The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering financial incentives to employees for leaving the agency this month, according to an email sent to staff on Monday evening. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 26, directing federal agencies to reduce their staffing numbers. This effort is part of a broader plan…
President Donald Trump has offered to pay the overtime salary of astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who returned to Earth earlier this week after an unexpected nine-month stay in space, out of his “own pocket”. Williams and Wilmore spent an additional 278 days in space after their week-long mission in June last year turned…
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams return back on Tuesday after spending nine months on board in orbit. The travel has attracted questions about what astronomers like them earn, considering the prolonged period during which they resided on the International Space Station (ISS). Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams, and two other space travelers, Nick Hague…
NEW DELHI: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has paid around Rs 400 crore in taxes to the government over the past five years, trust secretary Champat Rai said on Sunday. He said that the amount was paid between February 5, 2020, and February 5, 2025.Of the total amount, Rs 270 crore was paid…
MEERUT: A 21-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly raped by an upper caste man in August 2023 was later forced to “settle” the matter at a panchayat and paid Rs 2.5 lakh to remain silent.But that was not the end of her ordeal. Just as her family moved to another place to flee the harassment…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday directed the governments of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to pay compensation to the construction workers affected by the closure of activities due to Graded Response Action Plan in Delhi-NCR.A bench of justices Abhay Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan held that governments must pay the workers using funds collected…
Former Pakistan players and captains were left fuming after their team suffered a one-sided defeat to India in Dubai on Sunday. The loss has put Pakistan on the brink of a group-stage exit from the Champions Trophy, just six months after their disastrous campaign in the 2024 T20 World Cup. Pakistan were lacklustre in all…
Ravi from Haryana faced a 220-day distressing journey after paying around Rs 35 lakh to an unauthorized travel agent to reach the US. JIND: Ravi, a resident of Haryana’s Jind, faced a 220-day ordeal even after payment of around Rs 35 lakh to an unauthorised travel agent to reach the US. Of this, Rs 6…
A few years ago, the translator Jeremy Tiang was browsing in a bookstore in Singapore when he came across an unusual book of stories. Written in Chinese under a pen name, the book, “Delicious Hunger,” drew on the author Hai Fan’s 13 years fighting in the jungles of Malaysia and southern Thailand as a guerrilla…
In July 2023, Google said it would no longer restrict advertisers from using trademarks that belong to other organizations. That change quickly became a headache for nonprofits that buy Google search ads to find donors. Other outfits, they discovered, were using their trademarks in order to draw internet traffic. Samaritan’s Purse, a nonprofit that aids…