A firetruck is parked at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and East 42nd Street after buildings in the area were evacuated The temporary suspension of one of New York City’s largest office-to-residential conversion projects after few steel columns buckled last week drew attention to the engineering complexities of transforming ageing office buildings into housing, a…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday directed that all 62 major airports in the country — including 21 under development and 41 prioritised for development, based on passenger traffic — be brought in line within two years, with standards prescribed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), with the objective of enhancing…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
Kevin Sun, the 17-year-old Massachusetts student (Image Credit: Society For Science) At just 17, Kevin Sun of Andover, Massachusetts, has developed a technology that could address one of the biggest challenges in plastic recycling: sorting different types of plastic accurately. Sun created a dissolvable radio-frequency tag that works like a wireless barcode, allowing plastic materials…
Morocco’s Azzedine Ounahi is thrown in the air by his teammates after the World Cup round of 16 soccer match against Canada in Houston, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Canada’s remarkable FIFA World Cup 2026 journey came to an end on home soil as Morocco produced a ruthless second-half performance to claim…
US goes ahead with radar upgrade for Pak’s F-16 fleet, move a worry for India In a decision that will raise India’s concerns, the US is going ahead with a radar upgrade programme for Pakistan’s F16 fleet, which comprises 75 to 85 fighter jets. In a $488 mn deal, American defence major Northrop Grumman Systems…
A 28-year-old man was shot dead in North Philadelphia after he delivered pizza boxes inside a housing society. The man has been identified as Anshul Kuncha, an Indian man. The shooting took place on Friday after 12.30 am at the Raymon Rosen Homes housing complex on Edgeley Street in North Philadelphia. Kuncha was shot in…
Divya Deshmukh and Magnus Carlsen (Agency Photos) The Global Chess League (GCL) is set to return for its fourth season with the much-awaited Season 4 Player Draft scheduled to take place in Mumbai on June 29. The league will once again bring together some of the biggest names in world chess before the tournament gets…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out fresh searches against Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora and some others allegedly linked to him as part of a money laundering investigation, officials said.Among the five locations raided were Arora’s official residence in Chandigarh and the premises of a real estate company in Gurugram, Haryana,…
John Bolton, US President Donald Trump‘s national security adviser, during his 1st term, and later one of his most prominent critics, is expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents, according to three CNN sources familiar with the matter.Bolton plans to plead guilty to one felony count of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents and…