August 2026

Bangstad has said he intends to challenge the revocation through the available legal process. (Photo: Bangstad and Trump) Kirk Bangstad, the owner of Wisconsin-based Minocqua Brewing Company, has said he will ‘fight tooth and nail’ after the state moved to revoke his brewery’s licence to operate, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Bangstad, who promised free beer…

D Y Patil, a former Governor and renowned educationist, has passed away. KOLHAPUR: Padma Shri awardee, former Bihar, Tripura and West Bengal Governor, and renowned educationist D Y Patil, fondly known as “Dada”, died at his residence in Kasba Bawda in Kolhapur on Tuesday morning following a prolonged illness. He was 91.Patil, a former Congress…

Nearly 3,00,000 evacuated as wildfires advance toward Bordeaux in France and devastate central Spain. A 37-year-old man suspected of starting one of several wildfires that have ravaged communities around Spokane in Washington state was arrested on Monday. The blazes have destroyed more than 700 buildings and forced about 67,000 people to flee their homes, authorities…

Google has reportedly reduced the scope of a decade-old IT services contract with HCLTech. A report claims that the tech giant is trimming about $50 million in work from the approximately $200 million annual engagement. According to a report by The Economic Times, the reduction is expected to affect around 1,000 HCLTech employees, who are…

Why a weaker dollar suits US president Trump (Photo credit: Reuters) The US has taken the extraordinary step of helping Japan pull the yen back from a four-decade low, signalling that Washington sees the currency’s collapse as more than Tokyo’s economic problem.The joint intervention drove the yen from nearly 164 against the dollar last month…

A river otter dragged a toddler into the water and bit his mother at Bremerton Marina in 2024. The family has now reached a $350,000 settlement with the Port of Bremerton. (representative image) A Washington family has reached a $350,000 settlement after a rare river otter attack at Bremerton Marina left a toddler injured and…