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Sunil Gavaskar (PTI Photo) The balance between bat and ball in modern-day cricket has once again come under the spotlight, with Sunil Gavaskar voicing strong concerns over how heavily the game now favours batters in the T20 era.With massive scores becoming routine in the ongoing IPL 2026 season and totals above 250 no longer considered...

India’s labour market is changing, but the transition is not uniform. Over the years, employment has moved away from the agriculture sector towards non-farm activities and larger enterprises. Yet, agriculture continues to account for a major share of jobs, highlighting how it is still India’s job market backbone.The latest PLFS 2025 unit-level data by SBI...

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A localised cooling failure at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre is claimed to have sparked disruption, crippling services for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and derivatives giant CME Group. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the issue, which AWS attributed to “increased temperatures” in the AWS Health Dashboard within a single data centre...

TVK chief Vijay NEW DELHI: Actor-politician Vijay is set to meet Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar for the third time to stake claim to form government, after the May 4 verdict placed his TVK as the single-largest party in the state.From silver-screen superstardom to the edge of Chennai’s Fort St George, Vijay has caused...

File photo: The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde (Picture credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Two Indian nationals reportedly infected with hantavirus aboard a cruise ship appear to be isolated cases and there is “no immediate public health threat” to India, director of the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology (NIV) Dr...

According to probe findings, the gunmen allegedly followed Chandranath Rath’s Scorpio SUV before launching the attack. KOLKATA: Police stations in border districts of West Bengal intensified surveillance and searches as cops suspect the involvement of professional shooters from neighbouring states in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, news agency PTI...

NEW DELHI: TVK has finally achieved the numbers needed to form the government in Tamil Nadu after days of intense political uncertainty, strategic negotiations and shifting alliance equations in the aftermath of the hung assembly verdict. The breakthrough came after Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist)...

Michael Dell and Susan Dell are donating $750 million to University of Texas at Austin. This donation will be used to build a new AI-focused medical centre and research campus. The major philanthropic move from the Dell couple comes shortly after their $6.25 billion pledge tied to “Trump Accounts” to fund investment vehicles introduced under...

Kanimozhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: DMK MP Kanimozhi has written a letter addressed to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to change the seating arrangements in the Parliament so that they don’t have to sit near the Congress MPs, considering the recent rift after Tamil Nadu poll results.“I write to respectfully request suitable changes in the...