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KKR wins IPL FINAL

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KKR VS SRH Sunrisers Hyderabad  113 ao Markram 20 off 23, 3 fours, Cummins 24 off 19, 2 fours, 1 six, Starc 2-14, Rana 2-24, Russell 3-19, Chakravarthy 1-9, Marine 1-16, Aurora 1-24. Kolkata Knight Riders 114-2 off 10.3 ov.  Gurbaz 39 off 32, 5  fours, 2 sixes, Venkatesh 52 no off 26. 4 fours, 3 sixes, Cummins 1-18, Shahbaz 1-22. Kolkata Knight Riders win by 8 wickets. Kolkata Knight Riders led by Shreyas Dyer defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League final at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, India to claim their third IPL title. Mitchell Stars … Continue reading KKR wins IPL FINAL

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Leclerc  wins home Monaco GP

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Twenty-six-year-old, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc born in Monaco held his nerve to convert his pole position  to win the Monaco Grand Prix  after a huge first-lap pile up  between Haas cars and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez. Leclerc controlled McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, team-mate Carlos Sainz and McLarren’s Lando Morris to take the second Ferrari win of 2024. The final laps was highlighted by a battle for fifth between Mercedes’ George Russell and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, in which the Briton managed to to hole out. In the past Lecierc twice had taken pole position at Monaco only for the win to … Continue reading Leclerc  wins home Monaco GP

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Lost world of the Middle East Under Ottoman 

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This is an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world. How the rule of law was restored to the birthplace ce of Judaism and Christianity, Damascus, after a massacre in 1860s, and the veneration in Island, the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean  Sea,  the most historically burdened place in the world. For centuries this city has drawn in powerful states aspiring to hegemony over the Holy Land, as the minorities sought refuge  from persecution and pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem and Mecca. Russian warships refuel at their … Continue reading Lost world of the Middle East Under Ottoman 

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Astonishingly heroic woman

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On September 5 1951 Elzbieta Zawacka arrived home from her teaching job to find two officials waiting for her, Ransacking her tiny flat in Torun, northern Poland , they pounced upon a cotton-reel containing a $10 note, money she had given to her late mother who had never spent it. Owing foreign currency in communist Poland carried a 10-year prison sentence with torture.  She had already fought to defend Lvov , then a city in eastern Poland now in Ukraine and known as Lviv, from the Nazis and joined the Home Army – one of the largest resistance movement in … Continue reading Astonishingly heroic woman

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AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge

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Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups and a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn, invited hundreds of employees from his company to a five-star hotel in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, and were treated to performances by local dancers and DJs. Duggal, at time took to a stage to interview figures like former Apple executive Tony Fadel and Serena Williams’s former tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglon. Builder.ai has been valued at just over $1bn following a new $250mn investment round led by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund QIA had joined investors including Microsoft, SoftBank and Insight … Continue reading AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge

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All that Glitters is not gold

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Bre-X Minerals, a Canadian mining company claimed that it had discovered a huge deposit of gold, deep in the Indonesian jungle, which triggered a scramble to invest in the firm.  But question remains about the mysterious death of  Michael de Guzman, the company’s chief geologist, as on the morning of 19 March 1997 he boarded a helicopter flight to travel to a remote jungle site in Indonesia. This journey he has previously made many times, to a place where he had reported finding huge deposits of gold. But this time he never arrived. Twenty minutes into the journey, a rear door on … Continue reading All that Glitters is not gold

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Singapore airlines Boeing 777 hit by severe turbulence kills one injures 30

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Singapore Airlines Boeing 777, flight SQ321 carrying 134 passengers and 12 crew, experienced sudden extreme turbulence  over Myanmar, as the plane dropped 6, 000 ft and was diverted to Bangkok’s Changi Airport and landed safel7 at 15:45 local time (08:45GMT). A 73-year-0ld British man Geoff Kitchen died during severe turbulence suspected of cardiac arrest. Seven people are in a critical condition while dozens more are injured.  According to one passenger anyone not wearing a seatbelt was “launched into the ceiling”.  Flight data reveals a spike in altitude of around 275 ft (84m) at 2.49pm local time. Continue reading Singapore airlines Boeing 777 hit by severe turbulence kills one injures 30

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Secret of fame

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Harvard law professor, head of a department in the Obama administration, and passionate Beatles fan, already famous author, Cass Sunstein reveals in How to Become Famous, both famous and forgotten or simply overlooked  artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, and explores why some individuals become famous and others don’t and offers a new understanding of the roles played by greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame. Fame is light lightning. Leonard da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift all of them were struck. Susntein’s How to Become Famous features  an eclectic … Continue reading Secret of fame

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Embrace the power of AI as the ultimate learning tool

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Salman Khan, in his twenties was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when his 12-year-old cousin form New Orleans asked him for  some help with maths, which prompted him to tutor Nadia over the phone and she went from the remedial class to being the top maths student in her school. Soon Khan, decides to give remote lessons in Calculus and Algebra to his other 15 cousins in Louisiana.  He created a website by writing the software that  generated practice questions and recorded videos  to put on YouTube. Soon tens of thousands of students watching his online tutorials … Continue reading Embrace the power of AI as the ultimate learning tool

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How frightened teenage boys become dangerous men

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David, a protagonist, who hates primary school where he has been bullied for his Iranian heritage, more recently he was beaten up and humiliated by Muslim teenagers, and has reached sixth form without any friends.  He stops studying for his A-levels and, after working in a supermarket for several months, begins spending most of his time in his bedroom on the internet. As somebody who is searching for meaning and community, David is vulnerable to charlatans peddling easy answers to complex questions and shortcuts to belonging. Music is the only that keeps him going. Inspired by his hero Karl Williams, he … Continue reading How frightened teenage boys become dangerous men