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Chess,the ultimate game of strategy and the game of royalty, is one of the most popular games in the world. According to the United Nations, 70% of the adult population in the US, the UK, Germany, Russia, and India has played chess at some point in their lives and about 605 million people play chess regularly. The game is so complex that on one hand, it is said mathematically there are more possible moves of chess than atoms in the observable universe and on the other, it is still possible to checkmate your opponent in just two moves.

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I am 33 years old and work in the service sector, drawing a monthly salary of ₹1 lakh. My investment portfolio includes ongoing systematic investment plans (SIPs) in mutual funds : two large-cap funds ( ₹5,500), a consumer fund ( ₹2,500), a flexi-cap fund ( ₹2,000), a tax saver fund ( ₹1,500), a mid-cap index fund ( ₹1,000), and a small-cap index fund ( ₹1,000). All these SIPs have a step-up of ₹500 every year. The total corpus accumulated from these investments so far is ₹4.32 lakh. Additionally, I hold a public provident fund (PPF) account, with a corpus of ₹3.56 lakh, and I aim to invest ₹1,500 in it every month. I contribute around ₹50,000 annually to NPS (national pension scheme) tier-1 account. For my 5-month-old daughter’s future, I plan to invest ₹12,000 every month in a Sukanya Samriddhi account. My wife and I also have a joint home loan that we are actively prepaying. We have repaid half of the principal amount over four years and plan to complete the repayment within the next five years. The monthly EMI for the home loan is ₹25,000. Looking ahead, my long-term goals include expenses for my daughter’s education, both graduation and post-graduation, with a timeline of 15-20 years. Are there any changes required in my investment strategy? —Name withheld on request Most of the equity mutual funds in your SIP are appropriate for your goals.

OpenAI could have made it less useful, “leading to a possible degradation in cognitive skills". He added that in a bid to cut costs, OpenAI could have reduced the parameters.

BENGALURU : There is one question Sahil Barua, the managing director and chief executive officer of Delhivery Ltd, is always asked. Well, ever since the third-party logistics company started, in 2011. What about competition, particularly from the logistics arms of large e-commerce platforms? Take the latest earnings conference call, held on 21 May.

Q. What is the core of your research?A. I am the co-director of the Wharton Climate Center.

Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the rising cost of living

Travelers, considered a bellwether for the insurance industry due to its size, said catastrophe losses doubled in its most recent quarter and the company swung to a loss as severe wind and hail storms in a number of regions led to rising coverage claims

Open Society Foundations said Wednesday that they plan to limit new grantmaking until February, as the nonprofits transition to a new operating model

Temperatures have peaked at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) the entire month of July in Phoenix and extreme heat stretches across the American South

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June to the slowest pace since January, as a near-historic low number of homes for sale and rising mortgage rates kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines

Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate in another sign of commitment to a traditional path of battling inflation

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate slipped this week to the lowest level in four weeks, a boost for house hunters facing a market held back by persistently high prices and a near-historic low number of homes for sale

The idea of putting solar panels on top of the world's thousands of miles of irrigation canals has long seemed like a good one

Thousands of senior doctors in England are staging a 48-hour walkout to demand better pay and conditions

Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a fall in second quarter profit as clients especially in North America postponed investments due to a slowdown in economic growth and rising financing costs

American Airlines reported a $1.3 billion profit for the second quarter, continuing the run of strong results from the nation's airlines

NEW DELHI : The Central government and pharma companies are discussing the possibility of developing a vaccine against sickle cell anaemia. The matter was discussed in a recent meeting of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization. As apart of the government’s National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month, the government is also upgrading the healthcare facilities to providing tertiary care to sickle cell patients.

NEW DELHI : Days after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal, risking further global food inflation, the government on Thursday banned the export of non-basmati white rice in a bid to check rising prices. Mint on 18 July reported large companies, traders and exporters are rushing to secure letters of credit (LCs) for future shipments, fearing that rising prices may trigger export curbs on some varieties of non-basmati rice.

The Financial Conduct Authority's headcount ballooned last year, as the markets watchdog's chair warns it continues to face "difficult choices" across an ever-expanding remit.