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The 17-year-old Indian squash sensation Anahat Singh, who recently won the u-19, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles Asian titles, played her maiden senior World championships in Chicago in May this year. She reached the second round, beating American Marina Stefanoni (World No. 26) and losing to Egyptian  Fayrouz Aboelkheir (World No. 13).Shortly after the Worlds, she won the women’s and mixed doubles National titles with Joshna Chinappa and Abhay Singh, respectively, at the Indian Squash and Triathlon Academy (ISTA) in Chennai. On the first day of the event, Anahat, who later in June was honoured with the Women’s Challenger Player of the Season and the Women’s Young Player of the Season…

England survived a courageous second innings fightback by India’s Ravindra Jadeja on the final day of the third Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.England beat India by 22 runs on a final day of simmering tension and high drama in the third Test at Lord’s to move 2-1 up in the best-of-five series. Shoaib Bashir bowled Mohammed Siraj for four to seal victory, India’s number 11 playing a defensive stroke before the ball trickled down the face of his bat and rolled on to the stumps as he watched on in disbelief. As the England players celebrated wildly late…

Approximately half of Fortune 500 companies have set up their Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday, adding that GCCs currently employ nearly 2.16 million professionals and the number is expected to go up to 2.8 million by 2030. “All the GCCs in India employ nearly 2.16 million professionals. The CAGR at which it has grown is 11 per cent over the last five years. And this number of 2.16 million is expected to go to 2.80 million by 2030. This is a very conservative number,” she said at Confederation of Indian Industry’s…

An American doctor has told Al Jazeera that Israeli troops confiscated formula for starving babies.

At a time when the BJP is attempting to corner the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in Bengal over the issue of undocumented immigration from Bangladesh, accusing it of turning a blind eye to the alleged problem because of electoral compulsions, the Mamata Banerjee-led party has attempted to counter by raising the issue of alleged mistreatment of Bengali migrant labourers in other states such as Odisha, Delhi, and Assam.On Wednesday, Banerjee will lead a rally in Kolkata in protest against the “humiliation” of Bengali migrant workers. Her party believes the issue can have broad resonance, given the huge number of people…

A very exhausted but satisfied England skipper Ben Stokes on Monday reveled what was going through his mind when he ran out India’s most in-form batter in the series in Rishabh Pant in the 2nd innings of the match on Day 3. The dismissal with Pant batting at 74, turned out to be a pivotal moment of the match, the ripple effect of which was felt throughout as India lost to England by 22 runs on day 5 to go 1-2 down in the series. “I had bowled an important spell, I was pretty pumped up, very important position at…

In the late 1950s, my great-uncle Alex took a woman named Roslyn on a date to Pellegrini’s, a cafe that had opened a few years earlier on Bourke Street in Melbourne. It was touting the latest thing: real Italian coffee made by real Italians. Leo and Vildo Pellegrini had arrived in Australia after the war to find what was, in their eyes, a coffee desert. They imported one of the country’s first true espresso machines, a Gaggia—and the city never looked back. In fact, Melbourne had been obsessed with coffee since the 1880s, when the temperance movement led to the…

President Trump meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP MOSCOW — President Trump on Monday threatened to punish Russia with heavy tariffs on countries that trade with Moscow if the Kremlin fails to reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine, while promising Kyiv “billions of dollars” worth of military equipment. “We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,” Trump said during a White House meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. “I use trade for a lot…

B. Saroja Devi in the 1977 Kannada film ‘Bhagyavantharu’, B Saroja Devi, who passed away at 87 on Monday (July 14, 2025), is a great example of a self-made star. Debuting in Kannada with Mahakavi Kalidasa (1955), she broke the glass ceiling to become a pan-India phenomenon and came to be hailed as the first female superstar of Kannada cinema.In an industry dominated by male stars, Saroja Devi carved a niche for herself. Be it with Dr Rajkumar in Kannada, MG Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan in Tamil, or N.T. Rama Rao in Telugu, Saroja Devi maintained a strong screen presence opposite some of the biggest…

A Glaucus atlanticus eats a Porpita. Both are residents of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Oxford Scientific/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Oxford Scientific/Getty Images A Glaucus atlanticus eats a Porpita. Both are residents of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Oxford Scientific/Getty Images Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave’s summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the seas. They hang out at the nexus of the…