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In a thrilling IPL 2025 clash on April 8, the Punjab Kings (PBKS) defeated the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 18 runs in a high-voltage match played at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. The spotlight was stolen by young batting sensation Priyansh Arya, whose explosive century marked a historic moment in the ongoing season. Priyansh Arya, a rising star from the Delhi Premier League, dazzled with an extraordinary 103 off just 42 balls. His innings, featuring seven fours and nine massive sixes, was not just entertaining but also record-breaking—reaching the century mark in only 39 deliveries, making it the joint-fourth fastest in IPL history. Arya’s power-hitting helped PBKS recover from a wobbly start and post a formidable total of 219 for 6 in their 20 overs. Shashank Singh played a vital supporting role, remaining unbeaten on 52 after coming in during a tricky phase of the innings when PBKS were struggling at 83 for 5. His partnership with Arya ens...

According to AFP, a new high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and mainland China was launched Sunday; a multi-billion-dollar project that critics say gives away part of the city's territory to an increasingly assertive Beijing. Costing over $10 billion and taking more than eight years to build, the system aims to transport more than 80,000 passengers daily between the Asian financial center of 7 million people and the neighboring manufacturing hub of Guangdong province (Newyork Post). Critics say the railway is a symbol of continuing Chinese assimilation of Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with guarantees of widespread autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland, including an independent legal system (Arab News).

It is granted that many analysts have hinted the unlikelihood of the break out of world war III from the Syrian conflict having monitored the dispositions of the super powers to an all-out war. Indeed, the super powers especially the US and allies are cautious with their reactions to Russia's provocations. Russia herself has taken to denials to the army of accusations from the West - a smart way of making the West believe that Russia is not out to challenge. The obvious caution against war by the super powers notwithstanding, the Syrian conflict is capable of taking the world by surprise leading to the much prophesied Armageddon. This position is hinged on a number of premises: (1) The conflict has many actors - prominent among them are the Assad's troops, Russia, ISIS, USA, Rebels, Turkey, Kurds, Hezbollah, Australia, etc. Each time I look at the array of actors in the conflict and there interests, it reminds me of the Hobbesian State of Nature where everybody...

Sam Smith releases comeback single Too Good At Goodbyes after two-year absence. It is the first single off his forthcoming sophomore album. There’s a sort of humblebrag embedded in the title that Smith more than prepared to make good on with this, his first outing since that two-year-old James Bond theme. He really is almost too adroit at pulling off a ridiculously delicate ballad in a world of bangers. Read Also: North Korean Missile Launch The brag part comes in as Smith paints himself as the world’s greatest relationship saboteur. He’s hard-ass and softie all at once. And you may as well learn the lyrics now, because it’s all you’ll hear on the radio for weeks. The 25-year-old’s last single, The Writing’s On The Wall, was released in 2015, and we suppose you could say it was successful – the Spectre theme won Best Original Song at the 2016 Oscars. READ: The history of Aguleri

Nettie Stevens is credited with pioneering sex determination which she put its responsibility on males. The discovery remained a paradigm shift from the former ways of looking at human chromosomes. In recognition of this ground breaking achievement of all ages, Google launched a Doodle showing the genius peering through a microscope at the XY chromosomes. Stevens may not be a household name, but her contributions remain pivotal to the scientific community. Nattie Stevens found that male sperm carry XY chromosomes while the female egss carry Y chromosomes. In her study on Mealworms, she concluded that fertilization is only possible with male sperm.

Friday the thirteenth is trending all over the world today, Friday, May 13, 2016.Every Friday the thirteenth is widely known as "an unlucky day." Thus, some people habour the fear of the number, thirteen (13) which is known as triskadekaiphobia. Rooted in Greek "tris" means "three", "kai" means "and", "deka" means "10" and "phobos" meaning "fear" or "morbid fear."  Some said that the fear for the number, thirteen is also a reason for the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia ( a long word, I bet). Other reasons for the fear of Friday the thirteenth in the lores are: 1. Jesus was crucified on Friday. 2. Dan Brown linked it to the mass killing of Knight Templars at the dawn on Friday, 13 October         1307 3. Legendary rapper Tupac was killed on Friday the 13th after leaving Mike Tyson's boxing             match in Las Vegas. 4...

Who is the next Myanmar president? The next Myanmar president is Htin Kyaw. When was Htin Kyaw elected as Myanmar's president? Htin Kyaw was voted as the president in a joint meeting of the legislature christened Union Parliament.The retired bureaucrat from the National League for Democracy (NLD) won 360 out of the 652 votes cast. What is the biography of Htin Kyaw? Htin Kyaw is the second son the of the renowned Burmese Literary writer, poet, scholar and former Burmese professor Min Thu Wun, who was also an elected NLD Member of Parliament in 1990 elections from Kamayut Township, Yangon.  He passed away at the age of 95 in 2004. Htin Kyaw is also the son-in-law of the late U Lwin, one of the founders of the NLD. Writing under the pen name Dala Ban (named by his father after an ethnic Mon warrior of Myanmar’s past), U Htin Kyaw’s most famous book in Burmese is about the life of his father and titled: The Father’s Life: Glimpses of my Father (A Ba Bawa;...

Did Russia really ordered her forces to withdraw from Syria? Yes, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in a statement ordered the defence ministry and the whole armed forces to withdraw their main presence from Syria starting from today. Has there been any Russian military withdrawal from Syria since the order? Yes, according to the defence ministry, "The first group of Russian planes has flown out of the Hmeimim air base for their permanent bases on the territory of the Russian Federation." What is the reaction of the West in Russia's withdrawal from Syria? The West and the US were cautious with the withrawal. they welcomed it nonetheless. What is the implication of the Russia's withdrawal from Syria on the Syrian crisis since 2011? The withdrawal is believed by analysts that it would give the Geneva Peace Talks on Syria, a push. The peace talk has entered its second day today.

Did Spain issue arrest warrant against Netanyahu? Yes, the Spanish national court judge Jose de la Mata handed down the order to Police and Civil Guard to arrest the Isreali Prime minister and seven other Isreali officials past and present, whenever they step into Spain. Why did the Spanish Court issue the arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu? The arrest warrant is due to a case against them concerning their role in the Flotilla Aid ships attack in 2010 by Israeli security forces when the ships were trying to reach Gaza to break Isreali blockade in the strip. There were six ships, carrying around 500 passengers, humanitarian aid and construction materials. The Israeli Defence Force stormed the ship in a raid that left nine human rights activists dead on the spot. A tenth activist died later that month due to wounds sustained in the raid. Who were other Isreali officials affected by the Spanish arrest warrant? They include former defence minister Ehud Bara...

Tailing the coordinated terrorist attacks in strategic places in Paris, France Friday night, the Facebook allowed users to overlay their profile pictures with transparent French flag in condolences to the victims of the dastardly act. This should have been seen as a noble act but it was not. What then went wrong? The supposedly well-meaning act was condemned by people from North and South as very partial given that their were other more horrendous acts of terrorism all over the world than that of the Paris. Nothing of that sort was put in place by the popular social media site, Facebook. One could make a litany of them but of particular importance were the Kenyan Attack that left 147 persons dead (Paris death toll is less than 130) and the thousands that died to daily attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria's North-East region. Peaople querried: Were those ill-fated Kenyans and Nigerians less human? How many black's bloods make up one white's blood (according t...

Chandra Dangi, a Nepal, who was known as the shortest man on earth dies in USA, September 4, where he traveled on job assignments. Chandra died of pneumonia at the age of 75. The shortest man in the world as recorded by Guiness Book of Records was just 21.5 inches in height. His polar opposite, the tallest man in the world is Sultan Kösen from Turkey who measured 251 cm. ‘Today, our circus is flooded with tears at the loss of the world’s smallest man...whom we lovingly called Prince Chandra,’ a statement issued by the family says. 

Pyongyang declares a "semi-state of war" after exchange of shell fire with Seoul. By this declaration, Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader ordered his frontline troops to be on war footing. Previously, Pyongyang gave Seoul an ultimatum to end their loudspeaker propaganda against them at the border. They threatened that at the expiration of the ultimatum, that they would respond with full military action. The ultimatum is due on Saturday by 5:00 pm. South Korea restarted their loudspeaker campaign after 11 years; after her soldier was injured from a landmine in the demilitarized zone and which North Korea was responsible. North Korea in response restarted their own but a report said that the quality of the North Korean loudspeakers was so bad that it was difficult to understand what they were saying; and then came the ultimatum.

Police releases the sketch of the Erawan shrine bomb blast suspect. Police chief, Somyot Poompanmoung said that the Erawan Shrine attacker was part of a "network;" that he could not have done what Prayuth Chan-ocha, the PM described as the worst attack on Thailand. "He didn't do it alone for sure," the police chief said about the 'calm looking suspect film by a security camera.. "It's a network," he added conclusively. The shrine has reopened Wednesday after the Monday bomb attack that killed a score.

Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand reopens after the Monday bomb attack. Meanwhile the Police continue to hunt down the suspected perpetrator of the attack whose face was caught in a security footage. Buddhist monks have led prayers for the reopening of a Bangkok shrine where a blast killed 20 people. About a dozen monks led the prayers at the Erawan shrine as it reopened early on Wednesday while devotees – including tourists – bent down and held joss sticks.

The Erawan Shrine, Bangkok blast has been described as an attempt to harm tourism and the economy by Prawit Wongsuwan, Thai Defence Minister. The blast which exploded around 12.00 GMT Monday 17 August, 2015 killed 21 and injured 120 others. The blast mostly affected foreigners and many victims were yet to be claimed. It is yet unclear who would target the shrine but "We will hunt them down," Reuters quoted  Mr. Wongsuwan as saying.

An Indonesian Airliner carrying 54 passengers crashes in remote side of Papua. The Trigana Air flight which took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21 and headed to the town of Oksibil lost contact with the ground before the crash. The crash site was discovered by the villagers who informed the authorities. It is still unclear if there were survivors while the families of the passengers waited for news about their loved ones. Asian continent has suffered serious plane crashes last year including the still missing MH370 and the AirAsia Airliner that crashed into the Java Sea. After four Indonesian Airliners, others are in the EU blacklist of banned carriers.

In reaction to the annual US-South Korea military exercise scheduled for August 17 to 28, North Korea has threatened fire and brimstone that it would be nothing shot of an all-out war if Seoul did not cancel the plans and also stop her anti Pyongyang campaign along their joint border. North Korea condemned the exercise and called it a war rehearsal. An unnamed spokesman for the National Defense Commission in North Korea threatened to take "the strongest military counteraction." He bragged: "The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is the invincible power equipped with both the latest offensive and defensive means unknown to the world, including nuclear deterrence."

Following the finding of a possible Boeing 777 wing that washed up on a tiny Island in Indian Ocean, local beach-combers have swarmed the island for more debris that could be found. Then there came a mangled metal that only could possibly be a kettle which was also picked up. The media swooped on it with all enthusiasm that it was another debris from MH370. The one million dollar question remains: Why a kettle on a plane? There were just two Chinese words on the kettle: Xinji and the Chinese word for kettle. The two words when searched on a google image, brought out similar picture to the mangled kettle. In Saint-Andre, the town where the wing flap was found, a National Police officer speaking on condition of anonymity feared his police station would be "submerged by a mountain of junk". "People will bring in any old shoe they find on the beach," he sighed, duty bound to log all items handed in. Two of the local beach-combers were asked and they responded ...

I bet you will marvel at this piece of art which is notable for looking real. The Fallen Angel was created by Chinese artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu; a pair reputed for blurring the lines between the art and reality. They achieve their feats using materials such as human fats.This spectacular sculpture unveiled in Beijing, China depicts a woman lying motionless on the ground and to illustrate her fall from grace, she features featherless wings.

Middle East is currently under an intense wave of heat since Thursday. The temperature is extremely high even above 52 degrees centigrade. This climatic condition has even prompted the Iraqi authorities to declare a 4-day work free days to cool off. Iraq lacks beaches unlike other Middle East countries; and travel restrictions make it very difficult for people to seek respite elsewhere. A Filipino migrant rights activist collapsed and later died of apparent heat stroke during a visit to his country's consulate in Dubai this week. People have been advised to stay out of the sun and also drink plenty of water.