Uday Kotak on Friday said India needs to find a way to address its high gold imports. India’s gold imports have been in focus since the start of the US-Iran war as they add pressure to the country’s import bill at a time when oil is also rising and rupee is depreciating.Amid this, veteran banker...
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Friends thrash Thar driver, he rams SUV into their cab in Gurgaon
Video showing the Thar reversing and hitting the cab repeatedly GURGAON: A quarrel among four men in Sector 89 late on Friday night spilled onto the road when one of them allegedly used his Thar to repeatedly crash into a Rapido cab that two of his friends had boarded to leave the spot. The impact...
Tennessee farmer tried to return $20,000 IRS refund; singer John Rich stepped in
After a four-year battle with the IRS, Wilson Perry Kirby, a Middle Tennessee farmer, finally got an acknowledgement that the government had indeed made a mistake. In 2022, Kirby received a $20,000 tax refund he knew wasn’t meant for him. Instead of cashing it, he immediately tried to return the money. But instead, the IRS...
OpenAI tells 25% of engineers: your projects are on hold, you are now defending
FILE PHOTO_ The OpenAI logo in this illustration taken June 11, 2026. (Credit: Reuters) Greg Brockman gave a quarter of OpenAI‘s production engineers an order that left no room to negotiate. Their projects were on hold. They were defending now. They were going to use the company’s own models to find every hole in its...
Asian Games: MMA’s Varun Sanyal medically unfit after dizziness during weight cut
Varun Sanyal (Photo-X) New Delhi: India’s MMA fighter in 77kg category, Varun Sanyal was ruled out of the Asian Games after being declared medically unfit for the competition at the weigh-in process. The athlete felt dizzy at a sauna for weight cut and passed out at the facility.“While undergoing weight loss, including food and fluid...
82-year-old spent 53 years building California compound; court orders him to leave
Hoffman has acknowledged that the buildings lacked proper permits but has maintained that they were not unsafe. Enforcement actions and fines did little to prevent continued activity at the property. For more than half a century, two acres in the hills of Lagunitas became the home, workplace and personal vision of California tea importer David...
CCTV shows BMW crashing through barrier, falling off Mumbai Coastal Road bridge; 3 dead
CCTV of BMW crash on Mumbai’s Coastal Road MUMBAI: A CCTV footage showed a speeding BMW crashing through the barrier on Mumbai’s Coastal Road and plunging off a bridge into an under-construction parking site early on Sunday, killing three students and critically injuring another.The luxury car was seen travelling at high speed before it fell...
‘Torture, caste discrimination’: IIT-Bombay student’s father seeks justice
Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay MUMBAI: The father of IIT-Bombay student Sahil Wakode, who died by suicide on the institute campus, has sought justice for his son and accused those responsible of pushing him towards the extreme step through alleged torture and caste discrimination.Ravindra Wakode has urged the government to take action against those he...
Second medal for India, Elavenil wins silver in women’s 10m air rifle at Asiad 2026
Elavenil Valarivan (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Elavenil Valarivan narrowly missed out on gold after producing a strong performance in the women’s 10m air rifle individual final at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, settling for silver with a cumulative score of 252.4.Japan’s Taichi Hinata clinched gold with 253.0, while South Korea’s Ban Hyojin took bronze with...
Mark Zuckerberg to OpenAI, Anthropic: Your AI agents, your responsibility
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that the technology industry is deeply divided over how to regulate artificial intelligence. In a new post titled “The Future Is for Everyone”, Zuckerberg said that while some labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are calling for slower progress until safety measures catch up, his view is that alignment and...
