A 97-year-old lifelong RSS swayamsevak and grassroots political worker, Makhanlal Sarkar, received a lifetime honour from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a recent oath-taking ceremony. Sarkar, an aide to Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, expressed fulfillment after Modi touched his feet.
Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar criticized India's T20I approach after their 0-4 series loss to England. He stated that sacking coach Gautam Gambhir or captain Shreyas Iyer wouldn't solve the issue, attributing the poor performance to inadequate preparation for overseas conditions, influenced by IPL performances.
Bandhan Bank launched 'Cyber Cop', a nationwide cyber fraud awareness campaign with filmmaker Rohit Shetty. The initiative promotes safer digital behavior with the message 'Pause. Verify. Report.' amid rising AI-enabled fraud and increasing online financial scams in India.
Yastika Bhatia scored a historic Test century at Lord's, her first after recovering from a serious knee injury, to put India in a dominant position against England. Richa Ghosh also contributed significantly, setting England a daunting target of 457.
Physicist Richard Feynman wrote a deeply personal, unsent letter to his late wife, Arline Greenbaum Feynman, nearly 20 months after her death from tuberculosis in 1945. Dated October 17, 1946, the letter expresses his enduring love, his struggle with grief, and the impossibility of moving on, resonating universally with its raw emotion and poignant postscript.
Following his father's funeral, Mojtaba Khamenei released a 'revenge list' naming 13 world leaders, including Trump and Netanyahu, as targets. This coincides with reports of an Iranian assassination plot against Trump and ongoing conflict, with the US striking Iranian targets after attacks on commercial ships.
Foreign investors have invested over $1 billion in Indian equities in the past week, signaling a bullish trend. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup project further inflows due to a stable rupee and improved earnings expectations, boosting the NSE Nifty 50 index.
