Spread the love       The dispute began after the seller rejected the couple’s repeated requests for a price reduction. (Representational photo) Buying a house was supposed to be a new beginning for a Michigan couple looking for more space for their growing family. Roger Lewis and Nicole Susser found a home in Franklin Village and agreed to pay $1.275 million for...

Spread the love       Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan presented a humorous but pointed classification of 12 types of secretaries at a performance review meeting NEW DELHI: It began as a regular meeting. But the senior bureaucrats who had gathered at a performance review meeting on Tuesday were in for a surprise — and not a particularly pleasant one, even though...

Spread the love       File photo: Smoke billows after drone strikes (representative image) More than 100 people were killed and 113 injured in a drone strike on a crowded market in Nyala, South Darfur, on Monday evening, according to rights groups and local officials cited by The Associated Press and Radio Tamazuj.Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in Sudan, said...

Spread the love       File photo: India and Pakistan flags (Image enhanced using AI) NEW DELHI: India has invited Pakistan for the inaugural meeting of the SCO civilisational dialogue forum that it will host next month.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proposed the dialogue forum during his visit to Tianjin last year for the SCO summit, saying that it would work to...

Spread the love       SC questioned the Centre over pharma companies pricing medicines at over 1,000% of cost, saying the industry can’t “run amok” in the name of free market. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday said the pharma industry cannot be allowed to “run amok” in the name of free market to fix the maximum retail price (MRP) of medicines at...

Spread the love       File photo: Election Commision of India EC is yet to respond to an RTI application seeking details of steps taken to address grievances raised by two ECs and copies of files, including notings, related to the issue, despite the 30-day statutory time-limit for giving a reply lapsing, said applicant Commodore Lokesh K Batra (retd) Tuesday. The application...

Spread the love       File photo: Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Dubbing the Election Commission’s affidavit in Supreme Court as “deceptive, deceitful and duplicitous”, Congress Tuesday said CEC Gyanesh Kumar has been taking unilateral decisions and the EC’s claims on Form 6 are contradictory.Taking to X, Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first...

Spread the love       Kayley Xu, a Year 12 student from San Diego, won the $25,000 grand prize in the Mott Million Dollar Challenge for developing Aucura, a wearable stethoscope designed to improve respiratory diagnostics. The device aims to capture and analyse sounds from the body to help identify breathing-related problems. Xu hopes to make the technology affordable enough to reach...

Spread the love       File photo: Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is projected to emerge as the largest party in the Knesset, but opposition parties led by Gadi Eisenkot are ahead as a bloc, with neither side securing a clear path to a parliamentary majority, according to exit polls by Channels...

Spread the love       A residential corner in Long Beach, California, has become a seasonal attraction thanks to a Halloween display that blends music, animated figures, projected film clips and elaborate lighting effects. Jeff and Ann Haberman open their decorated home to the public free of charge, giving neighbourhood families a chance to experience a synchronised Halloween show without buying tickets...