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India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy has broken silence on his future with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) amid the trade rumours. According to a report from India Today, Nitish had expressed his desire to leave SRH over his role in the team, especially after being pushed down the batting order. However, the 22-year-old all-rounder on Sunday took to social media to give clarity on his future, saying that he will always stand by his current IPL team.   “I tend to stay away from the noise, but some things deserve clarity. My connection with SRH is built…

BERLIN (AP) — A regional passenger train derailed Sunday in southern Germany injuring at least three people, federal police told German news agency dpa.Roughly 100 people were aboard the train when at least two carriages derailed in a forested area around 6:10 p.m. local time (1600 GMT), dpa reported.Photos from the scene showed parts of the train on its side as rescuers climbed atop the carriages.The crash happened near the town of Riedlingen, dpa reported, roughly 158 kilometers (98 miles) west of Munich.Details about what caused the derailment were not immediately available.Federal police, who oversee the railroads, and Deutsche Bahn,…

Amazon Studios More and more, TV is becoming the medium of choice for adapting young adult novels as networks and streamers discover how perfect the stories are for the small screen. They’re full of drama, angst, romance, and mystery, and in 2024, Amazon Prime found its latest smash hit in a series that boasts all of these qualities: “We Were Liars,” starring Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence Eastman, the daughter of a wealthy, highly respected family. The Eastmans spend their summers on picturesque Beechwood Island, the most recent getaway celebrating…

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the government will install statues of Raja Raja Chola, who ruled the Chola empire at its peak in the 10th and early 11th centuries, and his son Rajendra Chola I in Tamil Nadu in the upcoming years. On Sunday, participating in the Aadi Thiruvathirai Festival at Tamil Nadu’s Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple, established by Rajendra Chola I in the then-capital of the Chola Empire, Prime Minister Modi said the statues would “serve as modern pillars of India’s historical consciousness”. Honouring Rajendra Chola I, he also released a commemorative coin at the temple, which…

In a significant step towards transforming Bengaluru’s public transport ecosystem, the city has formally adopted the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) through the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) platform. The move is significant, as it lays the digital groundwork for seamless integration across metro, bus, and last-mile services. Marking this shift, Namma Yatri launched ‘Namma Transit’ on Friday, a new feature within its app designed to unify bus, metro and first- and last-mile services into a single, guided journey. With real-time multimodal navigation, the feature informs users which metro station to head to, which platform and gate to use, and…

Patna, Jul 27 (PTI) A day after Union Minister Chirag Paswan slammed the Nitish Kumar government over the law and order situation in Bihar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday claimed that the Hajipur MP’s comment showed his “weakness” as a ruling NDA partner, and alleged that he has “no real concerns” for the state. Yadav was reacting to the remarks of Chirag, the chief of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), which drew a sharp reaction from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD (U), exposing cracks in the NDA ahead of the assembly polls. The leader of the opposition seemed unimpressed…

Miramax We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 1994 was a remarkable year that offered moviegoers the now-beloved classics “Clerks,” “The Lion King,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “Forrest Gump.” It was also the year Quentin Tarantino’s crime thriller “Pulp Fiction” hit theaters. A Los Angeles-set collection of vignettes that was a hit with critics and audiences, it ultimately lost the best picture Oscar to “Forrest Gump,” and Tarantino watched Robert Zemeckis take home the best director statuette as well. The seemingly disjointed scenes that made up the film (originally including one…

Standing before the thousand-year-old stone temple built by Rajendra Chola I, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Chola empire carried forward India’s ancient democratic traditions. “Historians talk about Britain’s Magna Carta in the name of democracy,” he said, referring to the 1215 English charter. “But many centuries ago, elections were held in the Chola Empire through a democratic method.” Long before the Enlightenment in Europe birthed the ideals of representative governance, the Cholas had etched out rules for local self-rule, literally inscribed into stone. The inscriptions of Uttaramerur, a village in present-day Kanchipuram district, offer some of the…

Shubman Gill created history after becoming the third captain in Test history to hit four hundreds in a single series. Gill achieved this massive milestone on Day 5 of the ongoing fourth Test against England at  Old Trafford, Manchester on Sunday, July 27. The 25-year-old Gill, who is leading India for the first time in Test cricket, scored three centuries (147, 269 and 161) before the start of the fourth match of the series. After scoring 12 runs in the first innings, Gill played a fantastic knock of 103 runs in the second innings under tremendous pressure. With this, Gill…

Several low-lying areas in Karnataka, downstream of major reservoirs, are reeling under flood threat, as heavy rain is expected to continue, especially in the coastal and Malnad districts, in the coming week. The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) on Sunday issued flood warnings to regions downstream of Krishnarajasagar and Tungabhadra reservoirs. The dams were receiving high inflows due to heavy rainfall in the catchment areas of the Cauvery and Tungabhadra rivers. Of the two, the regions downstream of the Tungabhadra reservoir faced a larger threat as an outflow ranging from 90,000 to 1.4 lakh cusecs is anticipated from…