JD Vance during interview with Theo Von (Screen grab from X @VP) US vice president JD Vance sought to ease growing tensions between US President Donald Trump and billionaire, Elon Musk, calling the Tesla CEO’s recent outbursts emotional but well-intentioned.In an interview with comedian Theo Von released Friday, Vance said of Musk, “I think his…
BENGALURU: A senior police officer had raised red flags over the lack of security personnel and potential crowd control issues just hours before a stampede killed 11 people outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s IPL victory celebration on Wednesday.According to official letter accessed by the TOI, MN Karibasavana Gowda, who oversees legislature…
MUMBAI: RannSamar Foundation, a Mumbai-based all-India NGO, on Saturday organized a fund distribution program for families who have lost loved ones to manual scavenging—lives lost while cleaning septic tanks.Between 2018 and 2023, over 400 lives were lost while cleaning septic tanks and sewers across India. The year-wise figures are alarming: 76 deaths in 2018, 133…
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the fast-fashion retailer that’s been listed on the Swedish stock market since 1974, is steadily moving back towards private ownership. The founding family has stepped up purchases of H&M shares, spending more than $6.6 billion since 2016 to amass nearly two-thirds control and fuelling speculation it could take the Stockholm-based company…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has shared an advice for aspiring tech professionals. The CEO recently appeared in a conversation with tech YouTuber Sajjaad Khade where he urged students to focus on building strong fundamentals in computational thinking, even as AI shapes the software industry. He stressed that despite AI’s growing role…
What’s the difference between push-ups and pull-ups? Two of the most popular upper body workouts you’ll find at a gym or training program are push-ups and pull-ups. Probably one of the most popular exercises is the push-up. Similar to pull-ups, push-ups are very easy workouts that can be performed (nearly) anyplace and work a variety…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission officials on Saturday slammed LoP Rahul Gandhi for accusing the poll panel of “fixing” Maharashtra polls, saying that the “absurd” allegations – dismissed in a letter to Congress dated Dec 24, 2024 – not only “demotivate” lakhs of govt staff who work untiringly to deliver transparent elections but also “bring into…
NEW DELHI: The railways did not just face the tough challenge of terrain and geology to construct the world’s highest cable-supported single-arch bridge on the Chenab river, it also fought a long legal battle, with a host of PILs filed in courts challenging alignment, cost and faulty methodology, casting a shadow of uncertainty over the…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday met and felicitated officers of the Chhattisgarh Police who played a key role in the recent anti-Naxal operations in Bijapur and Narayanpur that led to the elimination of top CPI(Maoist) leader Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju and 57 others.On X later, Shah said, “Met the officers who…
BENGALURU: Union minister and JD(S) chief HD Kumaraswamy Saturday alleged that the Karnataka govt had “pre-planned” the RCB IPL victory celebrations and official permissions were granted hours before the final match had even begun. He said this raised serious concerns over political and bureaucratic accountability on the stampede.“The FIR on the stampede incident says permission…
