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Tommy Fleetwood put plenty of demons to rest by winning the PGA Tour Championships, and ending his 163-event-long drought on golf’s premier tour. A leading role in Europe’s memorable away victory in the Ryder Cup a few months later only reinforced that, after punching considerably below his weight for long, the World No.5 had finally got confidence to showcase his best on the big stage.The problem with a breakthrough, though, is doing it all over again once the euphoria settles. Winning is one thing and to keep winning is entirely another. Yet another triumphant week, at the DP World India…

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With great tech gadgetry, comes the need for a great number of power outlets. One of the biggest headaches for those of us who use gadgets on our travels or outside our homes (and most of us do) is finding power outlets to charge them. Whether it is cafes, airports or hotel rooms, there is inevitably a search to find plug points where one can plug in and charge gadgettry that ranges from mobile phones to notebooks to tablets to TWS to cameras and portable speakers. Yes, power banks can help in some cases but guess what? They need to…

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Logo of TVS Supply Chain Solutions. Photo: Special Arrangement The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has dismissed an insolvency plea against the Indian unit of telecom gear manufacturer ZTE filed by TVS Supply Chain Solutions after observing a pre-existing dispute between the parties.A Chandigarh-based bench of the NCLT, the debt claimed by TVS Supply Chain Solutions was disputed and under reconciliation dating back to 2017, well before the statutory demand notice.”In view of these facts, we hold that this being a case of preexisting dispute, the Application under Section 9 is not at all maintainable,” said the NCLT Bench, comprising…

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The annual Kambala (slush track buffalo race) organised by Karnataka State Kambala Association will kick start in the coastal belt on November 15 with the first event scheduled to be held at Panapila.The association has scheduled 25 races during the season, which will end on April 25 next year, with the last race to be held at Badagabettu. The races will be held on Saturdays, with only one race at Ballamanja scheduled for December 7, which is a Sunday.The Mangaluru Kambala has been scheduled on December 27.Belapu Deviprasad Shetty, president of the association, told The Hindu that they recently decided…

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Under the forest tapestry of fluffy fruit bats and intersecting branches, I crept closer to a prehistoric-looking giant tortoise that had taken refuge in the shade of some shrubbery. My presence on Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean was improbable for a number of reasons. The world’s second-largest coral atoll is not only extremely remote (it’s about 700 miles from Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles), but it also requires visitors to adhere to intense biosecurity measures. The atoll is home to 100,000 giant tortoises, the largest population in the world, as well as to nearly 400 other endemic species…

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Country’s second largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Sunday announced that it will donate Rs 625 crore for cancer care. The spending to build a 11-storey building at TMC’s (Tata Memorial Centre) Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer in Navi Mumbai will be part of the Rs 1,800 crore commitment to construct three facilities across the country announced earlier. The 11-storey building with a ground floor and two basements will span across 3.4 lakh square feet, and will house 12 Linear Accelerators (LINACs), and other advanced cancer care equipment, an official statement said. Story continues below…

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Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer worldwide. MIBC, which represents 30% of all bladder cancers, is a type of cancer that grows into the muscle layer of the bladder wall | Image used for representational purpose onlly | Photo Credit: Getty Images Pfizer and Japanese firm Astellas’ drug Padcev, combined with Merck’s Keytruda, lowered the risk of tumor recurrence, progression or death in patients suffering from a type of bladder cancer, the companies said on Saturday.The late-stage trial studied patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who were ineligible for or declined chemotherapy with the commonly used cancer drug,…

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