File photo: BJP leaders celebrate after winning four seats in the Karnataka Legislative Council (MLC) polls, in Hubballi. BJP-led NDA won 16 of 28 seats in MLC polls held across four states, sweeping all four Karnataka legislative council constituencies, dealing a setback to Congress. Bihar and Maharashtra delivered split verdicts, while BJP led in UP…
Three siblings fought over their 95-year-old mother’s care and finances. (AI image) A family dispute over the care of a 95-year-old woman with advanced dementia in Georgia ended on Monday with a court ruling in favour of her daughter, after her two sons challenged the decision to make her their mother’s guardian.According to the case…
File photo: Nirmala Sitharaman and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Wednesday waded into the boardroom battle at Bombay House, which drew a strong rebuke from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.“Tata is being criminally destroyed, and no business leader dares say a word. How long will you stay silent? Until they own you? Indian…
AI representation/ChatGPT There is someone who can talk for an hour over coffee, ask questions, tell stories and make a conversation feel effortless. But put the same person in a room with six friends, at a family gathering or in a workplace meeting, and they barely say a word. Others may assume they are shy,…
File photo: – A pride flag is held during an LGBTQ+ Pride March NEW DELHI: Striking a discordant note among a clutch of petitions challenging the Transgender Amendment Act for denying right to gender self-determination, an all-women NGO Wednesday appealed to the Supreme Court not to confer trans-women, biological males identifying as females, the spectrum…
File photo: US Vice President JD Vance and Mohsen Rezaei US vice president JD Vance has opened a direct channel to one of Iran’s most powerful hard-liners in an attempt to revive peace negotiations according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. This developments comes even as US president Donald Trump threatens to resume…
In some cases, construction never began, while in others, work was left unfinished. (AI image) A woman in Roseville, California, who paid more than $40,000 in January 2023 to have a small home built in her backyard, was left without the house after the company failed to begin construction within the promised 12 months. Three…
A renovated oceanfront estate in Maui’s exclusive Makena neighbourhood has sold for $18.5 million, making it the Hawaiian island’s most expensive on-market residential sale of 2026 so far. The four-bedroom property, which sits on more than an acre of coastal land, attracted a buyer despite a slowdown in Hawaii’s ultra-luxury housing market, according to reporting…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Diwali, Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a 3% hike in DA for central government employees and dearness relief (DR) for pensioners. The decision will benefit over 1 crore employees and pensioners, and it will be applicable for the July-Dec 2026 period.With this, the DA and DR will increase from the earlier 60%…
The satellite debris in space poses an immense problem in Earth’s orbit, which is increasingly crowded, especially with defunct satellites that continue to circle the planet. According to Smithsonian magazine, the United Kingdom is preparing a mission to declutter Earth’s orbit. It is preparing to tackle part of the growing problem of satellites debris with…
