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Pakistan Test skipper Shan Masood showered praise on Babar Azam and called him one of the best batsmen in the world. Babar is going through a lean patch in Tests. In his last nine Tests and 17 innings, he has scored just 352 innings at an average of 20.71, with his best score being 41. In 55 Tests, Babar has scored 3,997 runs at an average of 43,92, with nine centuries and 26 fifties and best score of 196. Pakistan announced 15-member squads for white-ball series tours to Australia and Zimbabwe starting from November 4 onwards, with star batter Babar Azam being rested from the Zimbabwe tour and set to play in Australia. Masood said… Read More »Pak Test Skipper Shan Masood Calls Babar Azam “One Of The Best Batsmen”

When it comes to Bibek Debroy, two words, ‘polyglot’ and ‘polymath’, promptly come to mind. Post-Independence, India has been graced with numerous scholars and some ideologues masquerading as scholars, as well as propagandists masquerading as intellectuals. Unfortunately, very few of the lot have consistently kept an open mind and studied issues and contemporary events with the thirst of an eager student. Fewer still have successfully managed to bridge the past with the present and the traditional with the modern. Debroy belonged to this select club. One won’t find many who can elaborate on the forces of “creative destruction” as described by Joseph Schumpeter and simultaneously decode the significance of the hidden messages in the Puranas.… Read More »Opinion: Bibek Debroy: For Whom Data Was Everything

When it comes to Bibek Debroy, two words, ‘polyglot’ and ‘polymath’, promptly come to mind. Post-Independence, India has been graced with numerous scholars and some ideologues masquerading as scholars, as well as propagandists masquerading as intellectuals. Unfortunately, very few of the lot have consistently kept an open mind and studied issues and contemporary events with the thirst of an eager student. Fewer still have successfully managed to bridge the past with the present and the traditional with the modern. Debroy belonged to this select club. One won’t find many who can elaborate on the forces of “creative destruction” as described by Joseph Schumpeter and simultaneously decode the significance of the hidden messages in the Puranas.… Read More »Opinion: Blog | Bibek Debroy: For Whom Data Was Everything

Somy Ali, the ex-girlfriend of Salman Khan made a sensational revelation about a threatening call from the underworld to the superstar in the 90s, when she was in a relationship with him. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Somy Ali recalled her days with Salman Khan, her tryst with Bollywood, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and more. Asked if during her relationship with Salman in the 1990s, when Dawood Ibrahim’s ties to Bollywood were rampant, did she witness or hear any discussions about the don and his connections with the film industry, Somy replied, “I heard multiple conversations about him, but nobody took Dawood’s name directly, nor did anyone speak about Chota Shakeel. People used to call them… Read More »“Salman Got Threat Call From Underworld On His Landline In 90s”: Somy Ali

A 36-year-old man, who earlier worked as a programmer for Nvidia, spent around a year of his life and invested a considerable amount of money to discover the world’s largest known prime number. Officially named as ‘M136279841,’ Luke Durant’s discovery consists of 41,024,320 digits, marking the maiden prime breakthrough in nearly six years, CNN reported. A prime number is a whole number, which can only be divided by 1 or itself, such as 2, 3, 5, 7, and so on. Based in San Jose, California, Luke Durant’s historic finding has been classified as a Mersenne prime, named after French monk Marin Mersenne. He studied these numbers over 350 years ago. As per the report, Mersenne… Read More »A Prime Number, With 41,024,320 Digits, Discovered By Ex Nvidia Programmer