Police suspect that the attack was carried out on a “quotation” given by the man’s wife (L), who allegedly tracked his mobile phone location and passed on the details to the gang. THRISSUR: A woman who had checked into a lodge in Thrissur with a male friend was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by a group…
Representative Image of a vibrant landscape of chalk grassland and wildflower meadows at Lyscombe National Nature Reserve (AI Generated Image) In March 2024, Dorset Wildlife Trust and Natural England acquired 335 hectares of chalk downland and farmland at Lyscombe, around 10 miles north-east of Dorchester. The former organically managed farm was acquired for nature conservation…
AI generated image used for representative purpose NEW DELHI: A cloth trader whose card machine payments of Rs 9.38 lakh were delayed for 457 days has secured relief from the Warangal district consumer commission. The commission directed Worldline India to pay 8 percent annual interest on the amount for the delayed period, besides Rs 30,000…
For many Indians who move to the US, obtaining a Green Card represents years of effort, uncertainty and sacrifice. But for Bharathi Ramesh, giving up that hard-earned permanent residency became part of a very different decision: returning to India to build the company she had long wanted to pursue. Ramesh recently shared her journey on…
A Connecticut man paid $35 for a small blue-and-white porcelain bowl at a yard sale near New Haven in 2020, unaware that he had stumbled upon an exceptionally rare Chinese imperial-era artefact. The unnamed antiques enthusiast suspected the bowl might be special and later sent photographs to Sotheby’s for an evaluation. Specialists identified it as…
File photo: Tourists look at Mt. Fuji, covered with its first snow of the season, from Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, in Japan Japan has raised the fee for foreigners seeking permanent residency 20-fold, from 10,000 yen to 200,000 yen, as the government tightens the requirements for those seeking to settle in the country permanently.The new fee…
NEW DELHI: Delhi has the strongest CNG infrastructure among the cities assessed in a TERI study and, along with Bengaluru, also has relatively strong EV infrastructure.The study, supported by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), found that effective charging capacity was considerably lower in Lucknow, Guwahati, Dhanbad and Chamba. It said infrastructure readiness…
Sixty years ago, a house was reconstructed at Woodlawn, a National Trust-owned property outside of Washington, DC, after a historic and hard-fought battle to save it from destruction. Originally built in Falls Church, Virginia for Loren and Charlotte Pope, the 1,200-square-foot Frank Lloyd Wright home was under threat due to the construction of the new…
Casa Encantada, a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega mansion, known as Los Angeles’ most iconic estate, has found a new owner in billionaire investor Peter Thiel. According to a report by LA Times, the venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder quietly bought the property through a limited liability company at a foreclosure auction in Pomona in July this…
1950s MIT students, a room-sized computer and one unusual idea; how ‘Hackers’ traced the roots of open-source culture. (Photo: X photo) In the late 1950s, a group of MIT students obsessed with model trains gained access to a computer they could operate themselves. They were less interested in what the machine was supposed to do…
