Anil Dias

Addressing the media in press conference took a hilarious turn for Afghanistan cricket team captain Mohammad Nabi recently. A hilarious video of him speaking to an unidentified person ahead of a press conference at the ongoing T20 World Cup has gone viral. In the video, Nabi can be heard complaining that addressing the media is "the hardest thing". "Sabse mushkil kaam hai bhai yeh, kasam se (This is the hardest thing brother, I swear)", Nabi can be heard saying in the video.

The Central Depository Services (India) Limited was unusually slow on Monday, which enraged many investors who took to social media to complain. Many investors said that the website was not loading correctly since morning and that they were facing problems on an otherwise strong day for the market. Neither index value nor company-specific data was visible to many users.

Taliban leader Anas Haqqani, on Tuesday, visited the shrine of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi. Taking to Twitter, he glorified Ghaznavi who had demolished the Somnath idol in the past. The tweet has irked Indians and has thus, sparked an outrage. Mahmud Ghaznavi was the first the first independent ruler of the Turkic dynasty of Ghaznavids, ruling from 998 to 1030. His kingdom extended from northwestern Iran proper to the Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, Khwarazm in Transoxiana, and Makran.