Month: April 2025

[ad_1] Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Harshal Patel and Pat Cummins celebrate a wicket during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match against Chennai Super Kings. (PTI) New Delhi: Harshal Patel loves Bob Dylan. Be it Dylan's most political song, "Masters of War," in the backdrop of the Vietnam War, or "Mr. Tambourine Man," he can play those on his guitar. He relates most to "Blowing in the Wind," and the line that hits him the most is, "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?"Like Dylan's songs, there is a music to Harshal's bowling as well. His strides into the crease are rhythmic, the unhurried gather and release, and the note-perfect release of his deliveries. The curl, the dip, the swerve, the cutters, and the change of pace he produces have disguised the best […]

[ad_1] Deepinder Goyal, CEO and founder, Zomato An anonymous Reddit post recently claimed that things inside Zomato are "going off the rails." According to the post, leadership recently allegedly admitted that Zomato is losing market share to Zepto Cafe and Swiggy, adding that the employees are now required to order from Zomato at least seven times a month. Responding to the claims, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that “All of this is utter nonsense”. Stating that “it is embarrassing to even clarify this,” Goyal said that “Neither are we losing market share, nor will we ever force our employees to order on Zomato.”“Freedom of choice is something we stand for vehemently,” he further added. Reddit post claims Zomato forcing employees to order food from the app at least seven times a monthAs mentioned above, Reddit user r/StartUpIndia claimed that the […]

[ad_1] MS Dhoni (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: After Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) disappointing run in IPL 2025 continued with a five-wicket loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), former India batter Ambati Rayudu said that the five-time champions would now become highly attentive about evolving with the modern style of T20 cricket.Despite making several changes to their playing XI at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, CSK’s search for a victory remained unsuccessful, leaving them stuck at the bottom of the points table in tenth place."I know it’s the lowest of lows, but it’s also a great learning for CSK. If you rest on your laurels and don’t keep an eye on the future, this is what can happen. From here on, they’ll be very, very vigilant about evolving with the game. Even MS Dhoni has acknowledged that the game has moved on, […]

[ad_1] Delhi minister Sirsa’s fiery retort to Bilawal Bhutto over Indus threat sparks war of words (Picture credit: ANI, PTI) Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Saturday delivered a scathing rebuke to Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari after his provocative warning to India over the Indus Waters Treaty.On Cam: Pak’s WAR PITCH After Pahalgam Attack; ‘Blood Of Indians Will Flow Through Indus’ | WatchResponding to Bhutto’s threat that “either water will flow in this Indus, or their blood will,” Sirsa shot back, “Then drown in it (Indus river)... They don't have the guts to shed blood. They are crying for water and talk about shedding blood. They should be ashamed.”The sharp exchange came after India formally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 tourists. The […]

[ad_1] (Picture Courtesy: Facebook) BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Saturday rejected the bail petitions of actress Harshavardhini Ranya Rao and Tarun Konduru Raju, the first and second accused in the gold smuggling case. Justice S Vishwajith Shetty dismissed their pleas, though the detailed order is yet to be made available. Earlier, on March 27, 2025, the Sessions Court had denied bail to Ranya Rao, following a similar rejection by the Special Court for Economic Offences in Bengaluru on March 14, 2025. On April 7, 2025, the Special Court for Economic Offences also refused bail to Tarun Raju, a US citizen. According to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Ranya Rao was intercepted and apprehended around 6:30 pm on March 3, 2025, based on credible information that she was carrying smuggled gold. Officials recovered 14,213.05 grams of gold, valued at […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April, which left at least 26 dead and scores injured.In a press statement released, Council's President Jerome Bonnafont expressed deep solidarity with the victims' families and the governments of India and Nepal, while also wishing a swift recovery for the injured."The members of the Security Council underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice," the statement read."They stressed that those responsible for these killings should be held accountable, and urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with all relevant authorities in this regard," it added.The Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms […]