India’s big piped natural gas (PNG) push seems to be running into a few roadblocks along the way. City gas distribution (CGD) companies are currently managing to add only 8,000-10,000 new connections a day, far short of petroleum and natural gas ministry’s ambitious target of 100,000 daily connections.Executives in the sector said the rollout is…
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that the UK’s current political scenario is making the bank reconsider plans for a multibillion-dollar office tower in London. He noted that America’s biggest bank may think about its London office plans if political changes in the UK result in a government that is “hostile to the…
Meta is about to lay off roughly 8,000 people on Wednesday, May 20, and the company has now told its North American staff to work from home that day as the cuts roll out. A leaked internal memo from HR chief Janelle Gale, first reported by Reuters, lays out the mechanics: emails will land at…
Kidnapped at gunpoint, Punjabi singer Yashinder Kaur’s body recovered from canal (File Photo) LUDHIANA: Five days after a Punjabi Singer from Ludhiana’s Mundian Kalan area, Yashinder Kaur, 29, popularly known as Inder Kaur, was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, the woman’s body was found from Neelon Canal near village Kuba on Tuesday. The woman had left…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly facing public resistance in the United States, according to multiple recent surveys and public reactions reported over the past few months. While major technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta continue investing billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, polls show growing concern among Americans about both AI technology…
Rohit Sharma and Abhishek Nayar (Video grabs) NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma may be enduring a stop-start IPL 2026 campaign, but the former Mumbai Indians skipper ensured there was no shortage of laughter at Eden Gardens on match eve.Ahead of Mumbai Indians’ league game against Kolkata Knight Riders, MI shared a fun training-ground video featuring Rohit…
Man falls to death from 15th floor in Gurgaon residential society. GURGAON: A 37-year-old assistant bank manager died after he allegedly slipped and fell into a shaft from the 15th floor of a high-rise residential society in Sector 52 on Sunday morning.The victim, Adil Ahmed Khan, a resident of Sushant Estate in Gurgaon, was employed…
NALGONDA: An Indian student from Telangana pursuing an MS degree in the United States died in a road accident near Chicago on Saturday night, according to news agency ANI.The deceased was identified as Navya Gadusu, a 24-year-old resident of Chervugattu village in Narketpalli mandal of Nalgonda district. She had moved to the US two years…
Has Russia lost 10% of its refining capacity? Ukraine launches drones killing 1 as Moscow attacks Danube port city (Image credit: AP) The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, continued to escalate on Tuesday as both sides exchanged fresh drone and air strikes, marking the 1,545th day of the war.Ukraine…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the fuel price hike and said that “an economic storm is on the way.”Speaking to reporters in Rae Bareli, the Congress leader said “tough times are coming” for the country’s economy and alleged that…
