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Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. Baseball-Yankees extend reign as MLB’s most valuable team – Forbes The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball’s most valuable team for a 25th consecutive year, according to the annual list published by business magazine Forbes on Thursday.[Read More…]

After registering a 1-0 victory over Myanmar, India midfielder Anirudh Thapa said that they are very happy with the win but their focus is totally on the upcoming clash against the Kyrgyz Republic. The Blue Tigers, back in action in the March International Window, were cheered on by the[Read More…]

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most powerful telescopes ever built, is designed to study the universe. The telescope also keeps an eye on the outer planets in our solar system to monitor changes in their seasons and atmospheres. Hubble’s Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program[Read More…]

The 2023 season signals a new dawn for MotoGP with a record 21 rounds but in reality the gruelling schedule will have 42 races as the championship undergoes a revolutionary overhaul with the introduction of Saturday sprints. Run at 50% of Sunday’s race distance, sprints will not decide the[Read More…]

London stocks held their intraday losses after the Bank of England raised its main lending rate by an expected 25 basis points on Thursday, while bank stocks fell for the first time in three days. The FTSE 100 fell 0.8%, after recording its highest closing level in more than[Read More…]

Four Kenyan members of parliament were charged on Thursday with unlawful assembly for taking part this week in protests against President William Ruto’s government over the high cost of living, their lawyer said. One person was killed and more than 200 were arrested during Monday’s nationwide demonstrations called by[Read More…]

Credit Suisse bondholders are seeking legal advice after the Swiss regulator ordered 16 billion Swiss francs ($17.5 billion) of Additional Tier-1 (AT1) debt to be wiped out under its rescue takeover by UBS. These higher-yielding junior bonds emerged from the 2008-2009 crisis as a way to boost bank capital[Read More…]

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao announced compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre to farmers for loss of crops due to recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms in some districts. Rao who personally visited the affected areas for inspection also refused to send any report to the centre in protest[Read More…]

The World Athletics Council is voting on Thursday on a proposal to change its rules on transgender women athletes that would make it harder for them to compete in women’s track and field events. Here is an explanation of what the proposal is and the governing body’s reasoning behind[Read More…]

Unions representing junior doctors in England on Thursday announced a four-day strike next month, saying the government had failed to make a credible new pay offer. The British government is engaged in pay disputes across several sectors as workers demand higher wages to keep pace with surging inflation, with[Read More…]

Mexico will comply with a pending ruling from a trade dispute panel following a complaint by U.S. construction company Vulcan Materials, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday. “As soon as they rule on this, resolve this, it will be abided by,” Lopez Obrador said in a[Read More…]

The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approved a bill ratifying Finland’s bid to join NATO, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Thursday. The bill still needs to be approved by the parliament’s general assembly. President Tayyip Erdogan said last week that parliament would ratify Finland’s accession to NATO, though[Read More…]

No proposal is under consideration at present to rework the Constitution based on the recent introduction of the ”she/her” pronouns while referring to all genders in the Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022, the government said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. In a written reply, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju[Read More…]

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said his party poses no threat to anyone. The Leader of Opposition (LoP) made the statement while reacting to Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s allegation that Yadav might get him ”killed”. Talking to reporters here earlier, the BJP[Read More…]

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that the Centre would invest Rs 2 lakh crore in Jharkhand by 2024 to develop roads and attract investments to the mineral-rich state. The road transport and highway minister, during the day, laid foundation of nine road and rail over-bridges worth over[Read More…]

Ethiopia has dropped a draft motion that sought to bring an early end to a U.N. mandated investigative probe into the Tigray war, diplomats and observers told Reuters, after pressure from Western countries. The International Commission on Ethiopia, the only independent probe into the two-year conflict which pitted Ethiopia’s[Read More…]

Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen K T Parnaik (Retd) Thursday stressed on the need for extending the benefits of all central and state government’s flagship programmes and schemes, to the last person in the society. Reviewing the development schemes and projects of both the state and central government being[Read More…]

Japan’s Shoma Uno took a big step towards defending his title after topping the men’s short programme at the figure skating world championships while his compatriots Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won their country’s first pairs gold on Thursday. Uno injured his ankle after falling on a quadruple Salchow[Read More…]

Lok Sabha rejects cut motion on Demands for Grants for 2023-24 by voice vote.