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Gukesh Dommaraju, a.k.a. D Gukesh, was 'only' the third youngest grandmaster in history. By yesterday evening, the teenager from Chennai also entered the annals of chess history, becoming the youngest-ever world chess champion.

Gukesh Dommaraju made history on Thursday by becoming the youngest chess world champion, defeating defending champion Ding Liren of China in a dramatic final game of a 14-game match held in Singapore. At just 18 years old, Gukesh is now the 18th world chess champion, surpassing Garry Kasparov, who held the record as the youngest champion since 1985 when he defeated Anatoly Karpov at the age of 22. In the decisive game, Gukesh, playing with the black pieces, capitalized on a blunder by Ding, who faltered under pressure in what was considered a favorable position. The win gave Gukesh a 7.5-6.5 victory in the match, sealing his historic triumph.

Capacity utilisation of domestic steel industry in 2024-25 is poised to slip below 80 per cent for the first time in four years as cheap imports nibble at market share, according to rating agency ICRA. Fresh upcoming capacity addition plans could be at risk of a slowdown unless earnings of domestic steel mills inch up from prevailing levels, the rating said in a statement Thursday. Following the post-Covid metals rally, the domestic steel industry was able to achieve the impossible trinity of maintaining above 80 per cent capacity utilisation rates, a strong investment pipeline, and comfortable leverage levels for three years back-to-back between 2021-22 and 2023-24.

IMD scientist GS Patil explained, «Due to cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal, moisture-laden winds are bringing rainfall to Karnataka. We anticipate moderate to heavy rain in parts of the state, particularly coastal and southern districts.»

season's first snowfall, while higher reaches experienced moderate rainfall, officials said on Thursday, adding that the minimum temperature has improved across most places in the valley. The plains of Shopian, Pulwama, and Baramulla, as well as the upper areas of Anantnag, Budgam, and Bandipora received light snowfall. However, there was no snowfall in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The higher reaches of the valley, including the tourist resorts of Gulmarg, Sonamarg, Tangmarg, Gurez and the Zojila Pass, saw light to moderate snowfall. Due to accumulation of snow along the Zojila Pass, the Srinagar-Leh highway was closed for traffic, while the Bandipora-Gurez road and Mughal Road were also shut, officials said.

Lily Philips, an OnlyFans model, has stirred intense debate online following her participation in an unconventional stunt aimed at having intimate encounters with 100 men in a single day. Philips exceeded her target, engaging with 101 men during the event, which was documented by filmmaker Joshua Pieters. However, the aftermath left her emotionally shaken, leading to widespread discussion about her well-being and the broader implications of such challenges. However, shockingly, she has now announced that she wants to take a new challenge to sleep with 1,000 men in 24 hours. The record for the highest number of sexual partners in a single day is held by adult film actress Lisa Sparks, who engaged with 919 men during the 2004 Adult Industry Fair in Poland. Sparks later shared that the experience left her in pain for a week. In anticipation of her own record attempt, Lily Phillips has been preparing over recent months by gradually increasing the number of encounters as part of what she refers to as her ‘Physical Training.’

Benny Blanco. The multi-talented singer, actress, and entrepreneur behind Rare Beauty joyfully shared the wonderful news with her followers on Instagram, posting images of her engagement ring with the caption, «Forever starts now...» At 32 years old, Gomez made her relationship with music producer Blanco public in December 2023, though they had been speculated to be an item since June of the previous year. The couple had collaborated professionally on Gomez's 2023 track 'Single Soon' and her 2019 song 'I Can’t Get Enough.' It's been a remarkable year for Gomez, marked by tremendous success in film, television, and now in her personal life. Earlier this year, she earned a shared best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Emilia Perez alongside her co-stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña. Additionally, Gomez received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. This week, she also garnered two Golden Globe nominations, one for Emilia Perez and another for Only Murders in the Building.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Two key pieces of economic data released last month have rung alarm bells on the state of India’s economy. The first was on retail inflation, which breached the 6% upper tolerance limit in October, climbing to 6.21%, the highest since August 2023.

Vedanta Ltd climbed as much as 1.1% on Thursday to Rs 519.95 on BSE after the metal and mining firm said that it would hold a board meeting on December 16 to consider a fourth interim dividend payout. The company disclosed this development in an exchange filing. The said board meeting was scheduled to be held in October earlier but was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Indian rupee declined to its all-time low on Thursday, pressured by dollar bids in the non-deliverable forwards (NDF) market and from importers while intervention by the central bank kept a lid on losses, traders said. The rupee weakened to a low of 84.88 to the U.S. dollar, down 0.04% on the day. The currency was quoted at 84.8750 at 10:00 a.m. IST.

record producer Benny Blanco on Instagram on Thursday, sharing a series of touching photos. In one image, Gomez proudly displayed her oval-cut diamond engagement ring, likely taken during a picnic where Benny proposed. Captioning the post “Forever begins now,” Gomez set off celebrations among her fans and close friends. Blanco added to the moment with his comment, “Hey wait… that’s my wife.” The post, which limited comments to those followed by the couple, quickly filled with congratulatory messages from their inner circle.

Embattled Japanese automaker Nissan has tapped Jeremy Papin as its chief operating officer in a major management reshuffle billed as key to a turnaround

Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Si...

Recent reports have revealed that numerous users throughout the globe are eventually experiencing major difficulties and problems to access these platforms while Downdetector has already shown spikes in the outage reports. Facebook has already seen over 100,000 reports regarding the issues whereas Instagram eventually recorded more than 70,000 reports. The global users are encountering an error message while they are trying to load the applications and during such time a message from Facebook states that, ‘We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can’.

The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source

karma gets recorded in the soul. It brings consequences either in this life or in the life after. With inner powers, we can create right karmas and face consequences of wrong karmas with equanimity. Do you take credit for situations when life is smooth? Do you blame God or other people when life hits a rough patch? Do you believe you create your destiny or consider it pre-destined? We make our destiny good or bad according to the quality of karma, response or reaction we render to what is happening to us, and it's our choice. Let's create the right thoughts, words and actions. Good karma settles past karmic accounts and creates a pleasant experience now, and a rich destiny for the future. Let's not focus on what people and situations do to us, let's focus on our karmas. Your every thought, word and deed should be pure, positive and powerful, irrespective of circumstances.

foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are taking reverse steps to buy back more than what they sold last month. As against the $2.5 billion sell-off seen in November, FIIs have already bought Indian stocks worth around $3 billion in the first 10 days of the December month. As a result, the Nifty is already up around 2% this month with bulls betting that the momentum could turn into a strong Santa rally and take the market to new record peaks in the next few weeks before the Budget.

staffing industry added about 235,000 temporary workers (white and grey collar roles) in the year to September 30, up 5.9% quarter-on-quarter and 17.9% year-on-year, according to a report released by the Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) on Wednesday. Sectors including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), e-commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, logistics, banking, energy and hospitality drove the growth, it said. As of September, the flexible workforce stands at 1.81 million employed by around 130 ISF members, according to the report.

MUMBAI: Last week, a man attacked a bank manager in Gujarat over the tax deduction on his fixed deposit interest. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms, with netizens lamenting the customer's unruly behaviour as well as the country's tax system.

Sunil Subramaniam, Market Expert, says if a fund manager is getting, let us say, Rs 1,000 crore per month as SIP, he knows for the next 12 months, he can plan his purchases and so he tracks a good quality stock. He continuously keeps buying it because he is assured of the flow for a long time. The consistency of the SIP book gives a lot of comfort to fund managers also as they can acquire stocks steadily. In effect, fund managers are themselves doing an SIP in the stock market. Subramaniam also says that Rs 25,000 crore is just the tip of the iceberg. He would not be surprised if this doubles to Rs 50,000 crore in a year's time because the penetration of mutual funds in India is still in single digits in our 144 crore population. SIP inflows are near record high levels; equity inflows are at three-month high levels, coming in at near Rs 36,000 crore marks. How should one read into this data because in November, we saw real divergent moves in markets? Sunil Subramaniam: This indicates the maturity of the domestic investor, especially the ones using mutual funds as a vehicle and using distributors to advise them.

A day after recording 'moderate' AQI, Delhi's air quality slipped into 'poor' category on Tuesday, with forecast suggesting it will remain the same for the next couple of days. The 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of the city was recorded at 234 at 4 pm on Tuesday, marking a drop from Monday's 'moderate' reading of 186. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) classifies AQI between 0 and 50 as 'good', between 51 and 100 as 'satisfactory', between 101 and 200 as 'moderate', between 201 and 300 as 'poor', between 301 and 400 as 'very poor', and above 400 as 'severe'.