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At 247, Delhi logs 3-yr high birding event count

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- A total of 247 bird species were recorded across Delhi-NCR on the Big Bird Day 2026, logging the highest count in three years. The rare sightings included the baikal teal, savanna... Read More


Starting blues: Surya's brilliance gives jittery India win over USA

Mumbai, Feb. 8 -- India got the result they were after but not without a stutter or five. For large parts of their batting innings, the hosts were in trouble and that left the Mumbai crowd shellshocke... Read More


Shepherd hat-trick, Hetmyer fifty set up West Indies win

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Romario Shepherd took the first hattrick of the T20 World Cup after Shimron Hetmyer broke Chris Gayle's record for the quickest fifty by a West Indies batter as the former champions... Read More


Meet Derek Archer, a West Indies fan and an '84 Olympic athlete

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- If you were watching Shimron Hetmyer take the aerial route at Eden Gardens or on television, you may have spotted a long-limbed man in a long hat bouncing with the flag of Trinidad ... Read More


Pakistan cricket board in talks with ICC over playing India tie

Mumbai, Feb. 8 -- A week after threatening to boycott the money-spinning T20 World Cup league game against India, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has formally reached out to the International Cricket... Read More


Mercurial Pakistan escape to victory against the Dutch

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- They call Pakistan an inconsistent team. They are wrong because this is the one team in international cricket that consistently brings the drama. Where others will cruise to the t... Read More


POLICEMAN killed, 12 injured aFTER swing collapses at Surajkund fair

Gurugram, Feb. 8 -- A police inspector involved in rescue operations died and 12 others were injured when a ride collapsed at the 39th Surajkund International Atmanirbhar Craft Festival in Faridabad o... Read More


Bengal TOP POLL OFFICER Seeks Extension for S.I.R. Hearings

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Saturday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to extend the final date of hearings under the Special Intensive Rev... Read More


The devil is inthe compromise

India, Feb. 8 -- For years, I have lived by a private code. I thought of it as wisdom. As part of that wisdom, I had decided that the phone would be treated as dead weight from a certain time of night... Read More


Turn it up to 11

India, Feb. 8 -- One night last month, I think I had a melatonin-triggered dream (melatonin being notorious for inducing vivid, cinematic dreams) in which Bob Weir, with his wild white beard and thick... Read More