On 31 July, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in what is believed to have been an Israeli operation. Haniyeh died in a facility in north Tehran, not long after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. How exactly Haniyeh was killed remains unclear. Israeli sources claim it was … Read more
Hot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world, research has found. The findings come as wildfires tore through forests outside Athens, as France issued excessive heat warnings for large swathes of the country, and … Read more
I’m hardly the only one to remark on the qualitative ways in which France has felt different over the past two weeks. Perhaps the Spanish newspaper El País said it best when it remarked that the country “seems to have taken a vacation from itself”, by which it meant that grumbling had been sidelined by … Read more
The bosses of Britain’s blue-chip companies are raking it in, having seen their pay rise to the highest level on record last year, according to figures released by the High Pay Centre. The data shows that median pay for a FTSE 100 chief executive increased from £4.1m in 2022 to £4.19m in 2023. AstraZeneca’s Pascal … Read more
Iran has insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told his US counterpart that Tehran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack. It comes as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, to … Read more
Pre-season is always about the performance and never about the results. And even then there has to be an awareness of what managers are looking for from each individual game: clubs can be at different stages of their physical development, or managers may be working on a specific ploy. They are means to an end. … Read more
Hyderabad: In a major setback, Telangana’s academic institutions plunged in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024 which was released on Monday. In the overall list, IIT Hyderabad was as the highest-ranked institution from the state, securing the 12th position, up two slots. The University of Hyderabad (UoH) stood at 25th, down five ranks. National … Read more
As the Harris-Walz team soars (polls are already showing Kamala Harris taking the lead) Trump is cracking up. His ego can’t take it. He is incapable of running against a Black woman who’s trouncing him. Last Thursday, after 10 days of nonstop Harris news grabbed the limelight, Trump was desperate for attention. He held a … Read more
The adage ‘Cricket is not simply a sport but a religion in India’ is one that is familiar to every Indian. However, this recognition is almost invisible when it comes to other sports. Cricket often gets the spotlight and overshadows the commendable contributions made by other sports and athletes. From Neeraj Chopra winning a Gold … Read more
Behold the giant feast. Courses upon courses. Over the past 17 days this has been a city engorged, its every nook and crevice stuffed with sport, to the point where they had to parcel some of it off to the outskirts and even wrap some of it up in a doggy bag and send it … Read more