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India’s Manav Suthar, right, celebrates. (AP Photo) TimesofIndia.com in Galle: Two wickets in a session and then three in a single over. An extremely contrasting period of play on either side of the lunch interval saw India, riding on Manav Suthar’s second five-wicket haul in Tests, and first ten-wicket haul wrap up Sri Lanka’s innings in just over a session to seal an emphatic 165-run win in the first Test at Galle.The morning was anything but typical Day 5 action as the pitch remained true and even the turn wasn’t vicious enough to make the batters uncomfortable. The passage of…
Thiruvananthapuram: CPI(M) state secretary M V Govindan on Wednesday accused the Congress of fully supporting the BJP’s “saffronisation agenda” and alleged that Chief Minister V D Satheesan was running Keralam like an RSS government.Govindan made the remarks while responding to media questions on the Congress-led UDF government’s stand on the recent summoning of the state police chief to the Lok Bhavan by Governor Rajendra Arlekar and also on the recent share transfer involving the Vizhinjam International Port.”Congress’ present stand shows that it is extending full support to the BJP’s saffronisation agenda,” Govindan alleged, referring to appointments of pro-right persons as…
GE HealthCare said on Tuesday it had appointed William Grogan chief financial officer, effective September 14, succeeding Jay Saccaro after he stepped down last month.Grogan joins GE HealthCare from water pump maker Xylem, where he served as the finance chief from 2023. He also held finance positions at IDEX Corporation, pharmacy operator Walgreens and industrial products firm Crane Co.Grogan’s track record of improving profitability, simplifying operations and integrating acquisitions aligns well with GE HealthCare’s priorities, said RBC Capital Markets analysts.Interim CFO George Newcomb will continue as controller and chief accounting officer, GE HealthCare said.The U.S. healthcare industry has seen several…
A police official with a school teacher conducts a seminar regarding the body safety rules (good touch/bad touch)Jaipur: The state education department will conduct rigorous gender-sensitisation training for teachers after suspending three govt schoolteachers in a week over student complaints of inappropriate physical contact and misconduct.Officials said the training would stress appropriate boundaries while interacting with students. The department is also considering an anonymous complaint mechanism allowing students to report ‘bad touch’ incidents directly to the headquarters, bypassing school administrations.Additional chief secretary for education Rajesh Yadav said, “The department takes all such complaints very seriously and immediate action is taken…
Personal experiences can sometimes change the way a person looks at life. Actor Anupama Parameswaran has now opened up about one such difficult phase in her life. In a detailed conversation, the actress spoke about being in a controlling relationship for nearly two years. She explained how the experience affected her confidence, career choices and even her feelings about womanhood. Anupama did not name the person she was referring to, but shared several details about how the relationship changed her outlook.Anupama Parameswaran’s strong statement on periods and womanhoodOne of the most striking parts of Anupama Parameswaran’s interview was her comments…
Indian equities have declined over the past two weeks despite a brighter earnings outlook. India’s stock market, among the worst performing this year, has now replaced Indonesia to become the ‘least-favoured’ stock market in India, as per a fund managers’ survey by Bank of America Corp. This signals growing investor caution for the Indian stock market.The survey received responses from 98 fund managers overseeing a combined $272 billion in assets, with the responses collected between August 7 and August 13.Investor sentiment towards Indonesia, meanwhile, has improved. The share of fund managers who were net underweight on the country fell to…
The story so far: United States President Donald Trump is reported to have faced a threat at the 36th North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit (July 7-8, 2026), held in Türkiye. Mr. Trump, according to reports, is said to have moved between and used different aircraft as he left the summit due to a possible threat to his life. He has said, “I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane… I just have to do what they say.”Why was the switch made?U.S. media channels were recently told by U.S.…
A photograph of the outcrop of the Bhitardari carbonaceous chert, with a ballpoint pen to compare for size. | Photo Credit: PNAS vol. 123, no. 34 August 25, 2026 Researchers say they have found “compelling evidence” from multiple sources that microbial life existed in what is now eastern India at least 3.5 billion years ago. Typically these involve finding fossils or traces of organic chemicals but in this case they rely on converging chemical clues, according to a paper that appeared in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The source of their discovery is a single carbon-bearing rock…
The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a campaign billboard in Tel Aviv.The billboard, displayed in central Tel Aviv, carries the message, “They want Netanyahu to lose … Don’t let them win.”The poster features the logo of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, according to The Guardian and the New York Post.Netanyahu shared an…
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a residential building in the republic of Bashkortostan, leaving at least one person injured, regional head Radiy Khabirov said Wednesday. Khabirov said air defense systems intercepted four of six drones that targeted the region overnight. One drone sparked a fire at an oil refinery in the regional capital of Ufa, hitting a unit that was undergoing maintenance. “We’re currently assessing the damage, but preliminary reports indicate that a unit undergoing maintenance was hit. As always, falling debris damages pipes, so there’s minor damage,” Khabirov told the state-run news agency TASS. “I expect everything will…