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India head coach Gautam Gambhir has strongly backed his batters’ decision to continue batting on last hour of the Day 5 of the fifth Test in Manchester and complete their centuries, even as English captain Ben Stokes offered a handshake for a draw.   During the last hour of the fifth day of the fourth Test, England captain Ben Stokes proposed ending the match in a draw with a handshake. However, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar, who were batting on 89 and 80 respectively and eyeing three figure mark, declined Stokes’ proposal and opted to continue batting. Jadeja and Sundar’s…

India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, who will miss the fifth Test at The Oval due to a fractured foot, gave a parting message to his teammates, saying that they should go for a win to level the series 2-2, which is currently led by England 2-1. Pant showed relentless courage when he came out to bat during India’s first innings and completed the half-century despite battling pain in the fractured right foot. He was hit by pacer Chris Woakes on the yorker, which took the edge of the bat and hit badly on his right boot. The injury forced him to…

A Bengaluru software professional was allegedly defrauded out of Rs 2 lakh by an extortionist gang after he visited a woman he had met on a dating app, the police said on Monday while announcing the arrests of six people including the woman, a former bar dancer, in connection with the incident. The Yelahanka police identified the accused as Sangeeta Sahni, 36, Sharanabasappa Baliger, 50, Raju Maane, 34, Abhishek, 19, Beerabal Majjagi, 21, and Shyam Sundar Pande, 20, adding that Baliger, the prime suspect, has prior involvement in a similar case registered by the Puttenahalli police. The victim is a…

The Karnataka government Monday revoked suspensions of former Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and three other officers who were suspended following the M Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede that claimed 11 lives on June 4. However, IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash remains suspended. Among the suspended officers, Vikash had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) seeking relief from his suspension. The CAT granted Vikash’s petition and revoked his suspension. The state government subsequently challenged the CAT order, which is currently being heard by the Karnataka High Court. Story continues below this ad Besides Dayananda, the government reinstated former deputy commissioner of police…

In one of the biggest drug hauls in Karnataka, the Mumbai police Sunday raided a garage in Mysuru to seize 187.97 kg of Mephedrone worth Rs 381 crore, and arrested four people. The Mumbai police informed that they came to know that Mephedrone was being manufactured in Mysuru while interrogating one alleged drug peddler, Salim Imtiyaz Shaikh alias Salim Langda, in the Maharashtra capital. They further said that the garage, which was located on the service road of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Mysuru, was raided with the help of the Mysuru police. Story continues below this ad However,…

Katya’s phone suddenly refused to provide the basics she needed to drive home to Moscow from St. Petersburg. She, her partner and countless others were unable to go online, cut off from their apps for things such as maps, banking, paying road tolls and buying fuel. There was no warning, no hint how widespread the outage was, no clue how long it would last — but it wasn’t a surprise, either. Russia’s mobile internet networks now have frequent blackouts because of the war with Ukraine.Since last month, authorities have shut those networks down every day in various parts of the…

Peacock Anthony Mackie’s John Doe is back for another high-octane adventure set in a post-apocalyptic environment in Season 2 of “Twisted Metal.” It’s been two years since the first season introduced John and the other inhabitants of the show’s desolate American landscape, so check out Looper’s recap video above to get up to speed on everything that happened in Season 1. “Twisted Metal” is based on a long-running video game series where players take gun-laden vehicles into explosive, deadly races. The series is sort of a cross between the “Death…

ChandigarhJul 28, 2025 21:26 IST First published on: Jul 28, 2025 at 21:26 IST Share A year after it beat anti-incumbency to retain power in Haryana, the BJP is already looking to strengthen its position in the state and has decided to assign each of its MLAs additional responsibility for one of the 42 constituencies the party lost in the 2024 Assembly elections.“The additional constituency will be out of the district of the current BJP MLAs. The allotment of the additional constituencies is likely to take place in the meeting of the BJP Legislature Party scheduled on Tuesday,” state BJP…

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has admitted that the stipend given under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana has wrongfully been credited into the accounts of 26.34 lakh bogus beneficiaries. Among them, over 14,000 are men who have wrongfully benefited from the scheme, the women & child development department sources have confirmed to ThePrint. The state government has also suspended the June instalment to the accounts. Among those who wrongfully benefited under the Ladki Bahin scheme are beneficiaries of other schemes, as well as those who have been filing their income tax returns. Show Full Article On Monday, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis…

Actor-turned-politician Ramya filed a police complaint against 43 social media accounts on Monday for allegedly issuing rape and death threats to her after she highlighted a Supreme Court order that pulled up the Karnataka High Court over its bail order for Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa in a murder case. Speaking to reporters after filing the complaint with Seemanth Kumar Singh, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru,Ramya said she had come under attack from Darshan’s fans. “As a celebrity, I am used to trolling. But I had never faced trolling to such an extent. I felt that there was no difference between (the…