NEW DELHI: Chennai Super Kings head into the IPL auction with a sizeable purse of Rs 43.40 crore and nine slots to fill, including four overseas positions, giving the five-time champions ample flexibility to reshape their squad. CSK have opted for a bold reset, releasing several high-profile names such as Ravindra Jadeja, Devon Conway, Rachin...

Kannada filmmaker Prakash Veer talks to The Hindu about making ‘The Devil’, starring Darshan, fondly called ‘D Boss’ by his fans. The actor is currently in prison for the alleged murder of Chitradurga resident Renukaswamy. The movie has got a grand response in the opening week and the director opens on the controversy, the challenges...

India has added 48,563 MBBS seats and 29,080 postgraduate (MD/MS) seats between the academic years 2020–21 and 2025–26, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. In a written reply to an unstarred question, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said the expansion was undertaken based...

Final batch of 3 US-made Apache AH-64E attack helicopters land at Hindon, will join Army’s Jodhpur squadron Source link

NEW DELHI: The player auction for the 2026 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked off on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. A total of 350 players are set to go under the hammer.Capped batters came up for bidding in the first round. There were no marquee sets in a mini-auction.Jake Fraser-McGurk was the first...

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy met Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on December 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy met with Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) and presented her the Telangana Rising 2047 Vision Document,...

IPL 2026 Auction player list: The IPL organising committee pulled off yet another overnight surprise by deciding to add 19 more players to the one-day extravaganza slated to be held at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. It is the third change that the IPL had made over the course of the week,...

In a significant legal development, a Delhi court has refused to take cognizance of the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) charge sheet in the National Herald case against Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. The court ruled that the ED’s case, stemming from a private complaint by Subramanian Swamy, lacked the necessary predicate FIR. Senior Advocate Abhishek...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction (WMD), placing the synthetic opioid in the same category as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The move marks a dramatic escalation in Washington’s response to the fentanyl crisis, reframing the drug not just...

Kishan Kumar Hapka, 27, underwent training and competed for the Bastar Oympics. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Until he lost his left leg in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast last July, life and Kabaddi went hand in hand for Bijapur District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel Kishan Kumar Hapka. While still under treatment, a bed-ridden...