Yuvraj Singh and Abhishek Sharma (Screengrab/X) Abhishek Sharma registered his ninth T20 century and his second-highest score in the IPL, while also batting through the full 20 overs for the first time in his IPL career. His brilliant unbeaten 135 powered Sunrisers Hyderabad to a massive total of 242, which the team successfully defended, sealing…
NEW DELHI: When a senior RSS functionary enters Stanford’s policy-tech circuit and Washington’s strategic think-tank ecosystem — spaces where it has long faced scrutiny — the move reads less as routine outreach and more as a calibrated attempt to contest a global narrative.That is the light in which RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s tour of…
Demis Hassabis thinks the companies cutting engineers to ride the AI wave have got it backwards. The Google DeepMind CEO told WIRED that when developers become three or four times more productive, the smart move is to do three or four times more work, not march people out the door. To him, treating AI gains…
England’s Lauren Bell (NIgel French/PA via AP) Set to be cheered on by a capacity 31,180 crowd, England, who have never lost a World Cup at home — having won on all four occasions previously— will have a formidable task on hand trying to maintain that impressive record when they take on six-time champions Australia,…
Did your builder promised you a swimming pool, clubhouse or gymnasium, but failed to deliver it? The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, better known as RERA, offers homebuyers a legal route for redressal.RERA was introduced to make the real estate sector more transparent and accountable, while protecting buyers from unfair practices. Every state…
A viral Instagram post by creator @ayatzaviyar has reignited an interesting discussion about pregnancy, work culture and the different ways societies care for expecting mothers. In the post, the creator recounts asking a Chinese colleague why he rarely saw pregnant women in public while living in Shanghai for nine months. The answer, he says, changed…
The video, which has attracted over one million views on Instagram, begins with a warning, “You should never go to India”. But what happens next is a surprise we were not expecting. In a now-viral Instagram reel by travel creators Toon and Lin (@noodlesandblisters) from The Hague, the Netherlands, the message has captured the imagination…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has started informing its employees about upcoming layoffs, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the Foundation has sent a memo to its staff informing them to cut up to 500 jobs, or roughly 20% of its workforce. For those unaware, Gates has previously announced plans to…
Curd is probably the most familiar probiotic food in the Indian kitchen. Milk is set with a small amount of starter culture, and the result is a creamy, tangy bowl that is far more than a side dish. It is eaten with rice in the South, whisked into chaas in the North, mixed with spices,…
NEW DELHI: As the special intensive revision of electoral rolls began in Karnataka, chief minister DK Shivakumar urged voters to ensure that their names are on the electoral rolls, saying they could otherwise be excluded from government welfare schemes.While addressing a press conference, he called on citizens to cooperate with election officials by providing the…