Author: Shubham Somkuwar

Following a thrilling Round of 16, football fans around the world are gearing up for the Champions League quarterfinals (UCL). There have been some noteworthy losses along the way, with Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund both failing to progress from their respective groups, and more hopes have been dashed in the last 16. The draw for the Champions League quarterfinals were conducted at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday, March 18 at 4:30 p.m. IST. Along with a draw for the last eight, teams will also learn their semi-final paths, making this the last draw for the…

In recognition of its political clout among leaders of Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Russian and Ukrainian envoys to Indonesia are courting the country’s largest moderate Islamic party, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).  Ukraine’s envoy met with Yahya Staquf, the newly elected NU leader, last week. The Russian delegation arrived at NU’s Jakarta headquarters the next day.  Following the meeting, Staquf described the events in Ukraine as a “war” and urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “end the war now,” adding that “dialogue” might solve all problems. When it first spoke out against the conflict, the Indonesian government avoided criticizing Russia by name…

According to a bizarre new notion, there may be another “anti-universe” that exists before the Big Bang, running backward through time. The theory assumes that the early cosmos was small, hot, and dense – and that time was symmetric in both directions. If the new hypothesis is correct, dark matter is nothing more than a novel flavour of a ghostly particle known as a neutrino that can only exist in this type of universe. And, according to the hypothesis, there would be no need for a phase of inflation following the Big Bang that rapidly enlarged the size of the…

Hurun India, a luxury research and publishing company, has released the Global Rich List for 2022, in collaboration with real estate firm M3M. According to the 2022 Hurun global rich list, 249 of the world’s 3,381 billionaires are either Indian or of Indian ancestry. 219 of them live in India. With a net worth of $103 billion, Ambani has not only become India’s richest man, but also Asia’s richest man, with a 24 percent increase in his fortune. The chairman of RIL was also named the ‘Richest Telecom Entrepreneur.’ According to the Hurun research, Ambani grew his inherited wealth from…

FC Barcelona, a La Liga giant, and Spotify, a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, have announced a unique multi-year partnership. Starting in the 2022/23 season, Spotify’s emblem will appear on the shirts of both the men’s and women’s teams for the next four seasons as part of a marketing agreement. Rakuten has sponsored the men’s team since 2017, while Stanley Black & Decker has sponsored the women’s team since 2018. According to Barca’s website, its key sponsors include Nike, Japanese retail store Rakuten, and Turkish firm Beko. Spotify and FC Barcelona will work to turn the legendary shirt…

The stage is black, melancholy music plays in the background, and the 2,000 seats of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium are filling up as the Delhi government welcomes Babasaheb: The Grand Musical, a two-hour-long musical celebrating Ambedkar’s life. ‘Who were the shudras?’, ‘The untouchables?’, ‘Federation versus freedom?’, ‘The Annihilation of Caste?’, and ‘Riddles in Hinduism?’ – these are some of the phrases that appear on the stadium’s digital screens. The musical, produced by the Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation, is a social reflection on the Dalit community’s struggles in colonial India. The musical, which debuted on February 25, is being…

Natrajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Tata Sons, was named chairman of Air-India on Monday. However, the chief executive officer and managing director of Air India have yet to be appointed by Tata Sons. The Tata Sons board of directors re-appointed Chandrasekaran as executive chairman for another five years in February. Tata Sons is the Tata group’s main holding company, with Tata Trusts, led by Ratan Tata, owning about 66 percent of its stock.   Tata Group, a salt-to-software conglomerate, won the bid to buy debt-ridden state-run airline Air India for Rs 18,000 crore.   This comes after Tata Group offered…

While the world’s attention is focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the deadening coronavirus resurfaces, initially unsettling China and Germany.     Following a high surge in COVID-19 infections, China blocked off the northeastern region of Jilin on Monday, the first time an entire province has been cut off since the unprecedented lockdown of Hubei province and  capital, Wuhan, in 2020, where the virus was originally found in late 2019.  By Sunday, the total number of verified COVID-19 cases on the mainland China, both locally and internationally, had climbed to 116,902. On Sunday, 8,531 patients were still receiving treatment, with eight…

Ubisoft, a French video game firm, has revealed that a cyber security breach caused various games, systems, and services to be momentarily unavailable. The event was discovered after a data breach at Nvidia, a leading American graphics chip company, and Samsung, a South Korean conglomerate, earlier this month. Ubisoft stated its IT teams were investigating the problem with the help of prominent external specialists. Multiple Ubisoft users reported problems accessing their Ubisoft service last week, prompting the announcement. Headquartered in Montreuil with its studios around the world, the game maker has repeatedly produced hit titles including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry,…

In the wake of the Russian invasion, Google has decided to launch an air raid warning system for Ukraine, allowing individuals trapped to flee to safety before the attacks. “The system will go live today and will gradually expand to include all Android phones in Ukraine over the coming few days. ” Google’s Vice President of Engineering for Android, Dave Burke, tweeted, “Thankful to our engineering/product/UX teams for racing to deliver a solution in record time.” According to Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs at Google, “Google has taken an initiative to help refugees in addition To the country’s current air…