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Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) Before embarking on their trip to Spain for a four-nation international tournament, the Indian men’s hockey team had a few sessions with newly-appointed mental conditioning expert Paddy Upton and both chief coach Craig Fulton and captain Harmanpreet Singh described it as a “discovery phase” for both parties. Harman said that besides getting to know the players and Indian hockey, Upton has started looking into one aspect of the mind process that players have to tackle regularly — the change in attitude the players feel while playing a lower-ranked team as against one ranked higher.”Usually when we…

Dhaka, July 7 (IANS) A day after announcing his shocking retirement from international cricket, veteran Bangladesh batter Tamim Iqbal on Friday reversed his decision after intervention from country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The 34-year old cricketer met the Prime Minister at her residence with his wife, his former captain Mashrafe Mortaza and BCB president Nazmul Hassan and later briefed the media about his decision.”Today afternoon, the Prime Minister invited me to her house. She admonished me and asked me to play again, so I have decided to come out of retirement at this moment,” Tamim was quoted as saying by…

San Francisco, July 7 (IANS) American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson aka ‘MrBeast’ has become the first person to hit one million followers on Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival. just hours after launch.The 25-year-old YouTuber hit a million followers on July 6 at 9:42 a.m. EST, just a few hours after signing up for the app. MrBeast has also earned a place in the Guinness World Records for being the first person to reach this milestone.Guinness World Records in a video on Twitter showed the exact moment when MrBeast’s 999K Threads followers turned to 1 million.”The moment @mrbeast reached one million followers on…

While presenting the budget, CM Siddaramaiah said that approximately, Rs 52,000 crore will be spent annually to fulfill the five guarantees.The government has aimed at collection of Rs 11,500 crore of taxes. The excise duty has been hiked by 20 per cent on liquor and 10 per cent on beer.It has been announced in the budget that the guidance value of immovable properties would be reviewed. The guidance value for immovable property was not reviewed since 2019.The government is aiming to collect Rs 1 lakh crore in this financial year.It aims to collect Rs 9,000 crore of royalties from the…

Chief Operating Officer Irina Ghose has been promoted to Managing Director of India.Maheshwari, who joined Microsoft in 2016 after serving at HoneyWell and McKinsey & Company, steered the tech giant growing across the spectrum, be it workplace productivity, skilling and local innovation at scale in India.“We can confirm that Anant has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue a role outside the company,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement.“We would like to thank Anant for his many contributions to our business and culture in India and wish him every success in his future endeavours,” the spokesperson added.Maheshwar is a graduate…

The 2021 US Open champion was earlier locked at 4-4 in the third set with the Frenchman when darkness forced the postponement of the match on Thursday night.Resuming the match in contrasting warm, sunny conditions on Friday, Medvedev recovered from an early mini-break in the tie-break to book a date with the winner Marton Fucsovics.The 27-year-old has yet to lose a set this fortnight. He opened his campaign with a straight-sets win against home favourite Arthur Fery on Wednesday and will hope to keep his perfect run alive when he returns to the court for a third round on Saturday.Wimbledon…

The Congress also dubbed the judgement as “disappointing but not unexpected”, saying they will approach the Supreme Court.“Why is that all cases filed against Rahul Gandhi is by members of the BJP ecosystem? Why is it that a stray reference to a complaint made on the last day of the hearing on May 2nd becomes a significant part of the judgement going against all codes and norms of fair justice? All these attempts to throttle democracy and silence Rahul Gandhi will only redouble our commitment to fight for truth and justice,” Congress General Secretary said in a tweet.Meanwhile, addressing a…

Foreign currency assets (FCAs) also rose by $2.5 billion to $528 billion, according to the weekly statistical supplement released by the RBI on Friday. Expressed in dollar terms, the FCAs include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. During the previous week, the forex reserves had fallen by $2.901 billion to $593.198 billion. The forex reserves had reached an all-time high in October 2021 at $645 billion. –IANS ans/vd

Dressed in a flowing pink outfit, and sporting a Gandhi topi, which is a part of the dabbawala uniform, Huma carried a big tiffin in her hand. Sharib opted for a green shirt and enjoyed posing and interacting with the dabbawalas. The two then settled down for lunch with the dabbawala.’Tarla’ is a captivating biopic that chronicles the extraordinary life of home cook-turned-popular TV show host and cookbook author Tarla Dalal, who rises from humble beginnings to attain national renown.The film chronicles Tarla’s unwavering determination and ambition, as she rises to the top of the culinary world, leaving a flavourful…

Raj Thackeray said that the Nashik District Central Cooperative Bank has been pursuing the recovery of its loans to the peasants though monsoon has not yet set in property in the state. “The sowing is also low and proceeding slowly due to lack of rains… In such a scenario the NDCCB is going after the farmers and forcing them to repay their small loans,” he told the CM. Taking cognisance after the discussion, Shinde called up the NDCCB officers and directed them not to hound the farmers for the small recoveries. Raj Thackeray also brought up the issue of the…