Month: May 2025

[ad_1] Image credits: Getty Images Melinda French Gates has expressed strong support for the Gates Foundation's unprecedented plan to spend its entire $200 billion endowment on global health initiatives before closing its doors in 2045, calling the decision "fantastic.""The vast majority of those resources were to go back to society," French Gates told Fortune in a recent interview, reflecting on the foundation's original intent.The foundation announced it will double its spending to $200 billion over the next two decades to fight deadly diseases, reduce maternal and child deaths, and ease poverty worldwide.It was “Bill’s decision to make,” says Gates’ ex-wife Melinda French GatesMelinda French Gates, who left the foundation last year to focus on her own organisation, Pivotal Ventures, said the former couple had always intended to spend down their resources. "Ultimately, though, the timeline was Bill's decision to make […]

[ad_1] Virat Kohli had a forgettable series in Australia, by his lofty standards established in that part of the world. (Getty Images) On multiple occasions during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, Virat Kohli gave reminders to his Team India colleagues of how 'he is done' with Test cricket.It is understood that not many took it seriously at that time because it was an exhausting tour for the team where Kohli, too, didn't have a good time except a hundred early in the series. In nine outings, he could manage only 190 runs and 100 of those came in a single innings.Down Under, the right-hander struggled after the early high and was nowhere close to the high standards he had set in that part of the world.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The next big assignment for the […]

[ad_1] Daniel Pearl's father reacts to the news of his son's killers neutralised. Judea Pearl, the father of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, sang the Israeli national anthem after finding out about the elimination of Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Abdul Rauf Asghar, who was indirectly involved in his son's murder. The JeM leader was reportedly killed by Indian strikes under 'Operation Sindoor' on Wednesday."Justice for Daniel Pearl.His father, Yuda Pearl, sings Israel’s national anthem Hatikvah — “The Hope”—after learning India avenged his son’s murder. A moment of pain, pride, and justice," Jerusalam post columnist Zina Rakhamilova posted the video on X.Judea also questioned Pakistan's leadership over why dignitaries and army officers attended funerals of terrorists killed in strikes.Sharing details about Rauf's role in Daniel's killing wrote on X, Judea said, "His group wasn't directly involved in Daniel's abduction but […]

[ad_1] On May 7th, as the world woke up to the news of Operation Sindoor—a precise and devastating counter-terrorist operation that neutralised scores of terrorists—a tweet went viral that read: “On principle, I object strongly to the name Operation Sindoor. It reeks of patriarchy, ownership of women, ‘honour’ killings, chastity, sacralising the institution of marriage, and similar Hindutva obsessions.”The confused farrago of words masquerading as intelligent thought, which sounds like it was lifted from a Dismantle Global Hindutva conference, could’ve challenged Poe’s Law if we didn’t know the author’s intent. What was strange, considering India’s noisy landscape of a million mutinies, though, was the fact that there were very few such voices of “dissent” against India’s retaliation after the Pahalgam terror attack.Almost every member of the Indian commentariat—elite columnists, angsty fact-checkers, chairman-loving communists, and even the sort of chaps who […]