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It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that England’s run-rate in the Lord’s Test against India was well under its usual lofty standards.Ever since coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes joined hands in June 2022, the Englishmen’s run-scoring graph has seen more crests than troughs. It was a different England that set out to bat against India in the third Test, though. Stokes’ decision to bat first, too, was unusual for the team under this new regime. Only two times have England chosen to bat first in home Tests since June 2022; the other instance being the 2023 Birmingham Test against Australia. The…

Samsung Electronics chairman, Jay Y. Lee. File | Photo Credit: Reuters South Korea’s top court upheld on Thursday (July 17, 2025) a not guilty verdict for the chairman of Samsung Electronics Jay Y. Lee, Yonhap News Agency said, backing two lower court rulings clearing him of accounting fraud and stock manipulation related to an $8 billion merger in 2015.The Supreme Court’s verdict permanently removes a long-running legal distraction for Mr. Lee as Samsung plays catch-up in a global race to develop cutting-edge AI chips.The Supreme Court upheld an appeals court’s ruling dismissing all the charges in the case involving the…

In a major move to boost public investment in India’s renewable energy sector, the Union Cabinet has approved state-owned NTPC Ltd to invest up to Rs 20,000 crore in its subsidiary NTPC Green Energy Ltd, an amount earlier limited to Rs 7,500 crore. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday also made certain exemptions to allow NLC India Ltd to invest Rs 7,000 crore in its subsidiary NLC India Renewables Limited (NIRL). The enhancement of NTPC’s investment limit in its subsidiary NTPC Green Energy comes months after the latter launched its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2024,…

Israel has launched a series of intense strikes on Damascus, Syria’s capital, intensifying a campaign it says is in support of an Arab minority group. Syria, on Wednesday, strongly condemned Israeli attacks, denouncing the strikes as a “dangerous escalation.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Israel of pursuing a “deliberate policy” to  “inflame tensions, spread chaos and undermine security and stability in Syria”. The strikes killed three people and injured 34, according to Syrian officials. Here is what we know: What happened in Syria on Wednesday? Israel carried out a series of air strikes on central Damascus, hitting a compound…

Grappling with various challenges from within and outside the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti in Maharashtra, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde has joined hands with the Republican Sena led by Anandraj Ambedkar, grandson of B R Ambedkar, ahead of the state’s local body elections slated later this year.Both Shinde and Anandraj together made this announcement at a press conference in Mumbai Wednesday. The Shinde Sena seems to have forged this alliance with a view to boosting its prospects in the upcoming local body elections, especially the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls. Story continues below this ad It indicated…

Deepti Sharma played one of the best knocks of her career in what was turning out to be tricky run-chase at The Rose Bowl in Southampton as India took a 1-0 lead in three-match ODI series. Coming into bat at 124/4 in a run-chase of 259, Deepti struck an unbeaten 62 off 64 balls and stitched together a 90-run partnership with Jemimah Rodrigues, who was once again impressive at No 5 for India. With a little help from Amanjot Kaur in the end, who played a handy cameo of 20 off 14 balls, India got home in 48.2 overs to…

A little over two centuries ago, British capitalist Stamford Raffles planted a trading post at Malaysia’s dangling tip and named it after Singapura, ancient Sanskrit for “lion city.” Laborers from China, India, and greater Malaysia heaved mountains of earth into the muddy estuary of the Singapore River to create new land for developers to lay the city-state’s foundations. The investment paid off, at least for the capitalists. Singapore, today about the size of New York City, is a global commercial center—a safe, efficient, English-speaking, litter-free outpost for Western companies in search of Asian markets, and vice versa.  Sure, jaded leisure…

Sayfollah Musallet was a brother, a son and an ambitious young man who was just at the beginning of his life. That is the message his family has repeated since July 11, when the 20-year-old United States citizen was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the village of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank. That message, they hope, will prevent the Florida-born Sayfollah from becoming “just another number” in the growing list of Palestinian Americans whose killings never find justice. That’s why his cousin, Fatmah Muhammad, took a moment amid her grief on Wednesday to remember the things she…

Beverage giant declines to either confirm or deny change to ingredients in its signature soft drink.United States President Donald Trump has announced that Coca-Cola will start using cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup in its US-made soft drink at his urging. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola.” Trump said the switch would be a “very good move”, adding: “You’ll see.…

A tribal adivasi woman preparing her hut ahead of monsoon season in Gujarat. File | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gujarat has become the first Indian State to launch a genome sequencing initiative focused exclusively on tribal communities.At a high-level consultation chaired by State Tribal Development Minister Kuber Dindor here, the Tribal Genome Sequencing Project was announced with the aim of identifying genetic health risks and enabling precision healthcare for tribal populations. The initiative will sequence the genomes of 2,000 individuals from tribal communities across 17 districts in the State.The project, titled “Creation of Reference Genome Database for Tribal Population in…