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Covid was not supposed to get to Antarctica. If any place had a hope of keeping the virus out, it would be a continent with no permanent residents and an annual visiting population of only 5,000. And every control measure was in place—testing, a strict quarantine of everyone visiting, deep sanitation, masks and social distancing.

NEW DELHI : Packaged consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble India on Monday announced the appointment of Kumar Venkatasubramanian as the company's new chief executive officer, effective 1 May, 2024. Venkatasubramanian will succeed LV Vaidyanathan, who is leaving the company to pursue other interests after 28 years of service to P&G, the maker of Ariel, Tide, Whisper, Olay, and Gillette brands, it said in a statement. Vaidyanathan took over as CEO, P&G India, on 1 July, 2022.

Boeing is telling airlines to inspect switches on pilots’ seats after a published report said an accidental seat movement likely caused the sudden plunge of a LATAM Airlines plane flying to New Zealand

cricket match. Shreyanka Patil turned the game into a challenging feat for Delhi, securing four wickets for just 12 runs. Together with Molineux, they dismissed Delhi for 113.

Indian Premier League 2024 as it kicks off this March 22. Ten teams will be clashing against each other for the coveted IPL 2024 trophy, a mega-event being organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in cities across cricket stadiums like Eden Gardens, MA Chinnaswamy Stadium, Narendra Modi Stadium, and many more. BCCI-organised Indian Premier League (IPL) is a 20-over format game that began in the year 2008 when the first match was held in Bengaluru between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR won the match by a huge margin with New Zealand-based wicket-keeper (now retired) Brendon McCullum smashing a 150+ record breaking highest individual score.

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the sudden plunge of a LATAM Airlines plane flying to New Zealand. Boeing said Friday it recommended that airlines inspect the cockpit seats the next time they perform maintenance on their 787s. The aircraft manufacturer pointed to instructions that include how to disable motors that move the seats.

Champions Trophy in Pakistan remains an option as India's participation cannot be decided by the ICC if there is a government policy against it, a source in the governing body's all-powerful executive board told PTI on Friday. The ICC board meeting is currently underway in Dubai. The Champions Trophy, which will be held in February-March 2025, is not on the agenda but newly-elected PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has stated that he wants to speak with his BCCI counterpart Jay Shah as well as ICC bigwigs on the sidelines, seeking some kind of assurance. However, an ICC Board member, who is privy to the developments, feels that any decision by BCCI, will only be taken closer to the tournament and once again, the idea of using UAE as a potential venue cannot be entirely discarded.

A cockpit seat mishap might have pushed a pilot into the controls on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that took a sudden, terrifying plunge on a flight to New Zealand this week, according to U.S. industry officials briefed on preliminary evidence from an investigation of the incident. A Latam Airlines flight attendant hit a switch on the pilot’s seat while serving a meal, leading a motorized feature to push the pilot into the controls and push down the plane’s nose, these officials said.

Indian travellers are buckling up for a sizzling summer season this year with early indicators from travel companies suggesting exponential demand. Bookings for the country's peak summer period of April-June are already 30-40% higher compared to last year. Officials at domestic airlines told ET that while Indians will be out in full force for the summer season, an inadequate number of flights is likely to trigger a spike in air fares. At online travel company Cleartrip, international flight bookings for the April to June period are 37% higher compared to the same period last year, said Gaurav Patwari, vice president for air category.

Mint on 28 December 2023 reported that legal scrubbing of both the pillars had started and the deal is expected to be signed in 2024. “Both the pillars are very important for the country. The clean economy (Pillar-III of the IPEF) is aimed at cooperation on research, development and commercialisation of clean energy and climate-friendly technologies," the second person said.

(Reuters) -The movement of a flight deck seat is a key focus of the probe into a sudden mid-air dive by a LATAM Airlines (OTC:LTMAY) Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787 plane that left more than 50 people injured, aviation industry publication the Air Current reported on Wednesday.

Ambush, barrage of bullets: CCTV captures final moments of Hardeep Nijjar On Saturday, Canada-based CBC News reported about a purported video footage that has surfaced showing Nijjar being shot by armed men. The video shows Nijjar leaving the parking lot of the Gurdwara in his grey Dodge Ram pickup truck. As he approaches the exit, a white sedan pulls in front of him, blocking his truck.

Officials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand

Crypto friendly American asset manager Ark Invest sees Bitcoin’s price hitting $1 million before 2030, according to CEO Cathie Wood in a recent interview with the New Zealand Herald.

(Reuters) — U.S. stock index futures slipped on Monday, as investors awaited key inflation figures this week that could provide cues on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy path, after a mixed jobs data reinforced expectations that it will begin easing by mid-year.

England, each Test lasting a shorter time than the previous one, will not put an end to Bazball. That school of thought and style of play will likely be in evidence till the Brendon McCullum-Ben Stokes pairing continues. But this series will emphatically lay to rest the claims that this is either the best way to play Test cricket, or indeed the only way. For some time now England have been evangelists, claiming that their brand of cricket is breathing fresh life into a format in decline. The sordid truth, though, is that winning matters more than playing bright cricket. Fans of any team do not like losing, and throughout this series, England have created opportunities and repeatedly fluffed them. India were just too good. And there’s a range of factors that allowed them to be so. SPIN THRILL

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested former DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq in Delhi on Saturday, in connection with a ₹2,000 crore international drugs trafficking case. The central agency has termed Sadiq the «mastermind and kingpin» of the illicit network spread across India, Australia and New Zealand. Sadiq, a producer of Tamil films, was recently expelled by the DMK from the party after the NCB stated that he was linked to the drugs network. He was the Chennai West deputy organiser of the DMK's NRI wing. The opposition BJP and AIADMK in the state have been targeting the DMK over the matter. Last month, the NCB said it had arrested three people, all hailing from Tamil Nadu, and seized 50 kg of narcotics-making chemical pseudoephedrine during a raid at a godown in Delhi. The searches by the NCB, along with the special cell of the Delhi Police, came about following a tip-off received towards the end of 2023 from the Australian and New Zealand authorities about «large quantities» of pseudoephedrine concealed in desiccated coconut powder and mix food powder being smuggled into their countries from India.

WTC points table 2024: India decimated England on Saturday to clean up the hosts in just 3 days and win the final Test match by 64 runs and one inning. With the victory at Dharamshala, India clinched the India vs England Test series 2024 by 4-1, strengthening their position at the top of the World Test Championship points table. But, the second and third-ranked teams are also playing a Test series and fans are wondering if the results of the AUS vs NZ Test match will impact India's standing at the No.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) and was Chennai West Deputy Organiser (NRI Wing) until he was dismissed permanently from the party on February 25 over his links with the drug cartel. Also Read : International drug racket in Delhi: Film producer identified as mastermind; NCB, Delhi Police seize illegal substance His links led to political war of words with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, mounting attack on DMK over Jaffer.

ALSO READ: Babar Azam, coaches neglected team's fitness; some Pakistani players couldn’t finish 2-km run, claims Mohammad Hafeez "When I was watching the matches in Lahore, I don't think a single one of you hit a six that went into the stands. Whenever a six like that was hit, I used to think a foreign player must have hit that. I have asked the board to make a plan that gets every player's fitness up to speed.