Revanth Reddy campaigned for Congress candidates in Mumbai

Frech made her first WTA singles final last July in Prague but this was her maiden WTA 500 final and first on hard courts

Four groups have been playing in four cities to qualify for the eight-team Finals in Malaga, Spain, in November

Carlos Alcaraz said he had "missed" his compatriot at the recent Laver Cup, which Rafael Nadal skipped because of injury.

WADA said it would seek "a period of ineligibility of between one and two years" for Italy's Jannik Sinner

WADA made the appeal announcement as Sinner was on court at the China Open, where the defending champion fought back to beat 69th-ranked Russian Roman Safiullin 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in Beijing

Rafael Nadal’s career has been hampered by injuries and he missed the 2023 French Open and was beaten in the first round by German Alexander Zverev this year

The last dance was an epic one...Tennis will miss you, wrote Novak Djokovic as he topped Rafael Nadal

Coimbatore’s Ukkadam Art District presents an immersive art experience as three artists reimagine the city’s rich biodiversity drawing attention to its wetlands, migratory birds and the impact of urbanisation

The new route would give China access to the Persian Gulf region and West Asia.

The move came after doctors protested against alleged interference by local panchayat leaders, demanding compliance with rules favouring ex-servicemen for hospital security roles

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A consultant is to be appointed soon to redevelop the unused airstrip that belongs to Lakshmi Mills. The project could revive the FTO in Tamil Nadu

Adani Ports said in a statement it was well positioned to hit the upper end of the FY25 EBITDA guidance range of ₹17,000-18,000 crore

Kerala AAR ruling is contrary to the rulings passed by Rajasthan and Gujarat AAAR in the case of transfer of Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports and Uttar Pradesh AAR in the case of Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow

Only one container ship to be berthed between November 11 and 14

Appointed as Non-Executive Director, Chairperson of Board

Kannadasan’s verses explored emotions with intimacy, depth and literary flair.

A nadaswaram concert by ‘Bejawada Brothers’ enthralled the audience.

Nadaka says the geet-taar, with its integration of four instruments, helps him play the nuances and micro-tones of Carnatic music.

No Laughing Matter By JIM MCTAGUE
Cartoonist and blogger Scott Adams is outspoken about economics, politics and more -- but tight-lipped about Dilbert, hero to cubicle jockeys.

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE ECONOMY COULDN'T POSSIBLY get worse comes this disturbing news: Dilbert's mismanaged high-tech company is foundering, jeopardizing the lovable cartoon character's oppressive but steady job as an electrical engineer in a stuffy cubicle, where he's manufactured laughs about illogical and inhumane corporate managers for nearly 20 years.

Barron's won't divulge the climax of the current plot. During a recent interview, Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, asked that we merely hint at what lies ahead for the cylinder-headed nerd with the upturned, clip-on tie. But read the daily Dilberts carefully over the next few days or weeks; clues abound and they don't point to a happy conclusion.

That's fitting because, as Adams notes in Dilbert 2.0, his $85, 576-page 20th-anniversary collection of 4,000 of his more than 8,000 cartoon strips (plus a DVD): "Dilbert is most popular when the workplace is at its worse." In fact, the strip, a window on workplace absurdity, took off during the downsizing binge of the early 1990s. In one memorable sequence from that period, Dilbert competes with a monkey to keep his engineering job. Dilbert wins, but his victory jig is short-circuited by his pointy-haired boss' decision to place the monkey on the upper-management fast track. Sounds like a telling commentary on the corporate world of 21st century's first decade, too.

Adams' current strips and very funny blog (http://www.dilbert.com/blog/), which often feature the cartoonist's insightful economic and stock-market commentaries, provide more hints about Dilbert's fate. A Dec. 12 blog argues that the recession is anything but temporary: "I think we are on the verge of a change as profound as the Industrial Revolution. Society will have to retool its expectations to meet the reality that there just won't be enough money to provide necessary services if we insist on consuming in an inefficient way."

One clue about Dilbert's fate appeared on Dec. 13 in newspapers around the world (Dilbert is published in 70 countries and 25 languages) in what turned out to be one of the most popular episodes in the strip's history: A financial adviser recommends that Dilbert's pointy-haired boss invest all of the company's funds in sick livestock. Don't buy just one sick cow, the adviser urges; buy an entire herd, because by aggregating sick cows, the risk goes away. "It's called math," the adviser adds, in a send-up of the asset-backed securitizations that have helped topple the global economy.

The financial adviser, by the way, is a malicious canine. In his blogs, Adams is equally unkind to real advisers and money managers. In his view, formed long before the disrobing of Bernie Madoff, they're always conniving to steal investors' money. Perhaps this depiction is payback: Adams lost a bundle following advice during the tech bubble, which also convinced him that investing in individual stocks and "professionally managed" funds is a losers' game. His advisers put half of his portfolio into WorldCom, Enron and other sure things and lost 40% of his invested cash, he says. He managed the other half and lost 20% in the tech wreck.

"Most of the investments I made in individual stocks went bad because managements were lying. They are the source of the information for the markets." His conclusion: "It is even dumber to pay an expert to talk to the liar for you and charge you 1% of your portfolio." Some folks who bought funds of funds that invested with Madoff surely would agree.

Akhilesh Yadav repeatedly promised to scrap the short-term military recruitment scheme if the INDIA bloc, came to power

Investigators from the 21 Division Criminal Investigations Bureau and Strategic Investigation Team (SIT) have arrested and charged Inderjeet Gosal of Brampton, the Peel Police statement said

The police registered a case and the investigation is on

CM Chandrababu Naidu said moral and financial support for victims of natural calamities would instill confidence among them

DRC meet chaired by Ministers Farooq, Narayana and Anam stresses the need for comprehensive development of SPSR Nellore district by leveraging seaport and proposed airport; MP Vemireddy walks out of the meet over protocol lapse

People residing in the colonies at Ferry, Kondapalli and Ibrahimpatnam organised a protest and appealed to the government to protect them from pollution

Special prayers and abhishekams were performed in Shivalayams which were decked up for the Kartheeka Masam festivities