During his first trip to the free throw line in the third quarter Tuesday, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry heard “MVP” chants. “Our crowd is crazy in general,” Curry said after the Warriors’ 121-116 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. “And whatever opportunity they have to kind of pick us up and create that home-court advantage that we rely on, that’s big for us.” In his return from a Grade 2 MCL sprain that he suffered on March 23, the two-time MVP played like his usual self, as he went for 28 points and seven rebounds in his postseason debut in Game 2 of…
Author: Loknath Das
Spruce Finance is exiting the residential efficiency and solar lending and property-assessed clean energy origination business, leaving behind an increasingly cutthroat space to attempt a comeback in the third-party-owned residential solar space. In a Tuesday email to its dealer partners, Spruce said it “will be exiting the efficiency and solar lending and PACE origination business effective immediately.” The San Francisco-based company said it would continue servicing its book of assets and loan portfolios, however, as well as continuing to “process and fund deals that have achieved specific milestones.” Spruce Finance did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.…
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval to provide financial assistance at the rate ₹ 5.50 per quintal of cane crushed in sugar season 2017-18 to help sugar mills offset the cost of cane. The objective is to help sugar mills clear cane dues of farmers. The details are: * The assistance will be paid directly to farmers on behalf of the mills. * It will be adjusted against the cane price payable due to the farmers against fair and remunerative price (FRP), including arrears relating to previous years. * Subsequent balance, if any, will be credited…
Bridget Terry Long, A.M.’97, Ph.D.’00, a leading economist and internationally recognized scholar on the economics of higher education, will become the next dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard President Drew Faust announced today. Currently, Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE. She was the School’s academic dean from 2013‒2017 and the faculty director of the research doctoral program from 2010‒2013. She will assume her new role on July 1, succeeding James E. Ryan, who will step down to become president of the University of Virginia. “Professor Long brings the energy and imagination to create an…
Adityendra Suman, 29, a Mumbai-based senior consultant at Dalberg, global development advisors, graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, in 2016. He had taken a Rs23 lakh education loan from the Union Bank of India at 8.5% interest rate for a 15-year tenure, while the course fee was Rs25 lakh. “I am paying a monthly instalment of Rs28,000, including the interest,” said Suman, adding he is not the only one. Pune-based Kinjal B, 32, a product manager at SminQ, a technology start-up, also took a Rs22 lakh loan for a post-graduation course at ISB in 2016. “I am…
This is exactly what was not supposed to happen to the Raptors in Game 1. They were the better team all season. They were the team with rest heading into the second round. They were at home. But it happened. LeBron James and the Cavs marched into Toronto on Tuesday night and stole Game 1. RELATED How the Raptors melted down against the Cavaliers AGAIN The Raptors were in control mostly all night. But time after time they continue to let the Cavaliers back in. In fact, the Cavs took their first lead of the game during overtime. If it’s…
Apple has finally released the iTunes app on the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store app store. Microsoft, at its Build conference held last year, had announced plans to add iTunes to the Microsoft Store. While some Windows users were highly anticipating the debut of iTunes, Apple in December 2017 said that iTunes will not be available in the Microsoft Store that year. The iTunes app on the Microsoft Store is similar to the regular iTunes, but now installation updates will be handled through the Microsoft Store updater rather than through Apple. Notably, the app will only run on Windows 10 PCs with either x86 or x64 architectures. The arrival of iTunes also ensures the software’s…
Popular battle royale shooter Fortnite will be launched in China by Tencent. Users in the country can download the Fortnite client and sign up with their QQ account with an account transfer process in place for those who already have played the international version of the game and want to carry over their progress to the Chinese version of Fortnite. According to Chinese site DoNews (via Touch Arcade), it’s unclear if this would include the mobile version as well, though it would make sense if this was the case. Speaking of which, a Fortnite mobile companion app for China will also be made available with live…
Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress 2 developer and Steam owner Valve has acquired independent game studio Campo Santo. Consisting of veteran talent from Telltale Games, Campo Santo’s debut effort, Firewatch, released to near perfect reviews when it hit in 2016. The studio is hard at work on its second game, In the Valley of Gods that slated for a 2019 release window as well as bringing Firewatch to the Nintendo Switch. It seems that both projects will continue as planned with the team taking to its blog to break the news. “The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we…
Shraddha Kapoor sent the internet into a meltdown by posting a photo of herself admiring a yellow lehenga, which she captioned: “Getting ready for the biggest haldi ceremony of the year.” The 31-year-old actress did not tag anyone, which added to the confusion. Some Facebook users hoped to get an answer from the Aashiqui 2 actress while some have assumed that she preparing for her colleague Sonam Kapoor’s haldi ceremony. Reports of Sonam Kapoor getting married to her longtime boyfriend Anand Ahuja have been circulating on the Internet for quite some time now – and there are many versions of the Kapoor-Ahuja wedding. Early reports stated that Sonam Kapoor…