Spread the love Pakistan hockey team player (File photo) Pakistan will enter the FIH World Cup with goalkeeping coach Bob Johan Veldhof as their head coach after Herman Kruis returned to the Netherlands to continue with his existing assignment.The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) announced the change just hours before the Pakistan squad left for the World Cup. Kruis, who had...
From Wendy’s to Yale: Student wins full scholarship worth over $194,500
Spread the love Thalles Winner DeSouza with Terry Smily and Usama El-Sehrawey celebrating his acceptance into Yale A Wendy’s worker who survived a shooting in Brazil is heading to Yale University after his bosses helped him pay for college.Thalles Winner DeSouza, 23, had started working at a Wendy’s restaurant in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while he was still in high school....
7.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Colombia, causes injuries and significant damage
Spread the love People stand outside their homes after a quake was felt in Bogota, Colombia A powerful earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, causing injuries and significant damage in the Pacific province of Choco and prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings. The tremor was also felt in the capital Bogota and as far away as neighbouring Venezuela and...
Trial by spin with a hint of reverse: Inside India’s final net session in Colombo
Spread the love Sarfaraz Khan joined the India Test squad as a replacement for Sai Sudharsan in Sri Lanka. (Image: TimesofIndia.com) TimesofIndia.com in Colombo: Sarfaraz Khan beamed when he got off the team bus on Monday. There were greetings exchanged with members of the support staff on the bus before the 28-year-old, who joined the squad as a replacement for...
‘PM Modi or Amit Shah don’t have guts’: Rahul turns up heat amid Parliament showdown
Spread the love Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi has set three non-negotiable demands. NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday restated his three demands, which he termed as“non-negotaibles”, to break the Parliament deadlock.In his “unnegotiable list of demands”, the Congress leader reiterated that the Union home minister Amit Shah must tell Parliament who ordered...
‘Disrupts planning’: Associate nations blast ICC over ODI World Cup format changes
Spread the love ICC chairperson Jay Shah (left), and Men’s ODI World Cup trophy Cricket Scotland and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association (KNCB) on Monday criticised the International Cricket Council’s recent changes to the qualification pathway and format for the Men’s 50-over World Cup.The two European Associate Member boards said they were disappointed that the ICC had made what they...
Dushara Vijayan cries recalling sister’s death: ‘She was paralysed, but inspired me to dance’
Spread the love 3 min readKochiAug 10, 2026 06:06 PM IST Although Dushara Vijayan has appeared in only a handful of films since her debut in Bodhai Yeri Budhi Maari (2019), almost all her roles have boosted her fame and solidified her status in Tamil cinema. In a career spanning just seven years, she has worked with some of the...
For India, the Mecca pact is a setback. For China, it’s a warning
Spread the love Mecca pact: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia & Turkey’s defence deal might end up being a big headache for China. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a Nato-style mutual defence agreement in Mecca on August 7, declaring that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all”.There is no...
After Rahul’s ‘fifth row’ seat last year, govt says LoP to sit after ministers on I-Day
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Defence secretary RK Singh on Monday said leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has been invited to the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort on August 15 and will be seated immediately after the Union Cabinet ministers.“Leader of opposition has been invited, and his seating would be as per the Table of...
Beyond fighter jets: India is building a new family of engines for missiles and drones
Spread the love Test run of D-Propule’s rotating detonation engine. (image credit: D-Propulse) On one hand, as India is taking steps to come up with a jet engine to power a fighter aircraft, on the other hand India is developing a family of small jet engines that can power cruise missiles as well as drones.Recently the Defence Research and Development...
