Spread the love       Photo credit: ANI The US embassy in India announced in a statement on Tuesday that it will be closed from December 24 to December 26 in accordance with a Presidential Executive Order mandating the closure of executive departments and agencies of the federal government on these dates.Routine consular services, including visa processing and citizen services, will not...

Spread the love       <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126143442,imgsize-1203591,width-400,resizemode-4/image-2025-12-23t195920.jpg" alt="'Trump-Class' gamble: Can the US Navy's 'Golden Fleet' deter China or just drain Pentagon?" title=" Trump has promised that construction will begin almost immediately and that the first ships could arrive within two and a half years. ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Trump has promised that construction will begin almost immediately and that the first ships could...

Spread the love       Image Credit: Wikipedia Eminent Hindi writer and Jnanpith Award recipient Vinod Kumar Shukla passed away on December 23, 2025, at the age of 89 at AIIMS Raipur, where he was being treated for age-related ailments and complications. According to family members, he breathed his last around 4:58 PM, leaving behind a towering legacy in modern Hindi literature....

Spread the love       The high-stakes ‘war’ between Paramount Skydance and Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) may have taken a sharp turn. The 5th largest shareholder of the entertainment conglomerate has said that the financing update from Paramount Skydance was “necessary” but it may not be enough to seal the deal. His comments have been published soon after Paramount included...

Spread the love       Microsoft has issued an advisory for its employees on H-1B/H-4 amid the ongoing visa appointment rescheduling and stamping delays. This comes amid new social media screening, said to address the potential “abuse of the H-1B program”. Calling it a “rapidly developing situation”, the software giant has issued “preliminary guidance” for employees who are in the US and...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Lalit Modi on Monday shared a video from Vijay Mallya’s birthday party, where he referred to himself and Mallya as the “two biggest fugitives from India”.The video, posted on Lalit Modi’s Instagram account, shows him posing with Mallya and saying, “We are the two biggest fugitive from India.” Modi captioned the post, “Let me do...

Spread the love       Judit Polgár and Richárd Rapport (Photo Credit: FIDE) NEW DELHI: William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Though she be but little, she is fierce.” Hungary, too, has never been the biggest country on the chess map. Yet, it has long played the game with a fearlessness that belies its size.With none of the resources of...

Spread the love       US President Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, according to the latest documents released on the department of justice website Tuesday.The information appeared in an internal email dated 7 January 2020 that stated, “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has...

Spread the love       Security personnel keep vigil following a wave of violence allegedly triggered by rumours, in West Karbi Anglong, Assam. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Fresh violence was reported from Assam’s trouble-torn Karbi Anglong district for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, with at least eight people injured as a clash between two groups of protestors prompted police to resort...

Spread the love       Research scientist Yoshua Bengio has revealed that he must lie to AI chatbots to receive honest feedback on his work. Bengio, also known as one of the Godfathers of AI, claimed that AI chatbots’ inherent “sycophancy” often results in biased, overly optimistic responses. Speaking on a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast, he explained...