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Jasprit Bumrah (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Jasprit Bumrah, India’s pace spearhead, has taken a significant step towards his comeback from a lower back injury that sidelined him from the ongoing Champions Trophy. The speedster has started bowling at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, a development that has left fans excited about his potential return to international cricket.Bumrah’s recent Instagram post, where he shared a video of himself bowling in the nets with the caption “Progress everyday,” has fueled anticipation among cricket enthusiasts. His last appearance for India was during the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia,…

Donald Trump at first cabinet meeting (AP) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in US schools teeter on the brink with an opaque and turbulent future. Since taking office, Donald Trump has waged an unrelenting war on DEI, labelling it as a tool of “wokeness” and “racial favouritism.” In a sweeping directive issued by the US Department of Education, earlier this month, schools have been given an ultimatum- dismantle DEI initiatives within 14 days or face the loss of crucial federal funding. As the deadline knocks at the doors, educational institutions find themselves entangled in a crossroads: Submit and comply,…

Under Gary Gensler’s leadership, crypto and DeFi protocols, including Uniswap (UNI), were heavily scrutinized. Centralized ramps and exchanges were hit first. Binance, Kraken, and Coinbase were sued for millions, sometimes billions of dollars. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged they enabled the trading of unregistered securities and, in some instances, facilitated money laundering. Binance settled for over $4 billion, with Changpeng Zhao stepping down as CEO, while others, like Coinbase, opted to fight. Yesterday, February 25, the United States SEC officially closed its investigation into Uniswap, one of the world’s largest DeFi platforms. Crucially, the agency decided…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Square Enix, the video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate, has announced the end of season three of its Symbiogenesis non-fungible token game. At the same time, the gaming company has also revealed the final roadmap for its Symbiogenesis non-fungible token project. In this article, we shall discuss about the Symbiogenesis NFT game’s final roadmap in detail: Square Enix Symbiogenesis NFT Game Explained In a February 25 blog post, Square Enix announced that the third season of its Symbiogenesis non-fungible token game has ended, and the final season…

Fed to leave cash rates unchanged; market optimism puts downward pressure on the USD; some economic data improve.The US Federal Reserve recently announced its decision to leave the cash rates unchanged, remaining in line with analysts’ expectations.The bank decided to leave the rates close to zero, at 0.25 percent, claiming that the economic situation is improving, though still below pre-pandemic levels.In addition, the Fed pledged to continue with its bond purchases until the economy substantially improves.During a press conference that followed the announcement, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell commented that if economic recovery slows, the Fed would expand its balance…

By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Today, Google Agile Essentials is available on Coursera to help professionals across industries manage projects more strategically and efficiently.  Amid a rapidly changing skills landscape, Agile methodology remains vital, with nearly every company in a recent BCG survey adopting it. First used in software development, Agile is an iterative approach to project management that emphasizes collaboration, flexibility, and continuous improvement, enabling teams to adapt quickly and deliver results. Its enduring demand and proven productivity gains make it an essential skill across teams and organizations.  In less than 10 hours, seasoned experts at…

Space company Blue Origin’s next mission will be powered by a history-making crew of heavy hitters, including journalist Gayle King, pop star Katy Perry and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez.  Those three, plus former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn were announced as the program’s first all-female crew for a launch scheduled this spring, Blue Origin said in a press release on Thursday, Feb. 27.  The company credited Sánchez, who is the fiancée of Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, for bringing the mission together.  “She is honored to lead a team…

I can’t say that I was completely connected with all the stories presented in the drama Confesiones Chin Chin. The first sequence showed a couple in beautiful and natural engagement with their bodies, and then the film revealed its true nature. Carolina Perelman‘s deep character study of queer culture in Madrid is limited to what happens inside a bar. On rare occasions, the camera leaves the bar, and when it does, the film tends to lose its focus. Luckily, the camera always finds a way back home where it belongs. In the safe haven that is the place where everybody…

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of one Def Leppard’s biggest albums, ‘Pyromania’, they give the album the justice it needs and released an awesome box set in 2024. And what a great set it is. It has 4 CD’s, 1 Blu Ray and even includes a hard back book. It is all housed in a cardboard box that is of great quality and the images are fantastic. The housing of the CDs & Blu Ray is not a gate-fold, but instead an incredible tri-fold. The original album is remastered, there is a disc of unreleased demos and mixes, a live…

The beleaguered US housing market is showing new signs of strain, with a surge in delistings, declining home sales, and growing unsold inventories raising concerns about a potential price correction. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, nearly 73,000 homes were pulled from the market in December 2024, a whopping 64 percent increase from the same month a year earlier. Despite an increase in available properties, the total number of home sales fell to its lowest level in nearly thirty years, suggesting that demand has suddenly dried up. Sellers of homes, which are usually the largest investment of an individual’s…