Spread the love NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday said there is no change in the supervisory authority to which its director general of information technology Seema Khanna reports.The clarification came a day after the panel issued a fresh work allocation placing Khanna under the charge of deputy election commissioner Prakash Raj Purohit instead of senior deputy EC Manish...
‘Watching soldiers fight’: Paswan’s dig at Akhilesh over UP polls remark
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Union minister Chirag Paswan on Thursday compared Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav‘s statement about the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to a military commander staying away from the battlefield while his soldiers fight.Akhilesh Yadav, who served as Uttar Pradesh chief minister from 2012 to 2017, said on Tuesday that he would not contest the...
Borderline blood test results: When should you worry about blood sugar, cholesterol and thyroid levels?
Spread the love A borderline blood test result is a reading that approaches the upper or lower limit of the expected reference range, or falls marginally outside it, without necessarily indicating an underlying disease. Such results may reflect early metabolic changes, temporary variations or normal biological and physiological fluctuations, particularly in the absence of symptoms. However, in some cases, a borderline...
Postcards from Earth
Spread the love I. This November Somewhere above the plane in which the planets orbit, moving away from the sun at some 17 kilometres a second, a machine older than the internet is closing in on no ordinary milestone. On November 18, Voyager I will be one light-day away from earth. In 1965, a graduate student in the U.S. named Gary...
Israel’s election deadlock: Bibi in a bind, but what changes for India, Iran and Gaza?
Spread the love Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud emerged as the single-largest party in Israel’s new Knesset. Fifty-three seats. A lead over every rival bloc. And perhaps no government to show for it. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud emerged as the single-largest party in Israel’s new Knesset, and his bloc finished ahead of every rival camp.Yet inside President Isaac Herzog’s residence this week, the...
DoorDash has a ‘LinkedIn message’ for employees as it spends $17B on Instacart
Spread the love No LinkedIn connections with Instacart, DoorDash tells employees DoorDash has told its employees not to add Instacart staff on LinkedIn while its $17 billion acquisition of the grocery delivery company waits for approval. The instruction sits in an internal question-and-answer document that DoorDash filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 29, the day...
Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam challenge HC’s bail refusal in Supreme Court
Spread the love File photo: Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid move SC seeking bail in UAPA case over 2020 Delhi riots NEW DELHI: Jailed activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have separately moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi high court’s September 30 order refusing them bail in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case.In their pleas, both activists argue that...
Drones carrying drones: Turkey turns Bayraktar TB2 into flying weapons carrier
Spread the love Turkey is giving its Bayraktar TB2 combat drone a new role, turning it into an airborne carrier for smaller kamikaze drones. In a recent test, the Turkish unmanned aircraft carried 16 attack drones and released two of them to strike designated targets, demonstrating how a single drone could deploy multiple smaller weapons in the battlefield.According to Turkish...
Trump effect: US-based Indian techies are returning, but to what?
Spread the love The flood of talent returning to India is faced with a harsh reality. Salary figures in India are not as fat. US President Donald Trump’s immigration and visa crackdown, AI-led layoffs in the technology sector and rising uncertainty on H-1B visas and green card backlog is prompting a hoard of Indians to return.But, life is not that...
Cristiano Ronaldo bids emotional farewell to national team: Read full speech
Spread the love Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo (AP Photo) Cristiano Ronaldo has officially brought the curtain down on his illustrious international career, announcing his retirement from Portugal duty after 23 years, six World Cup appearances and a record-breaking haul of 146 goals in 234 matches.The five-time Ballon d’Or winner made the announcement on Thursday through an emotional video message addressed to...
