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The WNBA All-Star Game is this weekend in Indianapolis. Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark won’t be playing, but plenty of other superstars will be on the court for the game and three-point contest.

Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI What started off as a small experiment — a ₹2 “platform fee” on Swiggy in 2023 — has now grown into an industry standard across e-commerce and quick commerce platforms alike. The fee is no longer ₹2 either: Swiggy now charges ₹10 as a platform fee. There is GST applicable on top of this: one user fumed on social media site Reddit two years ago: “There’s now a GST on platform fee. A fee Zomato/Swiggy invented.” The fees are netting relatively modest sums — Zomato said in its report for…

“What does everyone wear on the plane?” a colleague recently asked in the office. Before I had a chance to recommend our best leggings for flight days, she continued: “Don’t say leggings. They’re comfy, but personally I think they’re too casual to wear outside the gym.” Such is the plight of the fashion-forward traveler. How does one balance feeling genuinely comfortable in an economy seat without dressing like they’re about to settle in for the night or got lost on the way to a HIIT class?Flared leggings might be the answer. While skinny jeans and bodycon dresses have long been…

Handala is the new Freedom Flotilla vessel carrying activists and humanitarian aid to challenge the Israeli blockade.

Indian families could end up spending $91 billion on foreign education for their children in 2030, up from $44 billion in 2024, with the money they lose due to exchange rate markups and fees charged by traditional banking players potentially approaching half a billion US dollars.According to a report by global payments firm Wise and Redseer Strategy Consultants, released on Friday, around a quarter of the annual foreign education spending of Indians — amounting to roughly $11 billion in 2024 — is met through money transferred overseas from India, with the rest largely coming from earnings and financial support within…

Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda in a still from ‘Saiyaara’  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement After delivering logs of deadwood, Mohit Suri, who loves to paint doomed romance on celluloid, returns to his Aashiqui roots with a fresh coat of mush whose ebbs and flows make one feel volatile and vulnerable in equal measure. An uplifting tale of unalloyed love whose pathos leaves its soot on the young souls, Saiyaaracarries the brooding intensity of a Mahesh Bhatt romance in the body of a maudlin Yash Raj love story.With mental health as the villain of the piece, the story echoes the…

An international deal has been struck that has allowed Venezuelans deported from the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador to return to their home country, in exchange for the release of American citizens and political prisoners held in Venezuela. On Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that 10 Americans had been released as part of the deal. “Thanks to @POTUS’s [the president of the United States’] leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom,” Rubio wrote on social media. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele also celebrated the deal, saying that all…

Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, recently created a new division called Superintelligence Labs, which will focus on developing artificial general intelligence and work on next-gen large language models. Led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, in the last few days, Meta has been poaching AI experts left and right by offering them multi-million-dollar pay packages. Now, a Bloomberg report suggests that Meta has hired Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, two AI researchers who previously worked at Apple. While Lee has already started working, citing sources familiar with the…

Members of the Salvadorian army stand guard at maximum security penitentiary CECOT on April 4, in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. Alex Peña/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Peña/Getty Images BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela has freed 10 Americans as part of a larger prisoner exchange for Venezuelan detainees released from El Salvador, the U.S. and Salvadoran governments said Friday. In a statement from the State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “the United States welcomes home ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela.” “We also welcome the release of Venezuelan political prisoners and detainees that were also released…

Flask movie review: Whenever watching something penned and/or directed by Rahul Riji Nair, a sense of semi-dissatisfaction often lingers in my mind. This isn’t because his works are outright poor, but more because of how weakly he develops scenes that had the potential to soar and end up settling at a middling level. Take the series Jai Mahendran (2024), written by Rahul and directed by Srikanth Mohan, for instance. Although its premise is quite outdated, it still could have been crafted into a light-hearted watch offering some genuine laughs and a bit of relaxation for the audience. Even his earlier…