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Wallace, who Ellis has filed suit against, also regularly posts content about trans people, including making false claims on X in 2024 that “100% of mass school shootings this year have been carried out by LGBTQ activists.” This post was viewed 1.8 million times. A month later, in the aftermath of the Lakewood church shooting in​​ Texas, Wallace posted an image of the shooter claiming she’s transgender even as fact-checkers and news outlets clarified the shooter was a cis woman. Wallace seems to have “an overarching homophonic, anti-trans” theme to his social media, claimed Ellis’ lawyer Phelan, adding that it…

ShimlaJul 2, 2025 15:28 IST First published on: Jul 2, 2025 at 15:28 IST Share Not a stranger to controversies, three-time Congress MLA and Himachal Pradesh Minister Anirudh Singh yet again finds himself at the centre of a row after being booked for allegedly assaulting two National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) officials over the collapse of a multi-storey house following heavy rains. On Wednesday, Singh denied the allegations and maintained that NHAI officials had lodged a complaint against him only to cover up their negligence. “At least 700 complaints are pending against NHAI employees and officials for damaging private…

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday asserted that there is no disgruntlement within the ruling Congress and when Siddaramaiah is there as the CM, there is no need for any discord on the leadership issue. Shivakumar, who is also the state Congress president, while making it clear that party discipline is important, said that he has not asked anyone to make him the CM, and warned that notices will be issued to leaders who make public statements on the leadership change issue. On Tuesday, he issued a show cause notice to Ramanagara MLA H A Iqbal Hussain,…

While BJP insiders admit that the incident has dented the government’s image and has led to the party putting off the election of its state chief, the Mohan Charan Majhi dispensation has also come under fire from the Opposition. “A high-level committee of ministers headed by Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida was constituted to oversee (Rath Yatra) preparations. Has anyone seen the panel members on the ground? Are they not responsible for the mess? Why has action not been taken against them?” an Opposition leader asked. A smooth conduct of the Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri has traditionally been seen…

With uncertainty staring at him, Raghu M, a farmer from Devanahalli’s Gokare Bachchenahalli village, is already contemplating extreme steps if the Karnataka Government goes ahead and acquires his land for the high-tech defence and aerospace sector park in the Bengaluru Rural district.Raghu, 58, is among the farmers protesting against the acquisition of 1,777 acres of land, spread across 13 villages in the Bengaluru Rural district, by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB). Several farmer unions, including the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, have threatened to intensify their protest if the government does not drop the…

On June 25, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in Digha to oversee preparations for the first Rath Yatra at the newly-built Jagannath temple in the seaside town. On the same day, a 24-year-old student was allegedly raped at a Kolkata law college – barely 10 months after the rape- murder of a junior doctor at the city’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital sparked widespread protests and cornered the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led government.The TMC has now again found itself on the back foot after the Kolkata Police arrested four men in the law college rape case, including…

Jul 2, 2025 09:18 IST First published on: Jul 2, 2025 at 08:23 IST Share Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-nation tour beginning Wednesday to participate in the BRICS Summit in Brazil and expand India’s ties with several key nations of the Global South. Besides Brazil, Modi will visit Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, and Namibia during the eight-day trip, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). In the first leg of the visit, Modi will undertake a visit to Ghana from July 2 to 3. This will be the PM’s first ever bilateral visit…

BhopalJul 2, 2025 09:21 IST First published on: Jul 2, 2025 at 08:16 IST Share Betul MLA Hemant Khandelwal has emerged as the frontrunner to become the next Madhya Pradesh BJP president, marking the end of V D Sharma’s record five-and-a-half-year tenure. Khandelwal is the only leader to have filed a nomination form, according to party sources, and his name is expected to be announced on Wednesday. The scheduled leadership change comes amid the party’s strategic recalibration after consecutive electoral victories and brewing tensions in the state unit. Sharma, who steered the party through crucial victories in the 2023 Assembly…

Oxford scientists have set a world record for quantum precision, achieving just one error in 6.7 million operations using microwave-controlled ions. This advancement could drastically shrink the size and cost of future quantum computers. Record-Breaking Quantum Accuracy Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new world record for how accurately a quantum bit, […]

Researchers from USC and Johns Hopkins used two IBM Eagle quantum processors to pull off an unconditional, exponential speedup on a classic “guess-the-pattern” puzzle, proving—without assumptions—that quantum machines can now outpace the best classical computers. By squeezing extra performance from hardware with shorter circuits, transpilation, dynamical decoupling, and error-mitigation, the team finally crossed a milestone […]