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India vs Bangladesh LIVE score 1st Test Day 3: Gill departs after scoring maiden ton vs BAN
India vs Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 3, LIVE cricket score and updates, ball by ball commentary: Shubman Gill has kept India in cruise control in the second innings. Catch all the LIVE UPDATES here!
Burkina Faso allegedly gives Russia’s Wagner Group gold mine for help against jihadi violence
Allegedly, Burkina Faso has traded a gold mine for ensuring Wagner Group’s assistance. Jihadi violence, reportedly, has claimed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people
'Glory to Hong Kong' or 'March of the Volunteers': What is Hong Kong's national anthem and the row over it?
Hong Kong and Chinese government officials are miffed with Google after the tech giant refused to change search results over the national anthem results. The city had demanded that the search engine bury results for 'Glory to Hong Kong', a popular protest song, which they denied
Riddle me This: How an Indian PhD student solved a 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem
Rishi Atul Rajpopat, in his PhD thesis at Cambridge University, has cracked a grammatical error that scholars have been unable to solve since 5th Century BC. He has decoded a rule taught by Pāṇini, a master of Sanskrit language who lived around 2,500 years ago
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FIFA World Cup: In Qatar, women fans shrug off worries over dress codes
In the lead-up to the World Cup, the Qatari government, FIFA and national governments advised people attending to respect local customs
Drivers are stuck in limbo as world's oil supply reshuffles
Drivers now hope the situation doesn't get worse after a series of cutbacks tied to Russia's war in Ukraine, accidents and the slowing global economy have strained the world's oil supply
Three years after COVID-19, how prepared are we for the next pandemic
The WHO is currently working on updating its list of priority pathogens, which could pose the next pandemic threat. Coronaviruses and influenza viruses will be among the main suspects because of their proven pandemic potential
India vs Bangladesh: DRS stops functioning as hosts appeal against Shubman Gill
The incident happened in the 32nd over of India’s second innings. Shubman Gill was batting on 70 when he was appealed against, but the impact seemed outside the off stump.
Explained: The success story behind Avatar from the time it came out
With the release of Avatar 2, this week, here is a look at the why James Cameron’s movie Avatar was so successful when it was released in 2009.
US: Senate passes defense bill rescinding COVID vaccine mandate
The Senate passed the defense policy bill by a vote of 83-11. The measure also received broad bipartisan support in the House last week
"Essence of Kabaddi is in its simplicity," says Abhishek Bachchan
"May the best team win," says Abhishek Bachchan as he extends best wishes to Pro Kabaddi teams.
India Week 2023: Reimgining India-UK future after FTA deal
A Free Trade Agreement between India and the UK is expected to enhance economic growth and prosperity by increasing import and export flows; increasing investment flows (both outward and inward); enhancing productivity through a more efficient allocation of resources; and greater openness to interna
US air defence systems in Ukraine 'legitimate' targets': Russia
US officials said Tuesday that Washington was poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles that have crippled much of the country's vital infrastructure
IPL 2023 Auction Action: Dominance of Jammu & Kashmir - 21 Players Set to Spark Intense Bidding War in Kochi
From 10 names in the 2022 auction list, it has swelled to a healthy 21 for this year’s mini-auction. It is the biggest number and Karnataka, UP, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi are a distant second with 16 names each in the shortlist of 405.
WHO drew premature link between children deaths in Gambia, India-made cough syrups: DCGI
The DCGI reiterated full cooperation and collaboration with WHO and said Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation(CDSCO) has already shared available details with WHO regularly.
WATCH: Washington Post chief announces job cuts, walks out without answering questions
The Washington Post guild released a video of Fred Ryan, CEO, leaving the meeting without answering questions posed by some of his employees. The management said that the job cuts would not reduce the size of the newsroom
Kate Winslet says, 'We are consistently looking for the younger actors,' gets lauded by Kareena Kapoor, Anushka Sharma
The Titanic star's video was shared by People's Magazine and Kareena, Anushka couldn't stop raving about her words.
‘Tis the Season: How Christmas has become an American holiday tradition
Christmas trees and gift-giving on 24 December did not spread to other European Christian cultures until the late 18th Century, and did not arrive in North America until the 1830s. With the passage of a law on 28 June 1870, the festival became an American holiday tradition
US says its African partners don't want the Wagner Group in their countries
According to Blinken, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin’s infamous Wagner Group has left a trail of havoc and violence 'quite literally across the continent of Africa' in pursuit of mineral wealth and other 'exploitative goals'
Turkey: Car bomb wounds eight police officers
“There was an explosion in a parked vehicle at 5:10 am (local time) as a police vehicle was going to work in Diyarbakir,” Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu said
