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Italian Open 2021: While Serena Williams suffered a shock defeat in the 2nd round, Simona Halep retired from her match with a calf injury, raising doubts over her participation in French Open, starting May 30. Italian Open: Serena Williams suffered a shock defeat in her 1000th WTA match (Reuters Photo) HIGHLIGHTS Serena Williams was beaten…

A Chinese professor has urged the government to offer parents 1 million yuan ($156,000) for each newborn child in a bid to shore up the country’s declining birth rate, sparking a debate on social media about the soaring costs of raising children. China’s population rose by its slowest rate in decades from 2010-2020, the country’s…

YouTube YouTube said the new fund will pay thousands of creators each month whose videos on Shorts receive the most engagement from viewers. The streaming video site added it will begin to test ads on Shorts. As the market for short video features becomes more crowded, platforms have used creator funds as a way to…

If you were planning to visit the bank tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, then you may now need to reschedule your visit. Banks across many cities in India will remain closed on May 13 and 14, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday list which dates all the occasions on which banks…

Mumbai: Bigg Boss 13 contestant and model Asim Riaz on Wednesday (May 12) dropped a small teaser on Instagram of his debut single as a rapper. The song is scheduled to release on Eid. Titled ‘Back to start’, Asim has also written his debut song besides singing it. The rap number depicts his days of…

Legendary India batsman Sunil Gavaskar is mighty impressed with Rishabh Pant’s captaincy in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021. Gavaskar said the Delhi Capitals captain showed spark of what can turn into a roaring fire as far captaincy is concerned. Gavaskar added that Rishabh Pant was tactically good and he managed to combine it with his…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated. Both the ministry and the WHO stressed that the majority of those who tested positive had…

Washington: India’s recent decision authorising 5G trials without Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE is a sovereign one, a top State Department official has said, asserting that America is deeply concerned about the dangers of installing networks with equipment that can be manipulated, disrupted or potentially controlled by China. India’s Department of Telecom last week approved…

Tesla Inc`s top boss Elon Musk said in a series of tweets on Wednesday that the company expects to release a significantly improved version of its full self-driving technology within the next two to three weeks. Subscriptions to the software for the system would be offered within a month, Musk said in a Twitter exchange…

LOS ANGELES: Ellen DeGeneres will end her Emmy-winning daytime talk show next year after its upcoming 19th season, the comedian said in an interview published in The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday (May 12). DeGeneres, 63, will discuss the decision on Thursday’s show with guest Oprah Winfrey, said the entertainment publication. “When you’re a creative person,…