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For soldiers fighting in World War II, food was never simply about taste. It had to survive long journeys, extreme weather, rough handling and weeks away from a proper kitchen. Armies therefore developed rations that could be carried easily, stored for months and provide enough energy to keep soldiers moving. The result was a strange…
India’s Dhruv Jurel gets bowled by Afghanistan’s Mohammad Saleem on day two of a Test cricket match between India and Afghanistan, in Mullanpur. (PTI) TimesofIndia.com in Galle: At the Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) Ground in Colombo, Dhruv Jurel was sitting by himself when a chirpy Sarfaraz Khan, who had joined the team just hours earlier,…
Back-to-back Hockey World Cups on home soil, and sixth- and ninth-place finishes in those, still rankle India’s men’s team captain Harmanpreet Singh. As India begin their campaign against Wales on Saturday, the focus is firmly on ending a 51-year medal drought at the quadrennial event.With hard lessons learnt from the FIH Pro League, Harmanpreet’s squad…
Love and hate often go hand in hand when it comes to food. While some dishes are celebrated as cultural treasures in one part of the world, they can leave others wrinkling their noses in disbelief. In fact, global food platform TasteAtlas, which compiles millions of user ratings for traditional dishes, has repeatedly shown that…
It sounds almost like an urban myth until it happens to someone you know: a car that “feels off” while driving turns out to have a python coiled around the engine, or a scooter parked outside a shop turns out to have a snake tucked into its bodywork. Cases like these get reported across India…
AUS vs BAN 1st Test Live Score: Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss on Thursday and chose to bat first in the opening Test against Bangladesh. Cummins is playing only his second Test in the past 13 months. He returns to a strong Australia pace attack alongside Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. The fast…
Ashish Yadav wins javelin silver at World U20 Championships While most of India waits for rains, Ashish Yadav would wait for it to stop.Because, during monsoons the village pond would swell up and the 19-year-old would then begin the long wait for summer when the pond would dry up and he would obtain his ‘training…
Scattered across Africa and Asia, serpent eagles are, quite literally, built for this exact job. Species like the brown snake eagle in Africa feed almost exclusively on snakes, showing no particular preference between harmless species and genuinely dangerous ones like cobras, puff adders, and black mambas. Their legs and talons carry noticeably thickened, scaled skin…
Sri Lankan batsman Dhananjaya de Silva (AP/PTI) New Delhi: The first battle of the upcoming India-Sri Lanka Test series may begin long before a ball turns sharply off the Galle surface. It may begin in the minds of the batters.Sri Lanka know what Galle — the venue for the first Test — can become. They…
For some people, the dream isn’t a bigger apartment, a faster car or a life in the middle of a busy city. It’s a small house surrounded by trees, a quiet morning, a cup of tea in the balcony, familiar faces passing by and enough space to hear birds instead of traffic. They imagine growing…
For a new mother, seeing breast milk that looks yellow one day, almost bluish the next or faintly pink in the bottle can be startling. Is the milk still safe?The reassuring answer is that breast milk does not have one fixed colour. Its appearance can change with the stage of lactation, the amount of fat…
Amit Mishra and Gautam Gambhir Gautam Gambhir‘s record in white ball and red ball cricket as Indian men’s team coach has been a story of two polar opposites. In the white ball cricket, especially T20s, India have been a team to beat, Ireland and England would disagree.While India have lost T20 series against Ireland and…
