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The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over

Women's T20 World Cup 2024 schedule: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday announced the schedule for the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup 2024. The ninth edition of the marquee event will be held between October 3 and 20 in Bangladesh. The high-voltage India vs.

Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a weeklong stay at the space station.NASA turned to U.S. companies for astronaut rides after the space shuttles were retired.

Pravaig Dynamics has made offers to Tesla interns, who saw their offers getting revoked weeks before their start date, inviting them to join the Silicon Valley of India that will recognize and appreciate their talents. Tech billionaire Elon Musk's latest cost-cutting victims are summer interns with his flagship Tesla Inc, rescinding offers just weeks before internships were to start. As several aspiring employees took to LinkedIn to express anguish at not being left with enough time to find replacement gigs for the summer, Pravaig offered help.

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government has voted unanimously to shut down the local offices of Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera. Netanyahu announced the decision on X, formerly Twitter, but details on the implications of the step on the channel, when it would go into effect or whether it was permanent or temporary shuttered were not immediately clear.

appraisal season in Indian companies, Akshay Saini, an engineer from Dehradun, has captured attention with his candid insights into achieving higher salaries. His social media posts have sparked discussions about the challenges faced by employees, especially regarding salary hikes and appraisals.

IPL 2024: Parthiv Patel conducted a poll on X (formerly Twitter) to see his followers’ take on Glenn Maxwell. Users were given two options to choose between Maxwell as an Australian great or a great IPL player. The results were overwhelmingly in favour of Maxwell playing for his country.

Economy Class, both 'Comfort' and 'Comfort Plus' fare families now provide 15 kg baggage allowance, while 'Flex' provides 25 kg allowance. "The Business Class baggage allowance on domestic routes ranges from 25 kg to 35 kg.

₹2,500 crore in fiscal year 2025 to expand its cargo handling capacity, said Arun Maheshwari, joint MD and CEO of the company told Mint. By 2027, the company anticipates a 50% increase in capacity to 258 million tonne with an investment of ₹14,000 crore, said Maheshwari. “With more approvals underway, once these are finalized, our investments for the current fiscal year will stand at more than ₹2,500 crore," he said.

SINGAPORE—In explaining China’s recent export surge, which has alarmed business leaders and politicians in the U.S. and Europe, many have blamed the country’s lavish manufacturing subsidies and bulging industrial capacity. But there is another factor at play: China’s currency, and inflation—or its absence.

Justin Trudeau at an event hailed Canada as a “rule-of-law country with a strong and independent justice system". He was reacting to the arrest of three Indian nationals linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. “This is important because Canada is a rule-of-law country with a strong and independent justice system, as well as a fundamental commitment to protecting all its citizens," Trudeau said.

Hero MotoCorp, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum, State Bank of India (SBI), Eicher Motors, and Tata Motors are among the prominent names on the roster. Godrej Consumer Products, CG Power and Industrial Solutions, Lupin, Indian Bank, Marico, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited, Grindwell Norton, DCM Shriram, Happiest Minds Technologies, Route Mobile, Arvind, Prudent Corporate Advisory Services, Choice International, Fusion Micro Finance, Gujarat Heavy Chemicals, Muthoot Microfin, The Bombay Dyeing Co., CarTrade Tech, Arvind SmartSpaces, Moschip Technologies, Styrenix Performance Materials, Suven Life Sciences, Apcotex Industries, Aeroflex Industries, Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection, Kamdhenu, Automotive Stampings and Assemblies, Uttam Sugar Mills, ALLSEC Technologies, Selan Exploration Technology, GHCL Textiles, Orbit Exports, Indian Bright Steel Company, Chemcrux Enterprises, KPT Industries, Alphalogic Industries, Capital Trade Links, Syschem (India), Indian Acrylics, Smruthi Organics Limited, Evexia Lifecare, Gujarat Toolroom, Asarfi Hospital and others.

reward every Paris Olympics Gold medallist with a cash award of $50,000. While many athletes, including Neeraj Chopra, welcomed the move, it has now sparked a global debate, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach expressing his concerns during an online media briefing recently. “The role of the international federations (IFs)…is they have to make every effort to try and close the gap between the athletes coming from privileged countries and those coming from less privileged countries. This is where the discussion is coming from (on the WA decision)”, said Bach. With the Olympic Games being the pinnacle of sports competitions globally, it is fair to reward athletes for their extraordinary feats. Considering the short career span of athletes, their financial well-being should be a priority. However, should the IOC follow the WA model? Is this the way forward for the Olympic movement? That’s where the disconnect arises. Unlike other sports competitions, the Olympics is a movement for global solidarity. It aims to unite the world through sport and bridge the gap between privilege and under-privilege. That’s why 90 percent of the IOC’s revenues are ploughed back to the member nations, with the hosts receiving $2.8 billion (Summer and Winter Games combined).

Vanuatu. Let’s be honest and there’s no shame here: you did not even know that this was a country. It’s a string of islands east of the northern part of Australia in the Pacific and its last recorded population was 3.27 lakh people. Of these about 50% are ruled out from this story by virtue of being male. Of the 1.6 lakh remaining, you can leave out another half on the basis that they would be either too young or old to make a cricket team. And so, from a potential pool of 80,000 (a generous estimate because not everyone is interested in one sport), emerges a team that was in contention for a berth in a World Cup comprising 10 teams from across the globe.

Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's «desperation». TASS reported that the Russian Interior Ministry database showed Zelenskiy was on a wanted list but gave no further details.

Madonna will bring her critically acclaimed Celebration World Tour to an end in Brazil with a free concert on Saturday, May 4, at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. On the official website of the Queen of Pop, 'madonna.com', it has been claimed that the show will be free of charge to thank her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music throughout the epic global run of the tour. No Tickets required

NEW DELHI : The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has seized cryptocurrency worth more than ₹130 crore and arrested a Uttarakhand-based man as part of a drugs trafficking-linked money laundering probe initiated on the request of US authorities. Parvinder Singh was taken into custody on April 27 from Haldwani in the state's Nainital district following a search of his premises. In a statement, the central probe agency said that the accused agreed to "surrender" the proceeds earned through the sale of illegal drugs through the dark web.

Blue Corner Notice is issued by the international police cooperation body to collect additional information from its member countries about a person's identity, location or activities in relation to a crime. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah held an "important meeting" with the officials of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), during which he instructed that immediate action be taken to arrest Prajwal Revanna. "We will proceed for arrest with appropriate measures.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said what is happening in poll-bound Canada over the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar is mostly due to their internal politics and nothing to do with India. Jaishankar said this while replying to a question on why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is criticizing India. While interacting with senior journalists during a visit here, he also said the country needs a strong and active Prime Minister like Narendra Modi in order to bring further reforms in various sectors to make a «Viksit Bharat (developed India)». «India's image globally is now actually much much higher than it had been ever… Canada is an exception. You see the different country heads are praising Bharat and its Prime Minister,» the external affairs minister said.

Karnataka), Security has been beefed up at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) after the airport authorities received an email about a bomb scare, police said on Saturday. Following the threat received on April 29, the CISF and the police got into multiple levels of security sweeps all over the airport. A First Information Report has been registered in Bajpe police station stating that a certain group identifying itself as 'Terrorisers 111' had sent the emails. The FIR quoting the email has stated that «there are explosives placed in three places in the airport and we expect large scale bloodshed will happen. This warning and threat should not be taken lightly.» Commissioner of police of Mangaluru city Anupam Aggarwal has confirmed that the FIR has been registered.

Adani Enterprises has expressed interest in developing the port of Bataan in the Philippines. This was confirmed by an official statement from the Presidential Communications Office on Friday. During a discussion with Philippine President Ferdinand R.