Sprinklers water the field at Mansfield Stadium chosen as a team base camp training site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup football teams, in Mansfield, Texas, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo) FIFA has changed its rules for fans attending the 2026 World Cup and will no longer allow reusable water bottles inside stadiums, citing…
Massive Attack are set to return to Australia for the first time in 16 years, with shows confirmed in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney this August. The influential British trip-hop group, led by Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall, last performed in Australia in 2010, making the upcoming tour a long-awaited return for…
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli is likely to miss India’s upcoming three-match ODI series against Afghanistan due to a hamstring injury. While the exact recovery timeline remains unclear, the former India captain is expected to be unavailable for the series. It is reliably learnt that Kohli is holidaying in Europe after winning the IPL with Royal…
Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t just become an actor. He became a generation’s definition of intelligence on screen. From ‘Sherlock’ to ‘Doctor Strange’ to ‘The Imitation Game’ to ’12 Years a Slave’ to ‘The Power of the Dog.‘ He has been in some of the most celebrated and culturally significant productions of the twenty-first century. He has…
Hero MotoCorp has officially entered India’s flex-fuel motorcycle segment with the launch of the new Splendor+ Flex Fuel and HF Deluxe Flex Fuel motorcycles. While Hero’s new ethanol-powered commuter bikes do not directly compete with Suzuki’s larger Gixxer SF 250 FFV in terms of engine size or performance, these are currently among the very few…
After his jibes at director Christopher Nolan‘s ‘The Odyssey’, Elon Musk has hit the headlines again, this time, for sharing an AI-generated trailer for ‘Iliad’—inspired by Homer’s epic tale of the Trojan War—created using xAI’s newly released Grok Imagine 1.5 video-generation model.Posting the video on his handle, Musk praised the technology behind the project, writing,…
Markets are likely to remain volatile in the near term amid escalating tensions in West Asia, which continue to keep crude oil prices elevated and triggering persistent Foreign Institutional Investor outflows. Investor sentiment is expected to remain cautious as the lack of meaningful progress in the ongoing US-Iran negotiations continues to fuel concerns over global…
The controversy surrounding Ranveer Singh‘s exit from ‘Don 3’ continues to simmer, even as the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) officially withdrew its non-cooperation directive against the actor on June 3. The Producers Guild of India is now stepping in for another round of mediation, signalling that a full resolution between Singh and…
Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi has claimed that many star Indian cricketers were unwilling to play the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup in 2007, saying he personally approached players during India’s tour of England that year and urged them to take part in the tournament.India toured England from July 19 to September 8, 2007, for…
At present, foreign investors are required to pay a 12.5% long-term capital gains tax on listed equities and bonds held for more than a year. (AI image) In a bid to stem foreign capital outflow amid the Middle East crisis, the government is looking to do away with capital gains tax on foreign portfolio investors’…
