Author: Rahul M

I connect most with people who share values of acceptance, and I gravitate towards those people, and I probably will blindside people who don’t.Who is on that blindside list?I’m gonna win the game. And if your value systems don’t jive with mine, we’re not gonna connect, we’re not gonna bond. I’m not gonna be able to trust you, and so I’m gonna have to blindside you, or get you out somehow, but it’s most likely gonna be a blindside.Did this come up at all in Australia?It comes up every single time. Yeah, in every game. This is how I connect…

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday arrested three persons, including a prison psychiatrist and a City Armed Reserve ASI, following extensive searches in two districts of Karnataka in the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) prison radicalisation case of 2023. The arrested persons have been identified as Dr Nagaraj, psychiatrist, Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara, Bengaluru, and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Chan Pasha and Anees Fathima, mother of an absconding accused. During the searches conducted at five locations in Bengaluru and Kolar district, various digital devices, cash, gold and incriminating documents were seized from the houses of the arrested accused and other suspects, the NIA said.…

Are the kids all right? They’re in Waymos, at least, now that the self-driving car company has begun to allow Arizona teenagers in the Phoenix area to ride by themselves through special “teen” accounts.Eventually, the teen service, open to 14- to 17-year-olds, could come to all of the markets in the US where Waymo operates its robot taxis, the company says: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and soon, Miami and Washington, DC. In a country where so much of the transportation system depends on access to cars—and where many people, including those too young to have a driver’s license,…

Seeking early clearance for the implementation of the Mekedatu dam project, the Karnataka government has told Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil that the delay in the clearance has caused a drinking water crisis in Bengaluru. In a petition submitted by Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar to C R Paatil on Tuesday, the state government said that construction of the reservoir – which is opposed by Tamil Nadu – was permitted as per Clause XIII of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. Noting that the project was located “well within the territorial limits of Karnataka”, the petition said “neither…

The Federation of Karnataka State Lorry Owners and Agents’ Association on Tuesday withdrew its indefinite strike call after the government said it released Rs 244 crore in dues pending for transport operators under the flagship Anna Bhagya scheme. “The government has given us in writing that the dues will be cleared in the next two days. So we have decided to withdraw the strike,” said G R Shanmugappa, president of the federation. An order issued by the Department of Food, Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Legal Metrology, dated July 8, empowered the chief account officer of Bengaluru Urban zilla panchayat…

With the release of Grok 4, a next-generation large language model (LLM) intended to directly compete with market leaders like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk’s xAI is poised to upend the artificial intelligence field. The new model promises a breakthrough in AI-powered creativity and productivity by pushing the limits of reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities.Launch Date and Livestream DetailsOfficial Launch: July 9, 2025, at 8:00 PM Pacific Time (July 10, 8:30 AM IST)Livestream Platform: xAI’s official X (formerly Twitter) accountElon Musk confirmed the launch via a post on X, inviting users worldwide to join the livestream event, where the capabilities…

New DelhiJul 8, 2025 19:31 IST First published on: Jul 8, 2025 at 19:31 IST Share The BJP leadership’s move to appoint Pathankot MLA Ashwani Kumar Sharma as the Punjab unit’s working president has followed calls for “serious introspection” from within the party following its defeat in the June 19 Ludhiana Assembly bypoll. A senior leader, Sharma had also been the Punjab BJP president earlier. His current appointment was seen in BJP circles as the party’s first step towards “forming an effective front” ahead of the 2027 state Assembly polls. According to BJP insiders, Sharma’s new role is also being…

A missing-person complaint filed by a woman for husband in Karnataka has led to the arrest of three people including a woman he had been in a live-in relationship with, the police said on Monday. S D Sharanappa, Commissioner of Police, Kalaburagi city, identified the deceased as Raghavendra Naik, 39, and the arrested accused as Ashwini alias Tanu, 26, Gururaj, 36, and Lakshmikanth, 28. He said that a live-in relationship that went wrong could be the reason behind the murder. In March, when an unidentified dead body was discovered in the Krishna river near Shaktinagar in Raichur district, the police…

Till four years ago, the 34-year-old was the elected mukhiya of her village in Madhubani district. Now, amidst the confusion stirred up by the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, a question mark hangs over her status – as it does over hundreds of others originally from Nepal who, for generations, have had marital ties with people in eight border districts this side of the border.“Yahaan maamla phas raha hai (We are getting stuck on this),” admits a Booth Level Officer (BLO) and a relative of the 34-year-old, both of whom don’t want to be identified.…

Officers and employees of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) proceeded on mass leave Tuesday as part of a one-day protest organised by the BBMP New Officers and Employees Welfare Association demanding the resolution of long-pending grievances. The protest comes amid a larger stir by civic body employees across Karnataka over various demands. The protesting BBMP employees have gathered at Freedom Park near the BBMP head office raising serious concerns over the worsening staff crisis within the BBMP, and pointing out that more than 6,000 posts remain vacant across departments. With civic services under strain, the association has accused the…