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File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ambuja Cements on April 15 said it will acquire My Home Group’s cement grinding unit at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu for a total value of ₹413.75 crore. The company — a part of the Adani Group — has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the cement grinding unit of the…
File. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. electric carmaker Tesla is looking at potential showroom locations in New Delhi and Mumbai ahead of plans to begin sales in India later this year, two people familiar with the discussions said. Tesla, which saw its global vehicle deliveries decline in the first quarter for the first time in…
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Delivering in style: Pathirana’s spell against MI showed what an Impact Player can do. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Former India women’s cricket captain Mithali Raj said that the new Impact Rule of substituting a player of the team management’s choice at any given point of time in the on-going IPL had helped the teams…
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FIle photo of Riyan Parag. | Photo Credit: AP Riyan Parag may or may not be in the selectors’ radar for the T20 World Cup, but the very fact that it is being speculated upon tells a lot about the metamorphosis he has undergone. Parag has been one of this IPL’s brightest stars. He has…
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Chennai Super Kings players celebrate during the Indian Premier League 2024 match in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI Matheesha Pathirana may have run out with a bagful of wickets to ensure Chennai Super Kings defended 206 without much sweat against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. As much as Pathirana, CSK bowling coach Eric Simons…
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Derek Underwood, England’s best spinner in the post-World War II era, passed away at the age of 78 in Kent on April 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Derek Underwood, England’s best spinner in the post-World War II era, who gave a torrid time to the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, passed away at Kent…
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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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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…
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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…
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…
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