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Tata Steel Chess: Returning Viswanathan Anand shows swiftness, guile to go into joint lead | Chess News

Tata Steel Chess: Returning Viswanathan Anand shows swiftness, guile to go into joint lead | Chess News

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“Well… it was exhausting not playing.” Those were the words of five-time World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand ahead of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz Tournament in Kolkata, where he is making a comeback after a six-year hiatus. Once the tournament began, he shook off that exhaustion by dominating proceedings on the opening day against opponents half his age and ending the day in the lead. In the first round of the Rapid segment, Anand was paired against American Wesley So. By all accounts, So is one of the most solid players in contemporary chess. Tough to play, tougher to beat, and eager to punish even the smallest mistake. Indian Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan once explained So’s gameplay: “A very solid, very strong player, Wesley So is a brilliant example of someone who is very difficult to beat for anyone in the world. You have to get used to playing him to understand how much you can risk. Once you overstep, he will punish you severely for the slightest error,” Srinath had told …

Shafali Verma’s stroke-filled 69*, spinners’ guile power India to 2–0 lead over Sri Lanka | Cricket News

Shafali Verma’s stroke-filled 69*, spinners’ guile power India to 2–0 lead over Sri Lanka | Cricket News

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An hour before the first ball was bowled in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday, Delhi Capitals named Jemimah Rodrigues as their captain for the Women’s Premier League 2026 season. Later in the evening, the 25-year-old was among three DC players who played a key role in India going 2-0 up in the five-match series against Sri Lanka, with a seven-wicket win. Chasing a modest 129 runs for victory wasn’t going to be much of a challenge. Smriti Mandhana’s early wicket may have perhaps allowed Sri Lanka a sniff, but Shafali Verma teed off promptly, with Rodrigues looking in good touch again as India romped home in the 12th over. The duo decided to take on the spinners and executed their plans perfectly. Rodrigues took the aerial route more than once to up the scoring rate. And once she got her eye in, Verma joined in the fun soon enough as both players made the most of insipid bowling on a benign surface to drive India’s innings forward. The pair knocked off more than half the runs in …

Zeenat Aman remembers ‘favourite co-star’ Dharmendra; says he offered warm comfort to her ‘introverted’ self: ‘He was with no pretences or guile’ | Bollywood News

Zeenat Aman remembers ‘favourite co-star’ Dharmendra; says he offered warm comfort to her ‘introverted’ self: ‘He was with no pretences or guile’ | Bollywood News

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A pall of gloom has descended on India following the demise of legendary actor Dharmendra. One of the most celebrated and successful actors in the history of Bollywood, Dharmendra breathed his last at the age of 89 in Mumbai on Monday, November 24. In an illustrious career spanning six decades, he delivered more hits than superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, thus leaving behind an unparalleled legacy. Now, veteran actor Zeenat Aman, who previously called him her “favourite co-star,” has stepped forward to fondly recall her experience working with Dharmendra. Taking to Instagram to share a couple of photos of the two of them together on the sets of the movies they collaborated on, Zeenat shared that the world has lost a jewel today. “Dharam ji was always amongst my favourite co-stars, and I am blessed to have worked alongside him in a number of movies,” she wrote. Dharmendra Death News Live Updates | Mohanlal, Pawan Kalyan mourn Dharmendra’s demise; Ranveer Singh, Vicky Kaushal remember the ‘He-Man’ Sharing how he inspired her and …

Yash Thakur’s pace, Krunal Pandya’s guile orchestrate Lucknow Super Giants successful defence against Gujarat Titans | Ipl News

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Synopsis:The forgotten Pandya and feisty Thakur conceptualise Super Giants’ maiden win over Gujarat Titans After his final over, Krunal Pandya, a bandana shackling his bouncing hair, held the ball aloft and waved to all parts of the ground. The spectators reciprocated with thunderous applause. The electronic scoreboard flashed his figures. It read 4-0-11-3. The forgotten Pandya brother had, yet again, asserted his unsung knack of defining games. In a sense, he is his brother Hardik’s antithesis; flying under the radar, his set of skills commonplace. One would find several of his type, a flattish left-arm spinner who can freewheel with the bat, in the leagues of Mumbai and its neighbourhood. But dish out a slow, slightly dual-paced surface, and he becomes deadly. He could repeatedly pound a length, sustain a nagging line, alter the pace, which he performed with devastating effect, and niggle batsmen to frustration. Like he did in his first over. Titans had just lost Shubman Gill, to a wicked Yash Thakur nip-backer, after a racy start, 54 runs in 5.5 overs. Krunal …

Theater Review: Without Gosling or geese, Broadway’s ‘The Notebook’ goes for the guts, without guile

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NEW YORK — The romantic tearjerker “The Notebook” lands on Broadway in awkward musical theater form this spring having previously conquered books and movies. It is intent now on making a live audience openly weep by employing massive doses of schlocky sentimentality without the aid of Ryan Gosling. HT Image The bombastic musical that opened Thursday at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is about a love for the ages but has understated songs by Ingrid Michaelson, who offers coffee house vibes instead of passion’s thunder. The book by Bekah Brunstetter loses gas well before it’s over and piles on the melodrama. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. This adaptation from a Nicholas Sparks novel is the love story of poor boy Noah Calhoun and rich girl Allie Hamilton, told as the elderly narrator reads the story to his elderly wife with Alzheimer’s, the two later revealed to be the young couple of the story, whose passion was interrupted by meddling parents. For the stage, three sets of multicultural Noahs and Allies …