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Bringing up Vaibhav Suryavanshi – from net practice behind Samastipur home to IPL arclights Vaibhav Suryavanshi in the IPL; Vaibhav (with the bat), with his elder brother Ujjwal (at the back), younger brother Ashirwad (right with toy in his hands), and his cousin. (Sportzpics and Special Arrangement) For four years, before the sun made it to the horizon of Tajpur, a small village in Bihar’s Samastipur district, Sanjeev Suryavanshi would set off on a 90-kilometre journey to Patna with his 9-year-old son Vaibhav and a bunch of other boys – a ritual every alternate day. “Vaibhav’s father, my brother, took…

The same disturbing scene plays out in one video after another: Tourists at Yellowstone National Park stand uncomfortably close to a bison, North America’s largest land animal, taking photos and reaching out. In a fraction of a second, the bison goes from standing to charging, and one or more people are thrown backward or even flung into the air.Bison have already gored two people in Yellowstone this year, the same number as last year, despite the National Park Service’s constant warnings that visitors must maintain their distance from wildlife. But bison are far from the only animal you may encounter…

A parliamentary committee in Sri Lanka found the suspended police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon guilty of misconduct and serious abuse of power and recommended his removal, Speaker of Parliament Jagath Wickremaratna said on Tuesday. Addressing Parliament, Wickramaratne confirmed that he has received the full report of the Committee of Inquiry, which has recommended the removal of Tennakoon from the post of inspector general of police. “This Committee, having conducted its inquiries, has unanimously found the officer in question guilty of the allegations brought against him,” Wickremaratna said. Story continues below this ad It is the first time the parliament has acted…

The move comes as other major U.S. banks, including Bank of America and Citibank, are developing stablecoins [File] | Photo Credit: AP JPMorgan Chase is exploring plans to offer loans backed by clients’ cryptocurrency holdings, including bitcoin and ether, as early as next year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.The move comes as other major U.S. banks, including Bank of America and Citibank, are developing stablecoins amid a broader push for more crypto-friendly regulation in Washington.CEO Jamie Dimon, a longtime bitcoin skeptic, recently said that the bank will be involved in stablecoins.JPMorgan declined to…

Floods in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district have damaged dozens of houses, amenities and blocked major highways.A landslide triggered by torrential monsoon rains has killed at least three people in northern Pakistan, according to local officials, as operations continued to rescue 15 missing people. More than eight vehicles were swept away on Monday when heavy rains triggered a landslide on a highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district, Abdul Hameed, Diamer’s district police officer, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday. “Three dead bodies have been recovered and more than 15 are still missing.” Flash floods, collapsed buildings and electrocutions have killed 221 people…

A police officer involved in the 2020 US shooting death of Breonna Taylor has been sentenced to 33 months.

In Patna district’s Koriyawagarh village, there are about 150 households comprising people from the Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs). The villagers mostly include small farmers, daily wagers and those who have migrated for work to states like Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana and Karnataka.At least 30 per cent of these household are said to be dependant on “migrant remittances”. The village falls under the Masaurhi Assembly constituency, held currently by the RJD’s Rekha Paswan. Sudhir Kumar, 31, who works in a Surat cloth factory, recently returned to Koriyawagarh following frantic calls from his family, which…

Bangladesh’s fire service and security personnel conduct a search and rescue operation after an Air Force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on July 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP At least 27 people have been killed after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a private school campus in the south Asian country’s capital, Dhaka, on Monday (July 21, 2025).It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory. In 2008, another F-7 air force training jet crashed outside Dhaka, killing its pilot, who had ejected after he discovered a technical problem.While details are…

The country’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has raised Rs 25,000 crore through qualified institutional placement (QIP) route. The issue is the biggest share sale to institutional investors in the country’s capital market. The fund raised will boost the bank’s common equity tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio – the core equity capital, which indicates a bank’s financial strength. It will enable the bank to further extend credit to various key sectors such as retail and corporate. QIP is one of the capital raising instruments used by listed companies to garner funds by issuing equity shares to qualified institutional…

Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan and actor Hrithik Roshan. | Photo Credit: S Madhuvanthi Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan on Tuesday posted that he was in the hospital to get preventative procedures done after he found out that both of his carotid arteries to the brain were “above 75 per cent blocked”.The 75-year-old actor-filmmaker, who shared the health update with a photograph from the hospital, said he is now back home and fully recovered. “This week has been truly eye opening, during a routine full body health check up the Dr conducting the sonography for the heart suggested I also do one for the…