When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, made his entrance at a symposium with a group of top entrepreneurs this week, he seemed to be in good spirits. China has had a few good weeks. The artificial intelligence models by the start-up DeepSeek sent U.S. stocks tumbling and Western commentators screaming, “Sputnik moment.” Then an animated film…
Former Pakistan seamer Mohammad Amir in a file photo. NEW DELHI: “This is never guaranteed that I will play all the matches because it’s cricket, it’s the fastest format, and there are back-to-back games. At the end of the day, we are human beings,” Mohammad Amir, who rattled the likes of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan,…
NEW DELHI: Cricket legend EAS Prasanna suggests team management’s lack of support might have influenced Ravichandran Ashwin‘s retirement from international cricket.Ashwin surprised the cricketing world by announcing his retirement after the drawn third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Brisbane. Ashwin signed off with 537 wickets in 106 Tests, placing him second on India’s all-time…