Author: Navneet Mundhra

Five-time champions Mumbai Indians purchased 21 players during the two-day Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 mega auction and revamped their squad. A lot of star performers of the last few seasons for Mumbai are missing this time. Instead, the franchise has reposed their faith in a host of young cricketers. Here is the SWOT analysis […]

  NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: A day after cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief on the directions of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi, he humiliated his party, yet once again, by endorsing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which decimated his own party in the state in the recently concluded assembly polls. Sidhu congratulated […]

BENGALURU: India have now won 15 consecutive Test series at home. No other team ever has won more than 10 consecutive Test series at home. Ravi Ashwin, with 442 Test wickets, has now become the eighth highest wicket-taker in Tests. During the series, he surpassed Kapil Dev (434) and Dale Steyn (439). R Ashwin has now […]

BENGALURU: Hijab is not an essential religious practice in Islam, the Karnataka High Court ruled on Tuesday, in a setback to Muslim girl students who had challenged a ban on wearing the headscarf in classrooms. The high court had temporarily banned religious clothes, including hijab and saffron headscarves, in colleges classrooms in the state last […]

  R Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah bowled with a searing bite to bowl Sri Lanka out for 208 in their second innings on Day 3 of the second Test at Bengaluru, as India sealed a 238-run win. On a treacherous pitch, only Sri Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis showed a modicum of resistance […]

MUMBAI: Aamir Khan made his debut in Bollywood (with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988) at a time when actors doing 12-15 movies simultaneously was an established norm. Mithun Chakraborty and Govinda featured in 17 and 14 movies respectively in 1989. Clearly, the focus was more on quantity than quality. Moreover, most of these movies […]

Indian spinner Kuldeep Yadav opens up about his personal equation, fondness and the time he spent with legendary Shane Warne. Childhood hero: As a kid, I used to bowl fast but my coach told me that fast bowling isn’t my forte, and instead I must try to become a spinner. He said there is a world-class […]

Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ has taken a fair start at the box-office, despite low screen count (561) in India. The initial reports are terrific and the movie is certain to see a huge upswing from Saturday evening. The movie has pleasantly surprised the trade as its first day collections might leapfrog a […]

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Uttar Pradesh polls, we look at 5 big takeaways from the result that will shape Indian politics in the days to come: 1) The triumph of ‘Rashan’ and ‘Sushasan’ (Ration and Good Governance): During the elections, two biggest factors for the people were law and order […]

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we revisit 5 most powerful female character depictions in Bollywood movies since 2000:1) Reshma/Silk (The Dirty Picture): A girl from a small village cocks a snook at society and the film industry to live her life on her own terms. Fiery, rebellious and quick-witted, she does everything that it […]