Spread the love       File photo: Ladakh’s Chief Secretary Ashish Kundra SRINAGAR: Amid protests by women in large numbers demanding a ban on liquor and declaring Ladakh a dry Union Territory, the administration on Tuesday asked the Ladakhi Buddhist Association’s women’s wing to have wider consultations to build consensus on the issue and find a middle ground.The protesters are affiliated with...

Spread the love       Colin Farrell’s foundation selects 16 US organisations for grants supporting adults with disabilities (Image Credit: Colin Farrell Foundation) For many families, planning for a child with an intellectual or developmental disability to transition into adulthood brings difficult questions about housing, employment, healthcare and long-term support. Actor Colin Farrell has helped bring attention to these challenges through a...

Spread the love       MADURAI: Non-Hindus who sport their religious markers — and who do not subscribe to their reverence to the deity — cannot be permitted to enter the Agamic Hindu temple premises, Madras high court has held.A division bench of Justice G R Swaminathan and Justice P Murugan, hearing a public interest litigation filed by K Thangam Venkatesh of...

Spread the love       Pic credit: Kavanaugh Real Estate The 41-acre vineyard estate in Portola Valley, owned by the Fogarty Family Trust associated with the late cardiovascular surgeon and Thomas Fogarty Winery founder Dr Thomas J. Fogarty, sold for $11.04 million in September, the Mountain View Voice reported. The property includes a three-level stone Italian villa with breathtaking views of San...

Spread the love       File photo: Two people holding an umbrella brave strong winds and rain as high tide waves hit the coast ahead of the impending landfall of cyclonic storm ‘Arnab’, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Tuesday reviewed aviation safety and operational readiness as Cyclone Arnab is expected to intensify into a very...

Spread the love       Denver is moving ahead with plans to turn the former Park Hill Golf Course into a major public green space, appointing a prominent landscape architecture firm to lead its design while taking steps to safeguard the property against future development. The decision follows years of debate over the site’s future, culminating in a 2023 vote in which...

Spread the love       Flavio Bolsonaro flew to US after electoral defeat/ Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday’s presidential runoff to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left the country for the United States, an ally told news agency Reuters on Tuesday, confirming an earlier media report.His reported departure came after Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered him to surrender his passports...

Spread the love       US President Donald Trump said the technology should be referred to as “super intelligence”. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration would ban the term “artificial intelligence” in official documents, calling it inaccurate. He said the technology should instead be called “super intelligence”.In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why The Wall Street Journal...

Spread the love       Pramod Bhagat NEW DELHI: Asian Para Games medallists have written to sports authorities, seeking an inquiry into a now-deleted social media post by national para badminton coach Gaurav Khanna predicting India’s para badminton medal tally ahead of the finals at the recently concluded multisport continental event in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.In an email dated Oct 27, sent at 8.07pm...

Spread the love       Andrews started from Everest Base Camp at 7.45am and recorded his finishing time on his watch, as stated in his update. Five months after he broke the Everest speed record, US endurance athlete Tyler Andrews, 36, set another high-altitude mark on Tuesday, completing the 54.4km trail from Everest Base Camp to Lukla in seven hours and 43...