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Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) In recent times, the India-Sri Lanka matchup in ODIs has ended up in the hosts’ winning the games, majorly of which came in a one-sided manner. In September, India beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the Asia Cup final in September and, at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday, the hosts’ thrashed the visitors’ by 302 runs.Despite the crushing defeat to India in the ongoing World Cup, Sri Lanka assistant coach Naveed Nawaz does not see the side’s performance in the tournament as a decline of Sri Lankan cricket.“It’s a cause of concern for sure, but…

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Hero MotoCorp – has bolstered its team line-up with the signing of Spain’s top-rider Joan Barreda Bort labelled as a ‘Dakar legend’Barreda exemplifies persistence, commitment and passion for the rally sport. In his illustrious career, the 40-year-old has won 12 international races, and finished the Dakar Rally 7 times.In 13 consecutive Dakar Rally appearances, he has 30 Stage wins, holding the title of winning the maximum number of stages at the mighty Dakar (amongst active competitors in the Bikes category).He is a popular face in the Dakar bivouacs and his best Dakar result is a…

Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) After fast-bowling trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj led India’s march into the semi-finals of Men’s ODI World Cup with a crushing 302-run win over Sri Lanka, former opener Aakash Chopra believes this is the best-ever bowling line-up the hosts’ have ever fielded in a 50-over World Cup.At the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday, Bumrah, Shami and Siraj made the new ball talk in such a great manner that Sri Lanka were bowled out for just 55 in 19.4 overs. Bumrah set the tone for a sensational fast-bowling performance to be remembered for ages…

San Francisco, Nov 3 (IANS) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday announced that he is leaving Seattle, his home since 1994 when he started the e-commerce giant out of the garage. In an emotional post on Instagram, the billionaire showed an old video from 1994, featuring him giving a walkthrough of Amazon’s first office inside the garage.”I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here. As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart,” Bezos posted.The old video, which…

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Web analytics and observability platform New Relic on Friday announced the appointment of ex-Oracle executive Prasad Rai as its Vice President Sales for India.Rai will head New Relic India’s sales teams to help the company grow its footprint across key verticals including e-commerce, media and financial services, while deepening engagements with new and existing customers.Most recently, Rai was Vice President, Global Strategic Clients Group at Oracle India, where he was responsible for the stewardship of key enterprise customers across entire range of products and services.“Prasad is positioned to help the India team capitalise on this…

London, Nov 3 (IANS) People who have had surgical obesity treatment have a higher risk of dental caries than before surgery, finds a study. Led by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, the study shows weight loss surgery also leads to a general decline in oralhealth.”Individuals who have undergone surgical obesity treatment may also experience a variety of oral symptoms and an impact on their oral quality of life,” said Negin Taghat, doctoral student at the Institute of Odontology at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden.”We saw that almost half of individuals experienced poorer oral health,”…

Berlin, Nov 3 (IANS) Germany recorded an unemployment rate unchanged at 5.7 per cent in October, with a fall revival weaker than expected, according to the Federal Employment Agency (BA).According to BA’s data released on Thursday, despite a slight month-on-month decline, there were around 2.6 million unemployed people in Germany in October, 165,000 more than in the same period last year, reports Xinhua news agency.The country’s total workforce also continued to develop at a subdued pace, although it reached a record high of 46 million in September, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.As in previous months, the figure…

Tokyo, Nov 3 (IANS) The Japanese government adopted an economic package worth over 17 trillion yen ($113 billion) as part of its efforts to help households hit by rising prices.The new measures in the package include a tax cut of 40,000 yen per person and 70,000 yen in payouts to low-income households who are exempt from paying income and residential taxes and would otherwise be left out, with the goal of helping Japan completely exit the deflationary spiral of low prices, low wages and low growth, reports Xinhua news agency.Meanwhile, the ongoing subsidies for oil wholesalers and utility bill relief…

The track, described as “the last Beatles song”, was sourced from a Lennon demo and finished by Sir Paul and Sir Ringo Starr decades after the original recording, reports Mirror.co.uk.Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Paul said: “Before John died he was working on some songs and Yoko (Ono, Lennon’s wife) spoke to George Harrison, and said ‘I’ve got a cassette with some John songs on that he never got to finish. Would you be interested in finishing them off?’ So we thought about it and we thought ‘Yeah, it would be great’, ’cause in a way we would be working…

Justice Devan Ramachandran said that even though violators do not deserve any leniency, a seven-day may be granted so that such illegally installed boards may be removed to avoid a penalty of Rs 5,000 (as prescribed under the Kerala Municipality Rules) per board.”I am certain that the committees constituted by this court must start imposing maximum penalty under the rules against every board …those who have created/erected it and every other individual involved, will have to be found out and identified, leading to FIRs being registered against them,” the court ordered.The committees constituted by the court were ordered to immediately…