Directors Suresh Krissna and KS Ravikumar should be highly indebted to “Siruthai” Siva. If not for the latter’s Annaatthe (2021), the two veteran filmmakers would have had to battle it out among themselves for the award for the most appalling Rajinikanth film ever. Although ‘Thalaivar’ has created his fair share of duds over the decades,...
Praggnanandhaa outwits Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz for FIDE) NEW DELHI: When it was finally revealed that Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa would play Board 1, meaning he would face the toughest oppositions — like his oppoennet in Anish Giri in India’s match against the Netherlands on Sunday — at the 46th Chess Olympiad...
Oil prices rise above $100 a barrel as attacks on Middle East energy and shipping infrastructure deepen supply concerns. Oil prices fell on Monday as investors focused on signs of a recovery in Saudi Arabian crude shipments, even as attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis added to tensions in the Middle East and the US and...
US urges Americans to leave Iran The United States has issued a fresh advisory against travel to Iran, urging American citizens to avoid the country “for any reason” and calling on those already there to leave immediately amid heightened tensions and the threat of further escalation in West Asia.In a security alert, the US Virtual...
Anthropic is reportedly weighing the release of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model to counter the rising momentum of rival OpenAI’s newly deployed GPT-6 Astra, a report has said, citing three people familiar with internal discussions. The potential rollout comes ahead of an anticipated initial public offering (IPO) and arrives two weeks after Anthropic’s CEO...
A senior neurosurgeon died when his car caught fire on the Hyderabad-Khammam highway. HYDERABAD: A CCTV camera captured the final moments of a senior neurosurgeon’s drive before his Volvo suddenly veered across lanes, slammed into a barrier on the service road and burst into flames on the Hyderabad-Khammam national highway in Suryapet early Sunday. The...
A student claims police searched her home for nine hours without a warrant MUMBAI: Postgraduate student Harshada Borade has alleged that Bandra police’s anti-terrorism cell searched her home for over nine hours without a warrant and mistreated her friends after she took part in a pro-Palestine kite-flying campaign on Sept 15.Borade said the house owner...
German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, dealing another setback to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU).According to preliminary results, AfD won 38.3 percent of the vote, ahead of the Social Democratic Party...
Downdetector recorded more than 17,000 reports of problems with Facebook as of 9:11 pm ET, Meta’s social media platforms Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the US on Sunday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.Downdetector recorded more than 17,000 reports of problems with Facebook as of 9:11 pm ET, while Instagram had...
While much of society is preoccupied with animal rights, there is a population facing a significant risk of burnout yet which often goes unacknowledged: veterinarians. Often underestimated as a profession and underfunded as a field, veterinary medicine carries expectations that far exceed what can reasonably be asked of any one individual. Veterinarians are expected to...
