Month: April 2024

IPL-17: RCB vs SRH | Sunrisers win by 25 runs in highest-scoring match in T20 history

April 15, 2024 admin

Travis Head’s destructive hundred fused splendidly with skipper Pat Cummins’ resolve as Sunrisers Hyderabad registered a well-crafted 25-run victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a high-scoring affair here on Monday. Head’s maiden T20 hundred (102, 41b, 9×4, 8×6) and Heinrich Klaasen’s pillaging 67 (31b, 2×4, 7×6) drove Sunrisers to a record-breaking 287 for three, also…

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Goods exports hit 12-month high of $41.68 billion in March

April 15, 2024 admin

Photo used for illustration purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak India’s goods exports hit a 12-month high of $41.68 billion in March, although it constituted a 0.67% decline from last year’s tally, while imports dropped 6% to $57.3 billion last month. The goods trade deficit contracted to $15.6 billion in March, the lowest in…

Business

Sensex, Nifty tank over 1% on concerns over Middle East conflict, weak global trends; Rupee falls 6 paise

April 15, 2024 admin

Stock markets took a beating on April 15 with benchmark Sensex and Nifty tumbling over 1% as escalating conflict in the Middle East and weak trends from global markets unnerved investors. Falling for the second session in a row, the 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 845.12 points or 1.14% to settle at a more than two-week…

Business

How are hydrocarbons extracted from under the ground? | Explained

April 15, 2024 admin

Over millennia, mighty geological processes in the earth’s crust heated and compressed together pieces of life-forms that had been dead for a while. Eventually, this mulch of organic matter accumulated as hydrocarbons inside rock formations. The two Industrial Revolutions were the result mainly of people finding a way to extract these hydrocarbons and using them…

Science

Wholesale price inflation rises to three-month high of 0.53% in March

April 15, 2024 admin

Photo used for representation purpose only. A surge in cereal prices at a 12-month high enabled wholesale price inflation rise to a three-month high in March | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma India’s wholesale price inflation rose to a three-month high of 0.53% in March from 0.2% in February, with the food index rising 4.65%,…

Business

Shipping industry set for tougher times ahead due to Israel-Iran tensions: Experts

April 15, 2024 admin

The global maritime industry is set for tougher and more challenging times due to the increasing tensions in the Middle East, causing supply chain disruption and increasing the probability of choking shipping routes, experts in Singapore said. Iran launched 330 missiles and drones on Israel on April 13 in retaliation to an attack by Israel…

Business

Byju’s announces rejig of business; founder Raveendran to take over firm’s daily operations

April 15, 2024 admin

A Byju’s logo is seen in this illustration taken, June 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Byju Raveendran, the founder of the edtech company Think and Learn, which owns the Byju’s brand, will handle the firm’s day-to-day operations following the resignation of CEO Arjun Mohan, the company said on April 15. The company has also…

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Sensex recovers after tanking 900 points amid Israel-Iran tensions

April 15, 2024 admin

Nervousness gripped the equity markets on April 15 following the geopolitical tensions in West Asia, with the 30-share BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty registering a fall, however, the benchmark indices have recovered some lost ground. At 10:45 a.m. the Sensex was down 488.57 points or 0.66% to 73,756.33 and the the Nifty-50 index too…

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How fast is the universe expanding? New data keeps mystery open

April 15, 2024 admin

A big open problem in cosmology is the Hubble tension. There are two equally valid ways to measure how fast the universe is expanding, but they have yielded two very different estimates. No amount of rechecking and refining calculations has made this tension go away. In a study published recently in Monthly Notices of The…

Science

Entrepreneur and pilot, Gopichand Thotakura is aiming for a place in Indian space history

April 14, 2024 admin

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist. Photo: X/@blueorigin via PTI Earlier this month, Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin announced six crew members who would be part of a forthcoming commercial flight to space. Of interest to India is one participant, Gopichand…

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