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Instagram photo by former first lady Jill Biden Former US President Joe Biden attended his grandson’s high school graduation, making his first public appearance since announcing his prostate cancer diagnosis.Biden’s grandson, Robert Hunter Biden II, graduated from the Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut, on Friday. The teenager’s father, Beau Biden, passed away in 2015. In…

Tesla CE Elon Musk (File Image) Scott Galloway, a leading US marketing academic, criticised Elon Musk‘s implementation of severe government cutbacks in Trump’s administration and described it as “one of the greatest brand destructions” ever.During the Friday edition of his co-hosted Pivot podcast, Galloway explained that Musk had distanced Tesla’s core electric vehicle customers while…

NEW DELHI: Heavy rain, thunderstorms, and high-speed winds lashed Delhi and parts of the National Capital Region late Saturday night, hours after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert warning of intense weather activity. Several parts of neighbouring Haryana, including Jhajjar, also witnessed heavy downpour.The IMD had on Saturday warned of a thunderstorm…

Ukraine was under attack for the second consecutive night from Russia, according to the authorities. Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia deployed 14 ballistic missiles and 250 attack drones during the previous night’s operation. Their defence systems successfully intercepted six missiles and 245 drones.Tymur Tkachenko, who heads Kyiv’s military administration, confirmed that “more than a…

NEW DELHI: India’s push to become a global education hub is gathering momentum, with five foreign universities receiving Letters of Intent (LoIs) to establish campuses in the country.Close to a dozen international institutions by the start of the next academic session are likely to have an Indian campus, according to govt sources.The LoIs – cleared…

NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) monsoon hit Kerala on Saturday, eight days ahead of its normal onset date of June 1, marking the beginning of the four-month-long rainy season in India.This is the earliest date of monsoon onset over Kerala after 2009 when it set in over the state on May 23, said India Meteorological…

SHIMLA: A day after Himachal Pradesh high court raised serious questions about an SIT probe under Shimla SP Sanjeev Gandhi and asked CBI to investigate state power corporation general manager Vimal Negi’s mysterious death, Gandhi on Saturday attacked DGP Atul Verma for filing an “ulteriorly motivated affidavit” in the court in an alleged bid to…

KOLHAPUR: Police in Maharashtra’s Satara district raided a private chemical factory at Tasawade on May 21 and confiscated 1.3 kg of cocaine, valued at over Rs 6 crore. Five men, including the company’s proprietor and the cocaine supplier, were booked, and three of them were arrested on Friday.Satara SP Tushar Doshi said while the supplier…

NEW DELHI: The extent to which the legal system can take the poor and the ignorant for a ride, fleecing and exploiting them in the process, came to light when Supreme Court decided to find out the legal expenses of a woman from a small village in West Bengal in her fight to protect her…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said efforts must be made for inclusion of women in the workforce and asserted that laws and policies need to be made accordingly.Chairing the 10th governing council meeting of the govt’s policy think tank Niti Aayog, Modi emphasised the strength of the country’s ‘nari shakti’ (women power) and…