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Source: Business Line

The Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin is ready to host a crucial knockout clash as Malaysia Women take on Sri Lanka Women in the third quarter-final of the Women’s Asian Games 2026. With a place in the next round at stake, both sides will be aiming to deliver their best performance when it matters most.Sri Lanka head into the contest with a strong squad led by experienced captain and all-rounder Chamari Athapaththu. The team also features established players such as Harshitha Samarawickrama and Kavisha Dilhari, giving them considerable experience across both batting and bowling. Their combination of attacking stroke-makers and…

The Blue Jackets and Fantilli have been $2-3 million apart this week TSN: The Columbus Blue Jackets and Adam Fantilli weren’t looking at eight-year deals, so the Tuesday deadline didn’t really apply to them, according to Pierre LeBrun. The Blue Jackets don’t want Fantilli to miss training camp, but they want the contract to fit, but they haven’t been close. “There have been offers and counteroffers throughout the summer, but the reality is that they are $2-3 million apart on average annual value.” A list of NHL injuries heading into the first day of training camp What is Adam Fantilli…

Thousands of Barclays staff are demanding concessions from the bank, including a one-off payment, after it said it wants employees to work from the office more often.Staff who have been expected to work in the office for two days per week should be in the office for at least three days a week from next month, according to the company.Unite, which represents about 36,000 Barclays staff, is calling for the bank to reverse its decision. The union is also pressing for exemptions to offset increased travel and childcare costs.Barclays said many employees already work in the office for three or…

Bitcoin’s price swung before settling largely unmoved over a 24-hour period after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates — as expected — for the first time since 2023.  The leading cryptocurrency was recently priced at nearly $75,813 after dropping as low as $75,355 in the hour after the U.S. central bank gave its decision to increase the benchmark federal funds rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%.  Over a seven-day period, the coin is down nearly 4%.  Traders had bet there was a more than 90% chance that the Fed would raise interest rates ahead of its September meeting.…

Buckingham Palace is in a war of words with Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, over a controversial memoir about her life and death.King Charles III is accused of insensitively telling Earl Spencer, in the wake of Princess Diana’s death in 1997, that “we’ll forget her soon enough”, according to excerpts in the Daily Mail.But the Palace has pushed back unusually strongly, angered by the claims and attempting to cast doubt on them.”While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect…

Prithvi Shaw and Akriti Agarwal (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: India cricketer Prithvi Shaw and his fiancee Akriti Agarwal have decided to part ways around six months after announcing their engagement. Agarwal, a social media personality and actress, confirmed the separation in a statement on social media on Thursday. She said the decision was mutual and came after the couple realised that their future goals and circumstances were different.She also asked people to respect their privacy and avoid speculation about the reasons behind their decision.’We have mutually decided to go our separate ways’“With a heavy heart, I would like to…

Circle opened the public mainnet for Arc, its USDC-centered Layer 1 blockchain, on September 16, 2026, with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance, creating a talking point about the firms involvement with Ripple XRP. Among them: SBI Group, which has held roughly 9% of Ripple since 2016 and is described as Ripple’s largest external shareholder, according to the primary reporting on the launch. SBI CEO Yoshitaka Kitao has put the value of that stake near $4Bn. BOJ INSIDER CALLED IT A YEAR AGO — ARC GOES LIVE AND RIPPLE SITS DOWN WITH CIRCLE THE SAME WEEK! Last…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Circle’s new Arc blockchain went live on September 16 with a design choice that inverts the usual layer-1 model: transaction fees are paid in USDC, the stablecoin itself, not in Arc’s own freshly minted ARC token. Arc, Circle’s layer-1 network for payments and financial markets, launched its public mainnet on September 16 with EVM compatibility and sub-second settlement finality, according to the launch announcement on Arc’s blog. “This is, I believe, the most consequential major platform launch in our history, and I think an even more consequential…

For decades fol­low­ing World War II,  the world was left won­der­ing how the atroc­i­ties of the Holo­caust could have been per­pe­trat­ed in the midst of—and, most hor­rif­i­cal­ly, by—a mod­ern and civ­i­lized soci­ety. How did peo­ple come to engage in a will­ing and sys­tem­at­ic exter­mi­na­tion of their neigh­bors? Psy­chol­o­gists, whose field had grown into a grudg­ing­ly respect­ed sci­ence by the mid­point of the 20th cen­tu­ry, were eager to tack­le the ques­tion. In 1961, Yale University’s Stan­ley Mil­gram began a series of infa­mous obe­di­ence exper­i­ments. While Adolf Eichmann’s tri­al was under­way in Jerusalem (result­ing in Han­nah Arendt’s five-piece reportage, which became one…