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The opening quarter saw a tight contest between both teams as both played at a quick place and were particularly good at the front line. Expectedly then, the quarter finished with on level terms at 14-14. the Hots were the dominant side for major portions of the game and lead by 8 points at the end of the first half at 39-31. With 5 minutes left on the clock, it looked like Hyderabad were going to knock Pune out but courtesy some fine play from Vijay of Pune The pressure was well-and-truly back on the hosts and game-breaking 3 pointer from Arjun sealed the game for the Pune side and that meant that Pune were through while Hyderabad missed out....

Karnataka right-hander Mayank Aggarwal has swapped teams for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League and will be seen playing for the Rising Pune Supergiants and not for the Delhi Daredevils. In case you missed it… Ahead of the IPL Auctions to be held on the 5th of February in Bengaluru, the second trading window commenced last Friday and it will go on till the 20th of January 2017....

The war on oligarchs is the latest front in the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s coalescing around the logic that the West can punish rich people into seeing the error of their ways, forcing them to convince Putin to end the war. In keeping with this policy, yachts and homes have been confiscated—to much fanfare and social media attention, so much so that The Washington Post dubbed it “schadenfreude at sea....

In the video posted by @ladynort18, a puppy can be seen approaching a cat and sniffing its backside, then immediately retches. The caption reads, “When your puppy notices the cat’s butthole for the first time.” Smell is a crucial sense for most animals, and they are able to send and receive messages by producing certain smells. Research suggests that elephants have the best sense of smell of any animal, but dogs and cats are up there too....

It wasn’t your typical 9-yard touchdown pass, though. Appleby, who threw a feisty stiff-arm earlier in the drive, shot another angry straight-arm on his touchdown pass to Danny Anthrop. MORE: Overreacting to Week 1 winners and losers | Highs and lows from Week 1 Appleby is 6-5, 229 pounds and his stiff-arm, which was more like a left-handed haymaker to the helmet of Marshall defensive end Blake Keller — who is 6-2, 234 — prevented a sack and allowed him to swing a short toss out to Anthrop, who strolled into the end zone to cut the Marshall lead to 17-14 with 38 seconds remaining in the first half....

Hammons somehow lost a shoe in the team’s offensive sequence, so he scooped it up and ran back down the court to play defense with a shoe in one hand. MORE: See the best active college player at every jersey number Then, as players for both teams gathered under the bucket jostling each other for the rebound, he reached up and plucked the ball away from Minnesota players with one hand, still holding onto his shoe in the other....

A day after targeted strikes in Kyiv killed at least four people on Monday morning, Russia conducted massive airstrikes on residential areas and energy infrastructure in many regions of Ukraine, including the capital city, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Zhytomyr. An air alert was declared throughout Ukraine on Tuesday morning. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Tuesday morning that a critical infrastructure facility in the city’s Desnyansky district was hit, while Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said three explosions rocked an energy supply facility....

The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence said reservists called up under President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization, announced in September, faced a multitude of issues, ranging from inadequate training and equipment to the heavy casualties they were taking at the front. “Two months after President Putin announced a ‘partial mobilisation’, common themes are emerging in the experience of mobilised Russian reservists,” the ministry said in an update on its Twitter page on Friday....

On Tuesday, state news agency TASS reported that Colonel General Alexander Lapin had been appointed as chief of the Russian Army Main Staff, quoting a “source” at the outlet. Another source reportedly told TASS that Lapin’s appointment had been made before the end of last year. After this initial report was published, a second article appeared on TASS in which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said he could neither “confirm nor deny” the appointment....

Putin sent troops to Ukraine after recognizing two breakaway regions as independent, prompting sanctions from the U.S. Biden vowed “swift and severe” consequences for Russia, but Americans aren’t confident of his foreign policy handling according to recent polling. And with few options to stop rising gas prices, the president faces potentially significant losses in upcoming congressional races. “President Joe Biden is in an incredibly precarious position,” Matt Klink, a Republican strategist, told Newsweek....

Since Africans in America have been dislocated-that is, taken off their own terms for the past 345 years-we seldom operate as the subjects of our own historical experiences. We often operate based on an illusion that creates disillusionment and self-alienation, the most fundamental alienation a person can have. Afrocentricity is a struggle against extreme misorientation, where many of us believe that we share the same history as whites; indeed, that we came across on the Mayflower....

The Commonwealth Games will be held from April 4 to 15. The mixed team event which starts on April 5 will see World No. 3 Srikanth in action while World No. 11 HS Prannoy will be backing his compatriot up in the men’s singles department. In the women’s singles, Sindhu and Saina will shuffle roles as the team will pin hopes on the event. The pairing of Chirag Shetty and Saiwik Sairaj will look to set the court on fire in their debut performance at the Commonwealth Games, while Pranaav Jerry Chopra will pair up with Sikki Reddy for the mixed doubles clashes....

It was also a welcome relief for Indian badminton as a whole which has largely endured a disappointing year, barring Sindhu’s two achievements – the bronze medal at the World Championships in China and the title in Macau. Here are some excerpts from an interview that Sindhu had with TOI upon returning to India: On the win… It’s always good to win a title. I was not doing well after the World Championships....

Smith: How do you describe your work? Dilenschneider: The court of public opinion is very important, and it creates a premium for a company’s stock, for its employees, for its customers, for all its different constituents. My job is to try to make sure that premium is as good as it can be. For example, when a new chief executive takes office, the stock should go up several points. If it goes down several points, there’s not much of a premium....

Underhill: You stress the importance of adapting to climate change over tackling its causes. Why? Mendelsohn: Adaptation is very important because no matter what we do, some warming is going to occur. And the charming thing about adaptation by private entities is that they will do it for themselves. Farmers will switch to different crops because they will make more profits, households will adapt so as to be more comfortable....

Dean is betting on sealing up the nomination early, some say. Kerry wants to squeeze wife’s Teresa Heinz’s ketchup-cash stash, others speculate. But the candidates’ decisions raise an alarming set of questions about the future of public campaign funding itself. Campaign funding is less sexy than campaign strategy but perhaps more consequential. Dean, a past supporter of subsidized financing for electoral campaigns, claims he has no choice but to opt out of the system in order to stay competitive with President George W....

Evidence also shows many members of QAnon believe a “baseless” theory that the Russian war is actually a secret mission backed by former President Donald Trump to destroy clandestine bioweapon labs created by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. NBC reported on March 4 that the theory was being spread during the American offshoot of the “Freedom Convoy” of protesting truckers in Washington, D.C., by members of QAnon....

Anthony Beckett, 33, of Middlesbrough, North East England, has been jailed for 10 years after previously pleading guilty to the attempted murder of his victim on January 18. Teesside Crown Court heard how Beckett had become obsessed with conspiracy theories around the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. 2020 election, as well as thinking that the Chinese were after him. Beckett also kept a machete, knives, and a homemade noose hidden around his home after becoming consumed by the election....

Arsenal confident of signing Lemar Serious questions were raised over the ethics of the bid that led to the Middle Eastern country winning the rights to host the competition, with accusations of corruption against Qatar and Russia, who will welcome the 2018 edition of the competition. A two-year inquest was completed with the publication of the report in September 2014, though the full contents were not made public until Tuesday, following a leak to German newspaper Bild....

MK-Mutant assault rifle. New Chat System. Enhanced Control Settings. Laser sight attachment. New chat options in the quick command menu. New Skins and items. The new update of PlayerUnknown’s Battleground Mobile will also include minor bug fixes. The exact date for the update to arrive for the base game was not yet revealed, although as we know from the pattern of updates arrived before.The release of Update version 010.0 for PlayerUnknown’s Battleground Mobile will be last week of December or first week of January....