NEW DELHI: Parliament is likely to be adjourned to a fixed date when the ongoing session ends on April 2 and not sine die, as is the practice, as govt looks to reconvene the two houses to present its bills for the rollout of women’s reservation in directly elected legislatures from the next Lok Sabha…
Donald Trump launched OnlyFarms to show how much US farmers have benefited from his policies/ X Donald Trump marked National Agriculture Day on Friday (Mar 27) by unveiling a new White House website, staging a large-scale event for farmers on the South Lawn, and announcing fresh policy measures aimed at an agricultural sector under pressure…
Govt Proposes To Do Away With Jail Term NEW DELHI: In a reprieve for first-time offenders, govt has proposed to do away with a jail term of up to three months for driving a vehicle violating the prescribed road safety and air and noise pollution norms.As part of the 784 provisions, across 79 central laws,…
NEW DELHI: He had no red flags. No “high-risk” tag. By standard medical calculators, he was not the kind of patient doctors worry about. Then came the heart attack — sudden and without warning. Doctors say this is no longer unusual. A major Indian study suggests it may be the norm.In a retrospective analysis of…
Bank of America has agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by women who accused the bank of enabling sexual abuse and sex trafficking linked to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The settlement was disclosed in court filings on Friday and still requires approval from a federal judge.The lawsuit was filed in…
Former Raymond chairman Vijaypat Singhania, a corporate titan and record-setting aviator who embodied his brand’s famous tagline, ‘The Complete Man’, died in Mumbai on Saturday evening. He was 87. He was admitted on Friday following a decline in his health due to age-related illness. He will be cremated on Sunday at Chandanwadi crematorium. Hailing from…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports that billionaire Elon Musk joined the phone call between PM Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump last week, the Indian govt said on Saturday that the conversation was between the leaders only.NYT reported late on Friday that Musk participated in the phone call that Trump made to Modi, calling it an…
A Florida man has sold his family home in just five days for nearly $1 million after relying on the AI bot ChatGPT instead of a traditional estate agent.Robert Levine, a Miami resident and father of three, said he turned to artificial intelligence to handle almost every part of the sale, from pricing the property…
IAF starts work on ‘Vayu Baan’ NEW DELHI: With drones taking centre stage in conflicts around the world, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has started work on the country’s first helicopter-dropped drone project, called ‘Vayu Baan’ (air arrow).Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned…
When Malaysia set out to build the Petronas Twin Towers in the 1990s, it adopted an unusual strategy that would later become the stuff of engineering legend. Instead of assigning the project to a single contractor, the government split the work between two rival international consortia, one led by Japan and the other by South…