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Keir Starmer said that those responsible for the disorder and chaos that's spreading across UK towns and cities will be punished for what he described as «far-right thuggery.» «Those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law,» he said from Downing Street on Sunday. «This is not protest, it is organised violent thuggery. And it has no place on our street or online.» Disturbances have taken place in towns and cities including Rotherham, Blackpool and Bristol over the weekend, with a number of police officers attacked and injured. The riots represent one of the biggest challenges facing the month-old Labour government, as it struggles to rein in the unrest.

Man’s Search for Meaning (published in German in 1946, followed by an English translation in 1959), has long occupied a peculiar niche in the publishing industry. Part memoir, part moral philosophy and part psycho-social treatise, you are most likely to find the book in the all-encompassing self-help section, right next to the Dale Carnegies and the Steven Coveys of the world. And in a sense, Man’s Searchis indeed an amalgamation of all the above genres.

Unrest related to misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young girls last week spread to multiple towns and cities on Saturday as anti-immigration demonstrators clashed with police. The violence is posing a major test for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was elected only a month ago after leading Labour to a landslide win over the Conservatives.

Brown Sauce, the two rappers flexing their lyrical muscles over choppy, twitchy percussion and the occasional burbling synth. Within two days, they’d written five tracks. They realised they had an album on their hands.

Jamsetji Tata, the founder of the Tata Group, made a strategic choice in the 1890s to shut down the Tata Shipping Line, demonstrating his willingness to exit from unviable ventures. This tough decision was driven by his effort to break the monopoly of the English P.&O. shipping line that dominated exports from India during the 1880s and 1890s, charging high freight rates and favoring British and Jewish firms. Jamsetji Tata's textile business suffered due to P.&O.'s exorbitant freight rates and discriminatory practices. Determined to challenge this, he traveled to Japan to collaborate with Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), the largest shipping line in Japan. NYK agreed to partner with Jamsetji, provided he took equal risks and managed the ships himself. To launch the 'Tata Line,' he chartered an English ship named 'Annie Barrow' at a fixed rate of 1,050 pounds per month, marking the first venture bearing the Tata name. Believing the Tata Line would lower freight rates for the entire Indian textile industry, Jamsetji set the rates at Rs 12 per tonne, compared to P.&O.'s Rs 19 per tonne. Soon after, he chartered a second ship, 'Lindisfarne.' His efforts received praise, with The Tribune newspaper commenting in October 1894 that it had «been the subject of general praise in the industrial centre of India.»

countries are winning most of the Olympic medals every two years, that's because it's largely true. Even though more than 150 countries and territories have claimed a medal since the modern Games began in 1896, the list of winners is top-heavy. Entering the Paris Summer Games, the United States has the most, by far, with 2,975 medals, according to the International Olympic Committee's research wing. A group of usual suspects follow: the former Soviet Union (1,204), Germany (1,058), Great Britain (955), France (898). Nearly 70 countries and territories, though — roughly a third of the parade of nations — cannot boast an Olympic medalist in any discipline, summer or winter. Some, like South Sudan, which sent its first team to the Olympics in 2016, have only just begun trying. Others, like Monaco, have been at it for more than a century.

Ur, possibly the oldest board game in the world, discovered in a 4,400-year-old royal tomb in Mesopotamia in the 1930s. Mukherjee has a replica he got from the British Museum in London. “It’s a fairly simple two-person game but the rules were discovered much later," he says.

Tilak: The Empire’s Biggest Enemy, in a sense, completes the triumvirate of the three interrelated historical legacies that have shaped modern Maharashtra and dramatically impacted national life. As Tilak’s last major biography in English appeared perhaps half a century ago, this fresh evaluation of his political career is timely given the tectonic shifts that have since taken place in India’s pollical culture.

Based on James Clavell’s epic novel, Shōgun has garnered significant attention, earning 26 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor for Sanada. Originally conceived as a limited series, the show's success has paved the way for the development of additional seasons, expanding the saga beyond Clavell’s original work.

citizenship in 2023, the Congress on Saturday said the exodus of high-skilled and high net worth Indians is an "economic travesty" that will shrink the country's tax revenue base over the next few years. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said business personalities are increasingly relocating to places such as Singapore, UAE, the UK and other places renouncing their Indian citizenship. In a written response to queries on Indian citizens who have renounced their citizenship, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh recently told the Rajya Sabha that more than 2.16 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship in 2023. Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in-charge communications, said the number was almost double than what it was in 2011, at 123,000.

Indian Men's Hockey Team will lock horns with Great Britain in the quarterfinals of the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 on Sunday. The Indian men's hockey team bounced back in the men's competition with a 3-2 win over Australia in their last Pool B match on Friday. It is their first victory against Australia in the Olympics since 1972 Munich games. India bounced back from a 1-2 loss to the defending champions, Belgium, in their previous game. With this victory, India finished second and will now face Great Britain in the quarterfinals of the ongoing marquee event.

Manchester United and Liverpool — will be playing each other but this time in the US. The soccer match will be played in South Carolina on Saturday. Manchester United versus Liverpool soccer match's kick off is scheduled at 7.30 pm (ET) at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia of South Carolina on August 3. Viewers in the US can watch the football match between Liverpool and Manchester United on ESPN and ESPN+. Liverpool are likely to win the game against Manchester United.

Manchester City will play Chelsea at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday. Chelsea defeated Club America while Manchester City were beaten by Barcelona. Manchester City versus Chelsea is scheduled to kick off at 5.30 pm (ET) on Saturday, August 3. One can watch the match on ESPN and ESPN+. Manchester City is predicted to win against Chelsea.

Paris Olympics 2024 live performance on Day 8 is scheduled to start off on August 3, with a plethora of events lying wait to begin, including the likes of the women's 100m final, cycling, artistic gymnastics and a lot more. As 29 gold medals lie in offer for Olympic enthusiasts this time on Day 8 of Paris Olympics, countries like China, Japan, Great Britain, USA and others will be trying to win as many gold as possible to consolidate their positions in the Paris Olympics medal tally.

Evil Season 4 continues its thrilling run. Episode 12 is set to release on Thursday, August 8, 2024, on Paramount+. Fans are eager to see the story unfold further.

Imane Khalif has become the target of politicians, and rabble-rousers and has become the focus of one of the most polarised cultural debates — the inclusion of trans people in sports. After the Algerian boxer defeated her Italian counterpart, Angela Carini in the boxing ring at the Paris Olympics, her victory sparked a global outrage as she was assumed to be a trans woman. Khelif emerged victorious when Carini conceded merely 46 seconds into their welterweight match after enduring several blows to the face. Following Carini's Round of 16 bout in Paris, the Italian Prime Minister criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stating, «Given the testosterone levels in the Algerian athlete's blood, it’s evident that the competition was unfair from the beginning.» In a social media post, American politician Donald Trump promised to ban men from women's sports.

JSW MD and Chairman Sajjan Jindal has declared that his company will gift an MG Windsor car to every Olympic medallist. The industrialist took to social media platform X to make the announcement. «Delighted to announce that every Olympic medalist from Team India will be gifted an MG Windsor, a remarkable car from JSW MG India! Because our best deserve the best, for their dedication and success!» Jindal wrote on X. This announcement comes a day after Morris Garages India launched their new electric car- the MG Windsor CUV.

₹5,922 crore (about $707 million) through a 57.56% promoter stake acquisition, one of the largest cross-border deals in the communications platform space. That was Gupta’s claim to fame: Having bootstrapped a billion-dollar company and selling it to a global peer. Gupta is also a keen investor.

Cameroon, left the country at the age of just 11 with her family, and went to the UK, where she was granted an asylum status. Meanwhile, she has no country to properly call a home but her skills in boxing is already taking her place and winning hearts, be it the 2023 European Games, or the ongoing 2024 Paris Olympics, where she is a part of the Refugee Olympic Team.

This represented a total industry AUM increase of 3% last year thanks to a market rebound, following a 12% drop in 2022.  According to data from the Investment Association, this growth is testament to a return of global appetite in the UK investment management industry, and the ability of investment managers to weather the storm of an era of quantitative easing and lower interest rates.  UK-listed companies accounted for roughly 20% (£780bn) of UK equity AUM, while assets in their North American counterparts stood at 35% of the market share. AXA to sell investment management divisi...