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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,...

The authority held that showcasing these facilities in brochures and agreements but failing to provide them amounted to misrepresentation. A builder promises several amenities in a housing project, but fails to deliver. What happens after that? A Karnataka RERA ruling in this context assumes importance.A reputed builder has been asked to pay Rs 10 lakh...

3 Italian passengers flew from Amritsar to Munich without immigration clearance NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry has issued a show-cause notice to Air India over alleged procedural lapses that allowed three Italian passengers to board a connecting flight from Delhi without completing immigration formalities earlier this month.The notice has been issued to Air India...

The photograph failed the statistical smell test The TOI correspondent from Washington: The photograph that Bo French chose to make a political argument about Indians and foreigners overrunning the University of Texas, Austin, may have been worth thousands of social media posts, but it failed the statistical smell test.French, the Republican nominee for the powerful...

Civic poll results were announced for Rajasthan wards today. NEW DELHI: The Rajasthan civic poll results have reinforced the dominance of the ruling BJP despite some setbacks, brought cheers to the AAP and the CPM, but has rung alarm bells for the Congress ahead of the 2028 assembly elections in the state.The BJP has lost...

3 Italians leave Delhi without immigration check. Delhi Airport (PTI image) NEW DELHI: The Union aviation ministry has issued a show cause notice to Air India for lapses that saw three foreigners fly into Delhi from Amritsar on Sept 4 and then within an hour depart for Munich on a code share Lufthansa flight without...

Oracle layoffs: Employees get the 6am email again Oracle began cutting jobs again on September 14, and the people affected found out in almost exactly the sequence they did in March. Federated logins stopped working at around 4am Eastern. Slack sessions dropped out in a rolling wave between 5am and 5.30am. Badges failed at office...

18th BRICS Summit in Delhi NEW DELHI: India and China should view each other as partners rather than rivals, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Monday, citing the consensus reached between president Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi.Wang said the...

IMF returns to Pakistan for crucial $7 bn bailout review The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to return to Pakistan on September 23 for a crucial review of its $7 billion bailout programme, with the outcome likely to determine the release of the next tranche and shape Islamabad’s economic policy in the months ahead.The...

Trump backs US AI lead, hits China US President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his push to keep the United States ahead of China in artificial intelligence, saying AI needs a “strong and smart president” rather than additional “guardrails.“In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the US was already leading China in...