Spread the love Shubman Gill and Rajat Patidar (BCCI/IPL Photo) AHMEDABAD : There were many broken hearts when Rajasthan Royals went down by seven wickets to Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 at New Chandigarh on Friday night, denying fans the chance to see cricket’s new sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in his first IPL final. Yet, few will deny that Sunday night’s...
One of Denmark’s biggest pension fund blacklists IPO of Elon Musk’s Spacex
Spread the love A prominent Danish pension fund that previously made waves by dumping US Treasuries has reportedly announced that it will boycott the upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO) of SpaceX, citing severe overvaluation and a deeply flawed corporate governance model. According to a report by Bloomberg, AkademikerPension, which manages $25 billion in assets, has blacklisted the aerospace giant despite...
‘I saw the threat call’: Mamata claims police forced doctors to release Abhishek
Spread the love Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday KOLKATA: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday assaulted and abused by a crowd of protesters in Sonarpur as he tried to reach the...
‘Rahul called me’: Mamata says LoP offered to fly nephew Abhishek to Hyderabad for treatment
Spread the love Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee claimed that Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had personally reached out to her following the alleged attack on TMC national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee in West Bengal.Addressing reporters late on Saturday night,...
Meteor explodes over U.S. with blast equivalent to 300 tonnes of TNT
Spread the love A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, NASA said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a blast equivalent to 300 tonnes of TNT. The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire at 2:06 p.m. (11:36 p.m. IST), the U.S. space agency’s deputy news chief Jennifer...
Whose brilliance is it anyway? | Review of A Touch of Genius, ed. Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Spread the love A Touch of Genius, a new anthology of the writings of “Indian Nobel laureates”, edited by historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee, is both nationalist and critical of nationalism — possibly by accident — and exists in an unresolved tension with itself. But first, Mukherjee’s introduction is absorbing. His use of Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the hedgehog and the fox to...
Water, gas & power outages – Pak’s Karachi hit by utility collapse as Eid turns into crisis
Spread the love Millions of residents in Karachi faced severe disruptions during Eid-ul-Adha as widespread water shortages, gas outages and power cuts left families struggling to cook, bathe and preserve food amid intense heat, according to Dawn.The breakdown of essential municipal services triggered protests in several parts of Pakistan’s financial hub, with residents blocking roads and venting anger at utility...
‘AI is no longer ..’: What Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said at company’s earnings call
Spread the love Image credit: X (Twitter) Nvidia’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Colette Kress has revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a “nice-to-have” technology. She admitted that AI has become a necessity for businesses seeking productivity gains and highlighted the growing role of the technology in shaping demand for infrastructure, chips and software for the US-based chip giant.During...
Ghaziabad ‘Bakrid invite’ murder: Main accused Asad shot dead in encounter
Spread the love (L) Victim Surya, R Accused Asad GHAZIABAD: The prime accused in the fatal stabbing of a Class 11 student in Ghaziabad was shot dead in a police encounter late on Saturday night.Officials said the accused, Asad, was wanted in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Surya Pratap, who was stabbed during an altercation in Khoda Colony on...
More muscle, less fat, same deadly swing: How Bhuvneshwar is defying age at 36
Spread the love Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) While the cricket world has spent the IPL season marvelling at 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi – and rightly so – another remarkable story has quietly unfolded at the opposite end of the age spectrum.At 36, an age when fast bowlers are usually managing declining pace, recurring injuries or retirement plans, Bhuvneshwar Kumar continues...
