MYSURU: Shock. Silence. Sombre faces huddled around television screens. Siddaramanahundi – home turf of outgoing Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah – slipped into mourning after news of his resignation rippled through the tiny village, 25km from Mysuru, Thursday.Several residents left for Bengaluru on Wednesday to stand by him. Villagers clung to hope till the very end. By…
Popular Twitch streamer QTCinderella has announced plans to take legal action against clip accounts that allegedly use her stream content to spread harassment and misleading narratives. Returning online after grieving the loss of her dog Swift, she said she would issue DMCA takedowns against malicious reposts. The move comes amid growing concerns over “clip farming”…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: To prevent paper leak in NEET-UG, Centre is actively exploring the use of IAF aircraft for transporting question papers for the June 21 retest, as part of a wider “whole-of-govt” security strategy involving the home ministry, central agencies and state police networks, reports Manash Gohain.The proposal was discussed…
A resurfaced video of Charlie Kirk defending Candace Owens has reignited debate online. In the clip, Kirk calls Owens “the best” and says, “We’re on Team Candace.” Owens shared the video, writing that Kirk “always had my back.” However, many social media users criticized her, arguing that her recent attacks on Kirk’s family and organization…
NEW DELHI: Child marriage persists in several Indian states despite years of campaigns promoting girls’ education and delayed marriage, with West Bengal and Jharkhand reporting the country’s highest share of girls marrying before the legal age of 18 years, according to the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2024.The report – released by the…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Thursday accused fellow party MP Kalyan Banerjee of “verbally abusing” her inside Lok Sabha and urged Speaker Om Birla to punish him, saying other women members of the House too have been at the receiving end of his “misogyny”.Her complaint underscored the deep churn within TMC,…
A Google software engineer has been arrested in US after allegedly using confidential company data to place prediction bets that earned him more than $1 million.Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen who worked at Google, used internal search trend information from the company to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket involving singer D4vd, who is…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday appointed Kewal Singh Dhillon, a Jat Sikh from the politically decisive Malwa region, its Punjab president, signalling its ambitious outreach to Sikhs as the state gears up for assembly polls and named Union minister Harsh Malhotra its Delhi unit president as part of top-level changes it made in four states,…
A group of Indian tourists has sparked debate online after a video showed them performing Garba on an airport tarmac in Vietnam, with many social media users saying it was not the place for such behaviour.The clip has gone viral across Instagram, Reddit, X and other platforms. It appears to show several travellers dancing in…
New Delhi: United Nations will posthumously honour two Indian peacekeepers on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday for making the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan, who was deployed…