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Mohammad Saifuddin of Bangladesh bats during the Asia Cup match between India and Bangladesh at Dubai International Stadium on September 24, 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo/Getty Images) Bangladesh is trying to save India’s six-match cricket tour next month, with the foreign ministers of both countries involved in efforts to resolve the issue, news agency AFP reported.The tour consists of three ODIs and three T20Is. It was originally scheduled for August last year but was postponed after relations between Dhaka and New Delhi deteriorated.Bangladesh sports minister Aminul Haque said on Monday that discussions were continuing at the ministerial level.”It…

President Droupadi Murmu has approved the 2026 amendment extending statutory protection under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to Vande Mataram. The law now penalises deliberate disruption of the national song’s singing. The story explains the amended provisions, the Home Ministry’s protocols, the song’s historical significance and what students should know about the new rules. President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, giving Vande Mataram, India’s national song, the same statutory protection as the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana. The legislation amends the Prevention of Insults to…

Singapore’s high-net-worth and professional investors are already embracing tokenized assets at a rate that suggests demand is moving faster than the rules and market infrastructure needed to support it.Three in four Singapore respondents in Sygnum’s latest APAC tokenization report already hold tokenized assets, according to Singapore-specific data provided by the digital-asset bank.Among investors already participating, 48% hold or are targeting tokenized private equity and venture capital, 47% private credit and 45% commodities.Those preferences are notable because Singapore is simultaneously exploring ways to give ordinary investors broader access to some of the same underlying markets.The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) proposed…

AUD/USD trades just above 0.7050 on Tuesday August 11, a tenth of a percent firmer inside a 29-pip range, having taken the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision entirely in its stride. The board left the cash rate at 4.35% on a unanimous vote and published fresh quarterly forecasts alongside it, the fifth decision of the year, and the currency barely acknowledged any of it.The flat reaction is the least interesting thing about the day. What matters is the gap that opens behind the decision, because the next Australian meeting is seven weeks out and the next American one is…

Among Bea­t­les con­nois­seurs, it’s fair game to claim any­thing from Rub­ber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album. But even with­in that span of the cat­a­log, a hier­ar­chy of acclaim exists, and that hier­ar­chy has been rearranged over the decades. The ecsta­t­ic recep­tion of Sgt. Pepper’s Lone­ly Hearts Club Band last­ed at least a decade. By the turn of the nine­teen-eight­ies, its imme­di­ate pre­de­ces­sor Revolver had joined it at the top spot of crit­i­cal regard; twen­ty years after that, Abbey Road had dis­placed Sgt. Pep­per. Now, a full 60 years after it first came out, Revolver is the sin­gle Bea­t­les album held in the…

Sophia Cover was last seen on security footage in the early morning hours of July 31Sophia Cover, 16, was last seen leaving her home in Naples, Florida, in the dead of night on July 31.Credit: Roofer Rick/FacebookNEED TO KNOWSophia Cover, the 16-year-old girl who was last seen on July 31 leaving her home in Florida, has been found alive, her father and authorities saidSurveillance footage showed the teen leaving her Naples home and wearing a dark hoodie and backpack the night of her disappearanceRichard Cover said on Aug. 10 that Sophia was found safe at a friend’s home in New…

It’s been ten years since Sian Clifford first graced our screens as Claire in Fleabag, and Lady reminds us exactly why we fell for her in the first place. This debut feature from Samuel Abrahams arrives disguised as yet another entry in the crowded ​‘eat the rich’ canon, but quickly reveals itself to be something stranger, sadder and far more interesting. Forget Saltburn, this is Grey Gardens after a heroic dose of psilocybin, as Lady proves to be a gloriously deranged mockumentary that turns satire into a study of the human need to be seen.Clifford is Lady Isabella, the flamboyant chatelaine of Ravenhyde Hall…

Friday’s July employment report offered an unusually good occasion to revisit something I wrote about almost exactly a year ago: the widespread misunderstanding of revisions to the monthly jobs numbers. On August 7, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nonfarm payroll employment fell by 23,000 jobs in July, while the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent. At the same time, May payroll growth was revised from +129,000 to +63,000 and June from +57,000 to +20,000: a combined downward revision of 103,000 jobs. Those numbers certainly suggest that the labor market has weakened. The three-month average payroll gain is…

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Rishabh Pant might have batted with a low strike rate, contrasting his trademark aggressive batting style, in the warm-up match in Colombo against the Sri Lanka Cricket XI, but could be dangerous when the India National Cricket Team faces the Sri Lanka National Cricket Team in the 2-match Test series, starting on August 15.Ahead of the 1st match of the series, former Sri Lanka all-rounder Farveez Maharoof issued a warning to the home team so that the Sri Lankan players can be prepared to counter Rishabh Pant.I would be very worried about Rishabh Pant: Farveez MaharoofThrough a PTI video on…