IPL 2020: Dinesh Karthik revealed his new look ahead of the game against Chennai Super Kings.© Instagram Dinesh Karthik, Kolkata Knight Riders captain, took to Instagram on Wednesday to flaunt his new look and aced the “Break the Beard” challenge after being nominated by Mumbai Indians all-rounder Kieron Pollard. “@kieron.pollard55Continue Reading
IPL 2020: Eoin Morgan has played four IPL 2020 matches and scored 136 runs at 151.11.© BCCI/IPL Eoin Morgan’s furious assault of the Delhi Capitals bowlers, though in a losing cause, established two things – one, that he is now one of the fulcrums of the Kolkata Knight Riders battingContinue Reading
MI vs RR: Mumbai Indians will take on Rajasthan Royals in the 20th match of the season.© AFP With the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 finally in full flow, Mumbai Indians (MI) will take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 20th match of the season, at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium,Continue Reading
“This is something that the world can benefit from – from the Livonian experience” Livonian poet and language activist Valts Ernštreits. Photo used with permission. There are only around 250 of them left in Latvia today, many scattered far from the coastline which bears their name. Theirs is a FinnicContinue Reading
Slavina’s self-immolation has shocked Russia’s journalistic community Russian journalist Irina Slavina. Photo from Irina Slavina’s Facebook account. On October 2, Irina Slavina, editor of KozaPress, died in Nizhny Novgorod, after setting herself on fire outside an interior minister building in the city. In her last Facebook post, Slavina wrote: “IContinue Reading
“it’s important for every schoolkid in Latvia to know about the Livonians.” Livonian poet and language activist Valts Ernštreits. Photo used with permission. This is the second part of an interview I conducted with Livonian poet and translator Valts Ernštreits, who is currently the director of the Livonian Institute, foundedContinue Reading
IPL Points Table: Mumbai Indians have won four of their six matches so far.© BCCI/IPL Mumbai Indians romped Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs on Tuesday to go to the top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points table, winning their third match in a row. Suryakumar Yadav hit anContinue Reading
The country’s electoral commission has annulled the official results Mass protests on Ala-Too Square, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 5, 2020. Photo (c): Aigerim Turgunbayeva. Used with permission. Mass protests against electoral fraud in Kyrgyzstan have overthrown the country’s government. On October 4, this Central Asian country of 6.3 million voted inContinue Reading
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 Americans. That year A.M.M. Payne, a professor of epidemiology at Yale University, wrote: In the conquest of Mount Everest anything less than 100% success is failure, but in most communicableContinue Reading
Eugene Lu/Shutterstock There are now quite a few COVID-19 vaccines in the pipeline, but two seem to be making promising progress: the one designed by the US biotechnology company Moderna, and the one developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with AstraZeneca. In both cases, the research teams haveContinue Reading
