Sri Lankan-origin Canadian-American venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said he came to the US on an H-1B visa. So did Elon Musk. Sri Lankan-origin American billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said he came to the country on the much-discussed, much-abused H-1B visa program at a time when there were no takers for the visa program. Speaking to the…
Katchatheevu island transfer to Sri Lanka ‘dark chapter’ of Congress: BJP (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: With Congress in office in Kerala and part of govt in Tamil Nadu, BJP fired a twin salvo at the party and alleged that its decisions have harmed the interests of the two states. BJP said it was the 52nd anniversary…
Some things just can’t be taught from a book. You can read every manual ever written on how to ride a bike, run a meeting, or raise a child, and still be hopeless at the actual thing until you’ve watched someone do it and copied them. King Charles once put this in a wonderfully humble…
Freeman Dyson (Image: Wikipedia) Ask an adult what killed their love of a subject, and you’ll often hear the same answer. The exams. Something they once found fascinating got flattened into a syllabus, a set of model answers, and a grade out of a hundred. The physicist Freeman Dyson saw the danger in that, and…
Loss-making Air India stops crew laundry services on international layovers NEW DELHI: : This cost-cutting move could potentially stink all the way from ground to the sky. Loss-making Air India has informed its crew that “routine availability of laundry services during international layovers will be discontinued from July 1, 2026.” The facility will, however, continue…
Renée Nicole Good was killed on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an encounter with ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a woman at her workplace in New York and told her she could be arrested unless she removed an Instagram post identifying a federal agent involved…
Drone drug trafficking cases up 100-fold in 5 years (File photo) NEW DELHI: The skies are the new frontiers in India’s war on drugs, as a 100-fold jump in drone trafficking incidents over the last five years has forced security agencies to confront a highly sophisticated, tech-empowered threat. The annual Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) data…
Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi ‘lived together as a married couple for three months,’ claims senior journalist (Image credits: Instagram) Rumours about Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi‘s relationship have persisted for decades, with speculation ranging from a secret marriage to an eventual separation. While neither Mithun nor Sridevi ever publicly confirmed being married, senior entertainment journalist Jyothi…
MHA moving fast to set up exclusive NDPS court NEW DELHI: Ministry of home affairs is moving swiftly to set up exclusive NDPS courts across the country to secure speedy convictions in major narcotics cases, with home minister Amit Shah urging states to establish dedicated benches within their high courts for daily hearings. Till now,…
Japanese proverb of the day (AI-generated image) A thousand years against one hour. That’s the strange arithmetic at the heart of this Japanese proverb, and it’s worth pausing on. The reputation of a thousand years, it says, may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Sit with that for a second. A good name…