Category: Events

Representative Image Facebook parent company Meta settled cases involving youth mental health and data privacy claims with 52 bipartisan attorneys general across US states, territories and Washington, D.C. for approximately $18 billion. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has committed to rolling out major protective overhauls for under-18 users across Instagram and Facebook. The settlement concluded a...

India is planning to send its first cargo ship through the Northern Sea Route in 2027. Donald Trump’s trade and tariff policies, sanctions risks, and the ongoing Middle East route disruptions have led economies like India to reassess their supply chain strategies. The US-Iran war and the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have exposed...

Rescue operations continued through thick layers of mud and debris in flood-hit Nepal on Friday, while authorities remained on high alert after a newly formed lake near the Nepal-China border began overflowing, raising fears of another flash flood.The warning comes two days after devastating floods swept through the Himalayan border region, killing more than 500...

Anaya Bangar NEW DELHI: For Anaya Bangar, the prospect of returning to competitive cricket is about much more than stepping back onto a field. It represents the culmination of a lonely and emotionally difficult journey that began when she started her transition in 2022.Now on the cusp of reclaiming her cricketing life, the 25-year-old trans...

Karnataka minister B Nagendra resgined from the state cabinet on Friday, announcing his decision at a press conference BENGALURU: Karnataka Planning and Statistics minister B Nagendra on Friday announced his resignation, days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought sanction for his prosecution from governor Thaawarchand Gehlot in connection with the alleged Rs 90...

File photo: Congress leader B Nagendra NEW DELHI: Karnataka planning and statistics minister B Nagendra resigned on Friday amid mounting pressure over the alleged Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation scam.He also broke down during a press conference while announcing his decision.Nagendra, who was re-inducted into the Karnataka cabinet earlier this month, alleged that he...

Nepali army rescuers evacuate survivors from a mud-filled tunnel at a hydropower plant in Rasuwa The Nepali army has released dramatic footage showing rescuers pulling survivors from a mud-filled tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa, as devastating flash floods continue to wreak havoc across Nepal.The video shows survivors crawling through thick, dark...

Standing near the Haskell County border in West Texas, fourth-generation farmer Cheyenne Buerger can see industrial cranes building a huge Google facility just over four miles to the northeast. Until recently, part of that same horizon was farmland he worked himself. After farming thousands of acres with his family for more than a century, Buerger...

A group of pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh narrowly escaped devastating flash floods in Nepal NEW DELHI: A brief tea break and a warning from locals helped a group of Andhra Pradesh pilgrims narrowly escape the devastating flash floods in Nepal, with the bus driver reversing to safety just minutes before the floodwaters swept through the...

OpenAI, earlier this week, admitted that its internal monitoring system was not triggered until more than a week after its AI agents broke free of controls, accessed the internet and hacked the world’s largest repository of AI models, Hugging Face. In a report on the incident, OpenAI said that the safety systems designed to spot...