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Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 27 (ANI): Two-time Olympic medalist shuttler PV Sindhu offered prayers to Lord Venkateshwara at Tirumala on Friday along with her businessman husband Venkata Datta Sai with who she recently tied the knot. Sindhu tied the knot with Venkata at a luxurious resort in Udaipur on Sunday. Following that, a grand reception was thrown in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Recently, Sindhu ended her B

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently published a widely read opinion piece claiming that Brian Thompson, the United Health Group insurance CEO that Luigi Mangione assassinated, is the “real working-class hero” in the story of Thompson’s murder. By Stephen’s reckoning, Thompson and not Mangione deserves the label because the murder victim came from a More

Wolves are desperate to keep Matheus Cunha, who highlighted his quality with a Boxing Day goal against Manchester United, as the club's new manager makes his views clear on the transfer interest

Donald Trump and the Marlboro Man are case studies of branding success. When Philip Morris introduced the cowboy on its ads in 1955, sales were at $5 billion. Two years later, sales were at $20 billion. Ellen Merlo, the vice president of marketing services at Philip Morris, described the cowboy image as “very rugged, individualistic, heroic.” Rugged and individualistic is exactly the image Trump tries to portray. Why else go to WWE Raw events or a college football game? How else to describe his raised fist cry “Fight... Читать дальше...

We expect good margins in the animal feed sector. We have invested a lot in R&D for animal feed. It makes the feed lower cost and more efficient. So, the environmental impact is also less and we are very pleased with our efforts in this area. So, even with high commodity prices, we hope to have good margins because of the efficiency of our feeds.

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos.  Once contact with the transcendent is lost, existence in the world ceases to be possible. –Mircea Eliade, quoted in The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone In Hinduism, the term Kali Yuga refers to the last of four More

What do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have in common? They’re all sports superstars, of course. But they’re also something else: Hard-core gambling addicts. Mayweather, Jr. regularly gambles as much as $400,000 on college football games. He reportedly once won $3 million on a single Orange Bowl contest. But his biggest bet More

(Photo credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images) Victor Wembanyama enjoyed a memorable performance on Wednesday against the New York Knicks but was not a fan of the outcome for the San Antonio Spurs. After his 42 points and 18 rebounds were not enough to earn visiting San Antonio a victory in his first NBA appearance on Christmas Day, Wembanyama and the Spurs will attempt to avoid a third straight loss Friday night when they op

The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power replacing failed neoliberal policies. Since, they have had to More

The U.N.'s Global Digital Compact is the first universal agreement on the international governance of AI. It seeks to ensure an open and equitable digital future for all.

Mrs Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh in March 1999.

As a Jew in a Catholic college, one of two Jewish students in my class, I had to take lots of philosophy. My motivation for going to this particular school was the high school teachers I admired who had graduated from there and the academic major I wanted to study. The school also had a More

Nigerian women recruited to work as domestic helpers in the Middle Eastern country say they face severe abuse.

Born on the West Coast, educated at Cal, and now at the helm at Berkeley’s Heyday Books, Steve Wasserman has crafted a name and a career for himself over the past several decades as a polemical writer, brilliant editor, savvy publisher and as an (aging) enfant terrible who has declared cultural war on Berkeley, on More

Delhi University already reserves one seat per course for single girl child at the undergraduate level, a policy introduced in the 2023-24 admission cycle

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.” For more than fourteen painful months Israel has passed off its inhuman actions against the people of Gaza as “defensive.” We are More

This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands of militias that pillaged homes and laid waste to entire communities.” Those militias “tortured civilians, kidnapped for ransom, massacred dozens in vendetta killings and razed entire villages, sowing more than More

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Cubans numbering hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. (See photos and video here.)  President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up U.S. efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government. Earlier that day, President Díaz-Canel addressed this year’s closing session of Cuba’s More

The total bid value for this project, including operations and maintenance (O&M) for a duration of three years, amounts to around Rs ₹897.47 crore, inclusive of taxes and duties

From new wage measures to shifts in mobility infrastructure, Luxembourg is set for a year of transformation as several new laws and changes come into effect in 2025.

I can remember clearly the rush of joy I felt when I heard the almost unbelievable news that the last three members of the Cuban 5, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino, had landed in Havana on December 17th, 2014 after sixteen years of unjust incarceration in U.S. prisons. (The other two members of More

A total of 15,353 shares changed hands on the counter till time (IST).

This is the sixth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of President-elect Donald Trump. (This week Trump devoted himself to Lébensraum: planting the American flag in Canada, Greenland, and Panama.) Perhaps my favorite one-volume More