Author: Rahul M

The 56-year-old famous spiritual speaker Premanand Ji Maharaj is a well-known figure among masses and celebrities as well. From Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli to Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra – many A-listers have been spotted visiting him at his Vrindavan Aashram. However, the spiritual guru is not in the prime of his health as he has often cited dealing with a serious kidney issue for which he regularly undergoes dialysis. According to several media reports, he is battling Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). It’s a genetic problem like basically, cysts keep popping up in his kidneys, slowly wrecking the way they work.…

On Tuesday, the morning sky in Patna lit up before sunrise. Firecrackers illuminated the horizon, the air echoed with Chhath songs, and children ran along the Digha Ghat of the Ganga. As dawn approached, devotees began gathering. Many had spent the night here, others were returning, having left the previous evening after offering prayers to the setting sun.Men carried “daalis (baskets)” filled with puja material on their heads, followed closely by women, many of whom had been fasting since Monday morning. After arranging their offerings by the riverbank, carefully aligning the ritual items, they stepped waist-deep into the Ganga. It…

The Indian Inclusive Party (IIP) is one of the seven constituents of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan alliance, which is set to take on the ruling NDA in the November Bihar Assembly elections.The IIP was floated by a former Congress leader Indrajeet Prasad Gupta, popularly known as I P Gupta, in July 2023. Despite being a new player in Bihar’s political landscape, Gupta, 55, negotiated hard with his senior allies in a bid to claim eight-nine seats for the IIP to contest the Bihar elections. Eventually, he settled for three seats including Saharsa, Beldaur (Khagaria) and Jamalpur (Munger). Gupta is himself contesting from Saharsa. Story continues below…

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a devastating Category 5 storm, tied for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history. The deadly storm has also caused devastation in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The world is still learning the extent of the destruction, but relief organizations are already mobilizing to help across the northern Caribbean. As is typical in disasters, nonprofit groups told The Associated Press that cash is the best way to help, since unsolicited goods donations can overwhelm already strained systems. Experts recommend using sites like Charity Navigator or the Better Business Bureau’s Wise…

Bengaluru: Doubling down on his allegation that the Centre was “arm-twisting” companies to invest in Assam and Gujarat, among other BJP-ruled states, Karnataka Information Technology (IT) Minister Priyank Kharge, Tuesday, said that his state houses “38-40 percent of the country’s tech talent”, but the Narendra Modi-led central government has been sending away companies to places without any ecosystems.“It is very clear that the central government is arm-twisting, poaching companies and diverting them to states where there are no ecosystems, and places that require, at least, five to 10 years more to build an ecosystem,” Priyank Kharge told ThePrint Tuesday. “If they…

Disney/Patrick Harbron Contains spoilers for “Only Murders in the Building” Season 5, Episodes 9 and 10 The fifth season of “Only Murders in the Building” sees Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin), and Oliver (Martin Short) solving not just the murder of the Arconia’s doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca), but of Nicky Caccimelio (Bobby Cannavale), the Mafia man running the underground lounge and poker games in the building. Their murders are intertwined, so solving one should help them with the other. The trio’s detective work reveals that Lester himself is responsible…

Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned over the last decade in a superheated Atlantic Ocean.Melissa somehow shook off at least three different meteorological conditions that normally weaken major hurricanes and was still gaining power as it hit, scientists said, a bit amazed.And while more storms these days are undergoing rapid intensification — gaining 35 mph in wind speed over 24 hours — Melissa did a lot more than that. It achieved what’s called extreme rapid intensification — gaining…

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Stephen King has enjoyed a prolific career as our modern master of horror. That success begins with the former Maine schoolteacher’s examination of adolescent cruelty in his first novel — and first bestseller — “Carrie.” Its impact led to an interconnected universe of horror, fantasy, crime, and even science fiction that, today, make up Stephen King’s multiverse: a sprawling fictional galaxy where the Dark Tower isn’t the only fixed point its inhabitants are all too aware of.  In his decades of success, King has written hundreds of short stories…

GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — The United States and South Korea advanced trade talks on Wednesday, addressing details of $350 billion that would be invested in the American economy, after negotiations and ceremonies that included the presentation of a gold medal and crown to President Donald Trump.Both were gifts from the country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, who dialed up the flattery while Washington and Seoul worked to nail down financial promises during the last stop of Trump’s Asia trip.Although both sides said progress has been made — Trump said things were “pretty much finalized” — no agreement has been signed…

Disney/Patrick Harbron Contains spoilers for “Only Murders in the Building” Season 5, Episode 10 — “The House Always…” As is traditional for the show, the fifth season finale of “Only Murders in the Building” ended with the introduction of a new victim. Shockingly, said murdered person proves to be someone Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) and Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) know very well — Cinda Canning (Tina Fey), the inspiration for their own podcast and their on-again-off-again rival. This continues the show’s Season 5 pattern of bringing back…