Category: Events

Zohran Mamdani New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has come up in support of Teamsters-backed bill that would require Amazon and other delivery companies to directly employ thousands of drivers, escalating a fight with the retail giant even as it warns the measure could push its delivery operations out of the five boroughs entirely, according...

National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval warns Pakistan, says “Don’t mistake India’s generosity for weakness”. National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval has delivered a clear and unambiguous message to Islamabad that India will strike hard against its adversaries, and consequences will not be a deterrent to action. The remark from NSA Doval marks one of...

Jeff Dean, Google’s 30th employee and chief scientist, left after 27 years to lead AI startup Discovery Loop. Google‘s former chief scientist Jeff Dean has shared the simple steps he follows to protect his knees and ankles despite maintaining an intense weekly workout schedule. Jeff Dean, who recently resigned from Google after 27 years revealed...

18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had...

German Ambassador Jasper Wieck (Instagram) For newly appointed German Ambassador, Dr Jasper Wieck, India is more than just a new posting. He is emotionally attached to the country and calls himself an “old friend of India”. It is a place tied to memories that began nearly 35 years ago, when he first travelled to the...

Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was attacked outside a West Bengal police station. He was arrested in RG Kar victim’s ‘hurried’ cremation case. NEW DELHI: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh, arrested in connection with the alleged “hurried cremation” of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, was attacked by a mob outside Khardah Police Station in West...

A man dressed as astronauts stands in a waterlogged road crater to highlight civic issues and protest against waterlogging in the Jhotwara area, in Jaipur (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: What if you could experience the Moon without leaving Jaipur? More than 100 residents of Gokulpura in the Jhotwara assembly area attempted to answer that question...

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs last year. Another round is coming this month Oracle is lining up another round of job cuts this month, and the deadline is set by its own calendar. Managers have been asked to draw up lists of employees whose roles are being eliminated, with the company looking to bring payroll down...

India’s relationship with Iran has also been marked by regular high-level engagement. NEW DELHI: Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, amid the elevated tensions in West Asia, is set to visit New Delhi to attend the upcoming BRICS summit, Iranian sources told news agency ANI.Pezeshkian’s participation in the summit is scheduled to be held in the national...

India’s Ravindra Jadeja, front left, and Manav Suthar (PTI Photo) TimesofIndia.com in Galle: In times when variation, mystery and darts have become the survival norm, Manav Suthar is a throwback to an era gone by. The beats and drops of techno music have captured the imagination around the world, but Suthar continues to be the...