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Rohit Sharma (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: Indian ODI captain Rohit Sharma shared a lighthearted moment with paparazzi at Mumbai International Airport after completing his fitness test at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. Sharma, along with teammates Jasprit Bumrah and Shubman Gill, underwent the tests ahead of India’s upcoming assignments.At the airport, Rohit engaged in a playful banter with the photographers, quipping: “Tum log bahut bade log ho bhai, tumko haath nahi laga sakta” (“You guys are big, I can’t touch you”). Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara retire… who next?The cameramen quickly replied, “Nahi sir…

New Orleans is rehiring black teachers laid off during school reform after Hurricane Katrina When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005, the storm not only caused catastrophic flooding but also dismantled the city’s education system. In the years that followed, the traditional public school structure was replaced with an almost entirely charter-based model, a move described as one of the most radical education reforms in US history. According to The Guardian, this transformation resulted in the dismissal of more than 7,000 teachers and staff, most of whom were Black.Two decades later, efforts are underway to bring Black educators…

In Africa crypto news this week, payment processing giant Mastercard announced expanding its partnership with Circle for global digital settlements using USDC. Like Tether USDT, USDC is one of the most popular and allows for cheap, instantaneous global value transfers. Meanwhile, in Kenya, InVastor launched an educational program targeting political stakeholders and leaders. Over the past few years, Kenya has been making steps to create regulatory clarity on crypto. The Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill (VASP) is being considered in parliament and may eventually be enacted into law. Meanwhile, the international law enforcement organization Interpol conducted a major operation to…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Blur, the professional-grade non-fungible token market platform, has had a dynamic year, attracting high volume and traders. Blur began the year strong, capturing approximately 50% of the total NFT market volume with $439 million in trading volume, before losing streak to the OpenSea NFT market. In July 2025, Blur regained dominance and dominated Ethereum’s NFT trading volume by capturing 80% of the market among its targeted high-volume “pro traders.” Blur Leads The NFT Market In August Data compiled by DappaRadar, a renowned on-chain crypto market data aggregator…

The EUR/USD outlook shows steady Eurozone consumer inflation expectations.  Consumers expect Eurozone inflation to average 2.6% in the next year.  The preliminary US GDP revealed a 3.3% expansion, bigger than the forecast of 3.1%. The EUR/USD outlook shows the euro recovering after an ECB survey revealed steady consumer inflation expectations. However, the currency pulled back in the previous session after upbeat US data briefly boosted the dollar.  An ECB survey revealed that consumers expect Eurozone inflation to average 2.6% in the next year. This was unchanged from the June expectations. Moreover, it means that the European Central Bank can maintain…

At first, film sim­ply record­ed events: a man walk­ing across a gar­den, work­ers leav­ing a fac­to­ry, a train pulling into a sta­tion. The medi­um soon matured enough to accom­mo­date dra­ma, which for ear­ly film­mak­ers meant sim­ply shoot­ing what amount­ed to stage pro­duc­tions from the per­spec­tive of a view­er in the audi­ence. At that stage, we could say, film still had­n’t evolved past sim­ple doc­u­men­tary pur­pos­es, hav­ing yet to incor­po­rate edit­ing, to say noth­ing of the oth­er qual­i­ties we now regard as char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly cin­e­mat­ic. This was­n’t a cul­tur­al mat­ter, but a tech­ni­cal one, as evi­denced by Momi­ji­gari, the old­est Japan­ese film…

Last month, a 22-year-old entrepreneur named Emil Barr published a Wall Street Journal op-ed boasting a provocative title:​ “‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre.”​ He opens with a spicy take: “I’m 22 and I’ve built two companies that together are valued at more than $20 million…When people ask how I did it, the answer isn’t what they expect—or want—to hear. I eliminated work-life balance entirely and just worked. When you front-load success early, you buy the luxury of choice for the rest of your life.” As Barr elaborates, when starting his first company, he slept only three and a half…

NEED TO KNOW Guy Fieri’s elder son Hunter Fieri married Tara Bernstein on Aug. 30 at his family’s ranch in Northern CaliforniaCake Boss star Buddy Valastro made the couple’s nearly 5-foot-tall “country chic” wedding cake, which he transported all the way from New Jersey”Guy, Hunter, Tara, the whole family, the whole Fieri family, just wonderful people and good friends, and just really, I can’t say enough good things about them,” Valastro told PEOPLE Hunter Fieri and Tara Bernstein enlisted none other than Cake Boss Buddy Valastro to create their massive wedding cake. It was a no-brainer for Bernstein, a professional…

Once again it is my pleasure and my privilege to be reporting to you from Venice, where the Cinema Biennale, known to the American trades as the Venice Film Festival, is unspooling, sort of, but not literally, given that more of the fare is projected from DCPs. Among other things the death of celluloid has deprived us of several fun metaphors. I’m also once again working with the Biennale College, the great program that funds adventurous filmmaking every year. I’ll be writing about the four films there after I participate in a panel for the College on Monday. I will…

For My Sunday Song #448, we are going to rock out to “In The Age Of The Consecrated Vampire We All Get High” by Rob Zombie. Now, that is a mouthful. The song was released as a single back on April 13, 2016 and I am not sure where I heard it, but the minute I did…I was hooked. I am sure I discovered because of John 5 who had joined Rob after performing with Marilyn Manson. I’m a big John 5 fan!! The song is from the 2016 album ‘The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser’…another mouthful.…