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Easiest Houseplants to Keep Alive: Top 5 Beginner-Friendly Plants Keeping houseplants alive can sometimes feel like an uphill battle, even for people with years of plant-keeping. However, according to gardening experts, the secret to success is less about having a green thumb and more about choosing the right plants to start with.In a recent 2026…

Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel (Getty Images) Photos of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel at an Arizona resort didn’t just spark curiosity, they triggered a wave of speculation that quickly moved beyond the facts. Both have denied anything inappropriate, and there is no confirmed evidence suggesting otherwise. Still, in today’s media climate, perception often outruns…

OpenAI has announced that the company is pausing its Stargate artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project in the United Kingdom (UK). According to a report in Bloomberg, OpenAI has cited the high cost of energy and regulatory environment in the country as the reasons. While maintaining the OPenAI sees huge potential for the UK’s AI future,…

KOLKATA/RANAGHAT: A 97-year-old Partition refugee who never missed a vote is struck off the rolls. A 72-year-old retired teacher who presided over a dozen polls is deleted despite papers. A 68-year-old collapsed and died in a tribunal queue. Fallout from SIR has rippled across Bengal. Subarna Bala Poddar, born in undivided Bengal and displaced in…

R Vaishali (Photo by Niki Riga) NEW DELHI: As the FIDE Candidates 2026 in Cyprus heads into a much-needed rest day, India’s Vaishali Rameshbabu has emerged as the woman to beat.The 24-year-old, despite a draw in the 10th round, has broken away from the pack to become the sole table-topper in the women’s section, which…

Former chief minister J Jayalithaa often campaigned from her campaign vehicle, with her close aide V K Sasikala seated in the back, watching as constituents and media gathered around her van. Sasikala has now moved to the front.Evoking memories of Jayalalithaa’s roadshows, Sasikala delivers short speeches from her van at key constituencies in south Tamil…

Project Crucial For Parts Of MP & UP: Officials BHOPAL: Hundreds of tribal farmers, mostly women, lay on mock funeral pyres in MP’s Chhatarpur district on Thursday during a protest against the proposed Ken-Betwa river linking project, signalling their resolve to oppose it till their last breath.In viral images, women, many holding small children, lay…

KOLKATA: The RG Kar rape-murder victim’s mother, a BJP candidate in West Bengal, once again used her saree to convey a message – this time wearing one inscribed with ‘Shaktirupena Sangsthita (embodiment of strength)’ – as she filed her nomination Thursday. She had earlier drawn attention by campaigning in a saree imprinted with the slogan…

KOLKATA: Shamsherganj and Lalgola constituencies of Bengal’s Muslim-dominant Murshidabad district had the highest number of voters removed from the electoral rolls after post-SIR judicial adjudication, while the Purulia-Jhargram tribal belt reported the least deletions, based on collated Election Commission data released on Thursday. The figures for Murshidabad – 74,775 deletions out of 1,08,400 names that…

As CWC meets today, Stalin slams Centre’s women quota moveNEW DELHI: Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Friday to discuss the party’s stance on BJP-led govt’s proposed amendments to the women’s reservation law, even as opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam head and Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin launched a scathing criticism of the…