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Learn moreAmbitions of winning the Six Nations trophy take a backseat today as the Calcutta Cup is up for grabs, so let us show you how to watch a free Scotland vs. England live stream. The BBC has you covered with today's free Scotland vs. England live stream. BBC1 is showing the Scotland vs. England live stream today and will host one of the three games each weekend. How to watch Scotland vs. England live stream in the USANBC is the exclusive broadcast partner for the Six Nations in the United States. How to watch Scotland vs. England live stream in the UKITV and the BBC share the official broadcasts for the Six Nations 2024 edition in the UK.

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☆ A swanky 10,000 square-foot home in San Francisco just lost half of its $20 million value in 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A six-floor duplex home in San Francisco had its price slashed by $10 million in just three years. It was bought for $20 million in 2020, but then sold for only half that value in November. Home values in San Francisco have been sinking in the last year after reaching a peak in April 2022. AdvertisementA 10,000-square-foot duplex apartment in San Francisco was just sold for only half of its $20 million value from three years ago, as the city's housing market suffers a recent slump. Home prices have been slashed across the US over the last year, but San Francisco is often a poster child for the decline because property there is notoriously expensive.

Persons: —, Rohin Dhar, Leslie Stretch, Zillow, Business Insider's James Faris Organizations: Service, Bay, Business Locations: San Francisco, Calcutta, Francisco

☆ ‘An American Girl in India’ Review: A Country Stirs a Young Heart
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Alamy Stock PhotoSix weeks into her first visit, Wendy Doniger realized that “it is not necessary to love everything about India in order to love India.” A precocious judge of herself and her surroundings, Ms. Doniger was only 22, just out of Radcliffe College, and had traveled to Calcutta to study Bengali and Sanskrit. The year was 1963, and the India of that time was a “happy and innocent” place. It had not yet been “darkened,” Ms. Doniger writes in “An American Girl in India,” by the rise of a “jingoistic and repressive Hindu theocracy.”

Persons: Wendy Doniger, ”, Doniger, Ms Organizations: Radcliffe College Locations: India, Calcutta, “, American

☆ Scotland's McInally retires after injury ends World Cup hopes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The former skipper was cut from Gregor Townsend's final squad for the tournament in August, but an injury to Dave Cherry at the team hotel saw the forward drafted in to join the squad in France. "It was a privilege to end my career being part of the 2023 Scotland Rugby World Cup squad and, for now, my rugby story is over. Former Scotland fullback Chris Paterson said McInally should be proud of what he has achieved. "It's horrible and it's all happened to one of the best guys you could ever meet - a brilliant bloke. Scotland are third in Pool B at the World Cup after losing to South Africa in their opener and beating Tonga on Sunday.

Persons: Scotland's Stuart McInally, Lee Smith, Gregor Townsend's, Dave Cherry, McInally, Chris Paterson, he's, Peter Rutherford, Sonali Paul Organizations: Rugby Union, Six Nations, Scotland, England, BT, Calcutta, Scotland Rugby, BBC, South, Tonga, Sunday, Thomson Locations: Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, France, South Africa, Romania, Ireland, Seoul

☆ India's BJP, the world's biggest party, plots election drive of epic scale
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Rupam Jain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

[1/5] FILE PHOTO-Partha Chaudhury, 39, a worker of India's ruling Bharatiya Janarta Party (BJP), speaks with Reuters during the party's outreach program in Kolkata, India, May 30, 2023. "We want people to remember that the BJP knocked on their doors much before any opposition party worker did." "The BJP's challenge as the dominant national party is to manage voter fatigue and to sustain the enthusiasm among its cadres after two terms in power," Mehta added. "This time, the world's biggest party has launched the biggest-ever outreach to win the world's biggest elections." The BJP was beaten by a regional opposition party four years ago, even though it had strong support there, winning roughly 600,000 of the total 1.5 million votes cast.

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☆ Opinion: It’s not just about its colonial past. Here’s what India’s possible name change is all about
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Opinion Akanksha Singh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The idea, we Indians were told each time, was to allow the nation to make a clean break once and for all with its colonial past. The question on the minds of many people who follow events in India, is why any name change would be needed. It’s an opportunity to double down on India’s Hindu identity, even in the name by which it is called. The debate is a live one, however: Some disagree, saying that no amendment to the constitution would be needed to change India’s name. Do the country’s Indian Institutes of Technology become BITs?

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☆ Factbox: India's deadliest rail accidents
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 3 (Reuters) - At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India's worst rail accidents in years. Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in India in recent decades:June 1981: At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track and fall into a river during a cyclone. July 1988: An express train leaves the rails and plunges into a monsoon-swollen lake near Quilon in southern India, killing at least 106 people. October 2005: Several coaches of a passenger train derail in southern Andhra Pradesh state, near Velugonda. January 2017: At least 41 people are killed after several coaches of a passenger train go off the rails in southern Andhra Pradesh state.

Persons: Akriti Sharma, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Odisha, India, Quilon, Delhi, Balasore, Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Velugonda, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India's Amritsar, Bengaluru

☆ Emotional Townsend savours Calcutta Cup hat-trick
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Mitch Phillips | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I don't know if it's this fixture. I didn’t get close to winning as a player, it was always the same result down here. Two years ago (when Scotland won at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years) there was no crowd here so this was emotional. Townsend said it reminded him of the computer game version of the late former All Black Jonah Lomu "when he ran faster than everyone else. It was one that sends the Scotland supports crazy and silences everyone else as you don’t see tries like that very often," he said.

☆ Rugby Union-Hatred of England is a powerful tool, says defence coach Sinfield
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Mitch Phillips | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Sinfield built a strong bond with former Scotland lock Doddie Weir, who died in November from Motor Neurone Disease. "I understand that and I understand that that's quite common across the other nations as well," he told reporters. Asked if he thought that "hatred" could lift England's defence to a new level of intensity, he said: "I don't just think it's powerful defensively, I think it’s powerful right the way across. "I've been here (Twickenham) a number of times to watch Six Nations games as well. That 2003 team (England's Grand Slam and World Cup winners), there are some real heroes of mine in that team.

☆ Siemens signs 3 bln eur train deal in India
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( John Revill | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Siemens will deliver 1,200 electric locomotives and provide servicing for 35 years under the agreement, also its biggest ever in India. "These new locomotives ... can replace between 500,000 to 800,000 trucks over their lifecycle," said Siemens Mobility CEO Michael Peter. The order was a big step for Siemens in India, Peter told Reuters, saying the company had previously mainly provided components and infrastructure there. The deal is the latest bumper contract won by Siemens after it signed a 900 million euro deal for a new metro line in Sydney, Australia in December. He said Siemens was also looking at other train contracts in India, the world's largest rail market with 24 million passengers travelling daily on more than 22,000 trains.

CNN —Russian sausage magnate-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov died in India on Saturday after falling from the third floor of his hotel, according to the Indian police. Police believe Antov died by suicide after falling from the third floor of his hotel in the Rayagada district, although the postmortem report has not been released yet, Sharma said. He was a member of the Russian parliament’s United Russia party, which was formerly headed by Vladimir Putin and is still staunchly supportive of the Russian President. Russian Consul General in Calcutta Alexey Idamkin told Russian state media RIA Novosti on Monday that the Odisha State Police and the Consulate General in Calcutta didn’t see anything suspicious in the death of two Russians in India. In mid-September, Russian businessman Ivan Pechorin, who was the top manager for the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, was found dead in Vladivostok, according to Russian state media.

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