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15-member squad and who was not, team India's T20 jersey for the T20 World Cup was the most awaited thing among the fans. Adidas, India's official kit partner, on Tuesday revealed India's T20 jersey in a rather interesting way. The video features skipper Rohit Sharma and spinner Kuldeep Yadav and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja at the picturesque Dharamsala stadium. A chopper is seen carrying the blue-orange jersey.

Stocks made small gains in holiday-thinned trading as traders turned their attention to a line-up of central bank speeches this week. 

Vice President Teodorin “Teddy" Nguema Obiang was in a mood for payback. The Obiangs have run the oil-rich Central African country of Equatorial Guinea like a family ATM since 1979, accumulating mansions in Paris and Malibu, Ferraris and Bugattis, and at least three superyachts, according to court documents. And now a South African court was seizing Nguema Obiang’s two high-end Cape Town villas and the Blue Shadow, the yacht that carries his jet-ski collection while he vacations on one of the other two.

State Bank of India has invested Rs 714 crore in New York headquartered TCG Urban Infrastructure, who is developing world trade centre in Gurugram with one million sq ft of leasable space. The total cost of the project is expected to be Rs 1,211 crore of which Rs 497 crore has been invested by the promoter, according to documents accessed through CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.

Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a "Gestapo administration" in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments, according to a recording heard by U.S. media outlets. Trump, whose own rhetoric has drawn accusations of fascist tendencies from civil rights groups and other critics, made the comparison with the Nazi police in Germany's World War Two regime at a donor retreat Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Gold prices eased in early Asian hours on Monday as the dollar ticked up, while traders awaited comments from a series of Federal Reserve officials for more cues on U.S. interest rate cut timeline.

Donald Trump referred to President Joe Biden’s administration as a “Gestapo administration," marking another instance in which Trump referred to Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric. The comments were made to Republican donors and reported by attendees who chose to remain anonymous.

hush money criminal trial, former President Donald Trump talks about how he can't talk about the case. A gag order bars Trump from commenting publicly on witnesses, jurors and some others connected to the matter. The New York judge already has found that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, repeatedly violated the order, fined him $9,000 and warning that jail could follow if he doesn't comply.

Workers have demolished a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck

Workers have begun removing a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck

South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple, Amgen rise; Expedia, Fortinet fall

The health insurer Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit over whether its fertility treatment coverage discriminates against LGBTQ+ patients

The King’s Trust has celebrated its new name, an update of King Charles III’s long-running charity The Prince’s Trust

The chief of staff of a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges weeks before her boss goes to trial in New York in a fraud case

I was disappointed by this year’s Whitney Biennial—it was hard for me to tell if one video installation was art or an HR training video—but as an economist, I have to admit the exhibition was successful in at least one respect: It did what art is supposed to do, which is to hold up a mirror to our society and economy. And this year’s biennial shows how America’s elite institutions are stifling innovation and creativity. The theme of this year’s show was to use AI and the “rhetoric around gender and authenticity" to “explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds." I liked some of it, but I was not alone in my disappointment.

In the January-to-March quarter, Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud grew at 17%, 31% and 28%, respectively, the companies reported. Analysts said this was a sign that AI is contributing to the growth and that overall cloud spending is also accelerating, Reuters reported. On the other hand, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in its earnings call emphasised the company’s longterm investment in AI, which led to its shares sinking by 19% on Wednesday, wiping out over $200 billion in market capitalisation. US NEWSPAPERS SUE MICROSOFT, OPE

South Sudan removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside.

Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious project 'Megalopolis' unveils its first teaser, showcasing Adam Driver in a daring stunt. The film, self-financed by Coppola, promises a star-studded cast and a gripping narrative set against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic New York City. Coppola's Passion Project

Met Gala serves as a branding event for Vogue, it has long accepted sponsorships from the tech giants that have threatened the very survival of legacy media publications. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared as the ball's honorary chair in 2012. Four years later, when Apple was a Met Gala sponsor, its CEO, Tim Cook, showed up in tux and tails. And Instagram supplied cash in 2022.

Short-form video took center stage at tech and social media companies' annual presentations to advertisers, as platforms like Snap and Meta look to capitalize on TikTok's political uncertainty in the US to take ad dollars from their rival. The presentations in New York, known as the NewFronts, come just a week after US President Joe Biden signed a bill that gives Chinese tech company ByteDance up to one year to divest TikTok, or else the app will be banned over national security concerns. TikTok has vowed to fight the legislation.