Author: Rahul M

Slowly but surely, Apple TV+ has found its feet. The streaming service, which at launch we called “odd, angsty, and horny as hell,” has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. Now its library is so packed that we’ve declared it “the new HBO.”Curious but don’t know where to get started? Below are our picks for the best shows on the service. (Also, here are our picks for the best movies on Apple TV+.) When you’re done, head over to our guides to the best shows on Netflix, best movies on Hulu, and best movies on Amazon…

Jasprit Bumrah, IND vs ENG, ENG vs IND, India vs England, IND vs ENG Test series, Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, Jasprit Bumrah injury, Jasprit Bumrah fitness, Jasprit Bumrah workload management, Jasprit Bumrah records, Jasprit Bumrah wickets, Jasprit Bumrah records, Jasprit Bumrah vs England, Jasprit Bumrah vs England In a big blow for India, premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah will not play the fifth and final Test of the series against England at The Oval starting Thursday.  According to an ESPNcricinfo report, the BCCI medical team has advised to rest Bumrah for the fifth Test in order to safeguard his back, keeping the long-term…

New Zealand have named a new captain for the first Test against Zimbabwe after regular New Zealand skipper Tom Latham was ruled out of the match due to a shoulder injury. In Latham’s absence, white-ball skipper Mitch Santner will lead the New Zealand side. All-rounder Santner becomes the 32nd player to lead New Zealand men’s side in Test cricket. Latham suffered the injury while fielding during a T20 match for Birmingham earlier this month and has not recovered sufficiently to be included in the playing XI on Wednesday. The left-handed top-order batter will remain with the squad with the hope…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, allows the U.N. to bring in aid and takes other steps toward long-term peace, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday.Starmer, who is under mounting domestic pressure over the issue as scenes of hunger in Gaza horrify many Britons, convened a rare summertime Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation there. It came after he discussed the crisis with President Donald Trump during a meeting in Scotland on Monday.Trump told reporters on Monday that he didn’t mind Starmer “taking a position” on…

The Oval pitch curator Lee Fortis has broken his silence following a fiery on-field confrontation with India head coach Gautam Gambhir, insisting there’s “nothing to hide” ahead of the high-stakes fifth and final Test between India and England. “It is quite a big game coming up. It is not my job to be happy with him (Gambhir) or not. I have never met him before today. You saw what he was like this morning. It’s okay, I am fine. We have nothing to hide,” Fortis told reporters, addressing the altercation during India’s training session on Tuesday. The verbal spat, which…

LONDON — When Ozzy Osbourne was an advice columnist for the Sunday Times of London, he detailed what he wanted his funeral to be like. The heavy metal singer and reality TV star wrote in 2011 that he hoped the eventual ceremony would be “a celebration, not a mope-fest” and preferably include some pranks — “maybe the sound of knocking inside the coffin.” On Tuesday, the City Council in the singer’s hometown, Birmingham, England, said a celebration of the singer’s life would be held there Wednesday, with a hearse carrying his body through Birmingham’s main street accompanied by a brass…

New Delhi: Operation Sindoor got support from the world over, but the “valour of the heroes of my country did not get the support of the Congress”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday in Parliament as he launched a blistering attack on the opposition party, saying that it should stop giving a clean chit to Pakistan. “We got the support of the world… countries, but it is unfortunate that the might of my country’s heroes did not get the support of the Congress. After the terrorist attack on 22 April, within 3–4 days these people were in a frenzy and…

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak has cleared the air on a fiery verbal altercation between Gautam Gambhir and the Oval’s pitch curator Lee Fortis during the team’s optional training session ahead of the fifth and final Test against England.  In the videos, which have now gone viral on social media, an upset Gambhir can be seen engaging in heated exchange with the pitch curator.  The verbal altercation quickly escalated before India’s batting coach Sitanshu Kotak intervened and took the Englishman to a different corner. However, Gambhir continued the argument from a distance. Eventually, Fortis and Gambhir went their separate ways,…

The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or at least, encourage against—students taking homework shortcuts.The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot rejects direct requests for answers, instead guiding the user with open-ended questions. The new study mode is available to most logged-in users of ChatGPT, including those on the free version.OpenAI has significantly disrupted the education system over the past few years, with students becoming some of the earliest adopters of ChatGPT. Even so, OpenAI claims the bot is currently…

Following the formation of five city corporations under Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), the Karnataka Government will start the delimitation process for various wards from September 3, Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D K Shivakumar said Tuesday. The decision came in the wake of a draft notification issued by the Government a week ago, dividing the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) area into five smaller corporations as per the provisions of the GBA Act. The Act was passed in the budget session of the state legislature earlier this year. Addressing a news conference, Shivakumar said that the delimitation…