caller introduced himself as Tabrez, a resident of Bihar. In his post, Jani urged the authorities to register a case against Tabrez and arrest him. +971566707310 number se lagatar aaj bomb se udaane ki, goli maarne ki dhamki aur…