The 18th Brics Summit was held at New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam from Sept 13-14 NEWDELHI: The presence of chief ministers from BJP-governed states at the dinner for Brics leaders hosted by govt made it look like an entirely governing alliance affair, but official sources said that CMs hailing from opposition parties were also invited but…
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s eldest son, Maddox, has officially dropped ‘Pitt’ from his surname.A Los Angeles judge approved his petition to change his name during a hearing on Monday, September 14. The court has officially allowed the 25-year-old to legally take the name ‘Maddox Chivan Jolie’. Maddox drops ‘Pitt’ surname Maddox had filed the…
At 84, ‘Nan Barb’ drives more than 2,000km through remote Western Australia each month delivering donated clothes (Image Credit: ABC South West WA/ Jon Daly) For 84-year-old Barbara Carroll, long-distance driving has become part of a monthly mission to help people living in some of Western Australia’s most remote communities. Known affectionately as “Nan Barb,”…
Salem was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that if a person is convicted in two cases and sentenced separately, the period of imprisonment undergone as an undertrial can be offset against only one of the sentences and not both even when the…
The property at 6101 Shoup Ave. covers about 4,675 square feet and sits behind gates on a nearly 28,000-square-foot lot A Los Angeles home that has hosted 173 commercial productions since 2021 has been listed for $3.245 million, along with the filming business built around the property. The Woodland Hills residence, known as the Rum…
NEW DELHI: Govt has agreed to export 654MW of electricity daily to flood-ravaged Nepal for 18 hours a day till Dec 31. The ministry of power Monday said the recent floods caused significant damage to hydropower infrastructure in Nepal, reducing its domestic power generation capacity and creating an additional requirement for electricity, reports Atul Mathur.Beginning…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has arrested former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s former OSD Chetan Borghariya, who is presently additional collector of Balrampur-Ramanujganj, in the case of illegal appointments of DSPs and collectors through exam paper leaks.ED, which had earlier arrested former state public service commission (PSC) chief Taman Singh Sonwani,…
Texas park authorities have acquired a 1,720-acre ranch in Uvalde County to create Bear Creek State Park, offering outdoor visitors a more natural and rugged alternative to the heavily developed recreation areas nearby. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), the property was purchased for $33.5 million using a one-time state appropriation. It…
For generations, cow manure was simply an unavoidable byproduct of running a dairy farm. At Jordan Dairy Farms in Rutland, Massachusetts, however, it became something much more valuable: a source of electricity, heat, fertiliser and even animal bedding. In 2011, the family-run dairy installed what it describes as the first agricultural anaerobic digester in Massachusetts….
NEW DELHI: Leading lawyers Harish Salve and Mahesh Jethmalani Monday advocated a reset in the judiciary, as happened after the Emergency, and said the complaint redressal mechanism needs to be reformed for the public to continue reposing faith in the institution.Referring to the unprecedented discovery of burning cash at Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence in March…