Cricket Australia has begun their Multicultural Ambassador Program and as part of its launch, they have named 53 people with diverse backgrounds and experience across various aspects of the government, sport, media and community as part of the inaugural representatives.

Announced as a key action from the Australian Cricket Multicultural Action Plan, the Ambassador Program brings together esteemed leaders from various sectors to advocate for inclusivity and drive positive change within the sport and wider community.

The list of ambassadors includes many past and current players, as well as industry and community leaders, who will champion diversity and support the goals outlined in the Multicultural Action Plan.

Scientists from SNM College Maliankara, Ernakulam, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, and King Fahd University, UAE, have reported the discovery of a new plant species Emblica chakrabartyi from Adichilthotti within the Edamalayar forest range of Kerala.

The species belonging to the gooseberry (Phyllanthaceae) family, has been named after Tapas Chakrabarty, former scientist at the Botanical Survey of India, for his contribution to the study on Phyllanthaceae. The finding has been published in John Wiley & Sons’ International Journal, Nordic Journal of Botany, from Sweden.

The scientists found a population of around 55 plants in and around the Edamalayar and nearby Sholayar forest areas during an expedition as part of a UGC-sponsored major research project on the flowering plants of Ernakulam district.

A cyber security conclave was organized in the country's capital New Delhi today on Friday. During this, important strategies for cyber security were discussed in the conclave. It was organized with joint efforts by CSC and United Service Institution. During this, an MoU was signed between CSC and USI to strengthen cyber security.

As cyber security has become a serious and sensitive issue, cyber threats are increasing rapidly across the world at present, the number of data breaches is increasing every year. Cases of cyber security breaches by IT service providers are increasing every day. In such a situation, it has become necessary for companies to maintain a strong cyber security infrastructure to retain their customers.

With winds gusting up to 135 kilometres per hour, severe cyclonic storm 'Remal' made landfall between the coasts of Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal, bringing heavy rains that flooded homes and farmland, and leaving a trail of destruction.

The landfall process began at 8:30 pm on Sunday on the adjacent coasts of West Bengal and Bangladesh between Sagar Island and Khepupara, near the southwest of Mongla in the neighbouring country.

Remal flattened fragile dwellings, uprooted trees and knocked down electric poles. One person was injured after being hit by debris in the Gosaba area of the Sundarbans.

England skipper Jos Buttler became the first-ever batter from his country to score 3,000 T20I runs on Saturday.

Buttler reached this milestone during his side's second T20I against West Indies.

In the match, Buttler scored 84 runs in 51 balls, with eight fours and three sixes. His strike rate was 164.70.

In 115 T20Is, Buttler has scored 3,011 runs at an average of 35.42 and a strike rate of 145.10. He has scored a century and 23 fifties, with the best score of 101*. He is the ninth-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket.

Next to him in the English run-scoring charts is former captain Eoin Morgan, who scored 2,458 runs in 115 matches and 107 innings at an average of 28.58 and a strike rate of over 136, with the best score of 91 and 14 half-centuries.

On Sunday, Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by eight wickets to win the Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy for the third time.

KKR had previously won the IPL titles in 2012 and 2014 under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir, who is presently the mentor of the Shreyas Iyer-led outfit. This season they had dominated by finishing on top at the end of the league stage with nine wins from 14 games.

Gambhir has played a pivotal role in India’s win in the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup and the ODI World Cup final in 2011 and led KKR to twin IPL titles in 2012 and 2014. He returned to KKR this season as a team mentor and has changed their fortunes with the Knights demolishing Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final.

A ship travelling from Bombay to London, carrying wine, marmlade and ammunition, sank in 1918 after being hit by a torpedo from a German U-boat.

Among the survivors were two Indian banknotes.

The two 10-rupee banknotes that had taken a dip in the sea in 1918, off the Irish coast, will now make a splash at an auction in London next Wednesday (May 29), according to PTI.

The auction at Noonans Mayfair auction house in London as a part of their World Banknotes sale, and can be sold off at 2,000 to 2,600 pounds.

The two 10-rupee banknotes, issued on May 25, 1918, were found on a ship called SS Shirala, which was wrecked by a German U-boat on July 2, 1918.

In a blog post, she said she had "decided to start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I'm passionate about."

YouTube's chief product officer, Neal Mohan, will take over as head of the Google-owned video platform.

"The time is right for me, and I feel able to do this because we have an incredible leadership team in place at YouTube," Ms Wojcicki said.

Ms Wojcicki added she would continue to work at YouTube in the "short term" to "support Neal and help with the transition."

In her blog, she praised Mr Mohan's work launching YouTube TV, as well as leading YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts.

Homegrown logistics services platform Porter has likely become the third unicorn (with valuation of $1 billion and above) in India this year after a fresh internal round.

According to sources, the fresh round involved key individual investors who bought stock from the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) pool of the logistics provider, taking its valuation at $1 billion.

The company told IANS in a statement: "We do not comment on market speculation as a company policy."

Before Porter, India saw the birth of two unicorns -- Ola's Krutrim AI and fintech firm Perfios - this year amid global slowdown.

In Ladakh, the Border Roads Organisation’s (BRO) Project Vijayak in Kargil has successfully utilized the indigenous REJUPAVE road construction technology. Developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI), under the Ministry of Science and Technology, REJUPAVE was used to construct high-altitude bituminous roads in low and sub-zero temperatures on the Drass-Umbala-Sankoo Road, located in Drass, the world’s second coldest inhabited place.

REJUPAVE, an innovative asphalt modifier derived from biomass and renewable resources, lowers the heating requirements for bituminous mixes and maintains their temperature during transit. This technology was previously implemented by BRO to build road sections at the world’s highest Sela road tunnel and the LGG-Damteng-Yangste (LDY) road section near Arunachal Pradesh’s China border at 18,000 feet. Now, it has been successfully tested on the Drass-Umbala-Sankoo Road at an altitude of 13,000 feet.