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Virat Kohli on Day 1 of the India vs New Zealand 1st Test© AFP There was little to cheer for the crowd at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru during  the first session on Day 1 of the first Test match between India and New Zealand on Wednesday. Rain continued to pour as no action was possible and the toss was also delayed in the match. However, the supporters found a reason to cheer as local hero Virat Kohli came out on the field. Kohli has been a part of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru franchise since the inception…

Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party have dwarfed former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in joint fundraising over the last three months, the latest campaign disclosure filings show.Harris Victory Fund and Harris Action Fund, the joint fundraising committees between the Harris campaign, the DNC and state Democratic Party committees, together raised $652 million between July and September this year, according to new filings.Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta.John Bazemore/APThat amounted to nearly twice the $340 million that…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put under scrutiny recruitment of civic volunteers under West Bengal’s ‘Ratirer Sathi’ scheme, floated after the RG Kar hospital rape-murder incident in which an earlier similarly engaged volunteer is the prime accused, and said such hirings cannot be a device to confer political patronage.”Recruitment of civic volunteers cannot be a nice process to confer political patronage on unverified persons,” said a bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. It sought details of recruitment process from the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC govt in three weeks while barring their…

Attention, American men: Donald Trump and his allies want you to believe your vote says big things about your masculinity.In the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election, the Republican nominee is amping up his hypermasculine tone and support of traditional gender roles, a reflection of the surgical campaign-within-a-campaign for the votes of men in a showdown with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. But where Harris is deploying “dudes” who use bro-ey language and occasional scolding to boost her support particularly among Black and Hispanic males, Trump’s camp is meeting men in alpha-male terms, often with crude and demeaning language.…

The Pro Kabaddi League, launched in 2014, has transformed kabaddi in many ways to make the sport more accessible to the fans. As we enter a new decade of the PKL, E Prasad Rao, fondly known as Kabaddi Rao and the Technical Director of PKL, shared valuable insights into the remarkable journey of refereeing in the league over the last 10 years. Ahead of the new season, Kabaddi Rao and his team held a camp for 45 referees from October 1 to 14 – with eight female officials, including 20 first-timers – a stark increase from last season’s…

Incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz faced off against challenger Democratic Rep. Colin Allred in a passionate and at times acrimonious debate hosted by ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, Texas, Tuesday night that touched upon a variety of issues animating the closely-watched race.Cruz, a staunch conservative and supporter of former President Donald Trump who is running for a third term, is locked in a tight race with Allred, a former NFL linebacker on his third term in the House of Representatives. Cruz leads Allred by just 4 percentage points, according to 538’s Senate polling average for Texas as of Tuesday night.Cruz’s…

The funding will accelerate Budy’s AI development, focusing on tasks such as optimising Salesforce setups and improving sales pipeline efficiency | Photo: X@rtpvc2 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 12:28 PM IST Venture capital firm RTP Global has led a $4.2 million pre-seed funding round in Budy, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven startup aimed at simplifying sales and marketing software deployment for enterprises. The investment also attracted backing from executives at Postman and Pure Storage. The startup aims to address a common pain point for enterprises—too many software tools creating operational inefficiencies. Budy’s AI solutions seek to…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — October’s supermoon is the closest of the year and it’s teaming up with a comet for a rare stargazing two-for-one. The third of four supermoons this year, it will be 222,055 miles (357,364 kilometers) away Wednesday night, making it seem even bigger and brighter than in August and September. It will reach its full lunar phase Thursday.In a twist of cosmic fate, a comet is in the neighborhood. Discovered last year, comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now prominent in the Northern Hemisphere after wowing stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere. The moonlight will wash out some of the comet’s…

Montana’s Republican governor on Wednesday will face his Democratic challenger in likely their only debate this election season in a state tilting toward the GOP.Gov. Greg Gianforte at first dismissed Ryan Busse, a former firearms industry executive, as not a “serious candidate” and refused to debate the Democrat because he hadn’t released his tax returns.Busse responded by releasing 10 years of income tax records, setting the stage for the debate hosted by ABC Fox Montana.Gianforte’s election by a wide margin in 2020 — with backing from former President Donald Trump — ended a 16-year run of Democratic governors in Montana.The…

Representative Image© AFP Perth will stage the first Test in the 2025-26 Ashes, it was announced Wednesday, ending Brisbane’s almost 40-year run of hosting of the opener of the Australia-England series. England’s bid to win back the historic Ashes urn will begin at Perth Stadium on November 21, 2025, with the second day-night Test to be played at Brisbane’s Gabba, Cricket Australia said. A pre-Christmas Test will be in Adelaide, before the traditional Boxing Day encounter in Melbourne and the new year match in Sydney. It will be the first time an Ashes Test, has been staged at…