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Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic has been working on his Greek. Earlier this week, at his family-backed Hellenic Open, Djokovic drew applause from the crowd at Athens’ iconic multi-purpose Panathenaic Stadium when he briefly spoke in the local language, saying ‘Good evening Greece. I love you’ during an on-court interview.Sounding like a platitude that a global tennis star parrots at every city stopover on the calendar? Only it wasn’t. The 24-time Grand Slam champion was ‘breaking the ice’ with people in his new hometown, the Greek capital city of Athens. Djokovic was till recently hailed as ‘Serbia’s greatest ambassador to…

OnePlus is gearing up to unveil its next flagship, the OnePlus 15, at a global launch event on November 13. The new model is expected to focus on performance, thermal efficiency and battery life — three areas where OnePlus has consistently tried to push boundaries. The OnePlus 15 features a 6.78-inch 1.5K LTPO display with a 165Hz refresh rate, promising smooth motion and sharper visuals. It also supports native 165fps gameplay, with a peak brightness of 1800 nits for outdoor visibility and a dim 1 nit option for comfortable night use. Under the hood, the device runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon…

Representative image. | Photo Credit: Reuters As part of a strategy to improve its core business and to scale up competitive advantage as well as margins, wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd., has decided to sharply grow its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) business in the coming years.“We want to increase our EPC share in the overall business to 50% from the current 20% [out of the total 6.5 Gigawatts] so that it gives us competitive advantage. It will give us control on the project execution. It will further improve the number of turbines to be produced. We are working…

NPR’s Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele talk about sports and sports topics. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And now it’s time for sports.(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)SIMON: College football coaching chaos, but, boy, it’s lucrative. And make room for the tallest man in basketball. Sports reporter Michele Steele joins us now. Michele, thanks so much for being with us.MICHELE STEELE: Good morning, Scott.SIMON: Good to be with you. Alabama hosts LSU tonight. But a lot of attention is on the person who isn’t there – fired coach, Brian Kelly. To let him go, they’re going to pay him $54 million. And LSU…

India is driving 8-10 per cent of world economic growth and is poised to power the global growth train in the coming years, said Nilesh Shah, Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra AMC. India is the best-performing emerging market over the long term—outpacing peers with 13.7 per cent annual equity growth from 2020 to 2025, he said. “At 3.5 per cent of global GDP, India may seem a minnow today. But incrementally, we drive 8-10 per cent of world growth, and on PPP (purchasing power parity) terms, our share of expansion nears 18 per cent, India is the engine of global growth…

This holiday season, skip the beard oil and whiskey stones and go straight for the gifts that count–ones that the frequent traveler in your life will carry with them on many journeys to come, or will enjoy during their precious time at home. Here, we’ve hand-selected 50 gift ideas for men, including buzzy international favorites and undiscovered gems from small businesses you might not have heard of (yet). From a timeless leather duffel that’s perfect for weekend trips to at-home accessories that will enrich any guy’s routine, we’ve got you covered with dozens of gifts he’ll actually use and love.…

On fire: In the 2025-26 season, the pacer has scalped 24 wickets in four Ranji games. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR After taking his third five-wicket haul of the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season, in the match against Delhi on Saturday, Auqib Nabi said his ability to swing the ball both ways distinguishes him from many others. On day one of the clash at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, the J&K spearhead finished with figures of 16-5-35-5. He has now claimed 24 wickets in four Ranji games this season. His 44 scalps in the 2024-25 campaign were the most by a…

In the early hours of a day in October in a North Goa mansion, the lights are out throughout the property — except for an office at the far end with a long table, where a team of young designers and coders is burning the midnight oil to build a media franchise spanning board games, novels, video games, films… everything that can be constructed around a fictional world.This is the nerve centre of Maya, a “narrative universe” being crafted by Anand Gandhi, the independent filmmaker behind the philosophical Ship of Theseus, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and the…

An eight-man security cordon surrounds world champion D Gukesh as he walks out of the playing hall at Goa’s Resort Rio on Saturday evening. Usually, it’s the job of these burly men with neon vests bearing the word ‘security’ to escort the 19-year-old past the hundred-odd fans to his hotel lift. Today, they needn’t have bothered. After being eliminated from the FIDE World Cup with a 55-move defeat to Frederik Svane, the teenager had a large ‘do not disturb’ written across his face that would have stopped even the most adventurous selfie seeker dead in their tracks. The Chennai teen…

The Indian AI landscape is experiencing rapid growth, with several homegrown startups leading the charge in developing cutting-edge technology. These companies are focusing on creating AI solutions tailored to India’s unique linguistic and operational challenges, spanning vital sectors like healthcare, customer service, and language technology. Here is a look at five prominent startups, detailing their core focus, their LLMs, and their key capabilities. Qure.ai  Qure.ai is building artificial intelligence solutions aimed at making healthcare more accessible and equitable worldwide, especially in diagnostics. Their primary focus is on using deep learning and computer vision to analyse medical images like X-rays and…