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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has unveiled the official anthem for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, titled ‘Bring it Home’. The track is performed by celebrated Indian playback singer Shreya Ghoshal, whose powerful voice brings to life the passion and spirit of women’s cricket. Blending rhythm, melody, and emotion, the song aims to connect fans around the world while celebrating the determination of women cricketers. With vibrant refrains like “Tarikita Tarikita Tarikita Dhom” and the heartbeat-styled “Dhak Dhak, we bring it home”, the anthem highlights both the energy and the aspirations of players competing on the global stage.…

A 10-member Karnataka transport department team has studied bike taxi operations in five major Indian cities to draft a state policy, as the High Court deadline nears.The Karnataka transport department has stepped up its efforts to frame a comprehensive bike taxi policy by sending a 10-member team to study how other cities regulate the sector. Two officials each visited Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, and Mumbai to examine their bike taxi frameworks, safety standards, and operating provisions.Also Read:Good news! Bengaluru Yellow Line metro to run every 15 minutes as 5th train arrivesThe findings from these visits will form the basis of…

Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical” adult videos, is suing Meta in a federal court in California for allegedly infringing its copyright-protected content and using it to train AI models. The complaint, filed in July, alleges Meta has been torrenting and seeding Strike 3’s videos since 2018. Associated exhibits and details of the complaint were unsealed last week.Strike 3 alleges Meta’s motive was partly to obtain otherwise difficult to scrape visual angles, parts of the human body, and extended, uninterrupted scenes—rare in mainstream movies and TV—to help it create what Mark Zuckerberg…

David M. Benett/Getty Images As much as we love to see the fictional characters that actors portray, it’s just as entertaining to hear about the real lives of the actors themselves. This is why so many legendary actors deserve biopics, and why some have actually gotten one. But a fictionalized version of an actor’s life still tends to gloss over the rough edges, and as we know all too well, true story movies even outright lie sometimes.  That’s where memoirs come in. Not only do they promise to tell an authentic…

As Team India prepares to face Oman in Abu Dhabi during the Asia Cup 2025, the Men in Blue will walk into familiar territory, albeit with limited history. The Sheikh Zayed Stadium has hosted 74 T20 Internationals so far, but remarkably, India has featured in just one of them. That lone outing, however, remains a special one for Indian fans. The Occasion: T20 World Cup 2021 India’s only T20I at Abu Dhabi came during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021, when they locked horns with Afghanistan on November 3, 2021. It was a high-pressure game for India after a…

West Indies head coach Daren Sammy is confident that the seam attack selected for the upcoming two-Test tour of India has the diversity to thrive in any conditions and potentially claim 20 wickets. The West Indies pace attack features Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Anderson Phillip and Jayden Seales, along with all-rounder Justin Greaves. The series will start on October 2 in Ahmedabad, with the second Test scheduled from October 10 in Delhi. “We have found ourselves in a position where our seam attack could operate in any conditions. That six-to-eight-metre length works across the world. But in our fast-bowling department,…

New Delhi: The District Magistrate of Sangrur, Rahul Chaba, an IAS officer of the 2017 batch, is in trouble with the PMO and the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) over a post on his official X account criticising prime minister Narendra Modi’s alleged apathy towards Punjab at a time when the state is reeling under the impact of devastating floods.He has been issued a show cause notice despite an apology and an ‘explanation’ that it was actually a statement by an AAP minister, which was posted by a junior official from Chaba’s official account. A post dated 10 September…

A detailed analysis of the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s (BMRCL) fare revision earlier this year has raised questions about possible calculation errors in the official methodology. According to an urban mobility expert, discrepancies in the way operating costs were computed may have resulted in commuters paying significantly more than justified — by as much as 32 per cent.Following the fare hike in February 2025, Metro passengers are paying a minimum price of Rs 10 and a maximum of Rs 90, making Bengaluru Metro the costliest in the country. The debate over Metro fares traces back to 2016, when the…

The Karnataka High Court Thursday dismissed a petition challenging the release of the film, Jolly LLB 3, and imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the petitioner for taking up the court’s time. The matter was heard by a division bench consisting of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Joshi. The courtroom comedy film starring actors Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi released on Friday. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Bengaluru resident Syeda Neelufur had sought action on account of the film’s alleged objectionable content against the legal profession and judiciary. It sought a direction to the…

ISTANBUL (AP) — There is “absolutely no evidence” that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency said Friday in an outgoing speech.Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6 as it is more commonly known, said Putin was “stringing us along.”“He seeks to impose his imperial will by all means at his disposal. But he cannot succeed,” Moore said. “Bluntly, Putin has bitten off more than he can chew. He thought he was going to win an easy victory. But he – and many others – underestimated the…