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Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin called time on his Indian Premier League (IPL) career last year. The 38-year-old, who represented Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the 2025 edition of the tournament, said that he would now look to “explore” various other opportunities in the leagues around the world. Ashwin represented several teams in the IPL, such as CSK, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, Rising Pune Supergiant, and Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings). However, it is fair to say that he achieved most of his success with the five-time champions CSK. Ravichandran Ashwin called time on his IPL career last week.…

Thiruvananthapuram The Congress appeared resolved on Monday to ensure the attendance of Palakkad legislator Rahul Mamkootathil in the Kerala Assembly session scheduled to commence on September 15 despite political threats to boycott him. The pivot seemingly in Mr Mamkootathil’s favour comes in the wake of several top Congress leaders concluding that the legislator is the victim of a political witch-hunt in the absence of any specific complaint or first information statement against the young leader. The latest Congress tack on the Mamkootathil issue seemingly signals an abandonment of its earlier hard-line position, which was that the leader should resign his Palakkad seat…

It has been more than two decades since an American man won the US Open. As years have passed and styles have changed, at no other point has that ignominious record felt like ending than in today’s aggressive-baseline era. Seven Americans are currently in the world’s top 50 and four of them in the top 20; thanks to their upbringing in the American school of tennis, built around strong serves and flat, powerful groundstrokes that are effective on fast hard courts.The US women’s contingent has produced Major champions consistently, and the current generation of them continues to perform. 2023 champion…

The enterprise adoption of AI, both in India and globally, has shifted away from employee-led initiatives to leadership-driven programmes, with senior executives and middle managers now steering top-down deployment of the technology.For instance, over 80 per cent of Indian business leaders said that they are already familiar with AI agents in comparison to 66 per cent of employees, according to country-specific findings reported by Microsoft India in its annual Work Trend Index (WTI) 2025 report last month. Globally, 79 per cent of leaders believe that AI will accelerate their careers as opposed to 67 per cent of employees. It is…

Kolkata: This is how Shubman Gill’s extraordinary T20I career curve for India looks so far. He made his debut against Sri Lanka in the first week of 2023 and within a month had an unbeaten hundred against New Zealand at a strike rate of 200. It preceded a string of single-digit scores bookending a 47-ball 77 against West Indies in an audacious chase of 178 that was clinched with three overs to spare. By July 2024, he was named vice-captain even though he only made it to the reserves for the T20 World Cup in June. England came calling earlier…

Germany’s defence minister on Monday harshly dismissed as premature remarks by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on plans to send European troops to Ukraine, saying she lacked the mandate to discuss the matter. Von der Leyen told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday that Europe is drawing up “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees that will have the backing of US capabilities. “Those are things that you don’t discuss before you sit down at the negotiating table with many parties that have a say in…

The Tamil Nadu government signed an  MoU with ebm-papst for the expansion of the company’s global capability centre and manufacturing base in the State. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Tamil Nadu government on Monday inked some memoranda of understanding (MoUs) in Germany, including the one with the Munich-headquartered Knorr-Bremse, during Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s ongoing visit to the European nation. The company will invest ₹2,000 crore in the establishment of an advanced facility for making railway doors and braking systems. This will be Knorr-Bremse’s first-ever major manufacturing investment in Tamil Nadu. The project is expected to generate jobs for 3,500 persons. Another MoU was signed with Nordex Group, one of…

Doctors have uncovered evidence that could reshape how heart disease is treated across the globe. For decades, millions of patients at risk of cardiovascular events have been advised to take daily low-dose aspirin, a blood thinner that can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. But new research suggests another drug may be more effective. According to a report by The Guardian, the findings were unveiled at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Madrid and published in The Lancet, with an international team of medics from countries like the US, UK, Australia, Switzerland, and Japan behind the study. “Their comprehensive…

Colton Masi checked off every box in his quest to land a good job in the computer science industry after college.The 23-year-old attended Drexel University, a Philadelphia school distinguished by its focus on real-life job experience. And he majored in software engineering, a discipline he had been hearing his whole life was synonymous with stable, high-paying work. It was all part of his plan to avoid the fate that befell so many millennials after the Great Recession.“When I was 13, I was online all the time.” Colton told Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “I was on Tumblr, and I was…

“India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia, very little from the U.S.,” President Donald Trump said. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (September 1, 2025) claimed that India has now “offered” to cut its tariffs to nothing, “but it’s getting late”, as he said that India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia and very little from the U.S. “What few people understand is that we do very little business with India, but they do a tremendous amount of business with us,” Mr. Trump said in a post…