L-R: The Gupte brothers: Balkrishna and Subhash On August 30, 1934, Balkrishna Pandharinath Gupte was born into a family that would produce two accomplished leg-spinners. But while his elder brother Subhash Gupte went on to become one of the finest spinners of his generation, Baloo Gupte spent much of his cricketing life in his shadow.Baloo,...
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Seychelles island restoration grew sooty tern colony from 20,000 to 700,000
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‘Violation of HC order won’t be tolerated’: Agnimitra Paul on FIR against Mamata
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Iran war creates two front defence dilemma for US against China and Russia
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Sun exposure vs smoking: Which ages your skin faster? Dermatologist explains
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What is the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope?
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How a star with an extreme magnetic field could prove space is not empty
Quantum physics has made numerous strange predictions, and scientists have checked and confirmed many of them. But one of the strangest ones persists unresolved. In the 1930s, the German physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler proposed that empty space is not really empty. Instead, they predicted that in the presence of a magnetic field,...
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Michael Dell shares a ‘special note’ for COO as he completes 39 years
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‘Heart of Central Asia’: PM sets roadmap, $5bn trade target with Uzbekistan – top quotes
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Istanbul to host first committee meeting of Turkey-Saudi-Pak defence alliance
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