IMD weather alert: Heavy rain, thunderstorms forecast across multiple states this week (Image credit: ANI) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast further advancement of the southwest monsoon over several parts of the country in the coming days.In its June 4 bulletin, the weather agency predicted widespread rainfall activity and issued alerts for thunderstorms, heavy…
MUMBAI: Mayor Ritu Tawde on Thursday rejected the BMC inquiry report on the Chembur tree crash that killed 11 year-old Vihaan Srivastav. In the general body meeting, she said the findings failed to fix accountability and directed the civic administration to conduct a fresh inquiry.The report came under severe attack in the BMC house, with…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has once again predicted that artificial intelligence is close at hand, telling an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business that AGI could arrive around 2030, plus or minus a year. He called it an “enormous transformative technology” that will usher in “a new human era.” Hassabis also added that…
NEW DELHI: In an important clarification to its two-year-old judgement against ‘bulldozer justice’, Supreme Court said its ruling does not bar use of bulldozers to remove rampant illegal constructions and encroachments on public land following compliance with the procedure laid down in municipal laws.Refusing to adjudicate individual contempt petitions alleging demolition of houses, mosques and…
Mumbai: Prism, the parent company of Oyo, has secured markets regulator Sebi’s nod to go ahead with its IPO in what will be its third attempt at going public, said people aware of the matter. The company is seeking to raise up to Rs 6,650 crore through fresh issues of shares and is targeting a…
South Carolina Senator and US President Donald Trump’s close aide passed away on Saturday at the age of 71.According to a statement released by the office of the Republican senator, Graham passed away after a brief and sudden illness.“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, US Senator Lindsey Graham passed away after a brief and…
We all know someone who practically lives in jeans. Maybe it’s your friend who owns exactly one dress but somehow has fifteen pairs of denim. Maybe it’s your colleague who wears jeans every Friday, Monday and probably every day in between. Or maybe it’s you.No matter how many fashion trends come and go, jeans somehow…
I am an Indian, and everyone says I lack civic sense.Some Westerners can overturn cars, burn streets, and vandalise a city after a championship game. But I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.I am an Indian, and everyone says I steal…
Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde NEW DELHI: Is Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) in line for another major blow?Four years after Eknath Shinde‘s rebellion split the party, the Maharashtra deputy chief minister is reportedly in touch with a fresh group of Lok Sabha members from the Thackeray camp. Reports suggest that at least six of…
Image Credit: Getty Images Clive Staples Lewis, popularly known as C.S. Lewis, was a renowned British writer, scholar, and thinker of the 20th century. Born in 1898, he is best remembered for his imaginative works such as The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as his profound writings on philosophy, faith, and human nature. Lewis was…