Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife Mackenzie Scott has become one of the biggest individual donors in the US as well as world in recent years, giving away billions of dollars after her divorce in 2019. According to Forbes, Scott has donated $26.4 billion in less than seven years, including an estimated $7.2 billion in 2025 alone. Mackenzie…
Mojtaba Khamenei absent from father’s funeral Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to make a public appearance as thousands of mourners gather in Tehran for the funeral ceremonies of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, raising fresh questions over his whereabouts, health and who is leading the country. The ceremonies entered their second day…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has responded to a social media post that alleged NEET 2026 question papers were being sold through Telegram channels. The response came after a user tagged NTA and CyberDost on X and shared links to three Telegram groups, claiming they were being operated by the same person.In the post, the…
Stanley Baldwin (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes still resonate decades after they were uttered because they deal with ideas that transcend generations. One such statement was made by the former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who once said, “I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason”. Although the quote is short and simple,…
PM Modi with New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon during Indian community Event, in Auckland (File photo) India and New Zealand on Saturday unveiled the comprehensive “India-New Zealand Strategic Partnership: Roadmap to 2030”, establishing a robust blueprint to significantly deepen defence and security cooperation over the next four years.PM Narendra Modi and New Zealand counterpart Christopher…
The Delhi government’s slum rehabilitation policy is set to transform the living standards of the underprivileged sections of its population, affecting around four to five lakh families or nearly 20 lakh people.The Delhi Slum and JJ Cluster Rehabilitation and Relocation Policy, 2026, which replaces the 2015 policy framework, aims to provide permanent housing inside multi-storey…
NEW DELHI: India’s newly-appointed T20I captain Shreyas Iyer has made it clear that taking over the leadership role will not change who he is, insisting that he would rather stay true to the values that shaped him than try to emulate anyone else.The 31-year-old, who was named India’s new T20I skipper on Saturday in place…
Britain extracted 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados: Report A report presented in Barbados states that the British colonial practices drained nearly 25 million years of life and forced work from enslaved Africans. Value lost through such extraction may reach £1.6 trillion, as researchers seek to quantify historical harm. The…
PM Modi said the Centre would establish fast-track courts to ensure speedy trials and strict punishment in paper leak cases NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that the Centre will set up fast-track courts to ensure “swift and stringent punishment” for those involved in examination paper leaks.In a post on X, PM…
The art of seduction is not exclusive to humans. Animals do it, and so do plants. In the floral world, attraction is a matter of survival. Certain plants paint themselves in colours calibrated so precisely that bees can read them like landing signals, even when human eyes barely detect the difference!A new study published in…