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In a post on X, Tharoor said: “A historic building of immense architectural importance is to be demolished and replaced by a cookie-cutter government building! And in the meantime there will be no National Museum for two years at least. This is barbarism, pure and simple.”According to sources, the National Museum, which is home to a collection of rich ancient artefacts, is likely to be vacated by the end of this year as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project.However, it is not clear whether the over 60-year-old building will be retained or razed after its objects and collections are…

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka met twice in the Asia Cup this month, with the Lions emerging with the spoils on both occasions. Their third meeting in less than a month came in Guwahati and the 1996 champions elected to bat after winning the toss, which initially appeared to be the right call.A century-strong opening partnership between Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Perera made for a promising start, with Nissanka striking nine boundaries in his 64-ball 68 and Perera hitting six fours.Perera appeared well-set for a big score but his day took a frustrating turn when he hurt his shoulder at the…

The social media platform started paying creators in July for a share of the ad revenue they earned from ads served in the replies to their posts to other verified users.“Create. Connect. Collect all on X. We’re enabling the economic success of new segments like creators,” Yaccarino posted on X late on Friday.“And so far we’ve paid out almost $20 million to our creator community,” she added.The first payment in July was around $5 million, according to X owner Elon Musk.Creators are now being incentivised to get users to reply to their tweets.X began paying creators, including in India, their…

The runoff election features a head-to-head contest between incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and People’s National Congress coalition’s candidate Mohamed Muizzu, who is also the mayor of capital city Male, reports Xinhua news agency.According to the Election Commission, a total of over 282,000 people are eligible to participate in the voting to choose the island nation’s new president with a five-year term.Voting started at 8 a.m. and will conclude at 5 p.m. on Saturday evening, with 586 ballot boxes being set up for the election.Muizzu secured more than 46 per cent of the votes,…

In the men’s 50m breaststroke, Qin touched home first in 26.35 seconds in style, while China’s Sun Jiajun trailed in 26.92 for the silver. South Korean swimmer Choi Dongyeol came third in 26.93, reports Xinhua.The 24-year-old shattered the 200m breast world record with 2:05.48 in the Fukuoka worlds in July and became the first swimmer to complete a sweep of the breaststroke disciplines in a single edition of the world championships. At the Hangzhou Asiad, Qin completed a treble exploits again.Backstroke specialist Xu, who won five golds at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, clinched the men’s 200m title in 1:55.37.…

After rolling out client-side encryption for Gmail on the web earlier this year, now Android and iOS business users can read and write encrypted messages directly from their devices.“This allows your users to work with your most sensitive data from anywhere on their mobile devices while adhering to compliance and regulatory requirements,” the company said in an update late on Friday.The Gmail mobile apps support encrypted mail natively, so users don’t need to download multiple apps, or navigate to an external portal, to access their encrypted messages.“While Workspace encrypts data at rest and in transit by using secure-by-design cryptographic libraries,…

The BVB assumed control from the kick-off and almost opened the scoring with 15 minutes played as Donyell Malen’s effort forced Hoffenheim goalkeeper Oliver Baumann into action, reports Xinhua.However, Baumann was hapless three minutes later when Julian Brandt dispossessed John Anthony Brooks, allowing Fullkrug to score his first goal in the BVB dress.Even though Dortmund controled the proceedings, Hoffenheim restored parity out of the blue as Andrej Kramaric converted a foul play penalty from the spot to make it 1-1 in the 25th minute.Dortmund remained unfazed and took the lead again just before the break, as Baumann palmed a freekick…

“Apparently Karnataka’s newly elected Congress government has started levying a ‘political election tax’ of Rs 500 per Square Foot to Bengaluru builders to fund Telangana Congress,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter).“Old habits die hard. The Grand old party and its rich legacy of scams is legendary and that’s why it’s been rechristened ;Scamgress; No matter how much money they pump, people of Telangana cannot be fooled,” he said, adding ‘Say NO to Scamgress in TS’.KTR had alleged two days ago at a public meeting that Congress was getting money from Karnataka and Chhattisgarh and spending in Telangana to woo…

The Black Caps captain is still recovering from a knee injury and has been ruled out of the opening game of the tournament against England next Thursday.However, he gained crucial time in the middle against Pakistan and looked in fine touch in Hyderabad, where Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell and Mark Chapman also passed 50 in the run chase.Batting second was the key to success on the first day of warm-up action, as Bangladesh chased 263 to beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets, while the day’s other scheduled match between Afghanistan and South Africa was abandoned without a ball being bowled.With…

The prosecutors on Friday charged Charles Edward Littlejohn, the 38-year-old man worked with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2020, who allegedly stole “tax returns and return information associated with Public Official A” and disclosed that information to a news organisation, CNN reported citing court documents.Although the official is not named in court documents, a source told CNN the tax returns in question were Trump’s.In addition to the former President’s tax documents, Littlejohn is also accused of stealing IRS information on “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years”,…