A 44-year-old Florida man lands into trouble after sneaking into a random house. He stayed there for several days to avoid going home to his angry wife after an argument, according to officials.The man, who identified himself as Joe, was cooking dinner and had just run a luxurious bath when police arrived, the NY Post…
NEW DELHI: Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev on Thursday expressed his anguish over the death of 11 fans during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s IPL victory celebrations, saying “lives are more important than celebration” and urging everyone to take proper precautions in the future.On Wednesday, nearly two and a half lakh people gathered near the M Chinnaswamy Stadium…
It has been five years since the death of George Floyd shook the world and ignited a wave of racial justice protests across the globe. The Black Lives Matter movement surged into mainstream consciousness after footage of Floyd’s fatal encounter with Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went viral.But alongside the public outcry and push for…
Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of education and economics at Boston University, found a similarly striking effect at the college level. Goodman looked at a data set of students whose SAT scores were right on the margin of a cutoff point established for admission to what he called “target colleges.” The candidates were essentially equivalent,…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday observed that Yoga guru Ramdev was “living in his own world” while finding him in prima facie contempt of its earlier order regarding his controversial “sharbat jihad” remarks against Hamdard‘s Rooh Afza.Justice Amit Bansal noted that despite the court’s April 22 directive prohibiting statements or videos about…
Anjan Roy was mid-conversation with friends at Missouri State University when an email landed in his inbox — brief, bureaucratic, and world-altering, as stated by the Associated Press. Without warning, his legal status as an international student was terminated. His path, once firmly directed toward academic success, was now pointing to deportation.“I was in literal…
“Do these have cheese in them?” he asked. She saw more tourists in snowmobile suits lingering by the cashier. Before they could make eye contact, she got out of there. “I was thinking: Here we go again,” she said. These were small impositions, but enough was enough. If you’re blond and therefore identifiable as a…
New Delhi: Pulling up the Centre for delay in framing a scheme for cashless treatment of road accident victims during ‘golden hour’, Supreme Court Wednesday said people are losing their lives because they are not getting treatment but govt was doing nothing and summoned the secretary of the ministry of road transport and highways to…
Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts are supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity, with the death toll from the disaster hitting 3,600 and still climbing. In the capital, Naypyitaw, people cleared debris and collected wood from their damaged houses under drizzling rain,…
Threatened with digital arrest since Jan, a retired govt official and his wife, both in their 80s, died by suicide at their home in Karnataka’s Belagavi late Thursday – possibly the first such deaths in the country due to the growing crime. Diego Nazareth and Flaviana had paid two fraudsters Rs 5 lakh after being…