US President Joe Biden on Thursday denied needing to be in bed by 8:00 pm as he faced a barrage of questions from reporters about a disastrous debate performance that sparked calls for him to end his reelection bid. Reports of his early bedtime were “not true,” although he added: “Instead of my every day starting at 7:00 am and going to bed at midnight, it would be smarter for me to pace myself a little more.” (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Former South Africa pacer Dale Steyn lauded Gautam Gambhir’s appointment as India’s head coach and said his aggression and game awareness on the field will be beneficial for the Men in Blue. BCCI announced Gambhir as head coach of the Indian team after the departure of Rahul Dravid. India clinched the T20 World Cup title to end the 11-year-long ICC trophy drought in his last assignment. “I’m a big fan of Gautam Gambhir. I love his aggression. He’s one of the few Indians I ever played against who came back at you, and I like that. I think he’s going…
Spain winger Lamine Yamal will be turning 17 on the eve of the Euro 2024 final against England at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Aged just 16 years and 362 days, Yamal became the youngest scorer ever at the Euros when he netted in the 21st minute of the semi-final against France earlier this week in Munich. The Barcelona forward dropped a shoulder before curling his effort past Mike Maignan and into the top right corner of the French goal. Despite his evident riches in the tournament, why is Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has not been able to play…
The trailer of the Netflix mystery drama limited series The Perfect Couple is out and it was so worth the wait. An adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, the series features Nicole Kidman as the famous novelist Greer Garrison. The stellar cast also includes Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy and, wait for it, Bollywood actor Ishaan Khatter. The trailer showcases the story of a novelist named Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) whose son Benji (played by Billy Howle) is about to marry Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson). What follows is one murder,…
Former presidents and prime ministers have sent an open letter to current leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies urging support for a global tax on billionaires, which they called a rare political opportunity. The move comes as Brazil’s G20 presidency, which put the proposal on the table in February, seeks to build support for a declaration at the group’s finance ministers and central bank governors meeting later this month in Rio de Janeiro. Signed by 19 Club de Madrid members, a forum of former leaders with over 100 participants, the letter praised U.S. President Joe Biden’s billionaire income tax…
Former South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis shared his thoughts on Thursday following Gautam Gambhir’s selection as the next Indian Cricket Team’s head coach. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah on Tuesday announced that former cricketer Gautam Gambhir has been appointed as the Indian men’s cricket team’s new head coach. “It’s great to see Gautam getting into the coaching side of things. He’s got a really good cricket brain. He’ll bring some fire and loves playing the game aggressively. I think he’ll bring that added touch, and the guys will certainly learn a lot from…
Two competing stars – the story and the lead actor Akshay Kumar – jostle for domination in Sarfira, Sudha Kongara’s remake of her own National Award-winning Soorarai Pottru. The trouble is that they pull in different directions to the detriment of a film that is also undone a tad by a singular lack of nuance. The fictionalized biopic of Air Deccan founder G.R. Gopinath never manages to ascend to cruising altitude in its dramatization of the birth pangs of a low-cost airline launched at the turn of the millennium. Worse, Sarfira abounds in passages that drown in puddles of mush.…
About 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so frigid that it spontaneously freeze-dried, locking its DNA fragments into place. In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists reported using this remarkable sample to reconstruct the animal’s genome in three dimensions — a breakthrough that could yield important new insights about extinct species and even boost efforts to bring them back to life. Until now, ancient DNA specimens have only been found in short, scrambled fragments, severely limiting the amount of information researchers could extract. “Now we show that, at…
Gautam Gambhir was appointed the new Indian cricket team head coach following the end of Rahul Dravid’s tenure after the T20 World Cup 2024 triumph. Gambhir will start from the upcoming T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka with the new head coach all set to recruit a completely new support staff for the national side. Former Pakistan cricket team skipper Shahid Afridi said that it was a huge opportunity for Gambhir and praised him for ‘talking positively’ and his ‘straightforward’ approach to the sport. “I think it’s a big opportunity, and we need to see how he makes the…
Tarot card reader Munisha Khatwani, after her exit from Bigg Boss OTT 3, has shared her thoughts on the fight between Armaan Malik and Vishal Pandey. In an interview with ETimes, Munisha said, “I am against violence like everyone else. Slapping, thappad, hinsa, or otherwise, is unacceptable under any circumstances, which is why Bigg Boss punished Armaan by nominating him for the entire season. However, if we consider this from a husband and wife perspective and remain unbiased, I think my husband might have reacted similarly in that situation. If such comments were made about me, it’s possible he would have also lost his…