Monthly Archives: October 2024
President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential race in July was motivated in no small part by the high-profile struggles that plagued his son, Hunter Biden, in the final years of his first term — leaving him with a “crushing” sense of guilt that those close to the outgoing president say plagued him more […]
Indian actor Sayaji Shinde joined Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday. The addition of the famous actor is likely to benefit the party in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Sayaji Shinde has been featured in several Bollywood and Tollywood films. After joining the party, Shinde mentioned that he had never planned to join […]
A shuttered Rite Aid store in New Lebanon, Ohio. Kevin Williams New Lebanon, Ohio, population 3,756, has three dollar stores, a Groceryland grocery store, a few fast-food restaurants, a public library branch, and a spirit-filled school system. What it doesn’t have is a pharmacy. As part of Rite Aid’s bankruptcy filing in October 2023, the chain announced […]
India’s foreign exchange (Forex) reserves stood above $700 billion for the second-consecutive week, data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed on Friday. The foreign reserves stood at $701.18 billion as of October 4, a drop of $3.71 billion from the previous week, according to the RBI’s weekly bulletin. The country’s Forex reserves of […]
Google, which has recently been found to be holding a monopoly on web search, has taken a crypto-friendly decision amidst its ongoing legal battles in the US and the EU. As per a fresh update, Google has fully completed the integratigration of Ethereum Name Service (ENS) into Search. This feature was being tested with select […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a stark warning on Friday, cautioning that any Israeli strike on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would be a “serious provocation.” Speaking at a press conference in Vientiane, Laos, Lavrov underscored that despite the escalating tensions, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found no signs of militarization within Iran’s […]
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who was allegedly denied entry into the JP International Centre in Lucknow, garlanded a bust of Jayaprakash Narayan mounted atop a vehicle outside his residence on Friday. The incident took place in the wake of the freedom fighter’s birth anniversary. The SP chief took to social media to share […]
China warned on Thursday that “provocations” by Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te, who earlier gave a speech on the self-ruled island’s National Day, would result in “disaster” for its people. “(Lai’s) provocations in seeking ‘independence’ are the root cause of trouble for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and will bring disaster to the people […]
Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. “Hibakusha is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be […]
Jeff Shell, CEO of NBCUniversal, speaks during a conference at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, June 22, 2022. Eric Gaillard | Reuters Less than two years after NBCUniversal fired Jeff Shell for alleged sexual harassment, the former CEO is close to finding himself back in the saddle leading a storied […]