Russia is reported to send explosives and drone parts to Iran via the Caspian Sea, report (representative photo) Reports suggest that Russia has been sending explosives, drone components and ammunition to Iran through the Caspian Sea as Tehran works to replenish military stocks depleted during its war with the US and Israel, according to a…
British Gas paid a person £38,000 by mistake, and they can’t give it back A British Gas customer spent seven weeks asking the energy company to recover more than £38,000 that was mistakenly paid into her bank account, only to discover that customer service staff had no clear process for taking the money back. The…
Over two dozen students fell ill after consuming a mid-day meal NALANDA: More than two dozen students fell ill after allegedly consuming a mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Tuesday.The incident took place at Middle School in Parasi under the Noorsarai police station area, following which the affected students were…
Sara Gonzales brought the DOL inspector general to a Texas office accused of selling H-1B visas and Green Card and showed him purported messages. Texas journalist Sara Gonzales brought Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito to the registered office of Mohammad Abbas in Texas, accusing him of selling H-1B visas and Green Cards. In…
Auto, taxi drivers must know Marathi from Aug 18; non-compliant drivers get one month to learn MUMBAI: With working knowledge of Marathi being made mandatory for auto taxi drivers from August 18, those caught by RTO flying squads will be served a show-cause notice, granting them one month to learn the language and explain why…
In another post, Dipke called the suspension of the school principal the “first big victory” for villagers of Limbala in Hingoli district. CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Tuesday questioned why ministers, education department officials, principals and teachers send their children to private schools instead of government institutions, saying government schools…
High value homes could face bigger bills A potential overhaul of the UK’s property tax system could change how homeowners pay for their properties, with proposals that could replace stamp duty and council tax with taxes linked more closely to property or land values.The reforms are not expected immediately. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ruled…
There is a saying among bibliophiles: Never judge a book by its movie. For true readers, nothing any director dreams up can ever match the cinema playing inside one’s head, to borrow a line from Anurag Kashyap’s greatest villain. Two rare adaptations that arguably hold their own against their source novels are Mario Puzo’s The…
An AirTag hidden in a rare book led to Amazon’s Las Vegas warehouse, where books are cut apart and scanned for AI training. A bookseller who suspected that an anonymous order for around 1,000 titles was headed into an AI training pipeline decided to stop guessing. Working with 404 Media, the seller slipped an Apple…
Traveller from Bhutan reviews Vande Bharat (Instagram) A train can be super impressive on its first day of inauguration but the real test comes months later. It comes after hundreds and thousands of passengers have travelled in those initially shiny compartments on countless journeys. And that’s exactly what this Bhutanese traveller named Anusha, known as…