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‘Batwara 1947’ continued its slow run at the box office on its second Monday. The Sunny Deol starrer clashed at the box office with Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Awarapan 2’ on Independence day and the latter is in a completely different league. The Emraan Hashmi starrer had already collected Rs. 136.25 crore net in India by Day 10 while ‘Batwara 1947’ continues to struggle to touch Rs 40 crore at the box office.The Rajkumar Santoshi directorial opened with Rs 5.75 crore on Day 1 and saw a big jump to Rs 13.50 crore on Day 2. It then collected Rs 7.25 crore…

India’s hopes of reaching the semifinals of the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 ended with a 3-5 defeat against Argentina (Image: IANS) India’s hopes of reaching the semifinals of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2026 came to an end on Monday after a 5-3 defeat against Argentina in their final Pool E match at the Wagener Hockey Stadium.India head coach Craig Fulton admitted that his team’s slow start and inability to handle the pressure of a must-win game proved costly as Argentina took control early and held on despite a late Indian fightback.“It was a difficult day today. We…

RRB NTPC CBT 1 result declared 2026 RRB NTPC UG result 2026: The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced the RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 result 2026 on August 24, 2026. Candidates who appeared for the first stage of the recruitment examination. The result has been made available through the official RRB website and the respective regional RRB websites.The RRB NTPC recruitment is being conducted for undergraduate-level posts under CEN 07/2025. Candidates who have cleared CBT 1 will now move to the next stage of the selection process. The Railway Recruitment Board has also scheduled the RRB NTPC UG CBT…

Caliber has launched its first tokenized real estate investment, with Sumsub providing KYC, AML and sanctions screening for investors in the PURE Pickleball & Padel offering.The integration creates reusable on-chain investor credentials through Chainlink’s compliance infrastructure, allowing verified identities to carry across future tokenized RWA investments.Sumsub is supplying the identity and compliance layer for Caliber’s first tokenized real estate investment, testing whether investor verification can become reusable infrastructure for private-market assets.The compliance company will handle KYC, sanctions and AML checks for investors in PURE Pickleball & Padel. The Scottsdale, Arizona project is the first completed fund tokenization on Nasdaq-listed Caliber’s…

Redefining Learning Personalization In L&D And Beyond Organizations have invested heavily in personalized learning through content libraries, flexible formats, and tailored recommendations. As learning programs grow, however, these approaches often fall short of delivering consistent outcomes. The next stage of personalization requires a broader perspective that ultimately supports informed, repeatable learning decisions across the organization. iSpring Solutions’ fresh guide, Learning Personalization: The Big Shift For L&D And Business, is all about getting that right. Ebook Learning Personalization: The Big Shift For L&D And Business Explore the framework that’s helping L&D teams make smarter, more consistent personalization decisions in this free…

The AI story of the summer should probably be the ​uncertain financial position​ of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly. Technology news, however, has instead been dominated by tales of AI agents “going rogue” by launching hacking attacks. This trend ​started in July​, when an OpenAI system tried to ace a cybersecurity test by breaking into the server of the company that stored the answers, which unsettled many observers. “It’s one of the first real-world instances of something AI safety researchers have long feared: a loss-of-control scenario,” technology reporter Sam Schechner ​summarized​. It turned out that this…

Jeanie Ditty has been convicted for killing Macy Grace Ditty in December 2015Macy Grace Ditty (left); and Jeanie Ditty.Credit: NC Conference of District Attorneys Facebook; Onslow County Sheriff’s Office FacebookNEED TO KNOWMacy Grace Ditty was taken off life support on Dec. 4, 2015, ten days before her 3rd birthdayMonths before Jeanie Ditty was charged in her murder, Jeanie had commissioned an “after life” photoshoot that showed superimposed photos of her and Macy spending time reading books or walkingAfter she learned her fate, Jeanie went into a tirade in the courtroom, cursing at those in the roomA North Carolina woman has…

In RuPaul’s last major film role, 2007’s Starrbooty, she played an international spy who goes undercover as a sex worker. Starrbooty, which hybridises the John Waters comedy, blaxploitation thriller, martial arts epic and a gay porno, is technically lost media for good reason. In it, RuPaul satisfies an Irish priest with a fart fetish, has graphic onscreen sex, and the finale hinges on what can only be described as drag FGM. Given the comprehensive Oprah-ification of RuPaul in the past two decades, Stop! That! Train! – her disaster movie spoof and return to the big screen – wasn’t exactly going to push the envelope like Starrbooty. But…

Economist Thomas Sowell once quipped, “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” And, on Sunday evening, August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon and his Camp David advisors curated a museum-grade artifact of the second lesson for all the world to see and suffer its consequences.  While economic in nature, the speech was titled, “The Challenge of Peace” in reference to the US troop drawdowns in Vietnam. Its central focus was to explain Nixon’s “New…

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