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Manchester United have the opportunity to knock Manchester City off their perch when they travel to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday even if they will not be the main beneficiaries of a surprise Premier League win. United’s new minority owner Jim Ratcliffe laid out his plans to return the 20-time English champions to the summit when he completed his acquisition of 27% of the club’s shares this month, including re-establishing the pecking order in the city. With 15 points separating secondplaced City to sixth-placed United, that ambition might take a while to come to fruition.

Follow BJP candidate list Lok Sabha 2024 LIVE Updates here After getting a BJP ticker from the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, Bansuri Swaraj said, "I feel grateful. I express gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah ji, (BJP national chief) JP Nadda ji and every BJP worker for giving me this opportunity. With the resolution of 'ab ki baar 400 paar', every BJP worker will work to make Narendra Modi the 'PradhanSewak' for the third time." Bansuri Swaraj is the daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj.

Bansuri Swaraj who was appointed as the co-convenor of the BJP Delhi's legal cell last year is all set to make her Lok Sabha poll debut after her name was included in the first list of BJP with other top leaders such as Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani and others. Read More: BJP's first list of candidates for 2024 Lok Sabha Polls out; PM Modi to contest from Varanasi. Check full list here «I feel grateful. I express gratitude towards PM Modi, HM Amit Shah ji, JP Nadda ji and every BJP worker for giving me this opportunity. With the resolution of 'ab ki baar 400 paar', every BJP worker will work to make Narendra Modi the 'PradhanSewak' for the third time,» said Bansuri Swaraj. Apart from expressing gratitude to the BJP central figures, she thanked Sangathan Mahamantri Pawan Rana, Jay Panda, her elder sister Alka Gujjar for getting the opportunity to fight in the upcoming polls.

artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal a new form of aggressive prostate cancer which they said could help thousands of lives by revolutionising how the disease is diagnosed and treated in the future. The study, published in the journal Cell Genomics, reveals that prostate cancer, which affects one in eight men in their lifetime, includes two different subtypes termed evotypes. The findings, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, and the University of Manchester, UK, could help provide tailored treatments to each individual patient according to a genetic test which will also be delivered using AI, they said. «Our research demonstrates that prostate tumours evolve along multiple pathways, leading to two distinct disease types,» said lead researcher Dan Woodcock, from the University of Oxford.

Gaza, where nearly 2m Palestinians have been forced out of their homes. Even larger numbers have been displaced in Congo, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine. Most people feel compassion when they see fellow humans fleeing from bombs, bullets or machetes.

Kate Winslet is set to grace the small screen once again in the upcoming miniseries, "The Regime." With an impressive track record, including an Academy Award win for Best Actress, Winslet's involvement promises excellence. Created by Will Tracy, known for his work on «Succession» and «The Menu,» «The Regime» ventures into the realm of satirical brilliance, offering a compelling narrative steeped in class warfare and the complexities of authoritarian rule.

visa rules and immigration policy and more measures are to be proposed and introduced throughout 2024 - being an election year. “Last year, net migration reached a record total of 745,000 which many British people feel is too high," Yash Dubal, director and a senior immigration associate of A Y &J Solicitors, said and further pointed out that the immigration issue is likely to be an ‘election pitch’.

Ramadan started on March 24 and finished on April 21. In countries like United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Turkey, Maldives, Ramadan is likely to start on 11 March. In India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Ramadan is likely to start from 12 March, a report by Hindustan Times has states.

China said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms “should benefit all member states rather than serving the selfish interests of a few”, comments that come days after external affairs minister S Jaishankar said “one non-Western country” was blocking UNSC reforms. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Thursday said member states need to seek the broadest possible consensus for a package solution through serious and thorough consultations when it comes to UNSC reforms.

Vodafone Idea's plans to raise an additional Rs 25,000 crore via the debt route won't cause any financial stress as the telco has sharply cut bank exposure — by almost Rs 35,000 crore — in the past two-and-a-half years and improved operational performance, top company sources told ET. The telecom JV of UK's Vodafone Group and India's Aditya Birla Group (ABG), in fact, is counting on the targeted funding primarily to plug its 4G coverage gaps and rein in customer losses to be able to compete more effectively with bigger rivals, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in its priority markets. The Rs 25,000 crore planned debt funding is in addition to the Rs 20,000 crore that Vi plans to raise via equity and/or equity-linked instruments by the June quarter of FY25.

By Brendan Pierson

GSK CEO Emma Walmsley's total remuneration rose 51% to 12.7 million pounds ($16 million) in 2023, thanks to a big jump in performance-related pay, the British drugmaker's annual report showed on Friday. Walmsley's total pay included 11.1 million pounds in performance bonuses and awards. Her total pay in 2022 was 8.4 million pounds.

Canadians have been experiencing a “wild” winter, from temperatures in the mid-teens in parts of the country around the new year, to deep freezes as recent as Thursday in southern Ontario. It’s safe to say people are hoping for a calmer spring.

browser address bar or within webpages. Leo's functionalities include creating real-time summaries of web pages or videos, writing code, answering questions about content, generating new long-form written content, translating pages, and creating transcriptions of video or audio content.

The central African nation of Congo is looking to expand oil and gas drilling by auctioning off 30 sites around the country

The central African nation of Congo is known for its mineral riches

The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, says it will stop publishing a print edition this month, the latest blow to the country’s dwindling independent...

In a joint letter to The Times, the signatories said the introduction of a British ISA in the Budget, replacing the existing ISA, would be «a simple, powerful and easily implemented solution to kickstart the revitalisation of the UK equity market». The letter's signatories included Liontrust Asset Management's CEO John Ions, Gresham House managing director Ken Wotton, head of Downing Fund Managers Judith MacKenzie, Octopus Investments fund manager Richard Power and Peel Hunt CEO Steven Fine, as well as the House of Lords' Ros Altmann. Premier Miton calls for increased ISA allowance to...

Buckley spent over 33 years at the firm and was named CEO in 2018 and chair in 2019. The firm described his CEO tenure as «dynamic and highly successful». He joined in 1991 as founder John Bogle's research assistant, then joined the senior leadership team in 2001 as information technology lead. He then became head of the personal investor division and followed that with his role as CIO. The firm has started a «comprehensive» selection process for the new CEO, considering both internal and external candidates to succeed Buckley. Columbia Threadneedle overhauls UK retail multi-manage...

Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on the long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) of Tata Chemicals to “stable” from “positive" while affirming the rating at 'BB+'. The revision in the outlook is based on the view that the global soda ash industry will remain oversupplied for longer than previously anticipated.

The tech narrative in the last two years has been dominated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the excitement and disruption generated by it. However, the narrative started to sour a little in the latter half of 2023, as ethical issues got thrown up—like copyright, bias, privacy and deepfakes. Now, with elections looming across most of the democratic world, 2024 promises to be the year when AI will experience its first major ethical test—whether it helps democracy or subverts it.