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The American director of an elite private school was stung to death by a swarm of murder hornets alongside his teenage son while they were ziplining in Southeast Asia, local officials confirmed.Daniel Owen and his 15-year-old son, Cooper, were visiting Green Jungle Park — an eco-adventure resort near the city of Luang Prabang in Laos — when the incident occurred, the according to The Times of London. The pair were suddenly bombarded by hundreds of Asian giant hornets as they were descending from a tree with their guide on Oct. 15.They were taken to the Phakan Arocavet Clinic for treatment,…

The world’s main watchdog for fighting financial crime, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has just rolled out a major new guide for all countries. This new rulebook, called the “Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices,” is a really big deal because it’s the most significant update in over thirty years on how to track down, freeze, and return money stolen by criminals. FATF highlights India's good practices in asset recovery; ED's work featured prominentlyRead @ANI Story | https://t.co/IWcBDA9E6u#FAFT #ED #India #AssetRecovery pic.twitter.com/66KlwFdpUg— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) November 5, 2025 The main goal is to make it much harder for criminals…

Social activist Medha Patkar on Tuesday expressed concerns about threats to the Sharavathi river from multiple development projects, such as the Honnavar port project, bringing the matter to the attention of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who has promised to intervene. Patkar warned that the proposed Sharavathi pumped storage project would result in the felling of over 16,000 trees, severely impacting wildlife, including the endangered lion-tailed macaque. “The constant drilling will destroy the pristine Western Ghats,” she stated while releasing in Bengaluru a fact-finding report titled “Eroding Shores, Silenced Protests” on the Honnavar port project. The activist highlighted how downstream, the…

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Everyone in Hollywood gets their start somewhere. Long before making a name for himself in movies and TV shows like “Euphoria,” “Saltburn,” and “Frankenstein,” Jacob Elordi first appeared in Disney’s blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise — but not as prominently as you might expect. His earliest film role was as an uncredited extra in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” the fifth installment of the series.  “People are always trying to find me in the movie and there’s ‘screenshots of me in the movie,'” the…

Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Wednesday declared him as its chief ministerial candidate for the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, passing a resolution that any alliance for the polls would be formed only under the party’s leadership.The announcement came at the TVK’s first General Council meeting since the 27 September stampede at Vijay’s rally at Karur which claimed 41 lives. The meeting at a private hall in Mamallapuram began with a tribute to the victims of the stampede. Speaking at the meeting, his first public address since the incident, Vijay launched a sharp attack on the DMK government, accusing…

When voting is held for the first phase of the Assembly elections in Bihar Thursday, Vivek Anand, 20, will be headed for Delhi. Anand, who came home for Diwali and Chhath, says he booked his tickets months ago, before the poll dates came, and hence will miss his first ever chance to vote. “Anyway, if the government had worked on education and jobs, I wouldn’t have to leave home just to build a future,” he adds.A Delhi University student, Anand had initially joined Patna University but shifted as he didn’t see opportunities here. “Patna University lacks infrastructure and resources compared…

ChandigarhNovember 5, 2025 06:23 PM IST First published on: Nov 5, 2025 at 06:18 PM IST Top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday alleged massive discrepancies in Haryana’s voter lists, accusing the Election Commission (EC) and the ruling BJP of “stealing” the 2024 state Assembly polls. Reacting to what Rahul called the “H files”, Haryana’s Congress veteran and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, spoke with The Indian Express over various aspects of the row. Excerpts: What do you have to say on Rahul Gandhi’s claims? This is exactly what I have been saying all these months.…

An academic and theatre actor with MA degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication and Women’s Studies, Gautam says unemployment remains the biggest concern for Bihar’s youth and the central focus of her campaign.The first-time candidate reiterates the promise of government jobs made by the Mahagathbandhan in its manifesto during a speech at a nukkad sabha, street corner meeting. Copies of the CPI(ML) manifesto | Saqiba Khan | ThePrint “Naukri ki jagah ye log youth ko reel banane ko kehte hai. Maine aapke bacho ko padhaya hai. Naukri humara adhikar hai aur Mahagathbandhan ki sarakar aapko ye de kar rahegi (They…

For decades, the meaning behind ancient finger-drawn lines etched into limestone cave walls remained elusive. Known as finger flutings, these grooves—some over 60,000 years old—are among the earliest known expressions of symbolic behavior by humans and Neanderthals. But beyond their aesthetic or ritual significance, archaeologists have long asked a simpler, more personal question: Who made them? A team of researchers from Griffith University in Australia has taken a significant step toward answering that question. Using deep learning techniques trained on both physical and virtual simulations, the team developed a machine learning model capable of predicting the sex of the individuals…

“The process for hiring a consultant to conceptualise and prepare a detailed project report (DPR) is in process. The plan is to lay the foundation on 10 January, 2026. The chief ministers of both states, Haryana and Maharashtra, will be the chief guests. The Government of Maharashtra wants to give it a Maratha touch because in the third battle of Panipat, Marathas played a significant role,” he said.Ranbir Sangwan, an additional director of the Information and Public Relations Department, told The Print that Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Additional Chief Secretary Vikas Kharge had visited the proposed site in June this year…