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In England’s first game of the FIFA World Cup 2026 (against Croatia), captain Harry Kane joined the league of elite forwards currently operating at the World Cup to score two goals or more in their team’s opener. It’s an elite group that includes Argentina’s Lionel Messi (hat-trick against Algeria), Norway’s Erling Haaland (two goals against Iraq), France’s Kylian Mbappe (two goals against Senegal) and Germany’s Kai Havertz (two goals against Curacao). Who is yet to join this group is Cristiano Ronaldo, who had a wretched game against Congo, going goalless after having just two shots in the whole game. Congo ended up holding Ronaldo’s Portugal to a 1-1 draw with Joao Neves’s 6th minute goal getting cancelled out by Yoane Wisse’s strike in the first half. Ronaldo’s two shots came in the 68th minute and the 73rd minute, both off target. After the game, Portugal coach Roberto Martínez was repeatedly asked if he considered taking out Ronaldo on Wednesday. “It makes no sense to get the best world scorer to be out when you need …
Nargis was all of 16 when she met Raj Kapoor, a 22-year-old budding filmmaker who was still trying to put together the first film of his newly built RK Studios. As is well documented, they fell in love, even though Raj was married to Krishna Raj Kapoor. Their relationship existed in their utopian world but the bubble burst when Nargis realised that this relationship was a lost cause. For a star of her stature, she found that her opportunities were starting to decrease dramatically in the mid-1950s, and even at RK Studios, she wasn’t getting the kind of work that had first gotten her recognition. Other banners often looked to Raj, as if to seek his permission, before casting Nargis. She had also come to the difficult realisation that Raj was never going to leave his wife, and while this broke her heart, she had snapped out of the lovesick state that she had been locked in for almost a decade. This was right around the time when Mehboob Khan offered her Mother India, a …
5 min readChennaiMay 10, 2026 08:42 PM IST SYNOPSIS: Urvil Patel’s whirlwind knock overshadows Josh Inglis’ as Chennai Super Kings chase down 200-plus total for the first time since 2018 final Venkata Krishna BChennai, May 10 Lucknow and Chennai innings mirrored each other. Take away Josh Inglis’ 85 off 33 balls, and their middle order crumbled again. The story would repeat in the chase as after Urvil Patel’s 65 off 23, Chennai lost their way spectacularly before Shivam Dube’s two sixes in the final over took them home to keep them in the race for the playoffs. Inglis lessons The Lucknow Super Giants innings was all about Inglis, the Australian batsman, born and raised in Leeds before he moved to Perth. There was help from Shahbaz Ahmed in the end, whose 43 off 25 (3×4, 3×6) carried them past the 200-run mark which looked unlikely at one stage. But until Inglis was in the middle, Lucknow looked on their way to a 230-plus total as his carnage had left Chepauk stunned. The diminutive Aussie is …
Kavya Maran was a happy team owner in the IPL 2025 as her side Sunrisers Hyderabad rained fury on Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad on Monday. Needing a win to stay alive the IPL 2025 play off race, SRH were given a fiery start in the Powerplay as skipper Pat Cummins picked Karun Nair, Faf du Plessis and Abishek Porel in his first three overs. Then, DC also lost their skipper Axar Patel in the sixth over with the team on just 26. The misery was far from over as KL Rahul too departed on 10, before Vipraj Nigam, who looked like putting up a resistance with Tristan Stubbs. Vipraj Nigam was run out and Kavya Maran could be seen giving an animated expression. Kavya Maran pic.twitter.com/bxoBd4Xnga — Suheem. (@was_srhnation) May 5, 2025 Talking about the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won the toss and elected to bowl first against Delhi Capitals (DC) in match 55 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. All-rounder T. Natarajan will …
Punjab Kings chase 190 to go second in the points table and eliminate Chennai Super Kings There is still almost a month of IPL left, but Chennai Super Kings are officially out of the tournament. On Wednesday, for a change, their batting unit, riding on Sam Curran’s 88, made 190, but Punjab Punjab overhauled that total with ease to give them breathing space as the race for the play-offs begins to heat up. With just two points separating the team at the top and fifth spot, each win means a lot more now as Punjab head to Dharamsala for their last three home matches. Story continues below this ad Iyer and higher At the half-way mark with dew around, the target of 191 looked par, one if Punjab’s batting unit fired on all cylinders, should be comfortably overcome. This new-look outfit’s biggest strength is that its top three are all in good nick, having scored in excess of 300 individually and it is where the bulk of their runs come from. The middle order is …
LG is adding Google Cast support to its range of hotel TVs, making it easier to stream content from your phone or other devices. Cast joins existing support for Apple Airplay, and LG is the first manufacturer to offer both options on its hotel TVs. If you stay in a hotel room with a compatible LG TV, you should be able to scan a QR code with your phone and then start streaming video or music directly to the screen from a user interface you’re already comfortable with. That way you won’t have to enter any personal information or login details into the TV itself. LG says it uses network isolation to maintain privacy between hotel rooms, and that your connection will be maintained for the duration of your stay but severed upon checkout. Some hotels, including Hyatt, already offer Cast through customized hospitality Chromecast hardware. LG has instead included casting directly into the TV, with no additional hardware required. “Many hotel guests nowadays wish to stream their favorite content from a personal device to …
Borussia Dortmund’s struggles continued on Tuesday after the troubled Bundesliga outfit fell to a 2-1 defeat at Bologna which dented their hopes of direct qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League. Goals in a matter of seconds in the second half from substitutes Thijs Dallinga and Samuel Iling-Junior gave Bologna their first ever win in the modern version of Europe’s elite club competition and handed Dortmund their fourth straight defeat in all competitions. Last season’s finalists Dortmund, who opened the scoring in the 15th minute through Serhou Guirassy‘s classy chipped penalty, are 13th on 12 points, one point from the top eight with other teams set to complete the penultimate round of league phase matches on Wednesday. Tuesday’s defeat piled more pressure on under-fire coach Nuri Sahin even though his players showed their support by joining him in a group hug after Guirassy netted his seventh goal in as many Champions league matches this season. “I think we will sit down together tonight or tomorrow in Dortmund. Right now the game …
Between the red and blue halves of Manchester, the two football teams that define and divide the port city, they have hoisted the EPL trophy 15 times in 24 editions this century. It has been a clearly demarcated domination of two parts—United bossing the league till 2013, the year Alex Ferguson retired and City gathering monopoly after acquiring Pep Guardiola. The paths of clubs have crossed in the title race just once, culminating in a timeless finale in 2013. All other years their trajectories have shot the opposite ways. But the 2024-25 season has brought them together in their united grief, closer than the five miles that separate them. City have won only two of their last 14 games, their worst run since the Sheikh takeover. For the first time in his career, Guardiola, the most celebrated manager of this century, lost five games in his managerial career. Similarly, United lost six games in a month for the first time since 1930. Their new manager, Ruben Amorim, fears they could be relegated, as they languish …
New Delhi: Kerala’s Wayanad was the only bright spot for the Congress today as the Grand Old Party posted one of its worst performances in Maharashtra. In the Lok Sabha by-polls in Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra not only filled her brother Rahul Gandhi’s shoes, she did it in spades, surpassing his 2024 record vote margin by noon. Where Rahul Gandhi had a margin of 3.65 lakh votes in the Lok Sabha election held earlier this year, Ms Gandhi Vadra secured over 6.12 lakh votes, beating her nearest rival, CPM’s Sathyan Mokeri by over 4.1 lakh votes. But her overall votes were lower than that of Mr Gandhi due to the low turnout. The turnout in the seat, which has over 14 lakh registered voters, was around 65 per cent – down from the close to 74 per cent in the Lok Sabha polls held in April and much lower than the 80 per cent-plus turnout of 2019, when Mr Gandhi had made it the second seat he was contesting from. After winning from Rae Bareilly …
