Michael Dell and Susan Dell have announced a $750 million donation to the University of Texas at Austin to build a new medical centre and research campus. The move comes months after the couple committed $6.25 billion to fund “Trump Accounts” for children in the US. The new project will focus on healthcare, research and…
A major effort to remove grass lawns across the Las Vegas Valley has saved 203 billion gallons of water, but environmental research shows that the large-scale change has also brought a serious rise in local surface temperatures. According to data from the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Water Smart Landscapes Rebate programme, property owners across the…
Prosecution’s interview with Tyler Robinson’s partner Lance Twiggs was played in the courtroom on Thursday. Lance Twiggs’ interview video with the prosecution was played in the court on Thursday, in which Twiggs said Robinson regreted killing Charlie Kirk. Twiggs says he and Robinson met in 2023, when they became roommates and started dating two to…
The Delhi High Court said the communication in question did not establish the truth of Devi’s claim. Her husband passed away in 2006 and she was not eligible for family pension. However, the bank her husband worked at opened a one-time pension eligibility window some years later which the widow applied for after the last…
NEW DELHI: Nearly two years after Satyendar Jain, former minister in erstwhile AAP govt, was released on bail from Tihar Jail in an alleged ED money laundering case filed, Delhi govt’s Anti-Corruption Branch Tuesday arrested him, along with Delhi Jal Board ex-CEO Udit Prakash Rai and four others in an alleged DJB scam.Jain had spent…
Pakistani singer Mustafa Zahid reacted after Amaal Mallik recreated Awarapan’s ‘To Phir Aao’ as the title track for sequel Awarapan 2, calling it his career-best. Mustapha responded warmly, saying “borders are dangerous but so is love.” The Emraan Hashmi-starrer, also featuring Disha Patani and Shabana Azmi, releases 14 August. ‘Awarapan’, released in 2007, achieved cult…
Neanderthals’ brains were not the reason behind their extinction, suggests a shocking new study. Scientists believed that there were differences in terms of intelligence and cognitive abilities of Neanderthals that resulted in their extinction, but current studies disprove the old notion about the Neanderthals’ extinction. The reasons could be related to other issues, like climate…
Immigration lawyer Deepika Singh says Indians have an academic edge over Americans Indian professionals on H-1B visas have an edge over some American workers because of India’s “robust” education system, a Silicon Valley immigration lawyer has argued. This argument is an old one in the debate over foreign workers in the US tech industry.Speaking about…
Google has updated its Search result spam policies. With this change, Google is going after websites that use a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking,” the company announced. This means websites that engage in “back button hijacking” may soon appear less prominently in Google Search results or face penalties. The update classifies the behaviour…
Scientists have discovered a fossilised piece of amber deep beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, providing the first evidence of amber on the continent The thought of Antarctica brings about many images, and the first things that come to mind when one thinks of Antarctica are those of an endless frozen desert. Large glaciers, harsh…