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Chennai Super Kings batting coach Michael Hussey during warm-up before the match. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Chennai Super Kings’ batting coach Michael Hussey expressed confidence that his team has the ability to win the remaining two games and make a run for the playoffs.CSK’s seven-wicket loss to Lucknow Super Giants on Friday (May 15, 2026) has thrown a spanner in the works to make it to the knockouts for the first time since its title-winning campaign in 2023.“It’s like every game is like a final, you know. And we’re in that situation now [where] we are going to have…

For newly married Rajesh and Aarti from Delhi, Indonesia’s Bali with its beaches, water sports, safari, jungle swings, forests and mountains, is more than a tourist destination. It is a liberating getaway where they could splurge, shed inhibitions and be themselves.For elderly Hari bhau and his wife from Maharashtra, Bali’s appeal lies in its tranquillity, hot springs, spas, cultural and spiritual ambience. At a hot spring, Hari Bhau plunges in enthusiastically while his wife hesitates — until he pulls her in. Moments later, she is swimming with ease. “I learnt in my village lake,” she says, adding that she would not have attempted this…

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will have to treat every remaining game as a “final” after their defeat to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) left their Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign hanging by a thread, said batting coach Michael Hussey. The five-time champions now staring at a virtual must-win situation in their final two league matches.CSK were outplayed by an already-eliminated LSG side as Mitchell Marsh’s blistering 38-ball 90 powered the hosts to a comfortable chase of 188 on a pace-friendly surface on Friday (May 15, 2026).The defeat left Ruturaj Gaikwad’s side stranded on 12 points from 13 matches, turning their final…

Chennai Super Kings’ captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, right, and Sanju Samson interact between the wickets during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 T20 cricket match between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo Credit: PTI Chennai Super Kings skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad admitted that his bowlers failed to live up to expectations in the team’s seven-wicket defeat to Lucknow Super Giants in an IPL match in Lucknow on Friday (May 15, 2026), and said the five-time winners will address the shortcomings ahead of their remaining two league games.CSK, with 12 points from 12 matches, now find…

At Baripada, a small town in Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, we take a sharp turn and find ourselves in front of white gates and a manicured driveway. The stretch in front of us, neatly paved and framed by bougainvillea on the sides, leads us to a large building, a palace no less, painted in bright buttercup yellow and white. It all feels straight out of a Wes Anderson film; the colours, the whimsy, and as I would later discover, the aesthetics and attention to detail inside as well. Originally built in the early 1800s to host guests and visiting family members…

Jaisal Singh remembers spending his school holidays walking the length and breadth of Ranthambore National Park. There was never a person in sight, and living there meant no running water or electricity. His parents, both filmmakers, had fallen in love with the area and had pitched camp under a grand banyan tree near Jogi Mahal, an erstwhile hunting lodge turned forest guest house, along with his uncle, wildlife conservationist Valmik Thapar.That rudimentary lifestyle was the biggest luxury, he says, along with his early exposure to conservation efforts (his parents and uncle ran the NGO, Ranthambore Foundation), and became the core…

The Wankhede Stadium is set for a two-week cricket carnival, with the Mumbai Cricket Association on Friday (May 15, 2026) unveiling the fixtures for Season 4 of the T20 Mumbai League and the inaugural T20 Mumbai Women’s League.The twin tournaments — featuring 30 matches across 13 days — will run from June 1 to 13, bringing together a blend of India stars, Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League regulars, and Mumbai’s emerging domestic talent under one roof.The men’s competition will begin with a double-header on June 1, with Yashasvi Jaiswal’s Bandra Blasters taking on Shardul Thakur-led Eagle Thane Strikers…

Mitchell Marsh smashed the CSK bowlers all over the park. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap For the second time this season, Mitchell Marsh lit up the night sky at the Ekana Stadium as his marauding 38-ball 90 (9×4, 7×6) powered his side to a thumping seven-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings in an IPL 2026 encounter in Lucknow on Friday (May 15, 2026).A week after his 111 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the same venue, Marsh unleashed his brutal power hitting on a hapless Super Kings pace attack and made short work of the 188-run target.At the halfway stage,…

The past decade has collapsed the old boundary between economics and geopolitics, creating a world in which supply chains, trade routes, energy corridors and technology ecosystems have become the real battlegrounds of power. What once belonged to corporate strategy decks is now the daily fare of national security briefings. Tariffs behave like sanctions, semiconductor alliances resemble defence pacts, and the flow of critical minerals can tilt influence as decisively as troop deployments once did. In this new order, states compete not only with armies or ideologies but with regulatory regimes, infrastructure networks and the capacity to anchor global production. The…

People refuel their vehicles at a petrol pump in Bengaluru on May 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: J. Allen Egenuse Seeking to provide further momentum to the export of fuels, the Finance Ministry, in a late gazette notification issued Friday night, informed that it has hiked the export duty on petrol to ₹3 per litre from nil while reducing the export duty on diesel and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to ₹16.5 and ₹16 per litre, respectively.There has been no change in the existing excise duty rates for petrol and diesel for domestic consumption.Also read: Petrol and diesel price hikes highlighted…