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Meet Meera Ramaswami, who turned grandmother’s fall into patented device

Meera Ramaswami, Founder at CargilityPhoto: Meera Ramaswami/ LinkedIn A fall while getting out of a car changed the direction of Meera Ramaswami’s life. She watched her grandmother lose her balance during a moment that should have been routine, then saw the injury heal while the fear remained. Her grandmother became less willing to travel, and...

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Jemima Goldsmith, 52, remarries; 22 years after divorce from Imran Khan

Jemima Goldsmith marries Cameron O’Reilly at 52, 22 years after her divorce from Imran Khan. Jemima Goldsmith, the award-winning film producer and former wife of former Pakistan prime minister and cricket legend Imran Khan, has married for the second time at the age of 52. She tied the knot with Irish-Australian financier Cameron O’Reilly, 62,...

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Formerly enslaved man founded Illinois town; 191 years later, land joins NPS

Nearly two centuries after a formerly enslaved pioneer bought 80 acres of Illinois prairie and founded the first legally registered town in the United States platted by an African American, nearly 20 acres of the historic townsite have officially been transferred to the National Park Service.According to the National Park Service, the land was donated...

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‘No help whatsoever’: Trump seeks reimbursement from nations for securing Hormuz

Trump demands nations reimburse US over Hormuz conflict US president Donald Trump on Monday demanded that countries benefiting from the security of the Strait of Hormuz reimburse Washington for the costs of protecting the crucial oil-shipping route, accusing nations of providing “no help whatsoever” during the conflict with Iran.In a series of posts on Truth...

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Maratha quota march: Activist Jarange to enter Mumbai with just 4-5 aides

Manoj Jarange Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Monday altered his Mumbai agitation plan, saying he would travel to the city with just four to five associates. Jarange took this decision after police denied permission for his proposed hunger strike at Azad Maidan during Ganeshotsav.The move came even as chief minister Devendra Fadnavis...

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Brazil election heats up: Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro locked in razor-thin runoff race

Brazilian polls Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro are statistically tied in potential second-round matchups ahead of Brazil’s October presidential election. Two opinion polls released on Monday showed the race tightening.According to the Reuters, aa BTG Pactual/Nexus survey put Lula narrowly ahead of Bolsonaro, 47 per cent to 46...

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IAF achieved 314-km ‘longest kill’ of Pak jet during Op Sindoor: MoD report

NEW DELHI: The defence ministry’s annual report 2025-26, released on Sunday, recorded what it described as the “longest surface-to-air kill” — of a “Pakistani special-mission aircraft by an Indian S-400 unit from a distance of 314 km”, during Operation Sindoor and also provided details of several key IAF targets in Pakistan, including fighter aircraft hangars,...

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Anderson Cooper turned a 1906 New York firehouse into his home

When Anderson Cooper bought a historic former fire patrol house in New York’s Greenwich Village for $4.3 million in 2010, the purchase raised concerns among local preservationists, according to contemporary reporting by DNAinfo and the Village Preservation Society. The four-storey building at 84 West 3rd Street had spent decades as a working Fire Patrol station,...

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