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Ayush Shetty, PV Sindhu qualifes for pre-quarterfinals (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: After a mixed Day 3 for India, attention now turns to a crucial Day 4 at the BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi. Several Indian players and pairs will be in action on Thursday, with Ayush Shetty and PV Sindhu among the biggest names taking the court.Ayush Shetty enters the men’s singles Round of 16 after an impressive straight-game victory over Sri Lanka’s Dumindu Abeywickrama. He will face Indonesia’s Alwi Farhan in what promises to be another important test for the young Indian.PV Sindhu will also be aiming…

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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has opened the online registration window for the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) XXII on August 19, 2026. Law graduates and eligible candidates seeking to appear for the examination can now submit their applications through the designated online portal.The registration process will remain open until October 27. Candidates should complete the application within the stipulated deadline, as the subsequent dates for fee payment and correction of applications are also fixed.The AIBE XXII examination is scheduled to be held on November 29, 2026. The admit cards are expected to be released from November 14, giving…

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Michael Saylor has spent six years telling the world to buy Bitcoin. In Bitcoin news today, he told short-term traders something that sounds like a reversal but is actually the clearest articulation yet of who Bitcoin is for. “If you’re a short-term price predictor, you’re a trader, I don’t really have much useful wisdom for you,” Saylor said. Here is the central tension this article unpacks: Saylor is not softening his Bitcoin conviction; he is drawing a hard line between people who trade price action and people who allocate capital for years, and he is telling the first group to…

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The world end­ed in the nine­teen-six­ties. Or rather, one world end­ed in the nine­teen-six­ties and gave way to anoth­er, a tran­si­tion per­son­i­fied by no human beings more clear­ly than the Bea­t­les. “They are light­ning rods for so much that makes the six­ties a rev­o­lu­tion­ary decade,” says The Rest Is His­to­ry pod­cast co-host Tom Hol­land in the video above. “In all kinds of ways, in the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry, we’re liv­ing in the after­math of what hap­pened in the six­ties, rather like peo­ple in the six­teenth cen­tu­ry were liv­ing in the after­math of what hap­pened in the fif­teen-twen­ties.” Many of the show’s reg­u­lar…

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Hall explained his challenges on the show while looking back at his career with Danielle FishelNora Dunn, Danitra Vance, Randy Quaid, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Terry Sweeney, Joan Cusack and Jon Lovitz for ‘Saturday Night Live’Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via GettyNEED TO KNOWAnthony Michael Hall was cast on Saturday Night Live for the 1985-1986 seasonWhile he was honored that he made it, the then-teenaged actor found it hard to keep up with the show’s “grueling” schedule each weekHall remains the youngest person to ever join the late-night sketch comedy show’s castAnthony Michael Hall has great respect for anyone…

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2026 might have been Gen Z’s breakout summer at the vanguard of culture, according to Vox. Yet it’s also been the season when millennials, now all firmly in their thirties and above, can finally identify their first undeniable generational talent. A quarter-century after Anne Hathaway’s breakthrough shot her to instant stardom, a stunning run of five roles (with one still to come this fall!) has solidified her status as more than just a generational talent. She’s a millennial emblem.Hathaway burst onto the scene in 2001’s The Princess Diaries as a very different model of Disney royalty. Her gawky teen Mia Thermopolis leads a normal existence until a hitherto unknown grandmother…

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1. Introduction: Why Sound Money Matters Money is foundational to commerce and plays a central role in everyday life. We work for it, save it, invest it, and spend it. Yet most people know little about how money works, or how important good laws are for creating a monetary regime that promotes economic prosperity. The more people understand the nature and functions of money, the better they can hold their elected officials accountable for maintaining sound money. Sound money preserves its purchasing power over time and may even increase in value as technology and productivity improve. This contrasts with bad…

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India have produced several iconic wicketkeeper-batters over the years, with names such as Syed Kirmani, MS Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha and Rishabh Pant making a lasting impression. However, only a select few have managed to leave a truly significant mark in the longest format of the game. Picking one name as the greatest among them is always a difficult debate, given the different eras, roles and contributions of India’s wicketkeeper-batters.Dodda Ganesh names greatest Indian wicketkeeper-batter in TestsFormer India pacer Dodda Ganesh has now weighed in on the debate, and his choice may surprise fans who immediately associate India’s greatest wicketkeeper-batter with Dhoni.…

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