Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Pierre Gasly says being on the brink of being given a one-race ban from F1 is ‘unpleasant’ and ’embarrassing’ for him Pierre Gasly says being on the brink of being given a one-race ban from F1 is ‘unpleasant’ and ’embarrassing’ for him Pierre Gasly has urged the FIA to change regulations that have left him on the brink of receiving a race ban for breaching Formula 1’s penalty point limit. Gasly reached 10 penalty points for the season at the Mexico City Grand Prix, leaving the AlphaTauri driver just two…
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Some of the Indian techies, who switched to social media major Meta after quitting their stable jobs just two-three days ago, are among the 11,000 people laid off by the company. Facebook has laid off 11,000 employees across the globe to cut down cost. An IT professional Neelima Agarwal, who joined Meta two days back posted on social media platfrom Linkedin, that she is among the people who have lost their jobs. “Relocated to Canada from india just a week back and joined meta 2 days ago after going through such a long visa process. But…
Soon, Appoliner found herself sitting across from Mario Joseph in his office, in an unmarked building along one of the capital city’s narrow, winding streets. By then, Joseph, along with the US-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, had grown accustomed to fighting the UN: They had filed a class action lawsuit in a US federal court on behalf of victims of the cholera epidemic, a case they lost when the court upheld the UN’s immunity from damages.Joseph, 58, has worked some of the country’s most emblematic human rights cases, representing victims of the Raboteau massacre and of former…
Seventy years ago, in November 1952, the Peanuts comic strip debuted a new gag: Lucy holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick, then pulls it away at the last minute. Fifty years ago, in November 1972, the Democratic Party began its own Lucy-and-the-football ritual. The youth vote — empowered by the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 — meant there were 25 million potential new voters. Surely those kids protesting Vietnam would swing the election to antiwar Democrat George McGovern? Nope: Richard Nixon won in a landslide. Most young voters hadn’t even registered to…
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VIJAYAWADA: Anomalies are galore in the ongoing Comprehensive Land Resurvey. Names of owners of the lands and land parcel sizes are getting changed, causing hardships to many across the state in getting the flaws/errors rectified in the new records. Farmers are complaining that the surveyors are doing the resurvey based on the present ‘bund’ position of the agriculture fields without verifying the existing records. This is resulting in trouble for farmers in several areas. Several farmers had encroached upon the fields located in their neighbourhood by 10 to 15 cents per acre, in the past. In the resurvey, such encroached…
Denmark will wear “toned down” shirts during matches at the World Cup in QatarDenmark’s request for its players to be permitted to wear pro-human rights training shirts at the World Cup in Qatar has been rejected by Fifa.The Danish football federation (DBU) asked if its players could wear shirts with the words “Human Rights for All”.World football’s governing body prohibits all political messages and has asked teams to “focus on football” following a controversial build-up.The DBU disputes that it is a political message but accepted the decision.”For me, this is a jersey with a very simple message about universal human…
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Great Britain reached the semi-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup for the first time since 1981 after beating Spain 3-0 in a must-win match.After losing 2-1 to Kazakhstan in the opening tie on Tuesday and Spain’s 3-0 win against the same opposition the following day, Anne Keothavong’s side knew anything other than a 3-0 win would mean they would be knocked out. Heather Watson got her side off to the best possible start, producing one of her best performances of the season to beat Spain’s Nuria Parrizas Diaz.The 30-year-old won the opening seven games of the match at Glasgow’s…
The Jharkhand government has formed a task force to study the impact on the state of commitments made by India at last year’s global climate summit. At the COP26 summit in Glasgow last year, India had committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2070 and set a target of building the capacity to generate 500 GW of non-fossil fuel energy. Officials said the task force, comprising officials from 13 different departments, has been formed to assess the magnitude and nature of the effects of the “accelerated phase-out of coal mines and coal-based industries” on Jharkhand’s economy as well as on…