In the glare of an Indian cricket summer already thick with suspicion, Vansh Bedi found himself doing something no young cricketer should ever have to do: he stood in front of his own name and had to explain that he was not the person social media had decided he was. The wicketkeeper-batter, who had been part of the Chennai Super Kings setup during IPL 2025 and later appeared for Central Delhi Kings in the Delhi Premier League, issued a categorical denial on Tuesday after his identity became entangled in a controversy that he insists has no connection to him. The…

Some headlines are so bizarre that they make you stop mid-sip and reread them. That is exactly what happened when News24 picked up the story about the BBC finding itself in hot water over something that, in ordinary circumstances, would have been laughed off as a bad joke. The British public broadcaster had, it seemed, described the Olympic rowing venue outside Paris as “crocodile-infested.” You read that correctly. Not an alligator in a swimming pool, not a crocodile-shaped wooden mascot, but a claim, attached to one of the most anticipated events of the 2024 Summer Games, that the water at…