Naraz Fufa is increasingly annoyed There is a new character loose in India’s public conversation: Naraz Fufa (the annoyed uncle). He isn’t a real person, he’s a composite, the voice of India’s aspirational middle class, irritated in a very particular way. This character has a salaried job or a small business, children in school or…
Tom Hanks started his own brand of coffee 4 years ago, with all of the proceeds from the sales going to war veterans and organizations that work towards their well-being. (YouTube) In 2022, beloved star Tom Hanks, who is best known for his roles in ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ started a new kind of…
The Mumbai Police has transferred the case to the Crime Branch after the student’s father filed a complaint NEW DELHI: Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed on Monday expressed solidarity with an IIT Bombay professor accused by the father of a second-year BTech student of harassing his son, saying that students in her generation were “mentally strong”.The…
Congress targets PM Modi, Centre over rising food prices, inflation. NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government over “skyrocketing prices” of food and other commodities, using the popular Bollywood song “Kya hua tera vada” to question the PM’s silence on inflation.Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared a media…
Canada’s immigration authority has stepped in to clear up some of the most common confusion facing travellers. IRCC shared a post of social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) publishing a set of answers to the questions it says that visitors ask most often and the responses are worth a read before you book…
A man walks past an Indian Rupee symbol installation at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) headquarters in Mumbai, India, August 5, 2026. The rupee rose 5 paise to 95.82 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday, after closing at 95.87 on Friday, as traders watched oil prices and foreign portfolio flows for…
Scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have discovered how tin-based perovskite materials allow hot electrons to retain their excess energy for around 1,000 times longer than expected, a finding that could shape the future of solar power. The researchers found that two physical effects, the hot phonon bottleneck and the Burstein–Moss effect,…
According to the report, rye was chosen as the bakery’s sole bread partly because of its importance in Austrian baking. The grain has long played a central role in the country’s bread culture, and the Auer family’s recipe is said to have been passed down through generations. In a city where a bagel can be…
Court ruled in favour of the tenant and rejected the landlord’s plea seeking her eviction. (Image for representative purpose only) He moved to Canada and rented his Punjab house for Rs 20,000 a month, then sought eviction to use it during India visits; Punjab & Haryana HC rules against landlord, allows tenant to stayA man…
Al Ellis and his late wife Sondra had spent decades building the biggest vision of their lives, a 207-acre ranch near their two-story log home off US Highway 191 in Boulder, a town of roughly 100 people 12 miles south of Pinedale. Ellis, an 84-year-old Navy veteran and former commercial driver, had turned to become…