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Tristar Media/Getty Images Liam Neeson just scored a modestly-sized hit with “The Naked Gun” reboot over the summer, and it looks like audiences are starting to discover another of his much more serious action epics. “Ice Road: Vengeance” went direct to streaming in 2025, and it’s climbed Netflix’s top 10 for September 24, topping out in fourth place, which is very impressive for a film with no buzz. “Ice Road: Vengeance” takes the mostly-not-staged “Ice Road Truckers” and throws in a little bit of “Taken.” A sequel to “The Ice Road,” it…

Washington: Health authorities in the United States are raising alarms over a sharp increase in infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, often referred to as “nightmare bacteria”. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that infections by these dangerous bacteria rose by almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023. Researchers attribute the surge to bacteria carrying the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) gene. Once considered exotic and mostly found in a few patients outside the United States, these bacteria are now appearing with increasing frequency across the country. The presence of the NDM gene can render…

Neon Body horror is a unique sub-genre featuring stories that see human bodies hideously deformed and mutilated. Most often, the grotesque elements serve as an allegory for a deeper theme, and this is true for the 2025 film “Together.” A new body horror classic starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, “Together” uses body horror to explore the complicated nature of emotional intimacy. “Together” revolves around Tim and Millie (Franco and Brie), a couple who’ve been together for 10 years but are struggling with their relationship. When Tim accepts a new…

Wicked: For Good Official Final Trailer Witness the epic conclusion as Universal Pictures releases the official final trailer for their upcoming musical sequel Wicked: For Good. View trailer below. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of…

The Karnataka High Court last week set aside a 2020 circular of the Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (KRERA) that had the effect of imposing a “delay fee” when there were belated submission of quarterly updates and annual audit statements by promoters. A single-judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna held on September 19 that the fee was “without distinction to the scale of the project, the stage of development, or the peculiar circumstances surrounding it”. Several petitions had been filed against the circular. The bench noted that having taken the submissions into account, the issue was whether the action was…

Patna, Sep 24 (PTI) RJD president Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya on Wednesday voiced distress over “people with dirty minds” alleging that it was a “lie” that she had donated a kidney to her ailing father. The 47-year-old, who is said to have been cold-shouldered by supporters of her younger brother Tejashwi Yadav, her father’s heir apparent, came out with a post on X, without identifying those who had offended her. In the post, in Hindi, she wrote, “It is my open challenge to people with dirty minds and their patrons, if they prove that I curried favours with anybody…

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) The BJP on Wednesday alleged that Rahul Gandhi’s poll promise of increasing quota for the backward classes in Bihar is the Congress’ ploy to take away their rights and hand them over to the minority communities including Muslims. This came after Gandhi promised, among other things, increase in quotas for the Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) in local bodies and panchayats, 50 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and EBCs in government contracts and a law for protection against atrocities on the lines of the SC/ST Act, if…

Patna, Sep 24 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera on Wednesday hinted that the party was fine with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav as the INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial face in the Bihar assembly polls, without explicitly declaring it. Khera, who is the party’s media and publicity department chief, spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the Congress Working Committee meeting here. When asked about the reluctance of the Congress to declare Yadav as the CM face of the Mahagathbandhan, he replied, “We are contesting on issues. Faces are in front of you. All is known to everyone. You are asking a…

A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff of nightmares for most people.For Deepak Pathak, cofounder and CEO of the startup Skild AI, the dystopian feat of adaptation is an encouraging sign of a new, more general kind of robotic intelligence.“This is something we call an omni-bodied brain,” Pathak tells me. His startup developed the generalist artificial intelligence algorithm to address a key challenge with advancing robotics: “Any robot, any task, one brain. It is absurdly general.”Many researchers believe the AI models used to control…

Patna (Bihar) [India], September 24 (ANI): The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday targeted the BJP-led government during the meeting in Patna, accusing it of “systematically dismantling democratic institutions and constitutional values.” The CWC alleged that the Centre has weakened the Election Commission and other institutions, and investigative agencies such as the CBI and ED are being used to pursue personal vendettas. “The Congress Working Committee observes that the BJP-RSS’s relentless attacks on the Constitution and the Republic have continued unabated. The Parliament has been undermined, and even Constitutional offices have not been spared. The Election Commission of India, long…