Flowers add to the right tinge of colours and fragrance to our lives, but not every beautiful flower ends up in the bouquets we see at the local florist.Some of these can be silently found in cottage gardens, while others live on the gothic edges of woodland beds, and a few have taken decades of…
An Indian-origin US politician in New Jersey has been permanently barred from holding public office after admitting his role in an illegal gambling operation linked to the Lucchese crime family, which prosecutors said earned him about $900,000.Anand Shah, 44, a councilman in the Borough of Prospect Park, pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering and official…
Brigadier Zoru Bakshi and Major Ranjit Dayal in the background atop Haji Pir Pass. (Image credit: Brig Shamsher Singh, who had participated in battle) When Pakistan launched Operation Gibraltar in August 1965, sending thousands of trained infiltrators across the Ceasefire Line (CFL), as the Line of Control was then known, into Jammu and Kashmir, it…
FM Nirmala Sitharaman in Chicago India has met its fiscal deficit target for 2025-26, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday, asserting that the government has stayed on its planned path of fiscal discipline.“We have given ourselves a fiscal discipline path on the fiscal deficit as well. We have fulfilled the trajectory. The last…
File photo: Delhi Police (Picture credit: Reuters) Delhi Police will hold an awareness programme next week to help people from the Northeast, including Gorkhas from Darjeeling and Ladakhis, better understand issues related to rental agreements and disputes over security deposits with landlords.The programme, organised by the Special Police Unit for North-East Region (SPUNER), will be…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Video grab) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi may only be 15, but the teenage sensation showed remarkable composure and instinct when he took charge of East Zone during their Duleep Trophy semifinal against Central Zone in Bengaluru on Sunday.With East Zone chasing control over the opening day’s proceedings, Sooryavanshi made a crucial leadership call…
Motorcyclists ride past a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump inside a catering container in downtown Tehran, Iran Six months into the war between the US, Israel and Iran, some of the worst fears for the global economy have failed to materialise, despite the conflict driving up energy and food costs, disrupting travel and trade,…
With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff next to him, Amodei emphasised that the company views the expansion of AI as a mutually beneficial, collaborative evolution across the technology sector. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has sought to reassure Wall Street investors, asserting that his frontier artificial intelligence (AI) lab has no intention of dismantling traditional enterprise software…
Priyanka also shared a video of leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s press conference in which he made a similar demand, accusing those behind the ceremony of practising untouchability and calling for action against them under the SC/ST Act. NEW DELHI: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday stepped up the Congress’ attack on…
The latest front in the US-Canada trade war isn’t tariffs. It’s an army of Mountie bears playing bagpipes. A new AI-made music video, “Canadian Resistance Army — Trade War,” has become the latest online expression of Canadian defiance toward US tariffs —an unlikely patriotic anthem.Released this week by the YouTuber demonflyingfox, the video depicts a…