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Australian Open: Big-serving Elena Rybakina to face hard-hitting Aryna Sabalenka for women’s title
This is Wimbledon champion Rybakina’s second Grand Slam final and the first for Sabalenka.
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FA Cup: Nathan Ake’s goal helps Manchester City beat Arsenal in marker for Premier League title race
The sides will meet twice more in the next three months in the Premier League with the title on the line.
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India vs New Zealand, 1st T20I: All-round show from Mitchell Santner and Co ensures 21-run victory
New Zealand, who suffered a 3-0 whitewash in the one-day internationals, restricted the hosts to 155-9 and took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
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Evolution doesn’t need millions of years. Tiger snakes on an island have evolved over just a century
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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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What can we learn about Bengali women’s complex relationship with food from bratas?
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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How Pakistan’s massive power outage has reaffirmed fears of a Sri Lanka-style economic collapse
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Australian Open: Novak Djokovic on images of father with Russian flags – ‘Misinterpretation’
The 35-year-old Djokovic stressed after his semifinal win that his father had no intention to support any war initiatives.
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Australian Open: Novak Djokovic beats Tommy Paul in straight sets to reach 10th final
The Serb will now face Stefanos Tsitsipas in search of a 10th Australian Open men’s singles title.
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Australian Open: Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Karen Khachanov to reach second Grand Slam final
The 24-year-old had previously reached three semifinals at the Australian Open, but has now gone one step further.
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Video
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Eco India, Ep 212: More than a third of all carbon emissions are caused by construction. How to fix?
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‘Be like a man’: Journalist Anuradha Sharma on how women journalists in India are expected to work
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Watch: Model Kristen McMenamy falls, takes off heels to walk barefoot on Paris Fashion Week runway
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Watch: 2023 Jimmy Kimmel chats with 2003 Jimmy Kimmel for talk show anniversary
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Watch: How colleges across the country screened the controversial BBC documentary
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Tennis: Rafael Nadal to spend ‘six to eight weeks’ recovering from hip injury
Nadal will likely target being ready for the clay-court season in mid-April, leading into the French Open in May.
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Copa del Rey: Karim Benzema, Vinicius strike late as Real Madrid beat Atletico to reach semis
Real last won the title in 2014.
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Australian Open: Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka set up big-hitting final with straight-sets win
Rybakina, 2022 Wimbledon women’s singles champion from Kazakhstan, dropped just one set on her way to the final in Melbourne.
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The Reel
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ review: Sincere, plodding effort to debunk WhatsApp myths about the Mahatma
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‘Pathaan’ review: Shah Rukh Khan lights up an entertaining spy thriller
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Oscar-nominated film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ is cuteness unlimited
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Three Oscar nominations for India: ‘All That Breathes’, ‘RRR’ and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’
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Aus Open: Sabalenka, Azarenka could set up all-Belarusian final; Linette, Rybakina in their way
Azarenka – a two-time Australian Open champion – and 2022 Wimbledon winner Rybakina are the only two Grand Slam winners left in the draw.
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League Cup: Marcus Rashford scores as Manchester United beat Nottingham Forest in semis first-leg
This was Rashford’s 10th goal in as many games since returning to club-duty after the Fifa World Cup in Qatar.
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Aus Open: Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka book semis berth; Magda Linette stuns Karolina Pliskova
Djokovic delivered a masterclass to crush Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 while Sabalenka defeated Croatia’s Donna Vekic 6-3, 6-2.
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The Field
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U19 Women’s T20 World Cup: Shafali Verma’s India vs Grace Scrivens’ England in inaugural title clash
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Women’s Premier League: Mithali Raj named mentor for Ahmedabad’s franchise Gujarat Giants
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Hockey World Cup, IND vs RSA as it happened: Harmanpreet and Co finish 9th after 5-2 win vs RSA
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Aryna Sabalenka wins the Australian Open title for her first Major: ‘Incredible resilience’
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Sophie Devine column: NZ have had plenty of cricket before the T20 World Cup, we feel prepared