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A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s southern Kyushu region on Tuesday, prompting tsunami warnings and emergency alerts across several prefectures, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).The JMA said the earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1, struck Kumamoto prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu. Following the quake, the agency issued a…

Ahead of Guru Pornima 2026, Lets meet ‘Jana Nayagan’ star Thalapathy Vijay’s best teacher and mentor characters on screen On the occasion of Guru Purnima, the focus turns to teachers, mentors and guides who shape lives through knowledge, compassion and encouragement. In cinema, over the years, Thalapathy Vijay has portrayed several such characters on screen….

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu‘s accusation that he was “fomenting hate”, saying he was “not interested in getting into a back-and-forth” with the Israeli prime minister over his past support for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against him.Mamdani made the remarks while addressing reporters at a press…

Swati Maliwal slams ‘super CM’ Kejriwal for maintaining ‘complete silence’ on Punjab paper leak issue NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of failing to address examination irregularities in Punjab, claiming that the state had witnessed six major paper leaks over the past five years.Speaking to…

US president Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday (local time) for separate high-stakes meetings as the wars in Ukraine and West Asia enter critical phases. The back-to-back talks are expected to focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Iran, regional security…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has sought to clarify his company’s stance amid the growing industry debate over open-weight AI models. In a blog post, Amodei said that Anthropic has “never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” countering criticism that the firm is trying to exert excessive control over the future of artificial intelligence. His…

Meta admits that it was in error NEW DELHI: Meta on Tuesday admittted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s first selfie video on Facebook, meant to address GenZ over NEET paper leak, was taken down briefly due to an “error”.“The content was removed in error and has since been restored,” said a Meta spokesperson, as quoted…

“What we’re trying to do though is to make taxation fairer,” said UK’s PM, Andy Burnham (Photo: AP) Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday ruled out any changes to stamp duty in the government’s next budget, signalling that homebuyers and property investors should not expect relief from the tax later this year.Asked…

In 2012, Oracle went to the European Court of Justice to stop people reselling its software licences second-hand. It lost. That judgment, known as UsedSoft, settled a simple idea: once you sell someone a perpetual software licence, you cannot control what they do with it afterwards. Fourteen years on, that ruling is proving to be…

AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Kerala, on July 17, ordered an Instagram-based boutique to pay compensation to a woman after finding that it took full payment for two wedding dresses but delivered only one, and never refunded the money for the other despite repeated promises. The…