A Kolkata-born engineer-turned-entrepreneur has been appointed as the first British-Indian high sheriff of the County Palatine of Durham in the office’s 1,000-year history. Dr Arnab Basu, MBE, received the rare honour on Friday.A student of Kolkata’s Birla High School (formerly Hindi High School), Basu earned his first degree from St Xavier’s College and then moved…
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Riyan Parag (Getty Images) TOI presents an IPL 2026 pre-season Dream XI to challenge the Suryakumar Yadav-led World Cup-winning squad.With four overseas players and a core of Indian talent, the TOI XI blends explosive Powerplay hitters, a versatile middle order and multi-dimensional bowlers:PHIL SALT (RCB; overseas) Edges out Travis Head. Salt played…
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Alongside Lafont, former deputy managing director Christian Herrault was given a five-year prison sentence, while Firas Tlass, a Syrian ex-member of staff who made the payments to the jihadist groups, was sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail. Source link
Victoria Police is encouraging employees who speak languages other than English to join a specialised program that offers additional allowances and aims to strengthen engagement with culturally diverse communities. Victoria is home to people who speak 290 languages and have 314 different ancestries. Under the Language Allowance Scheme (LAS), officers and staff who are fluent…
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum discusses President Donald Trump’s Strait of Hormuz tanker blockade, Iran peace talks, and oil volatility on ‘Mornings with Maria.’ Spirit Airlines is facing renewed financial pressure as rising fuel costs threaten to complicate its efforts to exit bankruptcy, adding uncertainty to its restructuring plan, according to reports. The low-cost carrier,…
Chennai Super Kings’ batter Dewald Brevis (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) Chennai Super Kings have been dealt another injury setback ahead of the Indian Premier League 2026, with Dewald Brevis set to miss the opening matches of the campaign. The development comes as a fresh blow for CSK, who are already without MS Dhoni for the initial…
Sarbvir Singh, joint Group CEO of PB Fintech, said in a statement that the data pointed to broader structural changes. “Bharat is leading India’s insurance growth, both in scale and in behaviour,” Singh said. “The gap between urban and rural insurance penetration is slowly closing. Our goal now is to build for this customer—simpler products,…
Governments desperate for cash to protect their citizens from the growing impacts of the climate crisis are being put in a “beyond absurd” situation this week at global finance talks: they are being urged not to mention the climate, even as they address the current oil crisis. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World…
