Spain has achieved something few would have expected when Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh’s Australia set the benchmark more than two decades ago. The European side now holds the record for the longest winning streak in international cricket after extending their run to 24 consecutive victories. Spain surpassed Australia’s previous mark of 20 wins when […]
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India’s 165-run win over Sri Lanka in Galle gave their World Test Championship campaign a boost, but the result also prompted a broader discussion about India’s evolution as a Test side away from home. For South African great AB de Villiers, that transformation can be traced through two of India’s biggest batting icons: Sachin Tendulkar
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Amazon is buying rare and out-of-print books in bulk, using their text to train artificial intelligence systems, and then permanently deleting them. According to 404 Media, the company has systematized this practice as part of its AI development process. The books being targeted are often unavailable anywhere else, held in few physical copies or long
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US President Donald Trump has threatened severe economic consequences for any country that helps Iran, marking an escalation in American pressure on the Islamic Republic. The warning comes as a 60-day ceasefire between Iran and Israel expired on Monday with no breakthrough in sight toward either a lasting peace deal or a military resolution. Trump’s
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Your smartphone knows everywhere you go. That information is being collected, packaged, and sold to advertisers in a largely hidden process that neither app users nor many app developers fully understand. The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report showing how ad libraries, the pieces of code that apps use to display advertisements and earn money,
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A former engineering director at Meta has testified that Instagram deliberately ignored safety concerns for children under 13 by following what she described as a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach. According to Mint, the ex-director said the company chose profits and engagement metrics over building protections for underage users on the platform. The testimony reveals
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Manipur’s government has ordered all schools, colleges and other educational institutes to remain closed for three days, responding to intensifying protests over the sequence of two major administrative exercises: the Census and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The shutdown comes as the Campaign for Just and Fair Delimitation (JFD) entered its second day of
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India’s richest families are preparing to hand over roughly $1.5 trillion to the next generation over the next decade, marking a historic shift in wealth and corporate control across the country. This massive transfer is happening because many of India’s top business owners and industrialists who built their empires in the 1980s and 1990s are
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The Supreme Court has rejected the central government’s review petition in a case involving GST claims by telecom companies Airtel and Indus Towers. The court found no error in its August 2025 ruling and dismissed the Centre’s attempt to overturn that decision. This means the original judgment that allowed telecom companies to claim Input Tax
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India’s government has introduced stock limits on sugar held by traders and factories, according to ET Economy, in an effort to bring down prices that have reached record levels. The move restricts how much sugar intermediaries can store at any point, forcing them to release inventory faster onto the market. Sugar prices in India have
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