NEW DELHI: K Kavitha on Saturday paid floral tributes to those who died during the 1969 Telangana statehood agitation at Amaraveerula Stupam in Gun Park, Hyderabad, ahead of the launch of her new political party.Nearly seven months after leaving the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, is set…
Tumuli illustration and photographs. Credit: D’Olivera et al. A hydroelectric dam under construction in Angola has led archaeologists to one of the country’s most important historical discoveries. Before the area disappears beneath the dam’s reservoir, researchers uncovered Angola’s oldest radiocarbon-dated burials. These burials are the earliest known stone structures in central Angola and the country’s…
A criminal investigation has been launched into whether an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot played a role in a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office is probing whether ChatGPT provided guidance to the alleged gunman, Phoenix Ikner, before the attack on April 17, 2025. The gruesome incident resulted…
Germany’s Nico Schlotterbeck (AP Photo) Germany’s FIFA World Cup campaign has suffered a major setback with defender Nico Schlotterbeck ruled out for the remainder of the tournament after sustaining a serious ankle injury.The Borussia Dortmund centre-back picked up the injury during Germany’s 2-1 victory over the Ivory Coast, forcing coach Julian Nagelsmann to rethink his…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected the premise that the company would inevitably lose the Chinese market to domestic rivals like Huawei, calling the idea defeatist. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, Huang argued that computing ecosystems—unlike consumer products—are deeply sticky and hard to replace, pointing to CUDA’s developer lock-in as a structural advantage. He also said…
Kangana Ranaut has been in the news for her comments on Gen Z and their behaviour during the protests for NEET paper leak. Kangana had strongly criticised the abusive language used against PM Narendra Modi and his mother. She referred to the group as “Generation Gutter” and further wrote, “I call them Generation Gutter. Some…
Ladakh gets five new districts, LG Saxena approves notification LEH (LADAKH): Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Monday approved the notification for the creation of five new districts in the Union Territory in a step aimed at strengthening grassroots governance and decentralizing administration.Nubra, Sham, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass are the new districts and the…
A school trip in eastern Uganda ended in tragedy after a bus carrying pupils overturned on Thursday evening, killing at least 20 children and one adult, while leaving dozens of others injured, according to local officials.The bus was transporting pupils from King David Junior School in Ndejje back from a study tour when it crashed…
NEW DELHI: On paper, the 2026 assembly elections are straightforward: five regions, 824 seats, and a familiar roster of parties battling for power. West Bengal (294 seats), Tamil Nadu (234), Kerala (140), Assam (126), and Puducherry (30) together form a significant, but not unprecedented, electoral exercise.Yet, this is not a routine election cycle.The timing gives…
Akhilesh Yadav said the real question was how the students were treated. NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla of denying his party a chance to speak on the NEET paper leak controversy in the House even as the government and the Congress were allowed to…