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The second biography of Rishi Sunak, authored by former Conservative Party deputy chairman and treasurer Lord Michael Ashcroft, is soon to be published. Going for Nothing: When Rishi was appointed by Boris Johnson as chancellor of the exchequer, The Rise of Rishi Sunak was published in November 2020. At the time, Ashcroft told me: “Rishi Sunak was one of the most powerful and influential people in a government confronting a national crisis, yet at the beginning of the year, barely anyone outside Westminster and Yorkshire had heard of him. I figured people would be curious to learn more about him...

Actress Kangana Ranaut requested a bailable warrant against Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar in a court filing on Saturday in Mumbai. Regarding a meeting they had in 2016, Kangana Ranaut filed a complaint against Javed Akhtar with the Andheri Magistrate court, which is currently hearing it. Javed Akhtar was given notice to appear before the court on Saturday, August 5, on August 1, following the issuance of process in response to Kangana Ranaut’s complaint.

The first reports of Kylie and Timothée dating surfaced in April of this year. Several months had passed since it was believed that Kylie had split up with singer-rapper Travis Scott, with whom she shares two children: son Aire, one, and daughter Stormi, five. Prior to the last Coachella event, where she was sighted with her friends, it was claimed that Kylie didn’t want to make things official with Timothée Chalamet. The real cause of their breakup has now been disclosed, according to a source cited by Life & Style. She’s telling people that things between them naturally cooled off...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is a significant member of the newly formed front, responded angrily to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s jab at the Opposition’s “INDIA” alliance.Hours after Mr. Shah urged the parties in the Opposition alliance not to back the Aam Aadmi Party over the proposed bill that would remove control over officers from Delhi, Ms. Banerjee said that their cooperation is in the best interests of the nation. Additionally, she charged that the BJP encouraged violence and expressed assurance that their coalition will triumph in the upcoming elections.

In a post on Threads, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a long list of his favourite McDonald’s dishes along with a confession that he requires “4,000 calories” a day to offset his all-day activity. The co-founder of Meta was responding to a thread on which McDonald’s inquired, “Y’all want anything from mconald’s?” Jiu-Jitsu practitioner Mr. Zuckerberg, 39, said, “20 nuggets, a quarter pounder, large fries, Oreo McFlurry, apple pie, and perhaps some side cheeseburgers for later.”

On Wednesday, August 2, actor Sunny Deol paid a visit to the renowned Tanot Mata temple in the Rajasthani city of Jaisalmer. The Lok Sabha representative for Punjab’s Gurdaspur district flew into Tanot before driving to Jaisalmer, according to the police. He was accompanied by representatives of the Border Security Force. Yogendra Singh Rathore, Deputy Inspector General, BSF Jaisalmer (North), gave him a picture of Tanot Mata Temple on this occasion.

Nirmala Sitharaman, a Union Minister, slammed the opposition for “changing the goal posts” in the Manipur crisis and for preventing the functioning of parliament.She claimed that although the administration had promised to bring up the Manipur ethnic violence in parliament, the opposition had blocked it. “People have visited Manipur, interacted with locals there, and then left. We’re interested in learning what the people in Manipur told them, Ms. Sitharaman told reporters today.

S. Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs, spoke to attendees of the Think20 (T20) Summit in Mysuru on Tuesday and emphasised that India’s strategy is to make the world “India ready” and ourselves world ready.The External Affairs Minister declared during his virtual speech at the T20 Summit that “India Way is to make the world ‘India ready’ and ourselves ‘world ready’.” “Interacted virtually with attendees at the #T20Summit in Mysuru. A lively debate on the G20, current issues, major concerns, and the group’s priorities. emphasised that the India Way is to “make the world ‘India ready’ and ourselves ‘world ready’.”

According to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, several of their products, including the most crucial one, Search, can now be reimagined in light of the most recent developments in artificial intelligence. “We have been an AI-first firm for seven years, and we naturally understand how to implement AI into our products. Large language models, such as PaLM 2 and eventually Gemini, which we are designing to be multimodal, make them much more beneficial, Pichai stated during the company’s earnings conference call.

Friday, July 28, saw a brief but historic visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the island nation of Sri Lanka. The president arrived at 11:30 PM (local time) and stayed for less than two hours. It was the first time a French president had visited the nation in South Asia.Following trips to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea in the Pacific, Macron made the stop on his way back to France. He also travelled to New Caledonia, a French overseas territory.