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India batter Cheteshwar Pujara on Sunday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Pujara last played for India in the 2023 World Test Champions final against Australia at The Oval. Cheteshwar Pujara retirement: India great scored 7195 runs in 103 Test appearances(AFP) Pujara made the announcement on social media. In the emotional statement, he wrote that wearing the Indian jersey and giving his all was an indescribable honour, but with gratitude, he has decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket. “Wearing the Indian jersey, singing the anthem, and trying my best each time I stepped on the…

When Cheteshwar Pujara made his international debut in 2010 against Australia, he was earmarked to take up the No.3 mantle from Rahul Dravid. The Wall was playing back then, but everyone knew that once Dravid hung up his boots, it would be Pujara who would have to fill the big void and make the spot his own. This is a pretty daunting task for someone who is just starting out in international cricket. But slowly and steadily, as time passed, Pujara grew into the role, and eventually, he became a shadow of Dravid, frustrating the opponents just like his predecessor.…

A couple of days back, Cheteshwar Pujara informed his father Arvind about his decision to retire from all forms of cricket. “Don’t you want to play one more Ranji Trophy season?” – was the reflex reaction by the man, whose obsessive commitment to technically-perfect batting had made his son India’s all-time Top 10 Test run-getter. “No,” said Cheteshwar.Arvind, 74, understood it was time to officially fold up the highly successful pet project. According to Cheteshwar, his father gave that wise nod, the one he gave when he connected the ball from the meat of his bat in the nets, let…

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said that the company sees domestic player Rapido as a stronger rival than Ola in India’s ride-hailing market. “Ola used to be our main competition, now the tougher competition in India is Rapido,” Khosrowshahi said in a teaser of his full interview on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast People by WTF. His remarks hint at a shift in the country’s competitive $13-billion ride-hailing market once dominated by Ola. It comes just days after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), the country’s top consumer watchdog, slapped a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Rapido for alleged…

Cheteshwar Pujara, one of the longest-serving servants for Indian cricket, finally hung up his boots on Sunday as he announced his retirement from all forms of Indian cricket. The right-handed batter, who made his international debut in 2010 against Australia, went on to represent India in 103 Tests and 5 ODIs. Batting at No.3, Pujara scored 7195 runs in Tests at an average of 43.60. His career was studded with 19 Test tons and 35 half-centuries. Cheteshwar Pujara retires from all forms of Indian cricket.(PTI) Pujara’s Test heroics are so impressive that not many know he even represented India in…

The southern Chinese city of Sanya, renowned for seafront resorts and sandy beaches, closed tourist attractions, shuttered businesses and suspended public transport on Sunday as it braced for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki. The tropical cyclone was about 200 km (124 miles) southeast of Sanya on the island province of Hainan at 9 am (0100 GMT), packing maximum sustained wind of 38 metres (125 feet) a second near its centre, the National Meteorological Center said. Kajiki is likely to strengthen as it moves northwest at approximately 20 km/h, with a peak wind speed as fast as 48 m/s, the state weather…

After the State Bank of India, Bank of India has classified the loan account of insolvent Reliance Communications as fraudulent and named its former director, tycoon Anil Ambani, citing alleged fund diversion in 2016, according to a regulatory filing. State-owned Bank of India granted a Rs 700 crore loan in August 2016 to Reliance Communications for its ongoing capital and operational expenditure and repayment of existing liabilities. Half of the sanctioned amount disbursed in October 2016 was invested in a fixed deposit, which was not permitted as per the sanction letter, according to the bank’s letter that RCom disclosed in…

People protest around the world as Israel continues push to seize Gaza City where famine has been declared.

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ThiruvananthapuramAugust 24, 2025 10:04 AM IST First published on: Aug 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM IST Share About seven years after facing a backlash for backing the landmark 2018 Supreme Court judgment that declared as unconstitutional the practice of barring women of menstrual age entry to the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government is set to hold a global summit of devotees of Lord Ayyappa, the presiding deity of the temple, on September 20. The summit, called “Global Ayyappa Sangamam”, will be held at Pamba, the base station of the Sabarimala temple. A first of its kind,…