Cricket
IPL 2021, Qualifier 1: MS Dhoni’s fiery cameo helps CSK enter record 9th final with 4-wicket win over DC
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 173 for 6 (Gaikwad 70, Uthappa 63*, T Curran 3-29) beat Delhi Capitals 172 for 5 (Shaw 60, Pant 51*, Hazlewood 2-29) by four wickets
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Robin Uthappa's century stand laid the base for CSK, rendering fifties from Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant in vain
Dubai: The ageless Mahendra Singh Dhoni produced...
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) leaves the Senate Chamber after a cloture vote regarding the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Saturday, August 7, 2021. - Photographer: Greg Nash
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said on Sunday that there is "a lot left to be learned" about former President Trump's efforts to overturn the election.
Host Chuck Todd asked Whitehouse on NBC's...
OCTOBER 10, 2021
MUMBAI: Pilots who don’t use their flying licence for over three straight years stand to lose it, according to an amendment to the existent aviation regulations, proposed recently by the civil aviation ministry. For thousands of jobless pilots in India, the draft amendment, if passed, would mean spending thousands of rupees every three years to fly in...
OCTOBER 10, 2021
JAMMU: Union Minister of State for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and PMO, Jitendra Singh, on Sunday said the Modi-led government is giving special impetus to agriculture start-ups.
While attending the concluding ceremony of 5-day long Northern India Regional Agriculture Fair 2021 as chief guest at SKUAST Jammu.the Union Minister said, "This is the golden period of Agriculture...
OCTOBER 10, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director and CBS News contributor Chris Krebs said Sunday that efforts to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system have put the country in a "death spiral."
As CISA director, Krebs headed the Rumor Control site for the 2020 election, and he was fired by former President Trump...
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Adam Schiff in Washington DC. ‘We are prepared to go forward and urge the justice department to criminally prosecute anyone who does not do their lawful duty,’ he told CBS’s Face the Nation. - Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
The House select committee investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January is prepared to urge...
Asia
Taiwanese president responds to Xi’s call for peaceful reunification: Island will not ‘bow to pressure’
OCTOBER 10, 2021
President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during Taiwan National Day celebrations Sunday in Taipei. - Ritchie B Tongo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
Taiwan will not “bow to pressure” from China for reunification, President Tsai Ing-wen said in a speech Sunday before a parade and military ceremony marking Taiwan’s National Day.
The island will continue to develop and invest in its defensive capabilities, Tsai said,...
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Just a few months ago, videos from Kolar in Karnataka had gone viral showing tomato farmers there dumping truckloads of their crop on the roadside due to the low prices they were getting and a fall in demand.
Things have taken a dramatic turn now, with the retail price of tomatoes in Bengaluru going up as high as Rs 60...
Asia
History of invaders being used to demonize Indian Muslims, says Shashi Tharoor | India Today Conclave 2021
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2021, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the history of Muslim invaders is being "instrumentalised" to demonize Indian Muslims.
"When you ask, rightly, why is today's Muslim feeling offended when Ghazni or Ghori are denounced, the answer is because it is instrumentalised to demonize them today," said Shashi Tharoor.
"Partition, split of the nationalist...
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Bank of America announced on Wednesday that it has raised its U.S. minimum hourly wage to $21, the next step in the company’s plans to increase the pay to $25 by 2025.
With employees getting paid $21 per hour, their annualized salary comes out to $43,680.
In May, the company announced that all of its U.S. vendors were required to pay their employees dedicated...










































































































