Chennai: Punjab Kings stand-in skipper Sam Curran elected to bowl against Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League match Wednesday. Curran, who has been leading the side in the absence of an injured Shikhar Dhawan, has retained the same playing XI for the contest against CSK, currently placed fourth on the table. The Ruturaj Gaikwad-led CSK...

Colombo: Ahead of ICC Men's T20 World Cup, Sri Lankan bowlers are to be trained by Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram. The former seamer arrived in Sri Lanka Wednesday to conduct a two-day training program for national players, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced. During his coaching session, starting from Thursday, Akram will also train SLC High Performance...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Wednesday forecast heatwave conditions in several states across the country during the first week of May. Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions are likely to continue over south Peninsular India till May 3 and east India till May 2, and gradually improve thereafter, the IMD said. Heatwave conditions are also likely...

Bhubaneswar: A flight from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi returned minutes after take-off and made an emergency landing after the aircraft was caught in a hailstorm and suffered damage Wednesday, an official said. The 169 passengers and crew on board are safe. The New Delhi-bound Vistara flight landed back at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here barely...

Balasore: India Wednesday successfully flight tested the supersonic missile-assisted release of torpedo (SMART) system from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast, a defence official said. The system was launched around 8.30 am from the ground mobile launcher. Several state-of-the-art mechanisms such as symmetric separation, ejection and velocity control have been validated in this test,...

Mumbai: Telugu superstar Allu Arjun, who is gearing up for the release of his event film Pushpa 2: The Rule, shared a new poster from the film Wednesday. The actor took to his Instagram and shared the poster, notifying his 25.6 million followers about the new song from the film. The poster shows a flamboyant Pushparaj (Allu’s...

New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has voiced his discontent over Rinku Singh's exclusion from India's T20 World Cup 2024 squad, as the batter has been listed among the reserves instead. Rayudu claimed that apart from Ravindra Jadeja, India didn't have a reliable finisher and that Rinku had to be a part of the squad. In...

Los Angeles: Actress Demi Moore, who is known for ‘A Few Good Men’ and ‘Forsaken’, shared a new Instagram video, giving a glimpse of her family vacation. The actress also flaunted her leopard bikini. Moore's post provided highlights from the family’s beach vacation, with appearances from Tallulah, 30, Scout, 32, Rumer Willis, 35, Rumer's 1-year-old daughter Louetta,...

Chennai: Music maestro Ilaiyaraaja has issued a legal copyright notice to Sun Pictures for unauthorised usage of his music in their latest film Coolie, starring Tamil megastar Rajnikanth. Ilaiyaraaja, in the notice, said that the makers of the film had used his musical work in the teaser without authorisation. Asserting that he is the rightful owner of...

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the obscene video case against sitting JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, will take him into custody as soon as he lands at the Bengaluru International Airport, sources said Wednesday. Sources said that Prajwal Revanna has booked a ticket back to Bengaluru from Frankfurt (Germany) and will land at the Kempegowda International...