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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that the relationship between India and China is going through an “extremely difficult phase” after what Beijing has done at the border and emphasised that the Asian Century will not happen if the two neighbours could not join hands. Jaishankar made the remarks while responding to a series of questions after delivering a lecture on ‘India’s Vision of the Indo-Pacific’ at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University here. Responding to a question, Jaishankar said that the Asian Century will happen when China and India come together but the Asian Century will be difficult to happen if India and China could not come together. “At the moment (the India-China) relationship is going through an extremely difficult phase after what China did at the border,” he said. Chinese and Indian troops are engaged in a prolonged standoff in Eastern Ladakh. The two sides have so far held 16 rounds of Corps Commander Level talks to resolve the … [Read more...] about India-China Relationship Going Through ‘Extremely Difficult Phase’: EAM Jaishankar

Indian golfer Amandeep Kaur started with a bogey but finished with a birdie as she carded an even par 72 to be placed tied 10th on the first day of the inaugural Simone Asia Pacific Cup at the Pondok Indah Golf Course here on Thursday. Amandeep, who is partnering Vani Kapoor (78), was lying T-10 in individual standings. In team standings, Amandeep and Vani at six-over are T-12th in the USD 750,000 event. India’s other two players Diksha Dagar (74) and Gaurika Bishnoi (77) are T-14th at seven-over. In individual standings, Diksha is T-18, Gaurika is T-30 and Vani is T-32India is fielding two teams with Diksha partnering Gaurika, while Amandeep and Vani have been put together. South Korea’s seasoned campaigner So Yeon Ryu fired a seven under-par 65 to grab a one-shot lead. The 32-year-old Ryu had seven birdies in a bogey free round.Former world No. 1 and currently No. 4, Lydia Ko of New Zealand, the highest-ranked player in the field, had a brilliant birdie-eagle finish for a … [Read more...] about Simone Asia-Pacific Cup: Amandeep Kaur top Indian in Thailand

Click here to read the full article. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has revealed a direct link between “The Lord of the Rings” and his sci-fi franchise “Krrish.” Roshan was one of the guests at Amazon Prime Video’s “ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ” Asia-Pacific premiere in Mumbai on Thursday. The actor revealed that his father Rakesh Roshan, who directed “Koi… Mil Gaya” binge-watched Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy in 2004. More from Variety 'Rings of Power' Star Morfydd Clark Fainted When She Was Cast in Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' Series Amazon's 'Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge' Adds Tamera Mowry-Housley as Host, Clarice Lam and Joshua John Russell as Judges 'The Rings of Power' to Debut With Two Episodes, Season Will End Before 'House of the Dragon' Finale “He was talking about the way they’ve used this one great incredible idea and then had this progression which was so incredible and [asked] ‘why can’t we do that?,’ … [Read more...] about Hrithik Roshan Reveals ‘Lord of the Rings’ Link With ‘Krrish’ at ‘Rings of Power’ Asia-Pacific Premiere

In the evenings, when my particular piece of Earth has turned away from the Sun, and is exposed instead to the rest of the cosmos, I sit in front of a keyboard, log on, and seek out the windows that look down at the planets and out at the stars. It's a markedly different experience from looking at reproductions on paper. What I see is closer to the source. In fact, it's indistinguishable from the source. These are images that have never registered on a negative. Like the Internet itself, they are products of a digitized era. Over the past couple of years I've been monitoring the long rectangular strips of Martian surface being beamed across the void, in a steady stream of zeroes and ones, from the umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. These pictures are so fresh that their immediacy practically crackles. Call it "chrono-clarity." That bluish wispy cloud, for example, hovering over the Hecates Tholus volcano, which rears above the pockmarked surface … [Read more...] about A Space in Time

By BAY JOSEPHS THE first afternoon we put on our swimming things and started for the beach at Mar del Plata, the portero at the door looked at us with the kind of astonishment customarily reserved only for guests arriving with less than two trunks. “But Señor, Señora ,” he protested. “ already three in the afternoon. Three.” With the aid of the diccionario españolinglés we explained that we realized the hour, that it was hot and that we were hotter, and that having traveled six hours and 25 0 kilometers from Buenos Aires we couldn’t imagine any more perfect time for a dip in the Atlantic. “But three o’clock,” he repeated. “Nobody goes at this hour. Nobody. It isn’t done.” Before el week-end was finished we learned a good many other things about Argentina’s leading strand. In true Argentine fashion, relaxation, fun, and informality are never allowed to get in the way of tradition at Mar del Plata. Though it is hot from November on—seasons being reversed below the … [Read more...] about Winter Beaches

A woman has switched retirement for medical school in order to train to practice as a doctor at the age of 50 - proving that it's never too late to chase your dreams. 51-year-old Jen Reinmuth-Birch was encouraged to return to school by her new husband, to reinvent her career. She was inspired after witnessing the incredible work of medical professionals who work with children with special needs, which chimed with her own experience of parenting a boy with autism. It took the mum-of-two four years to build work experience and get her science qualifications before she was accepted into her dream medical school, Pacific North West University of Health Sciences in January 2021. She is now in her second year, and is inspiring others to do exactly what they want. The mum-of-two had been inspired to become a doctor after seeing the amazing work medical professionals do with children with special needs - which resonated with her as a mum of a boy with autism ( Image: … [Read more...] about Woman swaps retirement for medical school proving it’s never too late to chase your dreams

Stock Markets Today: Markets on Friday Morning started on a volatile note amid weak global cues and elevated crude oil prices. Frontline indices Nifty50 rose 18 points to trade above 17,950 levels whereas, the S&P BSE Sensex was flat at 60,319 levels. Broader markets, meanwhile, outperformed benchmark indices as Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 surged up to 0.4 per cent. Top Gainers & Losers Ultratech Cement, Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Eicher Motors, ONGC were top contributors to the benchmark indices. Meanwhile, IndusInd Bank, Coal India, Reliance Industries, NTPC weighed on the indices. Sector-wise, Nifty Media, Nifty Pharma, Nifty Metal bucked the trend. Nifty Realty, Nifty Bank, Nifty FMCG, however, were the losers among the pack. V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, said: “The market momentum which pushed the Nifty up by 18 per cent from the June lows is likely to face some headwinds from now on. The … [Read more...] about Stock Market Update: Sensex Opens Flat, Nifty50 Above 17,950; Metal, Pharma Stocks Gain

A New Zealand city devastated by flooding will take years to recover, the mayor said on Friday, as hundreds more homes were evacuated. The Pacific nation has been lashed by wild weather with the Nelson-Tasman district on the South Island bearing the brunt after 75 centimetres (29 inches) of rain reportedly fell over three days. Several streets in the city of Nelson were flooded after the local river, the Maitai, burst its banks. Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese said the damage to roads and the city’s infrastructure will “take years, not months” to repair. She added that it was “critical” Nelson’s residents conserve water as the city’s supply was disrupted by a landslide that damaged the main line from the local reservoir. On a visit to witness the damage, New Zealand’s Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty pledged $200,000 ($125,000) of aid and confirmed more than 400 homes have now been evacuated in Nelson, where a state of emergency remains in place. He added that … [Read more...] about New Zealand Flood Recovery Estimated to Take ‘Years’

After 12 hours and 18 minutes swimming in painfully freezing conditions, Bárbara Hernández Huerta had turned blue. The Chilean marathon and ice swimmer - nicknamed ‘The Ice Mermaid’ - had just completed the most difficult challenge of her career to date. At the end of last month she swam the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland - a distance of 35km, or around 21 miles - as part of a wider challenge to swim the seven oceans. This crazy and legendary challenge is not for the faint of heart, but if anyone is going to achieve it then it will be Hernández. She has already achieved some incredible things in her career, becoming the first Latin American swimmer to be crowned a world champion ice swimmer and being ranked number one in the world for three consecutive seasons by the International Winter Swimming Association. She also has a number of world records to her name including becoming the first person to swim three nautical miles (5.5km) between the Pacific and … [Read more...] about The record-breaking ‘Ice Mermaid’ who swims the world’s coldest and most dangerous waters