The World Boxing Organisation (WBO) said, external it “mourns the passing of Japanese boxer Hiromasa Urakawa, who tragically succumbed to injuries sustained during his fight against Yoji Saito”. It added: “This heartbreaking news comes just days after the passing of Shigetoshi Kotari, who died from injuries suffered in his fight on the same card. “We…
Nikhil inamdar BBC News, Mumbai Getty Images Companies like TCS rely on cheap skilled labour to produce software for global clients at low costs India’s showpiece software industry is facing a moment of reckoning. The country’s biggest private sector employer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – also its largest IT services company – has announced it…
Shaimaa Khalil Japan Correspondent BBC Japanese politics is a usually steady ship, verging on the boring most of the time. Not anymore. Last Sunday, a once obscure far-right party, Sanseito, surged from one to 15 seats in the elections, making them a serious contender in Japan’s political scene. With their “Japanese First” slogan, riffing off…
Leana Hosea & Saroj Pathirana Neckeda, Sri Lanka Aerial footage shows the X-Press Pearl breaking up and sinking Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka’s beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand. Billions of plastic nurdles, as they…
With over 20 days and more than 60 experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) crew, including Shubhanshu Shukla, which returned to Earth Tuesday, will enter a week-long rehabilitation programme.The crew, which has completed initial medical evaluations, will go through the extensive rehab programme, following which mission debriefs and other procedures will…
Jasprit Bumrah has looked like the shadow of a player he is, feels Michael Vaughan.© AFP India pacer Jasprit Bumrah has looked like the shadow of a player he is in the ongoing 4th Test against England in Manchester, feels former Three Lions captain Michael Vaughan. Bumrah, who has bowled 28 overs so…
Real world politics has been spilling into Bollywood over the past few months. With elections about to begin, Hindi cinema is also poll-bound /news/big-story/bollywood-hindi-film-elections-politics-government-fighter-article-370-111712922679732.html 111712922679732 story Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come, except when everyone has the same idea. Over a five-week stretch starting 25 January, I saw the same…
Arvind Kejriwal has been allowed to carry three books with him to jail. He’s chosen the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayan and Neerja Chowdhury’s How Prime Ministers Decide. Whether the Delhi chief minister wants to actually read these books or he wants to be seen as wanting to read these books is anyone’s guess. Kejriwal is…
