NRI man said domestic help in India does not always make life easier; managing them takes a mental toll. (AI photo) An NRI man said he got a reality check about life in India when his wife spent about four months in the country before their final plan to relocate to India. While everyone claims…
With Brent crude prices spiking again to over $105 per barrel, US Treasury bond yields rising to a more than two-decade high and the rupee at close to 96.8/$, strong foreign fund selling pulled the markets sharply down on Thursday. Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank and Bharti Airtel led the slide as sensex lost 1,045 points…
Lance Lowry (Agency photo) NEW YORK: At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200…
Pat Cummins (Image credit: Agencies( South African sports broadcaster SuperSport has taken a dig at Australia ahead of their first Test series in South Africa since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, also known as Sandpapergate. Australia will face South Africa in a three-match series, with the opening Test scheduled at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday, October…
Gold medallist India’s Pranavi Urs celebrates during the women’s individual stroke play medal ceremony REUTERS/Andy Chua “A lot of non-golfers don’t know what the sport means or what it is. And they all just think that it’s a rich man’s sport. In reality, it really isn’t.”Pranavi Urs, the 23-year-old from Mysuru, has just returned from…
A Slovak student has developed an affordable microscope system that can create 3D models of tiny objects without destroying samples. Filip Lajciak, from Secondary Technical High School Dubnica nad Vahom, developed the system as a stereo vision solution for microscopic samples. It uses a stereo camera integrated into an optical microscopic effector to capture views…
Trump’s latest climate rollback targets carbon emissions from US power plants The Donald Trump administration is set to scrap Biden-era limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, marking another major rollback of US climate policy and removing restrictions that targeted a sector responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reclaimed a spot in the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies, riding the optimism of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in the tech industry that pushed its stock to record levels.According to a report by Bloomberg, TSMC’s stock rallied 14% last week, elevating the chipmaker’s market capitalisation…
When Bhadran wanted Nana Patekar to replace Mammootty in ‘Iyer The Great’; why the Hindi remake. Although the late actor Nana Patekar has not acted in any Malayalam films, filmmaker Bhadran once hoped to bring his Malayalam thriller ‘Iyer The Great’ to Hindi audiences with the late Bollywood actor playing the lead role originally portrayed…
A shared laugh between parent and child can turn an ordinary word into a favourite little game. There is a moment many parents will recognise. You accidentally call a spoon a “spoonasaurus”, give a funny name to your child’s favourite toy, or say a completely nonsensical word in a silly voice. Your child bursts out…
