Author: Rahul M

The Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government’s move to implement the Hyderabad Gazette and defuse the latest Maratha quota protest led by activist Manoj Jarange-Patil seems to have triggered fresh troubles for the government, which is now facing renewed reservation rows involving other communities from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).While some backward class groups fear that the inclusion of Marathas in the OBC category would eat into their share of reservation, the protesters from the Dhangar (shepherd) community have cited the Hyderabad Gazette to reinforce its demand for inclusion in the ST category. Similarly, Banjaras…

Shimla: Actor-politician and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut courted controversy as she visited flood-affected areas in Manali and talked about the losses her restaurant in the town suffered due to the devastation. She also alleged diversion of central relief funds by the Congress-led state government. The Mandi Lok Sabha MP arrived in Manali, which falls under her constituency, Thursday, nearly three weeks after the floods and landslides ravaged the town and other regions of Himachal Pradesh. When reporters and locals questioned her about her delayed visit to the affected areas, she lamented the financial losses to her restaurant in Manali. Show…

Legendary Pictures It was a big hit with critics and sits at a 87% “fresh” approval score on Rotten Tomatoes, but had an extremely quiet and short shelf life at the box office. “The Toxic Avenger” slid in and out of theaters over the course of a few weeks, but those who missed it on the big screen can watch it on demand and via other digital mediums on September 30, 2025. As of this writing, there’s no word yet on a physical home video release for the film. This low-budget remake stars…

The global banking sector failed to make any progress in financing the clean energy transition last year, with capital allocations to oil, gas and coal continuing to outpace money spent on renewables.The world’s leading banks spent just 89 cents on low-carbon energy companies and projects such as wind, solar and grids for every dollar they allocated to fossil fuels, according to an analysis by BloombergNEF. The figure is virtually unchanged from 2023, BNEF said.For the world to have a chance of limiting global warming to the critical threshold of 1.5 C, capital allocations to green projects need to be four…

Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images Nicolas Cage has done it all. He’s been an action star, a superhero, and a voice actor. The Oscar-winning actor has had such an enviable career in Hollywood that he doesn’t even think twice about the time he missed out on one of the most iconic comedy roles of all time. Everyone knows Mike Myers as the voice of Shrek, but in an alternate timeline, Cage is the world’s favorite ogre. When directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson adapted “Shrek” from a 1990s children’s book, they knew…

Warner Bros Little over a month has passed since the deal to merge Paramount Global and David Ellison’s Skydance Media officially closed, yet already we’re hearing news about plans for an even bigger merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Combining two of the biggest companies in the entertainment industry would change Hollywood forever … and almost certainly not in a good way. Based on the history of giant corporate mergers in the past, even the realistic best case scenario for a WB-Paramount merger is going to have severe collateral damage. In…

Universal Pictures Somewhere between the iconic hits and the obscure hidden gems of 1980s sci-fi falls 1984’s “The Last Starfighter,” a box office bomb at the time that found a sizable fandom over the years. It follows a teenager (Lance Guest) who finds out that the arcade game he plays is secretly a recruitment test for a space war, and upon getting a high score in that game, is offered the chance to join the intergalactic battle. “The Last Starfighter” flopped upon release but eventually gained a big enough following to warrant…

“No one person owns a meme, they’re a universal template,” says Matthew Kriner, executive director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism. “We do not see a meme itself as an indication of what the ideology behind it is.” This hasn’t stopped people from attempting to use the memes as proof Robinson was part of a certain political groups. Some completely misunderstood the memes, such as the BBC’s Mike Wendling, who suggested in a post that that a gaming reference, which was later attributed to Helldivers 2, might be linked to Antifa. Others, like the Telegraph analyzed purported connections between…

Michael Calore: Yeah. That’s a whole other topic.Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend?Will Knight: I’m going to recommend what I think is a genuinely useful home robot. I have a cat, Leono. He’s very nice but will bring in various animals, dead or alive, into our house overnight. Often including large rabbits that then run around.Kylie Robison: Oh my God.Will Knight: This cat flap has a camera and computer vision, and it can tell if your cat has a rat or something in it’s mouth. It will say, “Contraband detected,” and then block them from coming…

One of the world’s most valuable companies is throwing Intel a lifeline.Nvidia, which has a market cap of $4.3 trillion, said today that it will invest $5 billion in Intel, the struggling US chipmaker that was recently at the center of an unorthodox investment deal with the US government. Intel shares jumped more than 30 percent following the news.The two American chipmakers are also entering into a product collaboration. Intel said in a statement early Thursday morning that “Intel’s leading CPUs and x86 ecosystem will be seamlessly connected with Nvidia’s AI and accelerated computing capabilities using NVLink,” referring to Nvidia…