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...
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...
A 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan allegedly reached Delhi by hiding inside the landing gear compartment of a KAM Airlines flight from Kabul, according to reports. The incident was detected around 11 am on Monday, when flight RQ-4401 landed at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after a two-hour journey. The boy, identified as a resident of...
Updated: Sep 23rd, 2025 Super Typhoon Ragasa slammed into the northern Philippines on Monday, unleashing torrential rains and strong winds that triggered flooding, toppled trees, and tore roofs off homes. The intense weather prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 residents as authorities scrambled to ensure public safety. Roads in many areas became impassable due...
Updated: Sep 22nd, 2025 Khalistani extremist Inderjit Singh Gosal, regarded as a close aide and right-hand man of terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has reportedly been arrested in Ottawa on multiple charges related to firearms possession, several reports indicated on Monday. Gosal rose to prominence as a key Canadian organiser for the US-based Khalistani outfit Sikhs...
Updated: Sep 22nd, 2025 30 people killed by Pakistani Air Force air strike on a village in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (image: IANS) Over 30 people, including several women and children, were killed on Monday after the Pakistani Air Force dropped eight bombs on a village in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, several media reports have...