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New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra explained why very few people in the Netherlands take up cricket and how the Dutch pulled off a huge upset over South Africa.The Netherlands stunned South Africa by 38 runs in the World Cup 2023 match at the HPCA Stadium, here on Tuesday night.First time the Netherlands has beaten a Test-playing nation in the ODI World Cup. This was the same Dutch side that knocked Proteas out of the T20 World Cup 2022 and now they have defeated them in a 50-over World Cup convincingly.Akash Chopra said, “The Netherlands is…

Madrid, Oct 18 (IANS) FC Barcelona could promote 18-year-old striker Victor Roque from Brazil to their first-team squad as early as next January, the club’s Director of Sport, Deco, revealed.Barca initially signed the young forward during the summer, planning for him to join the first-team squad for the 2024-2025 season. However, in an interview with El Mundo Deportivo newspaper, Deco disclosed that the move might occur sooner if Barcelona can comply with La Liga’s financial fair play requirements, reports Xinhua.”We don’t know yet if we can bring him or not, but if we can bring him in January, he would…

Gurugram, Oct 18 (IANS) Haryana Officers XI Blue, led by IAS Nishant Yadav, beat Haryana Officers XI Green by 32 runs in a T20 match organised by the WoMEN Sports Foundation (WSF), a non-governmental organisation, during the launch of a project ‘Green Planet’, at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium, here.IAS Nishant Yadav hailed his team for the stunning win.Meanwhile, WSF’s founder and chairman Piyush Sachdeva took the opportunity to launch the ‘Project Green Planet’ emphasising the importance of environmental stewardship and sustainable practices.Sachdeva’s visionary project aims to plant more than 10,000 saplings in identified villages and communities across India during…

London, Oct 18 (IANS) The largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars in 2022 was the result of enormous tectonic forces within the Red Planet’s crust and not a meteorite impact, according to an international team of scientists.The quake, which had a magnitude of 4.7 and caused vibrations to reverberate through the planet for at least six hours, was recorded by NASA’s InSight lander on May 4, 2022.Because its seismic signal was similar to previous quakes known to be caused by meteoroid impacts, the team believed that this event (dubbed “S1222a”) might have been caused by an impact as well,…

Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) The US Department of Commerce has announced a set of rules to update and strengthen its restrictions on the export of advanced computing semiconductors to China in an apparent move to further curb China’s technological advancement. The department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released the rules to reinforce the export controls, which were published about a year ago to restrict China’s ability to purchase and manufacture certain high-end chips critical for military advantage, the bureau said in a press release.The rules include notification requirements for the export of certain chips “with performance just below the…

San Francisco, Oct 18 (IANS) Founder and CEO of gaming platform Roblox, David Baszucki has given its remote employees an option to join the company’s three-day, in-office schedule, or they can opt for a severance package if they do not wish to join the office physically.”For the remote employees whom we are asking to move to in-office roles, we will provide the option to join our three-day, in-office schedule (Tues.-Thurs.) or take a severance package,” Baszucki told employees in a memo on Tuesday.In the memo posted as a blog titled, “The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox”, he…

Lucknow, Oct 18 (IANS) The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), Lucknow have announced a strategic collaboration with a Bengaluru-based startup to develop new therapeutics for the treatment of cancer using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.The collaboration will entail the use of advanced AI and computational tools developed at Sravathi AI Technology Pvt Ltd, a start-up in AI-based drug discovery to design novel chemical entities (NCEs) with anti-cancer properties.Sanjeev Yadav, Senior Scientist, CDRI, said on Wednesday, “There are a number of such chemical compounds available but finding whether they have anti-cancer properties manually, through the…

On her arrival, the President was welcomed by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his Deputy Tejeshwi Yadav and other ministers and bureaucrats at the airport.From the airport, President Murmu reached Bapu Sabhagar at Gandhi Maidan and inaugurated the fourth agriculture road map of the state.Notably, Bihar has 93.60 lakh hectares land of which 79.46 lakh hectares land is being used for the agriculture purpose.Around 74 per cent people of Bihar are dependent on agriculture which contributes to 19 to 20 per cent in the GDP of the state. Besides agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries have a 6…

The incident occurred on Tuesday night.Notably, this is the sixth such attack on Tamil fishermen in the past two months.The fishers, who were attacked and robbed off their belongings in mid-sea, complained to the police that the attackers were suspected to be from Sri Lankan and were speaking Tamil.Police said that N. Subramanian( 50), A. Murugesan (45), A. Sundaramoorthy (49), C. Rajagopal (63 ) and S. Mahalingam (60), natives of Vanavanmahadevi near Vedaranyam had ventured into the sea on the afternoon of Tuesday.Fishermen told police that while they were fishing in mid-sea off Kodaikarai coast, when four men allegedly Sri…

Seven Screen Studio, the producers of the movie, has moved the Madras High Court seeking the prevention of screening of the pirated version of the movie and requested the court to restrain the Internet service providers to take action against such release.Justice Abdul Quddhose of the Madras High Court directed to ban the pirated version of the movie and also directed the Internet service providers to ensure that the pirated version was not screened through their sites.Advocate Vijay Subramanian, who appeared for Seven Screen studio, had earlier mentioned in the court that the movie was heavily budgeted and if a…