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The state prosecutor told the court that police found an almost completed bomb in a search of the man’s house.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has reclaimed the top spot in the Orange Cap race, becoming the first player to reach 400 runs in IPL 2026, underlining his sensational form this season.Rajasthan Royals secured a thrilling six-wicket win over Punjab Kings, powered by an unbeaten 77-run stand off 32 balls between Donovan Ferreira and Shubham Dubey, who chased down the target in 19.2 overs and handed PBKS their first defeat. RR’s chase was set up by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (43 off 16) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (51 off 27), before Yuzvendra Chahal’s three wickets briefly swung momentum back to PBKS.…

NIT Kurukshetra reset: MoE orders fixes, installs acting director NEW DELHI: The union education ministry has ordered corrective measures to improve campus governance and student well-being at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra following a high-level review on Tuesday, even as senior professor Brahmjit Singh has been appointed officiating director on Monday after the resignation of director BV Ramana Reddy was accepted.The review, chaired by the union education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan examined the academic environment, campus life and hostel management, flagging the need for urgent steps to strengthen student engagement, faculty accountability and overall institutional culture. Immediate measures include hostel…

AFP Protección, Colombia’s second-largest pension fund administrator, managing approximately $55Bn across more than 8.5 million clients, has launched a new portfolio product that includes Colombia Bitcoin exposure, marking the second major Colombian pension institution to make this move in under a year. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is that this isn’t a fund simply buying Bitcoin. This is a carefully gated product that requires personalized advisory sessions and individualized risk assessments before any client can allocate even a modest percentage to BTC. Colombia's Largest Pension Fund Moves Into Bitcoin via BlackRock's IBIT According to CriptoNoticias, Colombia’s largest pension…

Silver (XAG/USD) trades with a downside bias on Tuesday, down over 2.5%, as a higher-for-longer interest rate outlook continues to weigh on price action. Rising inflation risks, driven by elevated Oil prices amid ongoing Middle East supply disruptions, are pushing US Treasury yields higher, reducing the appeal of the non-yielding metal. At the time of writing, XAG/USD is trading around $73.25, its lowest level since April 13.Meanwhile, a lack of progress in US-Iran talks to end the war keeps the US Dollar (USD) firmly supported, adding further pressure on XAG/USD. While Silver typically benefits from geopolitical tensions, rising expectations of…

Paw prints and feline urine stains on a medieval scribe’s man­u­script, per­haps they weren’t entire­ly out of the ordi­nary in the 15th cen­tu­ry. But cats strapped to mini-pow­der kegs, bound­ing off to burn down a town — now that’s pret­ty unusu­al. The incen­di­ary feline fea­tured above (and else­where on this page) comes from a dig­i­tized ver­sion of an ear­ly 16th cen­tu­ry mil­i­tary man­u­al writ­ten by Franz Helm. An artillery mas­ter, Helm wrote about a broad and imag­i­na­tive set of destruc­tive ideas for siege war­fare. Although my Ger­man is some­what rusty, I got the sense that he was awful­ly fond of explod­ing sacks, bar­rels, and…

Laura Dern is getting her passport stamped.  The Big Little Lies actress has officially signed on to season four of The White Lotus, HBO confirmed on social media April 28, less than a week after…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that some literary projects are simply not meant to be reimagined as feature films or television series. Or, at least, it used to be. Now, with successful adaptations of previously deemed “unfilmable” classics like Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and Frank Herbert’s “Dune” finding their way to screens both large and small, what was once termed impossible is suddenly both thrilling and necessary. Like García Márquez’s Nobel Prize-winning novel, Isabel Allende’s “The House of the Spirits” is considered one of the foundational texts of magical realism, mixing both fantastical and quotidian elements to tell the…

This year marks the 250th anniversary of both the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations — no mere coincidence. The Enlightenment ideals of individual liberty and voluntary exchange that inspired America’s founders also laid the foundation of modern economics. Yet two and a half centuries later, persistent policy blunders — protectionist trade barriers, ballooning national debt, and stubborn inflation — reveal how far we have strayed from the Scotsman’s insights, endangering the principles upon which our republic was founded. It is tempting to blame these failures solely on politicians. But economists share responsibility. Returning to The…

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