SRINAGAR: Ladakhi delegates have said environmentalist and Leh Apex Body (LAB) member Sonam Wangchuk should be included in the next round of talks with the Centre.Addressing a gathering LAB had organised to welcome Wangchuk in Leh on Sunday, its co-chairman Tsering Dorjay Lakrook said any future dialogue should include the environmentalist, given his prominent role…
A chance discovery at a Michigan sanitarium in 1894 led to the creation of flaked cereal. Brothers Will and John Harvey Kellogg, seeking healthy food alternatives, accidentally produced toasted wheat flakes. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons For many of us, we wake up at odd hours of the morning to prepare ourselves breakfast, without ever being…
Stand-up comedian Samay Raina has once again spoken about the deep scars left by the Kashmiri Pandit exodus, this time offering a more personal and detailed account of how it impacted his family across generations. Recalling the fear that gripped his family, Raina revealed how his maternal grandfather was directly under threat. Amid the violence,…
The exact increase will depend on several things – global gold prices, GST, purity, making charges, and even the jeweller you buy from. But one thing is clear: imported gold itself has become costlier. To put it simply, if gold worth ₹1 lakh earlier attracted roughly ₹6,000 in import duty, the same quantity could now…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (file photo) NEW DELHI: “Consider me your candidate in all 294 constituencies,” Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said in a poll rally, urging voters to look beyond individual nominees and rally behind her leadership.As Mamata Banerjee took the stage in Paschim Medinipur’s Chandrakona on, her message cut through the campaign…
Rini Sampath, an Indian-origin professional, has made history by becoming the first South Asian candidate to secure a place on the mayoral ballot in Washington, DC.Sampath was born in Theni in Tamil Nadu. She moved to the United States at the age of seven with her family. She has lived in Washington, DC, for over…
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena announced Saturday fresh talks between Ladakhi functionaries and Union home ministry on May 22, as home minister Amit Shah prepares for a two-day visit to Leh from April 30, his first since last year’s unrest over demands for statehood and Sixth Schedule safeguards.Saxena said a sub-committee for political dialogue…
4 min readNew DelhiSep 3, 2025 12:06 PM IST Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is topping the charts. The documentary tells a shocking true story that begins like a case of teenage cyberbullying but takes a disturbing turn when a mother is revealed to have catfished her own daughter. The story follows Lauryn…
US President Donald Trump stunned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by declaring Israel was “prohibited” from carrying out further airstrikes in Lebanon, even as Iran announced it was reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping during a fragile regional ceasefire, according to inputs from Axios.Trump’s remarks created immediate confusion in Israel and raised new…
Elon Musk recently said that WhatsApp’s end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) cannot be trusted. The tech billionaire was responding to a post about a new class action lawsuit against Meta that blames the platform for reading users’ messages without consent. “WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encrypted” privacy is a total lie. New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors…
