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As the Indian game developers begin to expand their global footprint, shares of ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed online gaming company Nazara Technologies surged 20 per cent after the firm reported a 22 per cent rise in net profit for June quarter this year. WATCH VIDEO: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Launched on PC Jhunjhunwala, who understood the future of online gaming in India when the industry was still in its infancy, owned 10.03 per cent or 65.88 lakh shares in Nazara Technologies, whose partnership with global e-sports platforms, game publishers and brands have made it the leading e-sport company in the country. Nazara is a diversified gaming and sports media platform with a presence in India and across emerging and developed global markets such as Africa and North America, with offerings across the interactive gaming, e-sports and gamified early learning ecosystems. The company owns some of the most recognisable products such as World Cricket … [Read more...] about Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Nazara Tech Now A Leading Gaming Company

Rafael Nadal will sit out the group stage of the Davis Cup finals next month after not being named in the Spain team on Monday, while Alexander Zverev will lead the German side. The 36-year-old Nadal won the Australian Open and French Open titles earlier this year to take his men’s record tally of Grand Slam singles triumphs to 22. But he was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon with an abdominal injury before his scheduled semi-final against Nick Kyrgios. ALSO READ| Simona Halep Beats Beatriz Haddad Maia To Win Third WTA Masters 1000 in Canada Nadal is making his return this week at the Cincinnati Masters as he prepares for the US Open, but will not make a first Davis Cup appearance since winning the tournament for the fifth time with Spain in 2019. Spain will instead be looking to teenage sensation Carlos Alcaraz for inspiration. Sergi Bruguera’s team will face Canada, Serbia and South Korea in Group B which is being staged in Valencia from September 13-18. The top two … [Read more...] about Davis Cup: Rafael Nadal Missing From Spain’s Squad; Alexander Zverev to Lead Germany

A school district on the West Coast is following the lead of California and will be able to make school lunches free for all students, beginning this coming school year. The Auburn School District, in Auburn, Washington, was approved for participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision through 2026 on Monday. The program, started during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, provides all students with free breakfasts and lunches at school. "Being able to continue to provide healthy, nutritious meals for all students is a great support for families in Auburn," associate superintendent Cindi Blansfield said in a statement about the news, according to KOMO News . The district serves approximately 9,500 lunches and 5,500 breakfasts each day of the school year. The district's official site noted that families will not have to submit an application for their children to get the free meals. Auburn is a suburb within the greater Seattle metropolitan … [Read more...] about School district to give free meals to all kids, following California’s lead

A man led police on a chase that spanned the late hours of August 6 into the early hours of August 7 in Alabama after he allegedly stole and crashed three vehicles, two of which were an ambulance and a volunteer fire truck. The Limestone County Sheriff's Office said in a statement published on Facebook that Tyrek Dequavyious Hayes, 30, faces multiple charges, including three counts of theft, attempting to elude law enforcement and kidnapping. An EMT was in the ambulance when Hayes reportedly hijacked it. According to the law information website FindLaw , if an individual intentionally flees from law enforcement, they may be charged with a misdemeanor unless the attempt to elude results in a death or an injury to an innocent bystander. In that case, the individual may be faced with a felony. "In addition, the court shall order the suspension of the driver's license of the defendant for a period of not less than six months nor more than two years," FindLaw said. Lieutenant … [Read more...] about Man leads cops on foot chase after allegedly crashing ambulance, firetruck

A 10-year-old boy has had his leg amputated after an eight-foot bull shark attacked him in the Florida Keys. Jameson Reeder Jr. was snorkeling in Looe Key with his family when the shark attacked, the Miami Herald reported. As the bull shark bit above Reeder's knee, he "screamed and cried for help while miraculously staying afloat" on a pool noodle, the boy's uncle, Joshua Reeder, said on a Facebook post. "Jameson jr. was saying "Jesus will save me, Jesus will save me," his uncle said. The boy's father and mother called for a rescue boat, which had a nurse on board. "They rushed him and his Mom Mary to shore as paramedics were called and standing by to help along with a helicopter being ready to airlift him to the hospital," the uncle wrote. When the boy arrived at the hospital, doctors "swung into action" right away. "They had to remove/amputate from just below the knee to save his life as it was not operable from the damage the shark had caused. They said the shark … [Read more...] about Florida shark attack leads to leg amputation for 10-year-old boy

Tom Whitehead continually marvels at the life-saving power of CAR T-cell gene therapy, which rescued his daughter Emily from pediatric leukemia. "To look at her every day and see what a cure for cancer actually looks like––it's pretty amazing," he says. CAR T-cell therapy is a revolutionary treatment, years in the making. It's no surprise it was developed in the United States; more biomedical innovation occurs here than anywhere else in the world. But that's likely to change because of the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act. It's a simple case of incentives. Innovative medicines take about $2.6 billion over 10 to 15 years to complete. Pharmaceutical companies can only afford the trial and error of research and development (R&D) because the successes offset the price of the failures. But by empowering government bureaucrats to set artificial price caps on drugs, the Inflation Reduction Act will remove the incentive to produce innovative therapeutics for patients in … [Read more...] about Biden’s cancer research reduction act | Opinion

What follows is NewsGuard's summary and translation of top news stories from Russia's state TV Channel One. NewsGuard presents these stories in the order that they appear on the program. Ukraine strikes Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, chemical enterprises Ukraine confirmed last week its essence as a terrorist state. Almost every day, Ukrainian formations attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the satellite town of Energodar. The effective work of the Russian air defense forces is making it possible to avoid a nuclear catastrophe. But it's not just nuclear power plants. Attacks targeted other dangerous objects. In Donetsk, one attack resulted in an ammonia leak. Three of the six turbines at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station downstream from Zaporizhzhia along the Dnieper have been shut off, where only a dam holds back huge masses of water. Kyiv can cause damage with high-precision Western weapons, it's scary to think what kind of damage. Russia is warning … [Read more...] about Ukraine strikes Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Russia says

While gas prices across the U.S. continue to plunge, a glitch at one station in the Pacific Northwest led to prices not seen since the early 1970s. A glitch in the system at an Arco station in Yakima, Washington, moved prices to rock-bottom levels on Saturday night, with one photo published by KIMA-TV showing a pump with a cost of $0.46 a gallon. Word about the error spread throughout the Yakima area online, KIMA reported, causing the station to be swarmed with customers. While most were excited to take advantage of the situation, others were not so enthused, lamenting how people "came together to rip off a business." The owners of the Arco station were not able to estimate how long the glitch was active. By Sunday morning, the station confirmed to KIMA that the issue had been resolved. This is not the first time in the last year that a gas station operated by Arco suffered from a price glitch. In November, KTLA reported that a station in Los Angeles sold gas for $0.45 a … [Read more...] about Gas station system error sells gas for only 46 cents per gallon

The detonation of nuclear weapons may lead to worldwide famines , scientists have said. In a paper published in the journal Nature Food , scientists considered how the soot ejected into the atmosphere as a result of nuclear bombs exploding may lead to mass food shortages. They estimate that if the amount of soot entering the atmosphere exceeds 5 Tg (around 11 billion pounds), the sun would be blocked out so much that crop growth would be severely impacted in nearly every country. According to the paper, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could send between 5 and 47Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Even more devastating, a U.S.-Russian nuclear war may produce up to 150Tg of soot, causing a nuclear winter. "The reduced light, global cooling and likely trade restrictions after nuclear wars would be a global catastrophe for food security," the authors wrote in the paper. "More than 2 billion people could die from a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and more … [Read more...] about Nuclear war scenarios would see billions dead from famine globally

A 100-foot asteroid is due to fly by Earth, nearly as close to the planet as the Moon . On August 16, the asteroid 2022 PW will pass at a distance of 1.4 LD (Lunar Distance). One LD is how far away the Moon is from the Earth. According to NASA 's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), 2022 PW is traveling at a speed of around 7.5 km/s (about 17,000 mph) and is between 75 and 100 feet across, making it roughly the size of a Boeing 737-500, or a blue whale . NASA defines Near Earth Objects as "asteroids or comets whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit and which may therefore pose a collision danger. Due to their size and proximity, NEOs are also more easily accessible for spacecraft from Earth." The majority of asteroids orbit our sun in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, varying in size from a few feet across to Vesta and Ceres, measuring around 350 miles and 600 miles in diameter, respectively. Occasionally, one will be nudged closer towards our sun by … [Read more...] about Boeing 737-sized asteroid to pass as close to Earth as the Moon