California flood ravages through counties (Source: social media) After soggy Christmas celebrations due to a winter storm in California, the southern region is now witnessing a powerful storm this week. The extreme weather has unleashed heavy rain, strong winds and snowfall.Multiple videos making rounds on social media show flooded roads, mudslides and debris-choked towns. While...
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Brittany Mahomes shifts focus as Patrick Mahomes earns praise off the field
Image via Getty Robert Kraft and Gayle Benson are two of the NFL’s most prominent owners. They are also two of the richest persons in all of American sports. They both own well-known franchises and have a lot of authority, but the ways they made their money and became rich are very different. Here’s a...
Japan: 14 injured in stabbing attack, ‘unspecified liquid’ sprayed in Mishima
Representative image At least fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan on Friday. In the attack, an unspecified liquid was also sprayed.“Fourteen people are subject to transportation by emergency services,” Tomoharu Sugiyama, a firefighting department official in the city of Mishima, Shizuoka region, told news agency AFP.He said...
AI-powered crime fighting in India: What is OCND and how will it help agencies?
AI-generated image NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday launched India’s first national-level Organised Crime Network Database (OCND), a landmark initiative designed to disrupt and dismantle criminal syndicates that pose a threat to internal security.The database was unveiled at the Anti-Terror Conference–2025, a two-day annual event organised by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Developed...
4 skills that will decide who survives the workplace battle in 2026
Skills you will need in 2026 The workplace is not what it used to be. And it will not slow down anytime soon. Jobs are changing faster than job titles. Teams are scattered across cities and time zones. New tools appear before old ones are fully learned. In this shifting space, employers are not only...
6 shots fired: AMU teacher’s killers kept shooting him in head; murder caught on CCTV
AGRA: A computer teacher at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was shot dead on campus in a targeted attack on Wednesday evening, police said. Chilling CCTV footage shows the assailants firing at the teacher even after he had fallen to the ground.In the CCTV visuals, the accused shooter can be seen shooting teacher 6 times near...
‘Not medical devices’: Centre defers slashing GST on air purifiers; warns of ‘Pandora’s Box’ of requests
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday deferred lowering the GST on air purifiers, a day after the Delhi high court suggested a look into the matter while hearing a plea about the severe pollution plaguing the Capital.Appearing for the Centre, additional solicitor general N Venkatraman told a bench of justices Vikas Mahajan and Vinod Kumar...
VHT: ‘Fast-track him now’- Ex-India captain compares Suryavanshi to Tendulkar
Vaibhav Suryavanshi (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Former India opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth has strongly advocated for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to be pushed quickly into the senior Indian setup, comparing the teenager’s rise to the early days of Sachin Tendulkar. Srikkanth believes the selectors should show boldness and back rare talent early, rather than delaying opportunities for a player...
‘Killed my husband’: Indian man dies in Canada allegedly due to hospital neglect; wife recounts ordeal
A day after a 44-year-old Indian-origin man died after waiting for hours in a hospital’s emergency room in Canada, his wife accused the Edmonton hospital of “killing her husband” by not providing timely medical help.In a viral video, Prashant Sreekumar’s wife said that the Grey Nuns Community Hospital neglected her husband’s condition even after he...
‘Junta with nukes’: When Bush, Putin discussed Pak in 2005; what declassified NSA papers show
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation programme triggered deep concern at the highest levels of the United States and Russia, with both countries expressing that Islamabad’s nuclear activities made them “nervous”, according to newly declassified documents released by the US National Security Archive.The documents, made public this week following a Freedom of Information lawsuit, include verbatim...
