Spread the love Representative image SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir High Court ordered Thursday revival of Kashmir student’s passport so that she can complete her MBBS in Iran.The authorities had impounded Ibra Khan’s passport based on a CID adverse report about an FIR against her father in 1997, although she was born in 2005. The report cited “aspersions” against Khan’s father...
Arkansas family wins $12,000 after neighbours removed old fence and trees
Spread the love A fence that had been treated as a property boundary since 1967 has been upheld as the dividing line between two Arkansas properties, after a dispute over trees and fencing reached the state Court of Appeals. The ruling in Floyd v. Bowlin-Lemon, reported by Justia, Leagle and Case Law Wire, affirmed the Bowlins’ boundary claim, a $12,000...
US sanctions Indian firms, individuals as Iran oil crackdown widens
Spread the love US targets 2 Mumbai companies, 5 Indians in Iran petroleum sanctions (representative image) The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Mumbai-based companies and five Indian nationals over their alleged involvement in the trade of petroleum products from Iran, as Washington stepped up its economic pressure on Tehran.The US department of state targeted SSPL Solutions Private...
Chance and happenstance: On the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Spread the love Only in imagination, the mathematical imagination, does perfect equality exist. A fair coin has an equal probability of heads and tails, so across many tosses, the expectation is for the proportions to approach 50:50. Laborious demonstrations have shown that this is rarely the case; bias is preloaded into life. Only about 10% of humans are naturally left-handed;...
US executive admits $193.6m fraud after FBI finds 298 gold bars
Spread the love Federal executive created fake program, diverted $145M; FBI found 298 gold bars in $193.6M fraud (Image Credit: USAO EDVA) A former senior federal employee with a top-secret security clearance has pleaded guilty to defrauding the US government of approximately $193.6 million, allegedly using fabricated government authorities to obtain money for himself. According to the US Department of...
US suspends Microsoft from Green Card programme, here is what the company has to say
Spread the love Microsoft suspended from US Green Card sponsorship programme as JD Vance alleges H-1B abuse. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) The US government has suspended Microsoft from the Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM), the process most employers must clear before sponsoring a foreign worker for a Green Card. Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced the...
Nana Patekar cremated with full state honours, fans bid tearful farewell
Spread the love Legendary actor Nana Patekar breathed his last on Thursday, October 8, at his residence in Goa at the age of 75. The veteran actor suffered a cardiac arrest and doctors attempted to revive him with continuous CPR for around 45 minutes. He was declared dead at around 5:20 am.Nana’s son Malhar confirmed the news to The Indian...
Trump honours CEO Satya Nadella as Vance goes hard at Microsoft
Spread the love JD Vance recently criticized Microsoft for relying on foreign workers instead of hiring Americans TOI correspondent from Washington: On the same day US vice president JD Vance put Microsoft in the crosshairs over its use of foreign workers, his boss Donald Trump was preparing to honour the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, with America’s highest technology awards at...
Rice millers fear steep hike in rice prices
Spread the love Rice millers in Kangayam fear that the retail price of rice may touch ₹100 a kg by the end of January, 2027. Non-availability of paddy and continuous increase in paddy prices are a matter of concern to the millers, said Palaniswamy, president of the Kangayam Rice Millers Association. The retail price of rice is approximately ₹75 a kg...
5 injured after gas cylinder explodes at workers’ shed on IIT Bombay campus
Spread the love A gas cylinder exploded in a workers’ shed at an under-construction building (Representative image generated using AI) MUMBAI: Five people, including two minors, were injured after a gas cylinder reportedly exploded while cooking in a shed used by private workers at an under-construction building on the IIT Powai campus on Thursday night.The incident was reported at 10.24pm...
