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Bangladesh all-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz on Saturday said he is relishing the opportunity to bat at the top of the order. Miraz, who has batted in five different positions in ODIs this year, scored 57 and took three wickets as Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by six wickets in its 2023 ODI World Cup opener in Dharamsala….
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Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama Dharamshala: The Dalai Lama on Saturday congratulated jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi on winning the Nobel Peace Prize and said the award was also in recognition of the vital role women play in people’s lives. Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for…
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Australian captain Pat Cummins during a press conference in Chennai. | Photo Credit: Robert Cianflone Australia sees Glenn Maxwell as a front-line spin bowler and expects the all-rounder to have a big ODI World Cup, captain Pat Cummins said on Saturday ahead of the opening match against India here at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium….
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Rahul Dravid has done his bit as the coach of the Indian cricket team. After preparing his players for the grandest arena of their career, he now wants to retreat to the backstage and let Rohit Sharma‘s bunch create their own beautiful story. “Honestly once the game starts, it’s the captain’s team. It’s the team…
Fireworks were being offloaded from a truck when one of the boxes caught fire. Bengaluru: At least 12 people were killed after a blaze broke out at a firecracker shop in Karnataka on Saturday, police said. Naveen, the owner of the shop in Attibele near the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, was offloading fireworks from a truck…
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An FIR has been registered at the Rojka Meo police station. (Representational) Nuh, Haryana: Four people died and two were injured when a truck rammed two canter trucks and triggered a collision between a few vehicles on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway here on Saturday, police said. After the collision with the canters, the truck overturned and…
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The design and successful transplantation of kidney grafts from genetically modified pigs into non-human primates has been described in a recent study published in Nature. Modifying the pig genomes to remove antigen coding genes, add human genes and eliminate pig viruses, resulted in long-term survival of the monkey recipients, up to around two years. This preclinical…
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Every year, 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems | Photo Credit: AFP Recall what grandparents did, before the age of plastics. They would bring their own bags, normally of cotton or jute, bring home the purchase, and later, wash and dry the bags, ready for the next use. They also used…
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him. Now, scientists have evidence of a sixth basic taste. In a study published recently (Nature Communications), researchers have found…
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A malaria vaccine — R21/MatrixM — developed by the University of Oxford, manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India and tested in a phase-3 trial at five sites in four countries — Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania — in Africa was recommended (but yet to be prequalified) by the WHO on October 2….
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