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…
Helen Mirren has been in the news over the alleged drama on the ‘MobLand’ sets involving co-star Tom Hardy. However, on Thursday night, the veteran actress went viral on social media after a video showed a Pro-Palestine protestor calling her an ‘evil Zionist b****’. Helen Mirren’s video goes viral The actress was filmed while on…
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…
Actor and musician Saba Azad got candid about women’s health, sexuality, periods and the stigma around visiting gynecologists. While promoting the second season of her show Who’s Your Gynac?, Saba spoke at length about the shame women continue to face around their bodies and reproductive health. ‘There’s so much shame around women’s bodies’ Talking about…
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…
Brad Pitt has secured a fresh legal victory in his ongoing battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over Chateau Miraval. According to the latest reports, a judge has ordered a key figure connected to the case to return for another deposition.A Michigan judge, on May 20, ruled that attorneys representing the Stoli side “improperly blocked” a…
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…
When North Dakota farmer Randy Fyllesvold died unexpectedly in a car crash in September 2025, his family was left grieving while also facing an overwhelming reality. Around 1,400 acres of corn and soybeans still stood unharvested just as winter weather was beginning to close in. For farming families, missing the narrow harvest window can mean…