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When people talk about beating the odds to achieve something extraordinary, Ansar Shaikh’s story almost always comes up. Ansar became the youngest IAS officer in India after clearing the UPSC Civil Services Examination in 2016, securing an All India Rank of 361, at just 21 years old, and on his very first attempt. Nearly a…
Britain’s King Charles III meets members of the Pakistan Cricket Team during an audience with the team at Clarence House in London, Wednesday Sept. 2, 2026 (left), and Salman Ali Agha Pakistan’s interim Test coach Mike Hesson has denied reports that Salman Ali Agha refused to attend a meeting with King Charles III, saying the…
Generative Image via Canva Whenever a baby is born in the family, everyone begins deliberating and speculating about meaningful names for the newborn.But have you ever thought about what would have been the first baby name in the world, what it meant, and how it came to be?Babies have been named since the dawn of…
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is facing renewed criticism over its handling of the senior men’s national team, with former captain Rashid Latif accusing the board of effectively running the side through “remote control” and questioning why coaches and captains are not being given greater authority.The latest criticism comes after the PCB made an unprecedented…
Former cricketer Suresh Raina (PTI Photo) Suresh Raina has become the latest former India cricketer to raise concerns over the impact player rule in the Indian Premier League (IPL), arguing that the experiment has significantly tilted the balance of the game towards batters.The former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batter, who was part of four IPL-winning…
Forget fancy lunch boxes. One man from Uttar Pradesh apparently decided that if you don’t have a tiffin, you simply have to work with whatever is lying around.And in his case, that happened to be a mobile phone box.A video making the rounds on Instagram shows the man carrying homemade sabzi in an old phone…
India’s Anahat Singh’s campaign at the London Squash Classic ended in the quarterfinals after she lost to Malaysia’s world No. 5 Sivasangari Subramaniam in London on Friday.The reigning world junior champion went down 4-11, 4-11 in the women’s quarterfinal of the PSA Gold event.Third seed Sivasangari controlled the match from the start and completed a…
The Traitors season 2 came to an end with Krystal D’Souza and Rida Tharana taking the winner’s title. The two played a fabulous game, and fans had been rooting for them to win, especially Krystal, since she was the traitor from day 1 and nobody could figure it out and eliminate her. Now that the…
China has been setting examples of large-scale environmental restoration, turning barren deserts green, holding back sandstorms, and pulling carbon out of the air. Since 1949, the country has increased its forest cover from around 10% to more than 25%, adding an area of greenery roughly the size of Algeria.Scientists across the world can easily laud…
Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams play against Hao-Ching Chan, and Maya Joint, during a women’s doubles match at the US Open tennis championships, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo) Serena and Venus Williams‘ return to the US Open women’s doubles after four years ended in a three-set defeat to Chan Hao-ching…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI photo) Mumbai: The BCCI is adopting a cautious route to deal with the rise of 15-year-old batting prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The board and its key officials are determined to ensure his early success develops into a long and distinguished international career and does not fizzle out after a couple of years of…
In many parts of India, the birth of a girl child is still met with silence rather than celebration, due to qa prevalence of social stigmas and the desire for an heir that favours sons.But a story from Maharashtra just changed this bias, and it is quite heartening to make anyone teary-eyed.A family that had…
