The brawl also spilled into the parliamentary corridor A heated exchange over a controversial election promise descended into a mass brawl in Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday, with lawmakers from the ruling party and the opposition trading punches and kicks in a clash broadcast live.The incident took place on Thursday during a debate on the election…
Trump’s H-1B deference move. For Indian professionals working in the US, an H-1B extension is more than a routine immigration formality. It is a crucial bridge to maintaining legal status and keeping their path to permanent residency, or a green card, alive as they navigate a backlog that can stretch for decades.Many rely on successive…
The tyranny of the freshly made phulka: someone must stand at the stove while everyone else enjoys dinner. The defining sound of the North Indian dinner is not conversation. It is the soft slap of dough passed from palm to palm, then the hiss of a phulka ballooning over an open flame, then, a few…
Claude killed the coding interview Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has stopped asking job candidates to take coding interviews, and his reason is simple: Claude is now better at them. In a blog post on October 27, Rieseberg, who has led engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, also shared advice for junior engineers…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A home that has remained in a family for generations is now at the centre of a property dispute in Rowlett, Texas, as the city seeks to acquire it for a road improvement project. The Willis family moved to the area in 1962, when the surrounding land was largely farmland. More than…
A future war could begin by blinding an enemy before the first missile is fired. China may be preparing to take that fight into space, with weapons capable of threatening the satellites that guide precision strikes, track enemy forces and keep modern militaries connected.According to a new report by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),…
Stampede at Kolkata pandal during Durga Puja claimed 19 lives. NEW DELHI: It begins with a rumour, feeds on panic and ends in tragedy. A stampede can turn a celebration into chaos within minutes, leaving thousands gathered in joy struggling to find a way out. In a tightly packed crowd, even a small disturbance can…
China has stationed over 50 naval vessels, including 34 warships and the aircraft carrier Liaoning, in key zones of the western Pacific. China has spread its naval forces across a vast stretch of the western Pacific, putting Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines on alert as more than 50 Chinese vessels operate across multiple strategic waters…
Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina (Image: REUTERS) Elena Rybakina has added another milestone to an outstanding 2026 season, securing the year-end world No. 1 ranking for the first time in her career after defeating compatriot Yulia Putintseva in the second round of the Pan Pacific Open on Thursday.The Kazakh eased past Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 at the WTA…
A 2,000-year-old preserved loaf of bread from Herculaneum. (Photo: National Maritime Museum, Sydney, via World History Encyclopedia) When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, a loaf of bread was still inside an oven in the Roman town of Herculaneum. The eruption buried the town, leaving the bread trapped beneath volcanic material. Nearly 2,000 years later,…
