Ben Shelton (Image credit: Reuters) NEW YORK CITY: For Ben Shelton, New York has become a place of firsts.On Sunday, the 23-year-old will become the first Black man to play in the US Open final since 1972, while chasing the first title in Queens by an American man since Andy Roddick in 2003 and by…
Sonu Nigam sells his BKC property for Rs 18 crore, earning a Rs 3.70 crore profit. Singer Sonu Nigam has sold a commercial property in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) for Rs 18 crore, according to property registration documents accessed by CRE Matrix. The singer sold the 3,082 sq ft commercial space nearly three years…
There are some things you simply don’t mess with in a Kerala meal. Pappadam is one of them.That thin, crisp, golden disc that puffs up the moment it hits hot oil is almost a given on a Malayali dining table. It sits next to a sadya, turns up with biryani and, for many people, a…
Filmmaker Kabir Khan has revisited his memories of being in the US during the September 11 terror attacks, recalling how the tragedy transformed New York City and eventually influenced his 2009 film ‘New York’. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Khan reflected on his enduring connection with the city and his firsthand…
Image credit: Reuters Photo NEW DELHI: England completed a 3-0 Test series clean sweep over Pakistan at Edgbaston, but the series produced an unusual statistic.It was only the eighth three-match Test series in history to finish without a single individual century. It was also only the second such series in England, after the 1888 Ashes.England’s…
Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…
Aishwarya Lekshmi has opened up about an unexpected cultural experience she encountered while shooting for an upcoming film in Erode, Tamil Nadu. The actor recalled being asked about her caste and gotra during the shoot, saying that the questions were unfamiliar to herand left her wondering why such details continue to matter in everyday interactions.However,…
Doug Brown (left) and Dereck Lovell (far right) Image Credit: Doug Brown via PEOPLE When the World Trade Center was engulfed in smoke and flames on September 11, 2001, a security guard carrying a flashlight and bullhorn appeared to six people who were struggling to find a way out of the South Tower. He was…
The expat said he noticed that conversations could quickly move beyond the usual introductions. (Image: AI-representation) Moving to a new country for work often means adjusting to a different routine, food, language and way of doing things. For one European expat who moved to India, however, one of the more unexpected differences emerged not at…
Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…