Ricky Ponting (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has praised the India national cricket team after their dominant victory in the T20 World Cup 2026, calling the current Indian side one of the strongest T20 teams ever. India secured their third T20 World Cup title with a convincing 96-run…
The James Webb Space Telescope has been observing a distant planetary nebula called Tc 1, and the latest images have added fresh detail to something scientists have been trying to understand for years. The object sits about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara. It is the remnant of a star similar in size to…
Q: What made you write ‘Meet the Savarnas’? A: It comes out of partly my life’s experiences also because I did not grow up in a Savarna family. I come from an intercaste marriage between a Scheduled Caste mother and an OBC father. And neither of those two sides of the family had a tradition…
Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Abhishek Sharma’s struggle with form continued as he registered another duck and entered a list of Indian batters with the most ducks in a calendar year in T20s.During the IPL 2026 match against Lucknow Super Giants, Abhishek was dismissed for a two-ball duck by Mohammed Shami. It was his sixth duck of…
Gentle parenting has won over many families for a reason. It replaces fear with connection, shouting with explanation, and blind obedience with understanding. Done well, it helps children feel seen rather than controlled.But there is one mistake that can quietly undo the whole approach: confusing kindness with permissiveness.Gentle parenting is not about saying yes to…
While Indian-American politicians face regular trolling, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal was told that her parents wasted their money by sending her to the US as she was narrating about how she came to the US all alone at the age of 16. “My parents sent me to the United States, by myself, when I was 16…
TOI correspondent from Washington: First Lady Melania Trump joined President Trump in a separate rebuke of the media, censuring late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after he had joked that she looked like an “expectant widow” in a parody of the aborted White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) that he made before the security scare. Kimmel…
Filmmaker Aditya Dhar and actor Ranveer Singh, fresh out of scoring two back-to-back Rs 1,000 films, may now be gearing up for their next big venture.The director-actor duo, who stormed the box office with ‘Dhurandhar’ and ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, are now reportedly gearing up to work on another exciting collaboration. As per the latest buzz,…
“You want to follow him. You want to fight for him. You want to die for him on the pitch. We showed that today.” Kobbie Mainoo’s assessment of manager Michael Carrick on Sky Sports after Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-2 in the Premier League resonated. It resonated because when Mainoo scored his 77th-minute winner at…
The US military carried out one of the most “daring search-and-rescue operations” in the country’s history, extracting a senior crew member officer of the downed F-15 jet from Iran on Sunday.He said that the rescue of a stranded American colonel behind enemy lines in Iran was the result of hours of real-time tracking, coordination and…
