Category: Events

Hundreds of Indians on H-1B visas, along with their H-4 dependent spouses and children — are stranded in India. In some cases, families have been separated with some members in the US and those in India facing an endless delay to fly back.The uproar is loud; the anguish is palpable across social-media posts and WhatsApp...

Amit Agarwal Amazon announced around 14,000 job cuts in October this year. Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti informed the staff that the job cuts are part of the organisational changes happening across Amazon. Now, Amazon senior vice president for emerging markets Amit Agarwal has said that recent round of...

Court denies interim bail to Luthra brothers (Image credits: IANS) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday denied the transit anticipatory bail plea of Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa, where a massive fire last week killed at least 25 people. The brothers had sought four weeks...

2 Chinese nationals, 28 others in CBI’s Rs 1k cr crypto scam chargesheet NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against 30 accused, including two Chinese, Wan Jun and Li Anming, in a Rs 1,000-crore crypto-investment scam.The accused, through two Delhi-based companies and their directors, allegedly misled the public into investing...

The challenges Pakistan faces today are often described in binary terms — a threat here, a conflict there — but the reality is far more chaotic and intricate, much like the scientific conundrum known as the “three-body problem”. This problem, rooted in physics and celestial mechanics, deals with predicting the motions of three gravitational bodies...

AI-generated image for representation A group of state attorneys general has sent a warning letter to 13 major technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple, stating that the “delusional outputs” of their AI chatbots may violate state laws. The letter argues that the chatbots are creating mental health risks for both children and adults...

Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday said it is “strategically possible” for Dhaka to join a regional grouping with Pakistan that excludes India, amid signals from Islamabad about forming a new trilateral initiative with China and Bangladesh.Responding to a question at the foreign ministry, he said, “It is possible for us (Bangladesh)...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-125910342,imgsize-88370,width-400,resizemode-4/screengrab-2.jpg" alt="22 feared dead in Arunachal gorge tragedy" title=" Photo: Screengrab/DD ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Photo: Screengrab/DD GUWAHATI: At least 22 labourers from Assam are feared dead after a mini truck fell into a deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district near the Indo‑China border. The accident occurred on Monday night along the high‑altitude Hayuliang–Chaglagam...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday granted interim bail to former JNU student leader Umar Khalid in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, allowing him to remain out of custody from December 16 to 29 to attend his sister’s wedding.Khalid, arrested under the unlawful activities (prevention) act (UAPA) in connection with the alleged conspiracy...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has slipped one spot on the world’s billionaires list, overtaken by another Google founder. According to the Forbes Billionaire list, Google cofounder Sergey Brin’s net worth now stands at $240 billion, narrowly ahead of Bezos at $239.9 billion. The shift comes as Alphabet’s stock continued its recent rise. Brin’s $2.4 billion...