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NEW DELHI: India U19 secured a commanding 100-run victory over England U19 to claim their sixth ICC Under-19 World Cup title on Friday, continuing their dominance in the tournament with previous wins in 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018, and 2022. The final at Zimbabwe’s Harare Sports Club saw a spectacular performance from 14-year-old batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.T20 World Cup Groups Explained: Who Can Reach the Super 8Sooryavanshi delivered a breathtaking 175 off just 80 balls, hitting 15 fours and 15 sixes, and became the fastest player to reach 150 in Under-19 cricket history, achieving the milestone in 71 deliveries. India, after…

The Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) has started the online registration process for Haryana Civil Services (HCS) 2026 from today, February 6, 2026. The recruitment drive is being conducted to fill 102 vacancies in the Executive Branch and other allied services under the Haryana government. Eligible candidates can submit their applications through the official HPSC website. The last date to apply online is February 26, 2026, till 5 pm.The HPSC issued the official notification for HCS 2026 on January 30, 2026. As per the schedule, the preliminary examination will be held on April 26, 2026. Candidates who qualify the prelims…

The Bitcoin price bounced emphatically off support at $60,000 in the first strong signal of bottoming activity, after giving up all of its Trump rally gains – but is it Trumpism in crypto that is at the root of crypto’s ills? There’s certainly more hope in the air as the European session opens this morning, with Bitcoin trading above $66,400. But all the factors that created the crash are still very much in play. Crypto leverage, crowded tech trades, high-risk asset correlation and Bitcoin narrative doubts are all in the bear market mix. Fire up your Bloomberg terminal and create…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Strategy, the largest Bitcoin BTC $67,177.38 Treasury company, ended the fourth quarter of 2025 with a net loss of $12.4 billion. The company linked this result to Bitcoin’s 22% price drop during the same period. Strategy’s stock closed 17% lower on February 5, falling to $107.While the final earnings figure was negative, the company still reported a small rise in revenue. Fourth-quarter income reached $123 million, up 1.9% from the year before. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe – We publish new crypto explainer videos every…

Commerzbank’s Barbara Lambrecht argues Copper faces near‑term pressure from rising exchange inventories and broader metals volatility, but maintains a constructive long‑term view. Chinese grid‑expansion capex is up sharply and industry forecasts point to slower supply growth and calls for higher state reserves, underpinning expectations of sustained demand support despite current headwinds.Inventory pressure versus structural demand”Base metal prices are not only facing headwinds from the precious metals markets, but the fundamentals have also been rather negative recently. This is particularly true for copper.””But regardless of the current headwinds, we see two factors that provide sustained support: On the positive side, China’s…

Khi­pus, the portable infor­ma­tion archives cre­at­ed by the Inca, may stir up mem­o­ries of 1970s macrame with their long strands of intri­cate­ly knot­ted, earth-toned fibers, but their func­tion more close­ly resem­bled that of a dense­ly plot­ted com­put­er­ized spread­sheet. As Cecil­ia Par­do-Grau, lead cura­tor of the British Museum’s cur­rent exhi­bi­tion Peru: a jour­ney in time explains in the above Cura­tors Cor­ner episode, khi­pus were used to keep track of every­thing from inven­to­ries and cen­sus­es to his­tor­i­cal nar­ra­tives, using a sys­tem that assigned mean­ing to the type and posi­tion of knot, spaces between knots, cord length, fiber col­or, etc. Much of the infor­ma­tion pre­served with­in khi­pus has yet to be deci­phered…

There’s a certain badassery built into a sport that entails hurtling headfirst on a tiny sled down a twisty track at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. But Ro, the first American to medal in skeleton in 12 years at the IBSF World Championships in 2025, admittedly didn’t think it was for her at first. “The coach walks me to the line, lets me go, and all of a sudden, it’s going so fast, you cannot see anything, you cannot process anything,” she told The Athletic in December, recalling her first taste of the sport in 2016 after…

“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote the film critic Amos Vogel in 1980. Sex and death, Vogel believed, were the two facets of life hidden behind closed doors – with cinema one of the few artistic mediums with the ability to bring those private human rites out into the open. More than 40 years after Vogel’s assertion, death is still stigmatised onscreen. Illness more generally is often treated with squeamishness; the genre of films and documentaries dedicated to death, from cloying romantic tragedies such as The Fault in Our Stars to…

Welcome to Friday New Releases. February comes in with a little of a whimper. Not a lot here this time around, but there is one that will be big for sure and that is Nick Jonas. I won’t be getting it, but I am sure a lot of people will. For me, there is really nothing I need, maybe I’ll stream the new Puscifer album, but outside of that, probably nothing else. Let me know what you want to hear or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend!

The largest event on the American sports calendar is once again about to take place, but with an interesting twist this year. Super Bowl LX ticket prices have declined sharply as kickoff approaches, offering what appears, at first glance, to be a rare instance of consumer relief. As of February 2, secondary-market “get-in” prices had fallen into the mid-$4,000 range, with major platforms listing entry points between roughly $4,400 and $4,700. Average resale prices — still elevated by any historical standard — have eased into the vicinity of $8,000. Most notable is the pace of adjustment: minimum prices dropped by…