Category: Events

A man navigates through a mud-covered street next to damaged houses following the flash floods and mudslide in Nepal Nepal may need between $4 billion and $5 billion to rebuild after this week’s devastating floods, finance minister Swarnim Wagle told Reuters on Saturday, as authorities continued to assess the scale of loss and damage.“The initial...

​Satya Nadella believes empathy is the hardest skill leaders and employees can master. The Microsoft CEO has pushed back on the common practice of filing empathy away as just another soft skill. In his view, the ability to truly understand others sits above the rest of the leadership toolkit, and he says it took becoming...

Shivakumar said Nagendra submitted his resignation after being hurt by the opposition’s “false allegations” and the disruption of Assembly proceedings (Photo: ANI). NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar said on Saturday that B Nagendra, who held the planning and statistics portfolio, has submitted his resignation from the state cabinet to avoid embarrassment to the...

Just weeks after Sam Altman‘s OpenAI linked China with datacentre protests across America, now the world’s richest man Elon Musk‘s company X, formerly Twitter, has made similar claims. In a post on its platform, X said that it has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts as part of its Safety team’s investigation into...

Punjabi social media influencer Manjeet Kaur (Image Credit: Instagram) CHANDIGARH: Punjabi social media influencer Manjeet Kaur died at PGIMER nearly two months after she was allegedly abducted from Chandigarh, taken to a forested area near Morinda, tied to a tree and set on fire.Kaur died on August 26 while undergoing treatment for severe burn injuries.Chandigarh...

On August 26 at 11:30, roughly 75 people gathered at Cooke Park for the official ribbon-cutting, capping a years-long transformation of the former Cooke Elementary School property into a fully accessible neighbourhood park. The ceremony, conducted by the Galesburg Area Chamber of Commerce, took place with the new splash pad running behind the crowd, water...

Nepal has limited experience in tunnel rescue operations and needs specialised equipment and technical knowledge to carry out such missions Nepal has opened the door to limited foreign assistance following this week’s catastrophic floods, but has made clear that it does not need outside help for general search-and-rescue operations.Instead, Kathmandu is seeking specialised services and...

Imran was arrested on Thursday after an exchange of fire with police in Rajouri Garden, a day after Muskan was allegedly stabbed to death at her home in Tilak Nagar. NEW DELHI: A minor allegedly sexually harassed in 2018. A man allegedly beaten with a stone slab and left in a coma in 2021. And,...

Suryakumar Yadav (AP Photo) Suryakumar Yadav has finally opened up on the shock of losing his place in the Indian team just months after leading the side to the T20 World Cup title.The World Cup-winning captain was overlooked by the Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee for the next series against Ireland and England, with Shreyas Iyer...

People look at photos displayed outside a govt hospital in Kathmandu on Friday to help relatives identify the flood victims (Picture credit: AP) Morgues on the 200km Bhote Koshi-Trishuli-Narayani river trail in central and southern Nepal are at capacity and overflowing as bodies swept away by Wednesday’s flash flood surfaced downstream, forcing authorities to move...