England’s Joe Root bats on day two of the first Test match between England and Pakistan in Leeds, England, Thursday Aug. 20, 2026. (AP) England took control of the first Test against Pakistan on Thursday, finishing Day 2 on 366/8 and taking a first-innings lead of 195 runs at Headingley.Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jordan Cox…
Representative Image. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) Lun Wang, a senior researcher at Google DeepMind, has resigned. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Wang shared his resignation while thanking Google DeepMind for an “amazing chapter”. Wang wrote, “Google DeepMind after an amazing chapter. I’m incredibly grateful for the people I worked with, the things we…
There’s a particular kind of kitchen mystery that plays out in almost every home eventually: a baking sheet that started out gleaming and silver slowly turns into something dark, blotchy, and faintly sticky, no matter how carefully you wash it after every use. It’s tempting to assume something’s gone wrong, or that the pan’s simply…
Panchayat poll process in Ladakh announced SRINAGAR: A day after a meeting between Ladakh representatives and officials of ministry of home affairs, the Ladakh administration Thursday announced that the govt was taking steps to address the democratic vacuum in the Union Territory and, to begin with, it would recommend to the Election Commission to initiate…
More than 2,600 rescue workers from around the world have arrived with search dogs and heavy machinery A powerful aftershock of 4.6 magnitude shook Caracas and the neighbouring state of La Guaira on Monday morning, nearly five days after the twin earthquakes that devastated northern Venezuela and killed at least 1,450 people.AFP journalists reported that…
A group of scammers stole $4 million worth of products from Amazon, including graphics cards and laptops, by duping customer support through an elaborate refund scam. Amazon has filed a lawsuit in Washington state District Court accusing a group using the name RBK of getting millions in refunds for products that were never returned. A…
Mamata Banerjee with supporters stages a candle march to protest the alleged rape and murder of a girl at Baruipur (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that she was kept ‘under police watch’ as if she was under ‘house arrest’ and accused the…
The row over a controversial book in Jammu and Kashmir’s government school libraries escalated on Saturday after Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha suspended eight School Education Department officials, removed a contractual employee, and ordered a departmental inquiry into the selection and procurement of two library books found to contain “inappropriate content”.The LG also blacklisted the books’…
The assessments warn that Moscow could explore several forms of escalation. Russian President Vladimir Putin could seek to test Nato’s resolve by launching a limited attack against a member of the alliance in the coming years, according to recent US intelligence assessments cited by CNN.The assessments warn that Moscow could explore several forms of escalation,…
NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh high court has ruled that a tribunal cannot cut a road accident victim’s compensation by half just because three people were travelling on the vehicle at the time of the crash. In its order on June 30, the court also found that the victim’s income had been wrongly assessed too low,…