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Kohli fan from Messi’s backyard, Nabila Sol Barraza criss-crosses continents to leave her mark at World Yogasana Championships

Kohli fan from Messi’s backyard, Nabila Sol Barraza criss-crosses continents to leave her mark at World Yogasana Championships

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Even as the Indian yoga athletes and many of their Indian-origin counterparts take centrestage at the inaugural World Yogasana Championships here, a lithe South American is a cynosure of the spectators and fellow competitors as she performed the asanas with precision and elegance. After all, Argentinian Nabila Sol Barraza has been one of the most successful overseas athletes in the championships, winning a total of five including two gold and two silver medals, and insists that yoga has transformed her life in more ways than she could ever imagine. Born about 40 kilometres from Rosario — the Argentine city that gave the global football icon Lionel Messi — Nabila’s first brush with Yogasana happened through a college friend back home. What began as curiosity gradually transformed into a passion, eventually bringing her to Mumbai, a city she would call home for nearly five years. During that period, she learnt Hindi phrases, discovered Indian traditions, appeared as a background dancer in Bollywood productions, worked alongside actor Tiger Shroff, and even developed an unexpected appreciation for cricket. …

Mamata to storm North Bengal as TMC launches ‘two-front’ 2026 campaign; major focus on Suvendu’s backyard

Mamata to storm North Bengal as TMC launches ‘two-front’ 2026 campaign; major focus on Suvendu’s backyard

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4 min readKolkataMar 22, 2026 06:56 AM IST West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will start campaigning for the upcoming Assembly elections from North Bengal on March 24 (Tuesday) while her nephew and party’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee will start with election rallies in southern districts, it is learnt. The move is aimed at simultaneously connecting with voters in the state’s two different political battlegrounds. On March 24, the CM will hold a mega rally at Alipurduar Parade Ground before addressing meetings at Matigara in Darjeeling district and Maynaguri in Jalpaiguri the same day. The move is being seen as an attempt by the TMC leadership to wrest back political ground in the northern belt, where the BJP had made deep inroads in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and retained a strong presence through the 2021 Assembly elections. “The CM herself leading the charge from Alipurduar sends a message that the party is taking the BJP’s challenge in north Bengal seriously,” a senior TMC leader said. The CM will leave for north Bengal after addressing a …

WATCH: Mitchell Marsh jokes how his Jasprit Bumrah nightmare continued in backyard with 4 y.o. nephew’s ‘Boom action’ | Cricket News

WATCH: Mitchell Marsh jokes how his Jasprit Bumrah nightmare continued in backyard with 4 y.o. nephew’s ‘Boom action’ | Cricket News

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Mitchell Marsh was not a medal recipient at the 2025 Australian Cricket Awards but the 33-year-old Aussie walked away after delivering some cracking one-liners on Monday night and shed some light on his Jasprit Bumrah’ed summer. Marsh, last year’s Allan Border medallist, had a horrendous Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign at home against India before being dropped for the final Test of the series earlier this month in Sydney. Marsh’s humour, however, remains intact. When asked about his 2024 season at the awards, a cheeky Marsh replied: “It’s been incredible, really … capped off by the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and the way the boys played especially with 10 players, without me. They did really well.” Story continues below this ad After a summer of facing Bumrah’s searing spells, Marsh admitted he missed out on a relatively subtler tour to Sri Lanka. “Yeah look, if there’s one wicket I needed, it was probably that Galle wicket.” “The nightmare continued” Mitch Marsh on fire again at the #AusCricketAwards 😂 pic.twitter.com/KPBNSS1Urs — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) February 3, 2025 But the show-stopper was …

Union Carbide waste locked up in containers and waiting to be burnt, a village says, ‘Not in our backyard’ | Long Reads News

Union Carbide waste locked up in containers and waiting to be burnt, a village says, ‘Not in our backyard’ | Long Reads News

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Tarpura in Madhya Pradesh’s Pithampur is Ground Zero where 12 long-haul containers packed with hazardous waste are parked in a private treatment, storage and disposal facility — waiting to be incinerated. There are policemen stationed across the village. And in one corner, residents in houses that face the site where the containers are parked say that to maintain law and order, they have been barred from going atop their terraces. Even as 337 MT of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant in Bhopal has been moved to Pithampur, the Madhya Pradesh government faces another immediate challenge: convincing local residents that the incineration will be carried out following environmental norms. On January 3, a day after the 12 containers arrived at Pithampur, local residents, shop owners, businessmen, teachers, school students and political workers gathered for a “general strike” against the incineration. With tensions rising, the Dhar district administration has withheld opening of the containers — and launched an information, education and communication outreach. “We will reach out to everyone, from farmers to …

‘Play like you do when you’re a kid in backyard’

‘Play like you do when you’re a kid in backyard’

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With the Australian team management picking up 19-year-old youngster Sam Konstas in their squad for the Boxing Test match against India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Melbourne, Australian skipper Pat Cummins has put his faith in the youngster. Cummins, who had made his debut in South Africa in 2011, remembered days prior to his debut and told Sam Konstas to ‘enjoy the moment’. “I think you always want to do well (but) I was saying this to Sam (Sam Konstas) the other day, I remember that as an 18-year-old, I was thinking I got a lot more leeway because I was young. It almost felt like if I didn’t have a great game, it wasn’t my fault. It was the selectors’ fault for picking me. I was like, ‘Well, they’re the idiots who picked an 18-year-old’. You’re so young starting out your career (and) it’s Boxing Day. It doesn’t get any better than this, so just enjoy the moment,” Pat Cummins told the media ahead of the Boxing Day Test. The 19-year-old opener has made …

“Kid In The Backyard…”: Pat Cummins’ Hilarious Advice To 19-Year-Old Debutant Sam Konstas

“Kid In The Backyard…”: Pat Cummins’ Hilarious Advice To 19-Year-Old Debutant Sam Konstas

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Ahead of the fourth Test against India, Australian skipper Pat Cummins had a special message for the 19-year-old debutant Sam Kontas, urging the batter to enjoy being a part of the Boxing Day Test, and not overthink it. The U19 ICC World Cup winning star Konstas, having built heavy hype for himself following a string of powerful performances at the domestic level for New South Wales (NSW), will have a chance at justifying it as he takes on an Indian attack led by a world-class Jasprit Bumrah, which will no doubt be motivated to do better and take a 2-1 series lead after drawing the third Test at Brisbane from an almost unwinnable position. Speaking during the pre-match presser as quoted by cricket.com.au, Cummins reminisced about his international debut in November 2011 against South Africa, in which he took seven wickets across both innings including a six-wicket haul. Cummins said that even he was as excited as Konstas was before his debut. He also said that when players start, there is a “level …

Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions) To Hit Disney+ Hotstar Marking A Successful Reunion

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MILEY CYRUS & DISNEY REUNITE FOR THE DISNEY+ HOTSTAR ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT: “MILEY CYRUS – ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION (BACKYARD SESSIONS)” ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Disney+ Hotstar will celebrate multiplatinum-selling recording artist Miley Cyrus’ highly anticipated eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation with an original special event, “Miley Cyrus ‒ Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).” Miley Cyrus serves as executive producer on the music-focused performance special from Disney Branded Television which will showcase new music from Endless Summer Vacation, including “Flowers,” which has been No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks since its debut. Produced by Miley, the award-winning creative production company RadicalMedia, HopeTown Entertainment, Crush Management and Columbia Records, “Miley Cyrus ‒ Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions)” is set to premiere on Friday, March 10, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST/ 23:30 p.m IST on Disney+ Hotstar. Miley takes the stage in this must-see, Disney+ Hotstar music event, “Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).” For the first time ever, Miley performs songs from “Endless Summer Vacation,” including …

At UNSC, Jaishankar Tears Into Pak With Hillary Clinton’s ‘Snakes in Backyard’ Remark

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday reminded Pakistan about former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “snakes in the backyard” advice and said the world sees Islamabad as the “epicenter of terrorism”. Giving another piece of advice to the neighboring country, Jaishankar asked Pakistan to be a “good neighbor” and contribute to economic growth and progress development the way other countries do. Speaking at UN Headquarters, Jaishankar said, “A decade ago, Hillary Clinton during her visit to Pakistan said that if you keep snakes in your backyard you can’t expect them to bite only your neighbors, eventually they will bite the people who keep them in the backyard. Pakistan is not good at taking good advice. The world today sees them as the epicenter of terrorism.” The minister referred to Clinton’s 2011 remark against Pakistan where she had demanded greater cooperation from the country to “squeeze” the Haqqani network responsible for attacks in Afghanistan and had said that Islamabad could not keep “snakes” in its backyard to strike its neighbors. “It’s like that old …