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BENGALURU: Sometimes, all it takes to unlock talent is a spark. It can come from within or from someone willing to light it for you. For Akshita Bhagat, Palak Singh, Rohita Chowdry and Joshna Angel, the WPL Speed Queen initiative provided that spark.The four were among more than 13,000 aspirants who registered for the talent…
Dwayne Johnson was just another young man chasing a dream that kept slipping away from him, long before he became a global box-office star. He’d trained hard, sacrificed a lot, and still ended up broke, jobless, and unsure of what came next.Once, he was struck by a low point in his career, and it is…
Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have built more than just successful careers in cricket and Bollywood. Together, the couple has created a wide-ranging financial and business portfolio that extends into fashion, hospitality, food-tech, fitness, media, lifestyle and startup investments.Their combined net worth is estimated at more than ₹1,300 crore, according…
Madhapar is on the outskirts of Bhuj in Gujarat’s Kachchh district. Imagine a village with 17 bank branches, where residents collectively hold fixed deposits worth around Rs 7,000 crore. This is not a description of a wealthy urban neighbourhood. It is Madhapar, a village on the outskirts of Bhuj in Gujarat’s Kachchh district. Madhapar has…
Dr Shankar Lal Garg bought 22 acres of rocky land near Indore in 2007 to build an educational institution. When the project failed to take off, he gradually transformed the property into Keshar Parvat, a private green landscape now reported to contain about 40,000 trees from more than 500 species. A rocky hillock near Mhow…
Ishan Kishan (Image credit: BCCI Domestic) Ishan Kishan produced a superb batting performance in difficult humid conditions as East Zone posted a huge 708 against South Zone on the second day of the Duleep Trophy final at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Monday. Kishan scored a massive 270, once again showing the selectors…
There are hotels in India where travellers stay for the views, then there is Mukti Bhawan, a unique guesthouse where people check in to die! Yes, you read that right. This is one place in Varanasi where people arrive for an altogether different reason, to spend the final chapter of their lives. Also known as…
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (BCCI Photo) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner is expecting a tough challenge when India’s ODI specialists Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma return to New Zealand later this year. Kohli and Rohit now play only ODI cricket and will be back in action when India tour New Zealand for five ODIs,…
By the 1980s, however, the popularity of Hindi films had become a concern for Egypt’s domestic film industry. Amitabh Bachchan was so popular in Egypt that Bollywood films were restricted in 1987; when Big B arrived in Cairo in 1991, it triggered a ‘national crisis’ in the countryLong before the current social media driven world,…
Fatima Sana (Image credit: ACC) Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has been fined 10 per cent of her match fee and given one demerit point for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the Women’s Asia Cup match against India.Pakistan lost the Group A match by seven wickets at the Dubai International Stadium on Saturday.The International…
Indian powerlifter Keyaa Banerji has opened up about the sexism and online abuse she faced after her remarkable silver-medal performance at the 2026 IPF World Sub-Junior and Junior Classic Powerlifting Championships in Sun City, South Africa. Speaking to ANI, the 21-year-old said that while she was proud of lifting 140 kg in the deadlift in…
Kevin Pietersen (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Former England batter Kevin Pietersen has made a surprise return to the England set-up after being named the team’s specialist mentor for white-ball cricket.Pietersen’s international career ended controversially in 2014. Twelve years later, he is set to return to the England set-up as part of Brendon McCullum‘s coaching…
