Tejaswi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah had ‘flouted all the rules’ and claimed the CEC had acted according to their wishes. NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of being misused to benefit the BJP and alleged that election rules had been changed…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could be President Donald Trump’s new artificial intelligence adviser, with his name emerging as a possible choice for the administration’s proposed “AI czar” role as concerns grow in Washington over the risks posed by the rapidly developing technology.Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar…
French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot‘s personal items have fetched about €1 million at auction in Paris. The amount is almost 20 times the estimate, according to the auction house Millon. A total of 285 objects, ranging from straw hats, sunglasses and nightgowns to tableware and furniture from Bardot’s homes in Paris and Saint-Tropez, were…
‘UP ke ladke’ vs each other? SP-Congress spar over who can beat BJP in 2027 NEW DELHI: The “UP ke ladke” bonhomie is beginning to look less like a united front and more like a contest for the upper hand, with Congress and Samajwadi Party leaders trading jabs over who can take on the BJP…
A tiny figurine connected to Russia’s last imperial family spent nearly eight decades hidden from public view before emerging from a New York attic and selling for $5.2 million at auction. The hardstone figure, created by the Fabergé workshop in 1912, depicts Nikolai N. Pustynnikov, a personal Cossack bodyguard to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of…
Akhtar also pointed to differences in access to healthcare. She said people in JKUT were able to access health benefits under national schemes even in remote areas, while similar access remained a distant prospect for people in PoK. NEW DELHI: Kashmiri socio-political activist Tasleema Akhtar has raised concerns over the treatment of people in Pakistan-occupied…
A student at Mohawk College in Ontario, Canada, who expected to work four or five shifts a week to pay for her education, has received a $20,000 Schulich Builders Scholarship to cover her tuition, equipment, and living costs as she trains for a career in heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning. The funding is part of…
She said that INDIA bloc will meet soon amid concerns over the “issue” NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded fresh Assembly elections in West Bengal using the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter list while announcing pan-India protests against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, after a report claimed two Election…
Dunlap Broadside [Declaration of Independence]. This is the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence. Image Credit: The U.S. National Archives/Wikimedia Commons A $4 flea-market purchase in Pennsylvania turned into one of the most remarkable discoveries in American history. In 1989, a man bought a framed painting mainly because he wanted the frame. When…
The PTI march is scheduled for September 27 Pakistan on Wednesday blocked major highways leading to the capital, Islamabad, and deployed tens of thousands of security personnel ahead of a march planned by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) seeking the release of its founder and jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.“Nearly 35,000 additional police and paramilitary…