Gandhinagar: In a significant move aimed at strengthening local governance, the Gujarat government has approved the creation of 17 new talukas, taking the total number in the state to 269. The decision was announced after a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, ahead of the local body elections scheduled for January-February 2026. State...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 Image: X (JLFLitfest) After winning the Booker for her much-acclaimed 2006 book, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, Delhi-born author Kiran Desai has been shortlisted for Booker Prize 2025 for her book ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’. Desai moved to the US after her initial years of education in India. Desai started...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 The White House has signalled that physicians and medical residents could be exempted from the newly introduced $100,000 (₹88 lakh) surcharge on H-1B visa petitions, as per reports. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers reportedly told Bloomberg News that the proclamation signed by President Donald Trump “allows for potential exemptions, which can...
In a tragic incident in Mumbai, seven people — including six women — sustained severe burn injuries after a fire broke out due to a suspected LPG gas leak in Kandivali’s Akurli area on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred at Ram Kisan Mestri Chawl, near ESIC Hospital, on Military Road at Akurli Cross Road No....
A shocking incident from Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district has gone viral, showing a government school headmistress arriving at school drunk. The incident occurred at the Government Primary School in Levai village, Baloda block, where 45-year-old headmistress Heera Porte reportedly tried to take the mid-day meal but was so inebriated that she tripped and fell onto a...
In a major development, the parents of former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar — Dilip and Manorama Khedkar — have reportedly fled India amid a road rage and kidnapping case. According to sources, a lookout notice had been issued against the duo after a shocking incident on September 13 on the Mulund-Airoli Road in Navi Mumbai. ...
Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, is facing accusations that he sexually abused five of his children and stepchildren over a period dating back to the early 1990s, according to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday. The report suggests that these allegations may help explain why Elon Musk, who has...
A brief technical snag at the United Nations turned into a diplomatic flashpoint after an escalator abruptly halted just as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced the incident as ‘unacceptable,’ urging a formal inquiry to determine whether the stoppage was accidental or...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 Days after US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to significantly curtail the H-1B visa programme, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed to ‘amend its regulations’ governing the process. The DHS proposal seeks to scrap the existing lottery system and implement “a weighted selection process that would generally...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 A Florida jury found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump a year ago on a golf course. The attempt to assassinate the then Republican presidential nominee came just weeks before the November 2024 election, and two months after a separate assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, when Trump was grazed...