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School girl of Indian ethnicity seating at corridor with laptop . Coronavirus Outbreak. Lockdown and school closures. Indian school small girl watching online education classes at home. COVID-19 pandemic forces children online learning. | Photo Credit: Umesh Negi Over the past decade, the share of private schools and the proportion of boys and girls enrolled in them have both increased across India, likely reinforcing each other. However, the share of girls attending private schools remains considerably lower than that of boys. In other words, while parents increasingly prefer private schooling, a considerable share of them still shows a slight preference…

Venus Williams certainly rolled back the years on Tuesday night in Washington as she secured her 819th tour-level win, aged 45. Securing the same scoreline as her first-ever victory 31 years ago when she was 14, Venus became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match in professional tennis, delivering some of her familiar big serves and groundstrokes while beating Peyton Stearns — 22 years her junior — by a 6-3, 6-4 score at the DC Open. This was the first singles victory for Williams in nearly two years. The only older woman to win a match was Martina…

Florida deputies have been accused of punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop in February after a video of the incident went viral and sparked a nationwide outrage, as civil rights lawyers condemned the sheriff’s department in Jacksonville, Florida. The footage shows William McNeil Jr, 22, recording the video as he sat in the driver’s seat asking to speak to Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor after deputies pulled him over. He’s heard asking questions about why he was stopped when the authorities broke the glass of the window, punched him in the face and pulled him…

A General Motors logo is seen at the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich. on Jan. 27, 2020. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP In a quarterly earnings call with investors, the chief financial officer of General Motors said Tuesday morning that tariffs cost the company approximately $1.1 billion over three months, bringing the company’s profit margin from 9% down to 6.1% — that is, from meeting their target profitability to falling several percentage points short. CFO Paul Jacobson said that so far, the company has only been able to reduce the blow to profits by…

Putting an end to speculation about his health, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, 75, opened up about undergoing “preventive procedures done” following a recent health scare. “This week has been truly eye-opening. During a routine full-body health check-up up, the doctor conducting the sonography for the heart suggested I also do one for the neck. By chance, we found out that although asymptomatic, both my carotid arteries to the brain were above 75 per cent blocked. Which, if ignored, could be potentially dangerous. I immediately admitted myself into the hospital and got the preventative procedures done (sic),” said Rakesh on his Instagram.…

Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics medals are displayed during the unveiling ceremony in Venice, Italy, on July 15. Luigi Costantini/AP hide caption toggle caption Luigi Costantini/AP COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Trump. The change, announced Monday with a quiet change on the USOPC’s website and confirmed in a letter sent to national governing bodies, follows a similar step taken by the NCAA earlier…

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U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade framework with Japan on Tuesday (July 22, 2025), placing a 15% tax on goods imported from that nation.“This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that the United States “will continue to always have a great relationship with the Country of Japan.”Mr. Trump said Japan would invest “at my direction” $550 billion into the U.S. and would “open” its economy to American autos and rice. The 15% tax…

BREAKINGBREAKING, US president says Japanese exports will be subject to a 15 percent tariff under the trade agreement.United States President Donald Trump has announced that he has struck a “massive” trade deal with Japan following months of fraught negotiations. Under the agreement announced on Tuesday, the US will impose a 15 percent tariff on Japanese exports and Japan will invest $550bn in the US, Trump said. “We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States,…

As a major technology player that appears supportive of bitcoin, Figma has already drawn attention on social media [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design software firm prepares for a debut on the NYSE that could inject fresh momentum into a resurgent market for tech listings.The San Francisco-based company, along with some investors, is eyeing proceeds of up to $1.03 billion by selling nearly 37 million shares priced between $25 and $28 each, it said on Monday.The listing could be a major…