Israel’s military has opened an investigation after a photograph circulated online appearing to show one of its soldiers striking a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that an initial examination found the image depicts a soldier operating in the south of the country, where Israeli troops remain deployed despite…
TIRUPATI: A 17-year-old boy was bludgeoned to death with cement bricks by his uncle over suspicion of being in an illicit relationship with the latter’s wife, near Pamurayi village in Anantapur rural mandal on Saturday.According to Anantapur rural police inspector N Sekhar, the uncle had for long suspected that the boy, an intermediate student of…
NEW DELHI: When we think of pitch invaders during a cricket match, what usually comes to mind? A fan – either a girl or a boy – jumping the fence, sprinting across the field, touching their favourite cricketer’s feet, hugging them, or trying to click a quick selfie before being escorted away by security officials….
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on early Monday took a shot at the US, warning that energy pricing is increasingly being driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals, as tensions around the Strait of Hormuz continue to rattle global supply chains.Also read: Iran rejects second round of talks with US in PakistanIn a post on…
In a rare moment of candour among tech leaders, Jack Dorsey, CEO of fintech giant Block, openly admitted that artificial intelligence was the driving force behind the company’s decision to lay off 40% of its workforce which account to more than 4,000 employees. According to a report by Fortune, Dorsey said that the decision crystallised…
NEW DELHI: After a brief rain relief, the mercury has started rising again, with the maximum temperature touching 40.1 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal, on Sunday at the city’s base station, Safdarjung.For the first time this season, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for heatwave conditions in isolated areas from Wednesday…
KANPUR: A 48-year-old man allegedly strangled and slit the throats of his 11-year-old twin daughters after sedating them in the Kidwai Nagar area of the city early Sunday.The father, Shashi Ranjan Mishra, a pharmaceutical businessman, was arrested from the scene after he reported the crime on Dial-112.The bodies of the twins, both Class 5 students,…
Yann LeCun, the former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and one of the most decorated researchers in the history of the field, has fired back at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after Amodei predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) could wipe out up to 50% of all entry-level tech, law, consulting and finance jobs within the next…
The United States on Saturday intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel after it tried to bypass the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.CENTCOM said the USS Spruance fired several rounds into the vessel’s engine room after repeated warnings were ignored, and later boarded it, placing it under US custody. President Donald Trump also claimed the vessel…
HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old businessman was run over by a Mercedes on the Durgam Cheruvu cable bridge in the wee hours of Sunday. After the accident, the driver, who is yet to be identified, abandoned the car and fled from the spot. The car has a West Bengal registration number.Around 3.15am, Shyam Raj, a resident of…