England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith and Australia batter Steve Smith during day three of the Fifth Test in the 2025/26 Ashes Series between Australia and England at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 06, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo/Getty Images) England wicketkeeper-batter Jamie Smith has said that missing out on the IPL 2026 could help him focus…
ED and Labor Launch FY 2026 Talent Search Grants The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) have officially announced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 competition for the Talent Search Program, a federal initiative aimed at helping students pursue high-quality postsecondary education, training programs, and Registered Apprenticeships. The program represents a coordinated effort between…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Williams-Sonoma — The home goods and furniture seller rose 6% on better-than-expected earnings. Williams-Sonoma earned $3.04 per share, beating an LSEG estimate of $2.90 per share. The company also raised its quarterly dividend by 15%. nVent Electric – The maker of electronics cabinets and cooling systems…
What to watch on OTT: Debutant Aryan Khan-directed The Ba***ds of Bollywood & The Trial Season 2, powered by Kajol to Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film 28 Years Later and India’s highest-grossing animated film Mahavatar Narasimha: and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers and a few others are available for streaming. Here’s the list. The Ba***ds…
Vijay at an Iftar event in Mamallapuram on Wednesday CHENNAI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay on Wednesday dismissed speculation about his party joining any alliance, stating that there would be no compromise on its core principles of secularism and social justice.Speaking at an Iftar event in Mamallapuram, Vijay said, “From the time we entered…
New Delhi: A gas you rarely think about is disrupting MRI supply chains in India. West Asia-linked helium shortages have tightened availability and driven up costs in India, raising the risk of pricier scans and diagnostic delays.With India heavily dependent on imports from Qatar for the non-renewable gas used to cool MRI magnets, hospitals and…
US intelligence chief says Iran not rebuilding nuclear programme, undercutting Donald Trump’s war rationale US intelligence has concluded that Iran has not tried to rebuild the nuclear enrichment capacity destroyed in last year’s US and Israeli strikes, a finding that cuts against one of President Donald Trump’s central claims for the current war, according to…
China’s Ding Liren (Photo by FIDE/Eric Rosen) NEW DELHI: Former world chess champion Ding Liren has dropped out of the FIDE ratings list after playing too few games, but he seems completely at peace with the situation. Once at the top of the chess world, he is now taking a step back and enjoying a…
4 min readUpdated: Sep 19, 2025 03:47 PM IST The Trial Season 2 review: Kajol and co are back in Season 2 of ‘The Trial’ as legal eagles working their way through and around the system geared towards saving the powerful and damning the weak The previous season began with Noyonika Sengupta (Kajol), reeling by…
Highlights Vedanta to consider third interim Dividend on March 23. Shares of Vedanta Limited closed at Rs 679.00 on the NSE on Wednesday, March 18, down 2.91%. In Q3, the company’s net profit surged by 60.1 per cent year-on-year, rising from Rs 3,547 crore to Rs 5,710 crore. Vedanta Dividend Update: One of the world’s…
