TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA boss Donald Trump and his vice-president JD Vance have doubled down on supporting Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of Ohio despite a campaign fiasco roiling the Republican party. It involves a Ramaswamy campaign ad appearing to ignore and belittle the childhood sexual abuse trauma of his Democratic opponent.The controversial ad...
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Prakriti Malla’s handwriting went viral at 14 for looking like printed text
Prakriti Malla and her handwritten letter that went viral (Instagram) While we are in an age when children learn to type on keyboards and communicate through smartphones, Prakriti Malla, 14-year-old from Nepal, went viral for her beyond perfect handwriting. People often mistook her handwriting for a computer font as the letters are so evenly shaped...
‘Border gets disturbed from time to time’: MEA on ITBP chief’s remark, blames China
NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs on Friday blamed China for failing to establish peace and tranquility between India and China and said that the border areas gets disturbed from time to time when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.MEA’s remarks came after Indo-Tibetan Border Police Director General Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor said that the...
‘Why not, he wasn’t waving the Tiranga’: CJP’s Dipke mocks VanDyke court order
‘Why not, he wasn’t waving the Tiranga’: CJP chief mocks VanDyke court order Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leader Abhijeet Dipke on Friday criticised the Centre after a Delhi court allowed American mercenary Matthew Aaron VanDyke to travel to the United States.He linked the decision to the deployment of security forces in Delhi to prevent protests,...
‘Head of customs brother of CEC’: Punjab CM’s big claim after airport ‘detention’
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claimed that Mann was detained for three hours at the airport NEW DELHI: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann has alleged that he was kept waiting for around two hours at Delhi airport after returning from Paris, claiming that officials repeatedly cited luggage checks as the reason for the delay. Mann...
Gunmen open fire inside church in Jordan, 7 killed
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Naman Dhir’s rise: How the ‘jugaadu’ cricketer carved his space
New Zealand India CricketNaman Dhir of India bats during the T20 cricket international between New Zealand and India in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP | PTI) NEW DELHI: When the selectors sprung a surprise by picking Naman Dhir for the West Indies series, eyebrows were raised and scepticism followed. But the Punjab all-rounder is slowly and...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s Muse chatbot adoption is strong, but AI may not stay free
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Meta introduced its personal AI agent Muse in September and is becoming central to the company’s plan to start making money off its massive investment in AI. Speaking during the earning call on October 1, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is already working on monetizing the agent, adding...
‘Murder of democracy’: Raj Thackeray targets BJP over ‘Rs 500 cr payment’ audio clip
He urged Fadnavis to investigate the conversations allegedly captured in the clip NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Friday accused the BJP of “murdering” democracy by allegedly exerting pressure on the media and using religious polarisation to divert public attention. The barb came after an audio clip triggered a political row...
New York family loses half its private road to 1,500-member club in court
Family members blocked the eastern half of Godfrey’s Pond Road with tree trunks, restricting the club’s access. (AI image) A New York family that owned half of a private road beside its 45-acre property has lost ownership of that portion to a neighbouring recreational club with around 1,500 members. The two sides had shared the...
