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A plane that was to carry the Arsenal women's team back to London following their Champions League draw with Wolfsburg burst into flames on the runway. According to Metro , the incident occurred on Sunday evening at Germany's Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport shortly before a Boeing 737 was due to take off. An airport spokesman told the German newspaper Bild  that a bird strike had caused the engine fire. Witnesses said that they heard a loud bang, following which the plane was stopped. Flames were spotted coming out of the plane, forcing the pilots to abandon take-off. Fortunately, all passengers were evacuated and no one was hurt in the incident. However, the team was forced to stay in a hotel in Germany for an extra night owing to the mishap. Later, Arsenal released a statement confirming the team returned home safely on Monday on a replacement plane. The statement read, ''Our aircraft developed a technical issue prior to take-off in Ger...

Virat Kohli , stand-in captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore, along with other members of his team have been fined a hefty sum after his team's slow over-rate against Rajasthan Royals in an IPL 2023 on Sunday. Kohli was fined Rs 24 lakh as he was the skipper of the side in the game. "Royal Challengers Bangalore, who had named Mr. Virat Kohli as their Captain for their game against Rajasthan Royals, has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Rajasthan Royals at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on April 23, 2023," a statement from IPL read. "As it was his team's second offence of the season under the IPL's Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr. Kohli was fined Rs. 24 lakh and each member of the Playing XI, including the impact substitute, was fined Rs. 6 lakh or 25 percent of the match fee, whichever is lesser." Fiery half-centuries from Faf du Plessis...

Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli's green jersey nightmare continued as he walked back to the pavilion without opening his account against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Sunday. It was Kohli's second consecutive golden duck of the IPL in a 'green jersey'. In 2022, Kohli was dismissed in 'green jersey' on the first ball by Jagadeesha Suchith in an IPL match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. On Sunday too, the RCB batter was dismissed on the very first ball of the match by Trent Boult against Rajasthan Royals during an IPL match at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Karnataka's Bengaluru. He failed to open his account in both matches played in 'Green Jersey'. While playing against Rajasthan Royals, RCB were asked to bat first and Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis stepped onto the pitch. RR pace bowler Trent Boult drew the first blood as Virat Kohli walked back to the pavilion for a golden duck 0(1). The inswing...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's mass wedding scheme for women from economically weaker sections has landed in controversy after some of the brides were made to take pregnancy tests. Five of the 219 girls did not get married on Saturday after their tests came positive. The matter has generated a huge political controversy as pregnancy tests are not supposed to be conducted on the women. The Congress has questioned who ordered the tests. The mass wedding under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah/Nikah Yojana was conducted in Gadsarai area of Dindori. One of the women whose pregnancy test had come positive, said she had started living with her fiance before the wedding. "My pregnancy test came positive. Possibly due to this my name was dropped from the final list, although officials have given me no clear cut reason," she added. "Never in the past has such tests been conducted," said Medani Marawi, the sarpanch of Bachchargaon village. "It is...

An American Airlines plane on Sunday was forced to return to Ohio airport after a bird strike sparked an engine fire. A video going viral on social media shows the plane returning to John Glenn International Airport in Columbus as flames and smoke are seen coming from the right engine.  "@FAANews I just saw  AA1958 with major engine issues just after take off.  Flames shooting from the engine and wonky, pulsing noises from the aircraft," a Twitter user wrote while sharing a clip from the incident.  Take a look below:  Taken from Upper Arlington, Ohio. AA1958. pic.twitter.com/yUSSMImaF7 — CBUS4LIFE (@Cbus4Life) April 23, 2023 According to CNN , the Boeing 737 Flight 1958 had departed Columbus for Phoenix before the crew reported a bird strike on Sunday morning. The plane made it to the ground safely, with no injuries reported, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said, adding that an investigation into the incident is underway.  Also Read |...

Aside from being recognised as one of the most successful investors of all time, Warren Buffett is also known for his invaluable wisdom. Now, in a recent interview, the billionaire investor has revealed a few things he worries about, and no, the success of his company is not one of them.  In an interview with CNBC , the 92-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway was asked how much he fretted about economic factors such as recent bank failures and inflation. To this, Mr Buffett said he was more concerned about things out of his control than issues with Berkshire Hathaway. He revealed that he worries more about the prospect of catastrophic global events such as another pandemic and nuclear war than the success of his company when he goes to bed at night.  "Well, at 92 I've got other things to worry about," he told CNBC last week, adding, "No, I don't worry about our ability. There are things I worry about. Sure. I worry about the nuclear threat. I worry about a pande...

Industrialist Anand Mahindra never ceases to amaze us with his social media posts. The Twitter handle of the Mahindra Group Chairman is full of interesting, inspiring, and witty tweets, along with important life lessons for his 10.5 million followers. This time, he treated his followers to some stunning pictures of a brand new football stadium that has come up in Ladakh. He also expressed his desire to watch a game of football at the newly-constructed stadium. The open synthetic track and Astro-turf football stadium built at an altitude of 11,000 feet above sea level, is the highest-altitude football stadium in the country and among the top ten in the world. It has the capacity to seat 30,000 spectators. Retweeting pictures from another account that originally shared the breathtaking pictures, Mr Mahindra wrote, ''That view takes your breath away. And not because of oxygen depletion!! At some point in the future, I want to be physically present at a Football m...

Animal videos are the most watched and loved videos on the internet as they brighten our day and fill us with joy. One such adorable video of a raccoon imitating a woman's dance moves has resurfaced on the internet. However, the video has drawn mixed reactions from internet users and sparked a debate about animal cruelty. The video shows a raccoon from inside its zoo enclosure, mimicking a woman's dance moves perfectly while she pretends to rap. The video was shared on Twitter by a user named Morissa Schwartz which has amassed more than 12 lakh views, 51,000 likes and more than 1,000 retweets. ''Cool moves,'' reads the caption of the post shared on April 19. Watch the video here: Cool moves!! pic.twitter.com/cVvZv17aGj — Morissa Schwartz 📚 (Dr. Rissy) (@MorissaSchwartz) April 19, 2023 While some users were left amused, others felt that the animal's dance was actually caused by psychosis due to being kept in captivity.  One user wrote, ''He ...

Scientists have discovered the reason why human hair loses its colour and turns grey as we age, reported New York Post.  According to a team of scientists, melanocyte stem cells become stuck inside the hair follicle and are unable to produce pigment. The findings were published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed, scientific journal  Nature . For the study, scientists spent two years tracking individual cells in the fur of mice in order to determine how hair turns grey and closely examined the melanocyte stem cells known to control hair colour. They used special scans and lab techniques to study the cell-ageing process. They discovered that the pigment-producing part of a stem cell would change as the mice would mature. ''The melanocyte stem cell system fails earlier than other adult stem cell populations, which leads to hair greying in most humans and mice,'' the study says.  As hair ages, sheds and grows back, melanocyte stem cells get stuck ...

Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV was charged with "outraging a woman's modesty, criminal intimidation, and sexual harassment by making sexually coloured remarks" by the Assam police on Friday. The charge is based on a complaint by the party's former youth wing chief Angkita Dutta that she registered at Dispur Police station on Wednesday. She has also recorded her statement before a magistrate, which means she cannot change her statement now. The ambit of charges filed against Srinivas BV in the First Information Report (FIR) include outraging a woman's modesty, sexual harassment by making sexually coloured remarks, criminal intimidation, assault, and wrongful restraint. Additionally, the National Commission for Women also took suo moto cognizance of the case based on Ms Dutta's tweet and sought a probe by the Assam Police. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police, which is conducting the inquiry, will send a report to the commi...

A video of a man wiping rain water off the cutout of Prime Minister Narendra Modi erected in Devanahalli near here, ahead of a BJP road show, has gone viral. The video shows an elderly man clad in white shirt and dhoti wiping the cutout of the Prime Minister drenched in rain on Friday evening. When the person who shot the video asked him whether he was doing it for money, the man replied, "I don't need money. I don't take money from anyone. I am doing it because of my love and trust on him (PM Modi)." Choking in emotion, he said, "To us Modi is God." After his road show was cancelled owing to downpour, Union Minister Amit Shah shared the video on his Twitter handle. "The unwavering trust in PM @narendramodi Ji and the selfless affection for him is what the BJP has earned and it is its source of strength. Have a look at this beautiful video from Devanahalli, Karnataka," Shah tweeted. The unwavering trust in PM @narendramodi Ji and the selfles...

The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures slightly, the world will experience a return to El Nino, the warmer counterpart, later this year. During El Nino, winds blowing west along the equator slow down, and warm water is pushed east, creating warmer surface ocean temperatures. "El Nino is normally associated with record breaking temperatures at the global level. Whether this will happen in 2023 or 2024 is yet known, but it is, I think, more likely than not," said Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. Climate models suggest a return to El Nino conditions in the late boreal summer, and the possibility of a strong El Nino developing towards the end of the ...

Britain's Prince William helped out an Indian restaurant during a royal visit on Thursday by taking a phone reservation from an unsuspecting customer. The heir to the British throne and his wife Kate were visiting the family-run restaurant Indian Streatery during their trip to Birmingham in central England, when he took the call from someone seeking a booking for two people. After checking with the owners as to the restaurant's location, he then had a discussion with the caller about when a table was free and whether they would have time to eat before catching their train. "What name is it under?" the prince said as he concluded the conversation, without revealing his own name to the caller. "See you at quarter past two." Prince William's office later said on Twitter: "Hope we told this customer to come to the right place...!" As well as taking the booking, the royals also helped out preparing dishes in the restaurant's kitchen before ...

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary today (April 20). On this special day, the couple treated their Insta families with a similar picture, twinning in white ensembles. In the image, Abhishek holds his wife Aishwarya close as she clicks a blockbuster selfie. They can be seen flashing their million-dollar smile for the camera. Sharing the post, Aishwarya wrote, "Sweet 16," followed by heart emoticons, while Abhishek wrote, "16" with an evil eye emoticon. Soon after they shared the post, their industry friends flooded the comment section. Fardeen Khan wrote, "Congratulations..." Tanisha Mukerji wrote, "Happyyyy anniversary." Their fans also flooded the comment section. A user wrote, "Gorgeous Couple. Stay Blessed," while others wished them a "Happy Anniversary". Take a look below:  View this post on Instagram A post shared by AishwaryaRa...

Killer heat waves are putting "unprecedented burdens" on India's agriculture, economy and public health, with climate change undermining the country's long-term efforts to reduce poverty, inequality and illness, a new study showed. Extreme heat has caused more than 24,000 deaths since 1992 and has also driven up air pollution and accelerated glacial melt in northern India, said a team of scholars led by the University of Cambridge's Ramit Debnath. India is now "facing a collision of multiple, cumulative climate hazards", with extreme weather happening almost every day from January to October last year, they said. Mr Debnath told Reuters that it was "very important to figure out how we measure vulnerabilities to frequent extreme events", with the Indian government's own "climate vulnerability index" believed to underestimate the impact that longer, earlier and more frequent heatwaves will have on development. As much as 90% of ...

More than 100 seniors over the age of 60 took part in a group skydiving event in California, United States, in an effort to break a world record. This group, which is named Skydivers Over Sixty, created formations in mid-air and broke two world records.  The 101 jumpers successfully constructed a snowflake formation on their fourth attempt, according to the organisation that organised the exercise. The Southern California skydiving facility Skydive Perris posted pictures of the occasion on Instagram and noted that the elderly skydivers broke two world records. "This was a big weekend for @p3skydiving as they landed not one but TWO world records. SOS (Skydivers Over Sixty) was able to complete a 1-point 101-way on Saturday, 4/15/2023, beating the previous record of a 75-way at Chicago in 2018. Then they wondered, why stop there? So they went back up and completed a 2-point 95-way on Sunday, 4/16/2023, beating the last record of a 60-way at Perris in 2017," the centre wrote...

Arjun Tendulkar will forever remember the match against SunRisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Tuesday. For it was the match, when the 23-year-old  Mumbai Indians pacer took his maiden wicket in the elite T20 competition. His father and cricket great Sachin Tendulkar was present in the MI dressing room when Arjun scalped the wicket of Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the last over of SRH's 193-run chase against MI. Arjun was given the last over with SRH needing 20. Ultimately, MI won the match by 14 runs. After taking his first wicket, Arjun talked about Sachin's inputs on his game.    "Obviously it was great getting my first IPL wicket. I just had to focus on what was in hand, the plan and executing it. Our plan was just to bowl wide and get the long boundary into play, make the batsman hit it to the longer side," he said.  "I love bowling, I am happy to bowl anytime the captain asks me to and just stick to the team plan and give...

Arjun Tendulkar 's IPL debut was widely followed as he played his first match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for Mumbai Indians against Kolkata Knight Riders. While Arjun, son of Sachin Tendulkar , could not scalp any wicket in his first match, the wait ended in his second match, that too in a tense last over against SunRisers Hyderabad. With SRH needing 20 runs in the last over, Arjun scalped his maiden wicket on the fifth ball as he dismissed Bhuvneshwar Kumar , who was caught by Rohit Sharma at covers. Before that, Arjun looked like following a plan and delivered a couple of good yorkers to keep the SRH batters at bay.  MI ultimately won by 14 runs as Rohit Sharma was ecstatic after Arjun got his first wicket.  Watch: Arjun Tendulkar Takes 1st IPL Wicket In Tense Over, Rohit Ecstatic .. ... Congrats da #ArjunTendulkar pic.twitter.com/98ifRlh2Fn —(@kingvignesh4) April 18, 2023 Talking about the match, Mumbai Indians defeated hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad b...

New York has taken the crown of being the world's richest city, yet again, with the most millionaires in 2023, according to a report. The city has 3,40,000 millionaires, according to global wealth tracker Henley & Partners. The city is followed by Tokyo and San Francisco Bay Area with resident millionaire populations of 290,300 and 285,000, respectively. The report - World's Wealthiest Cities Report 2023 - covers 97 cities across nine regions worldwide (Africa, Australasia, CIS, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) and includes most of the world's top wealth hubs. The US dominated the list with four of its cities - New York, The Bay Area, Los Angeles and Chicago - making it to the list. China has two of its cities (Beijing and Shanghai) in the list. London has dropped to fourth place on this year's list with 258,000 resident high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), followed by city-state Singapore with 240,100. In 2000, ...

Needless to say, Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of humanity across nearly every industry and changing the world around us. Recently, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai expressed his concerns about artificial intelligence, saying that the technology can be ''very harmful'' if deployed wrongly. In an interview   with CBS's “60 Minutes” , Mr Pichai said the negative side of AI gave him restless nights and called for new regulations to govern AI.  “It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly and we don't have all the answers there yet – and the technology is moving fast. So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely,” he said. When asked if the society is prepared for what's coming, Mr Pichai said, ''You know, there are two ways I think about it. On one hand I feel, no, because you know, the pace at which we can think and adapt as societal institutions, compared to the pace at which the technology's evolving, there seems...