Author: Rahul M

The decision to appoint retired Rajasthan-cadre IPS officer Pankaj Singh as interlocutor for talks on the Gorkhaland issue has become yet another bone of contention between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal and the Centre.A 1988-batch IPS officer and an old Bengal hand for Delhi, Singh was appointed in 2020 as Additional Director General in the Eastern Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, which has been laying emphasis on checking cow “smuggling” across the border. In 2021, the BSF claimed to have brought it down by 87%…

The IRCTC scam case is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had lodged an FIR in 2017, and a chargesheet in 2018. Lalu, Rabri and Tejashwi maintain they are innocent.The court observed that there were “grave irregularities” in the tender process for the two railway hotels, and that Lalu, “prima facie” aware of the process, passed on instructions to “manipulate” it as part of a “quid pro quo arrangement”. ThePrint breaks down the court order and explains the allegations against Lalu in the IRCTC case: Also Read: In Bihar villages, children are learning to fight fake news.…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea performed its first ballistic missile test in five months Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, days before President Donald Trump and other world leaders are to gather in rival South for a regional conference. A brief statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was launched in an eastward direction but gave no further details such as how far the weapon flew. North Korea usually test-launches missiles in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, causing no damage in neighboring countries. But the Joint Chiefs of Staff statement only said…

Troll 2 Official Trailer Every legend has a new chapter as Netflix releases the official trailer for their upcoming giant monster movie Troll 2. View trailer below. A new troll has awakened! Join Nora, Andreas, and Captain Kris as they embark on their most dangerous adventure yet. With the clock ticking and chaos spreading, they’ll need new allies and ancient secrets to stop the rampage. Can they save Norway before it’s too late? I do admit that I did like 2022’s Troll. It was fun little twist on the giant monster film genre, but add a bit of Norwegian folklore…

CBS Contains spoilers for “Boston Blue” Season 1, Episode 1 — “Faith and Family” After years of hoping and wishing, fans of Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) and Danny Reagan’s (Donnie Wahlberg) long flirtation in “Blue Bloods” were rewarded by seeing them move beyond the office and into the bedroom in the first episode of “Boston Blue.”  The new phase of their relationship was confirmed in a big way as audiences were treated to the sight of them apparently in the middle of a tete-a-tete a year after their first time out as…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Crews in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday rescued 80 miners who became trapped after a mine partially collapsed. No one was injured or killed, according to the Civil Defense Agency.The miners became trapped when a portion of a zinc and copper mine in the Cerros of Maimón collapsed, a statement from the Ministry of Energy and Mines said.The mine is located in a rural area northwest of the capital, Santo Domingo, where relatives had anxiously awaited the rescue of their loved ones.The ministry said earlier that all miners were located underground in a safe…

Neon RATING : 4 / 10 Pros Well-made mockumentary opening Cons Unconvincing characters making awful decisions Ending is more cruel than scary Lacks originality “Shelby Oaks” is the professional feature debut of YouTube-based film critic Chris Stuckmann. Film critics making movies of their own can go any number of ways. The best case scenario gives you Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and the rest of the “Cahiers du Cinema” team leading the French New Wave; the worst case scenario gives you the Nostalgia Critic’s anniversary movies; and…

Hailee Steinfeld has talked extensively about her experience playing Mary — who, partway through the film, becomes (spoiler alert!) a vampire who ultimately brings Stack to the dark side with her, granting the two of them eternal life — and in a conversation with People Magazine, she said that the preparation for the role was incredibly personal to her. “It had such an impact on me personally,” she said. “Therefore, I feel like the least it can do is make an impact on those that watch it. I think it affected all of us so personally and so deeply, and I do believe…

A cryptocurrency promoted in January by US first lady Melania Trump was part of a sophisticated fraud that “leveraged celebrity association and ‘borrowed fame’ to sell legitimacy to unsuspecting investors,” a new legal filing has alleged.In April, crypto investors brought a federal class action lawsuit against Benjamin Chow, cofounder of crypto exchange Meteora, and Hayden Davis, cofounder of crypto venture capital firm Kelsier Labs, among other defendants, accusing them of a multimillion-dollar fraud involving a single memecoin, $M3M3.Later, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, expanding the allegations to include racketeering activity. They claimed the pair had colluded to rig the…

OpenAI announced on Tuesday it’s rolling out a new internet browser called Atlas that integrates directly with ChatGPT. Atlas includes features like a sidebar window people can use to ask ChatGPT questions about the web pages they visit. There’s also an AI agent that can click around and complete tasks on a user’s behalf.“We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a livestream announcing Atlas. “Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.”Atlas debuts as Silicon Valley races to…