NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s newly appointed IT cell chief Deepak Mhaske on Monday said that the party’s social media team will continue to provide right answers and dispel people’s misconceptions.While talking to reporters after his appointment, Mhaske said that his whole team will “wholeheartedly work” towards helping the BJP win elections and serve the...
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Watch: NYC Mayor Mamdani speaks Bengali, stuns crowd during key announcement
Zohran Mamdani speaks Bengali while announcing Broadway free tickets. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stunned viewers by speaking in Bengali while announcing more than 2,000 free Broadway tickets for the city’s high school students, with the tickets to be distributed through a lottery.The programme, launched in partnership with the Theater Development Fund (TDF), will...
Meet Ananya Nagendra, 18, who built an ant-based digester for food waste
Ananya Nagendra, the 18-year-old Texas student (Image Credit: Society For Science) Food waste is usually thought of as a problem that begins in the kitchen and ends in a garbage bin. But once that waste reaches a landfill, it can create another environmental problem: methane. Ananya Gulur Nagendra, an 18-year-old student from Plano, Texas, wondered...
Renukaswamy murder case: Court rejects Darshan’s plea for physical presence, allows VC
Actor Darshan BENGALURU: A Bengaluru court has rejected a plea by actor Darshan and three other accused seeking permission to be physically present at every hearing in the Renukaswamy murder case. The accused can instead attend proceedings through video conference observed the court.On 13th August,the Karnataka high court dismissed a petition filed by Darshan challenging...
1st Test: Suthar, Jadeja spin India into commanding 178-run lead over Sri Lanka
India’s Manav Suthar, centre, celebrates with Kuldeep Yadav, right, and Rishabh Pant after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Kumara. (PTI Photo) India’s spinners tightened their grip on the first Test against Sri Lanka as Manav Suthar and Ravindra Jadeja combined for seven wickets to bowl the hosts out for 284 on a rain-hit...
Shabnam Sinha to succeed Sunil Bharti Mittal as Airtel Payments Bank chairperson
(Representative image) Sinha brings over three decades of leadership and board experience across development finance, financial services, public policy and institutional transformation (Photo: Agencies). NEW DELHI: Shabnam Sinha will be the chairperson of Airtel Payments Bank Ltd from Oct 1, with Sunil Bharti Mittal set to conclude his tenure as non-executive chairman and stepping down...
She expected isolation in remote Alaska but found internet and Amazon deliveries
Moores experience has changed what she considers essential. (Picture: Instagram) A 23-year-old woman who moved to a remote island off Alaska expected daily life to be difficult. She thought getting basic supplies, ordering things online and travelling off the island would be far more complicated than in a city.After living there for a year, Arwa...
Tech CEO who fired 900 workers on Zoom call asks board for his job back for $1 salary
Better Home & Finance fired its CEO Vishal Garg earlier this month. This ended his latest tenure at the mortgage technology company after several years of financial losses. This included a failed refinancing business and efforts to rebuild the company around artificial intelligence (AI). Garg, who became widely known after laying off about 900 employees...
Nitin Nabin gets a new team: Amit Malviya out as BJP IT cell chief
File photo of Amit Malviya Months after Nitin Nabin took charge as BJP national president, the party on Monday unveiled a revamped team of national office-bearers, bringing in several new faces ahead of upcoming assembly elections in 5 states.Among the major changes, Amit Malviya, who had for years been identified with the BJP’s social media...
Smriti Irani’s big comeback: Why BJP has turned to its ‘giant killer’
In 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Smriti Irani had defeated Rahul Gandhi in Amethi. NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday unveiled a new national team under Nitin Nabin, and one of the biggest takeaways was the return of former Union minister Smriti Irani. Over a year after making a comeback on television as...
