With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, Roman Catholics around the globe will start speculating on who among the red-robed cardinals will succeed him. Given the nature of cardinal appointments Francis made during his papacy, there will inevitably be some expectation that the Argentine pontiff’s successor will be another non-European,…
Marcellus Investment CEO Saurabh Mukherjea (File photo from Marcellus website) White-collar employment, long considered the backbone of India’s growing middle class, is undergoing a significant decline, according to prominent investment strategist Saurabh Mukherjea. The founder and chief investment officer of Marcellus Investment Managers warns that stable, salaried jobs are no longer a sustainable model for…
A prominent Hindu community leader was allegedly abducted from his home and beaten to death in Dinajpur district in north Bangladesh, a media report said on Friday. Body of Bhabesh Chandra Roy, 58, a resident of Basudebpur village of Dinajpur, about 330 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, was recovered on Thursday night, The Daily Star said…
Luigi Mangione, the man charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is asking a federal judge to stop Attorney General Pam Bondi from seeking the death penalty against him. In a recent court filing, Mangione’s attorneys said that the US government is attempting to put him to death for political purposes, not justice….
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought all details related to the death of a young Air India Express pilot at Delhi Airport on Wednesday shortly after safely operating a flight from Srinagar. The airline is learnt to have given all the details to the regulator.Pilot friends of late first officer…
RAIPUR: The administration in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, has sent a notice to a well-known private hospital following allegations that “Dr John Camm, aka Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav“, operated on former Chhattisgarh Speaker Rajendra Prasad Shukla, who died shortly after surgery in 2006.The notice seeks to know how long Camm was employed with them and details of the…
Jet Set, an aging disco just a block from the sea in Santo Domingo, was the place to be on Monday nights. And this Monday was no exception. A collection of the country’s bold face names — from bankers to retired Major League Baseball players to politicians — were eager to kick up their heels…
NEW DELHI: A botched investigation by police, which also “planted” evidence, and lopsided proceedings by the trial court sent a man to the gallows in a rape-cum murder case of a child in Uttarakhand. After a decade in jail under the shadow of death, Supreme Court not only quashed his sentence but also acquitted him.A…
Rivers rose and flooding worsened Sunday across the sodden U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people. Even as the rain moved out of some of the hardest hit areas in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, water levels crept up in some…
An unvaccinated second school-age child hospitalized with measles has become the third person in the US to die from the virus since it began spreading through West Texas in late January. The child was receiving treatment for measles complications at UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas. According to the Associated Press, Aaron Davis, a spokesperson…