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Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Friday (August 7, 2026) after two days of gains, dragged down by bank, financial stocks, and crude oil prices trading above $80 per barrel mark. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 455.59 points, or 0.58%, to settle at 78,499.17. During the day, it tanked 577.69 points, or…
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File picture of AC Milan’s Ismael Bennacer during a warm up. | Photo Credit: Reuters AC Milan have parted ways with midfielder Ismael Bennacer, the Serie A club have announced, ending the Algeria international’s seven-year stay at San Siro. The 28-year-old midfielder, who joined Milan from Empoli in 2019, has had spells on loan at…
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Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has indicated that difficult decisions may have to be made over the participation of the team’s leading Test players in next year’s Indian Premier League as the side prepares for an intense international schedule leading into the Ashes. Australia’s 12-month workload includes 20 Tests and 14 white-ball internationals, beginning with…
The ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Delhi has cast an ominous shadow over women sex workers in Garstin Bastion (G.B.) Road brothels. Many of them don’t possess the documents listed by the Election Commission (EC) to verify their details or an extract of the previous SIR with their names or those…
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Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Atletico Madrid will not allow forward Julian Alvarez to leave the club during the current transfer window despite interest from Barcelona, coach Diego Simeone said Saturday. Last month, Atletico filed a complaint to FIFA over Barcelona allegedly tapping up Alvarez. The Argentina international has also been…
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Former Indian cricketer V.V.S. Laxman. | Photo Credit: Jothi Ramalingam B Concerned with the spate of injuries that has rocked Indian team of late, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia will be meeting Head Of Cricket VVS Laxman on Sunday to take a stock of the rehabilitation management programme at the Centre of Excellence (COE). India will…
Devdutt Padikkal in action during the warm up game against SLC XI. Picture: X/@BCCI Devdutt Padikkal assured his spot in India’s playing eleven for the opening Test with a stylish century on the second day of the warm-up match against Sri Lanka Cricket XI, while seasoned Rishabh Pant and his understudy Dhruv Jurel failed to…
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Sai Sudharsan in action. File | Photo Credit: PTI Talented top order batter B Sai Sudharsan was on Saturday ruled out of the two-Test series against Sri Lanka after failing to recover from a big toe injury sustained during the India A tour of the island nation last month. Sudharsan, who scored two tons in…
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Bihar Mines and Geology Minister Pramod Kumar addressing a press conference in Patna on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Bihar government’s Mines and Geology Department will recruit 1,000 constables, on the lines of the State Prohibition and Excise Department, to curb illegal mining, transportation and storage of minerals. Announcing the decision on Thursday,…
An image showing multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterium’s cell wall, magnified 2,00,000-times. | Photo Credit: Prof. Graham Beards (CC BY-SA) Scientists use AI to design viruses to kill hardy bacteria Scientists have used AI to design entire genomes for bacteriophages, viruses that infect and kill bacteria. Using ‘genome language models’, they generated thousands of…