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In a move that has stirred strong reactions online, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Diwali message has come under fire for not mentioning Hindus, the community at the festival’s heart. The official greeting, shared on X (formerly Twitter), extended “warm wishes to the many communities” celebrating Diwali but made no reference to Hindus. The…

Screenshot from viral video (Courtesy: Congress) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday shared a video showing a man, allegedly UP BJP leader Vikul Chaprana, abusing another man and forcing him to kneel and apologise.Calling it the “true face” of the BJP, which governs Uttar Pradesh, the Congress demanded the immediate arrest of the individual involved.“Watch…

NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav once again questioned chief minister Nitish Kumar’s health and fitness to continue leading the state, sharing a video of him from a recent rally.Posting the clip on X, Tejashwi wrote, “If the chief minister is healthy, then why is he acting like this while reading a written speech?”The footage…

New satellite imagery indicates that Iran is rebuilding parts of its former nuclear weapons development site, known as Taleghan 2, within the Parchin military complex near Tehran. The facility was destroyed during an Israeli air strike on 25 October 2024, but construction resumed in mid-May 2025, months after the June 12-Day War.According to imagery analysed…

Rohit Sharma (L), Virat Kohli (C) and Shreyas Iyer (R) – all of whom play single format for India – produced paltry returns in the first ODI vs Australia in Perth. (AFP/AP/IANS) Lack of real match practice for India’s star batters Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Shreyas Iyer could hurt India’s ODI plans leading up…

Amazon Web Services experienced a massive 15-hour outage on October 20 that knocked offline thousands of popular applications and websites, from Snapchat and Fortnite to banking apps and government services, before the company announced full restoration of its cloud services.The disruption began around 12:30 p.m. IST and affected more than 1,000 companies globally, with outage-tracking…

India’s top ombudsman, the Lokpal, has stirred controversy by issuing a tender for BMWs, ironically inviting suspicions of the very corruption the body was created to prevent.On 16 October, the anti-corruption authority issued a tender stating that “The Lokpal of India invites open tender enquiries on a PAC basis through an online two-bid system (Technical…

To attract top talent in San Francisco’s competitive housing market, AI startups are now reportedly leasing luxury apartments for employees, a strategy analysts say they have never seen before. According to a report, AI startups are going beyond higher salaries to attract talent, leasing luxury apartments in one of America’s most expensive housing markets. These…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has officially welcomed Karthik Narain, a former Global CTO of Accenture, to Google Cloud as its new chief product and business officer. Pichai took to professional networking platform LinkedIn to welcome and congratulate Narain. In a post shared Pichai praised Narain’s deep expertise in enterprise technology and his ability to drive…

AGRA: Thousands of vehicles passed through the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehabad on Monday without paying toll charges after workers, upset over their Diwali bonus, opened all the gates. The protest caused major disruption to toll operations and traffic flow, prompting police intervention.The unrest began when 21 employees at the Fatehabad toll plaza, managed…