APRIL 8, 2022
LONDON: UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak has hit back at accusations that he is profiting from Indian wife Akshata Murthy’s non-domicile status in Britain, saying she has a career independent of him, can make her own choices, and is not “her husband’s possession”.
“To smear my wife to get at me is awful,” Sunak, 41, said...
APRIL 8, 2022
Mahela Jayawardene (L) and Kumar Sangakkara (Getty Images)
Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara have not minced words. Roshan Mahanama, Sanath Jayasuriya and Marvan Attapattu have taken to the streets. Sri Lanka’s sporting legends have risen against the government as fuel scarcity mounts, starvation looms, inflation skyrockets and blackouts become regular.
In the IPL now, Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara have...
APRIL 8, 2022
New Delhi: The much-awaited and auspicious festival of Ram Navami is on April 10 this year. After the 9-day festivity of Chaitra Navratri coinciding with Ram Navami on Sunday, devotees are looking forward to welcoming the birthday of Lord Rama.
Since Ayodhya is the birthplace of Lord Ram, the celebrations at the spiritual site are remarkable and breathtaking every...
APRIL 7, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt over his efforts to stonewall her civil tax fraud investigation.
In court filings Thursday, James' office said Trump failed to comply with a judge's order to turn over subpoenaed documents and asked the judge to fine him $10,000 a day until...
APRIL 6, 2022
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveyev seen during a welcome ceremony after arriving at the International Space Station. Roscosmos via AP
Russian cosmonauts sparked speculation after they wore yellow-and-blue spacesuits last month.
They later said they wore those colors to represent their university, not to symbolize the Ukrainian flag.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei...
APRIL 6, 2022
Solar flare geomagnetic storm
With the solar cycle ramping up and the Sun is spitting out plasma in the vacuum of space, Earth is in the splash zone. The Space Weather Prediction Center under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has predicted a solar radiation storm on Wednesday and Thursday as the Sun spits filaments of plasma...
APRIL 6, 2022
India has not officially reported any confirmed cases of the XE variant. The Mumbai civic body on Wednesday announced the first case of the XE variant, though the central government disagreed with the findings.
The centre's research body, INSACOG, stated that the case will have to be re-examined. "There is a need to reconfirm the case and find...
APRIL 4, 2022
Brooklyn-based Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab has bagged her first-ever Grammy on Sunday. This win must be special for Pakistan as Arooj is the first Pakistani woman to receive the prestigious trophy. Arooj won the award for her song 'Mohabbat' in the Best Global Music Performance category.
"@Arooj_Aftab`s "Mohabbat" wins Best Global Music Performance at the 2022 #GRAMMYs. Aftab...
APRIL 4, 2022
The term Web 3.0 is gaining popularity as a result of the introduction of NFTs and metaverse, but it is not a wholly new phenomenon.
Web 3.0 refers to the next generation of the internet, in which websites and apps will be able to handle data in a human-like manner using technologies such as machine learning (ML), Big...
APRIL 4, 2022
Celebrating a champagne performance - Alyssa Healy gets drenched by Beth Mooney © Getty Images
Australia continued their dominance of women's cricket with a 71-run win against England in Sunday's World Cup final. Alyssa Healy's 170 set the platform for her side to add to the global Twenty20 title they already held, prompting BBC Radio 5...
