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Google Doodle in the US and other countries, Zarina Hashmi is known globally for her minimalist art. Recognised as one of the most significant artists associated with the minimalist movement, Zarina Hashmi, the late Indian American artist and printmaker, left an indelible mark on the art world. Through collaboration with guest artist Tara Anand from New York, the doodle artwork honouring Hashmi beautifully captures Hashmi's exploration of concepts such as home, displacement, borders, and memory, employing minimalist abstract and geometric shapes.

Today, Google Doodle commemorates the birthday of Zarina Hashmi, an influential Indian American artist who would have turned 86 today. The doodle, designed by guest illustrator Tara Anand from New York, pays homage to Hashmi's artistic style by incorporating her signature geometric and minimalist abstract shapes. As per media reports, Hashmi was known for her remarkable sculptures, prints, and drawings.

Sabrina Ionescu smashed the records of the NBA and WNBA in the three-point contest on Friday and won the crown. The New York Liberty’s point guard Sabrina Ionescu created history when she scored 37 out of 40 possible points by hitting 25 out of 27 possible shots. She sunk the NBA record of 31 set by Steph Curry in 2021 and Tyrese Haliburton in 2023. Besides, she also smashed the WNBA record of 30 set by Allie Quigley in 2022. Reacting to the feat, Allie Quigley congratulated Sabrina calling it ‘unbelievable.’ Steph Curry called it ‘ridiculous.’ There can be no higher compliment when basketball superstars like Quigley and Curry say this. Seattle Storm’s Sami Whitcomb who came second with 22 points and Dallas Wings’ Arike Ogunbowale who finished third with 11 points came nowhere near Sabrina and they cannot be compared. In the game of a three-point contest, players take five shots from five different locations around the three-point line. They also make two attempts from a deeper range. Each rack has four balls, and each ball has one point. The multi-colored ball has two points. A player gets three points for a deeper shot. Each player must choose one rack and the five balls have two points. Sabrina hit each of her chosen balls.Sabrina Ionescu will participate in the 2023 WNBA All-Star game at the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson, Indiana Fever’s Aliyah Boston, and Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner may also take part in the game.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York is preparing to throw open its doors to an excellent curation of Buddhist stone sculpture by MET curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, John Guy, that will be on from July 21 to November 13. Replete with exquisite fragments bearing narratives from India's remote past, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, 'Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India 200 BCE-400 BCE,' focuses on the Deccan's pivotal role in shaping the Buddhist landscape of early India and beyond. The historical Buddha Sakyamuni did not live or die in the Deccan.

Founder and CEO of Red Balloon Andrew Crapuchettes discusses an Upwork study that shows 22% of people expect to work remotely by the year 2025 on «Varney & Co.»

Gilgo Beach serial killer case on Long Island, according to reports. The suspect's identity has not been publicly disclosed, but the accused is scheduled to appear in court in Riverhead, New York later on Friday, media reports said. Between 2010 and 2011, authorities in New York discovered the remains of 11 individuals along a suburban beach highway in Long Island.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s revenue soared to a record in the second quarter, boosted by the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes and its acquisition of First Republic Bank.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s revenue soared to a record in the second quarter, boosted by the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes and its acquisition of First Republic Bank.

Emily Blunt, Rami Malek, Matt Damon walked out of their upcoming movie ‘Oppenheimer’ premiere midway in London, several other actors will join picketing lines in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.  The double strike threatens to shut down the small number of productions that continued shooting in the two months since screenwriters stopped working. Many actors made a show of solidarity on the writers' picket lines, including Fran Drescher, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists president and former star of “The Nanny." The union's 65,000-member actors' branch will now formally join them as fellow strikers.

A U.S. District Judge has set the bail for the former CEO of Celsius Alex Mashinsky at $40 million. 

New York City crypto-friendly mayor Eric Adams has mistakenly responded “no” to whether he held any securities including cryptocurrencies, in his annual financial disclosure form.

Wordle is an internet-based game where you have to decipher a five-letter word in six attempts. Wordle was designed by engineer Josh Wardle for his partner who loved word games. Wordle was later bought by the New York Times website for an undisclosed amount. It was then that it was made accessible to the common public. Wordle is now globally famous and is played worldwide. Wordle is available to play on the New York Times website and it does not require any fishy log-ins or sign-ups. But, there are some rules to the game

Raimondo and State Department officials in the weeks before State Secretary Antony Blinken visited Beijing in June, New York Times reported citing US officials. The investigation is underway but the US officials, on Wednesday, downplayed the idea that the Chinese hackers, who are likely to be part of the military or spy services, have stolen the sensitive information, insisting that no classified email or cloud systems were penetrated. The State Department's cybersecurity team first discovered the intrusion.

Investing.com — With U.S. inflation data and rate hike concerns baked into the cake, OPEC did a grandstanding Thursday on its demand forecast for the current year and next to show all was hunky and dory with the oil market. 

President Biden’s bare ankles sent waves across Twitter on Sunday, after a New York Times photographer tweeted that the head of state had stepped onto Air Force One in sneakers without socks. A debate quickly broke out among the platform’s self-appointed footwear authorities about Sockless Joe. He was just wearing no-shows, some said.

Housewives of New York City, including a former top executive of J Crew and an Indian-origin fashion publicist.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced fraud charges against the former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Alex Mashinsky.

dinosaur skeletons — one a fierce flying reptile of the kind seen in the «Jurassic Park» movies and the other evocative of the Loch Ness monster — will be auctioned off this month in New York, Sotheby's said Tuesday. The latter, called Nessie after the legendary elusive beast plying the depths of a Scottish lake, is estimated to draw between $600,000 and $800,000, Sotheby's said. A kind of dinosaur called a plesiosaur, it was last auctioned in Paris in 2010 and at the time had come from a private museum in Germany. The remains, which are nearly 11 feet (3.4 meters) long, were found in a quarry in England in 1990. The skeleton is about 75 per cent complete and in exceptional condition, said Cassandra Hotton, Sotheby's head of Science and Popular Culture. With its small head, long neck and flippers, the plesiosaur lived in the Lower Jurassic period about 190 million years ago. «The history of the Plesiosaur is also intertwined with the elusive Loch Ness monster of Scottish folklore, as many have drawn morphological comparisons between the Plesiosaur and the infamous 'Nessie,' whose sightings stretch back to the sixth century,» Sotheby's said in a news release.

real estate as people’s new habits influence where they shop and live. In a moderate scenario, the report said that the demand for office space will be 13 percent lower by the end of the decade. Attendance still is 30 percent lower than what it was before the pandemic and only 37 percent of people are back at the office every day, it said.

(Reuters) -Amazon.com was hit with a complaint on Wednesday for allegedly refusing to bargain with a New York workers' union, a spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said.

Salman Rushdie has spoken for the first time about having «crazy dreams» following the near-fatal knife attack on him in New York in August last year, which has left the Mumbai-born author blind in one eye, and working with a therapist to help him process the mental impact of the trauma. The 76-year-old Booker Prize-winning author was on stage almost a year ago when he was stabbed up to 10 times by the suspect Hadi Matar, who is being held in prison for attempted murder. Speaking to the BBC this week, Rushdie said he was in «two minds» about whether to face his alleged attacker, who has pleaded not guilty, in court.