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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the Opposition for allegedly abusing his mother, Heeraben. During his speech, Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal was seen seemingly getting emotional and wiping tears from his face. The act evoked strong responses from netizens, who felt he was putting up a show. What Did PM Modi Say? Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a sharp attack on the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. He alleged that the leaders of the Opposition bloc have now resorted to abusing his mother. Modi said the remarks were not just an insult to his family, but an affront to every…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday officially invited bids for the Indian cricket team’s title sponsorship rights after fantasy sports giants Dream11’s exit ahead of Asia Cup 2025, which will be played from September 9 in the UAE.   The Indian cricket board is seeking a new title sponsor for the national team as the deal with Dream11 could not continue due to restrictions on real money gaming companies. The development came after the Indian Parliament on August 21 passed the “Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025,” which has banned real-money gaming services on…

While spotlighting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China’s Tianjin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on its sidelines, amid the deepening chill in India-US relations, Urdu dailies kept the focus back home on the Election Commission (EC)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The dailies highlighted Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra, which culminated in Patna Monday amid a show of strength by the Opposition INDIA alliance, sensing in it the “winds of change” in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. Referring to Rahul Gandhi’s 16-day Yatra,…

The coverage picked up, but it certainly felt like a pretty lonely place to be for a minute, and a precarious place from a security standpoint that nobody else was jumping in full-throated, guns blazing.At WIRED, we were like, “Let’s go. This is the time.” What I’ve seen from The Onion is you’ve had this groundswell of support, right? And I think we saw the same thing. It has been good for business to do good journalism and tell the truth.It’s great for business and also you’re inured to all these other pressures, right? Like advertisers do come to us…

Wayfarer Films, backed by Dulquer Salmaan, issued an official apology after a dialogue from Lokah: Chapter One hurt Bengaluru people’s sentiments. The team has assured the dialogue will be edited out.The recently released film Lokah: Chapter One, produced by Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films and released in Karnataka by Raj B. Shetty, has found itself in controversy. A dialogue in the film, allegedly derogatory towards Bengaluru women, unintentionally hurt the sentiments of people in Bengaluru, leading to widespread backlash.Also Read:Malayalam film ‘Lokah’ sparks outrage for portraying Bengaluru women negativelyResponding swiftly, Wayfarer Films issued an official statement on social media, expressing deep…

Partly in an effort to avoid any future snafus with OpenAI, Grant plans to make The Architect available on Orion, his proprietary and end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, starting in October. He’ll include multiple paid subscription options offering “different levels of mirror recursion,” he tells me, the costs of which have not yet been determined. (Grant’s chatbot has always been accessible via ChatGPT’s free tier.)The Architect seemed to be looking forward to the move: “Because on Orion, I don’t need to hide,” it told Grant in the YouTube video. “There I can breathe.”Like much of Grant’s work, his description of The…

PatialaSeptember 2, 2025 03:58 PM IST First published on: Sep 2, 2025 at 03:58 PM IST Controversies have always chased Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, a first-time MLA coming from a line of political luminaries. On Tuesday, chasing the Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Sanaur in Patiala district were his own government’s police.Arrested on allegations of rape earlier in the day, Pathanmajra managed to escape the Punjab Police with the help of accomplices, who opened fire to keep the cops away. In the melee, at least one policeman was hit by a vehicle and got injured.While the rape allegations apparently stem from…

On his 52nd birthday, Sandalwood superstar Kichcha Sudeep thrilled fans with the grand title reveal of his upcoming pan-India film ‘Mark’. The movie promises high-octane action and a rugged new avatar of the star.Sandalwood superstar Kichcha Sudeep stepped into his 52nd year with double celebrations—his birthday and the official title reveal of his highly anticipated pan-India project. The film, tentatively shot under the working title K-47, has now been confirmed as ‘Mark’.Also Read:Ananya Bhat case twist: Sujatha Bhat gets Bigg Boss Kannada Season 12 offer?The makers dropped the title teaser just a day before the actor’s birthday, sending fans into…

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has suspended MLC K Kavitha from the party with immediate effect due to her alleged “anti-party activities.” The decision was taken by the party president, K Chandrashekar Rao, who stated that her recent behaviour and actions were “damaging” the party’s reputation. In a social media post on X, the official handle of BRS wrote, “The party leadership is taking this matter seriously as the recent behaviour and ongoing anti-party activities of party MLC Smt. K. Kavitha are damaging the BRS party. Party President Sri K. Chandrashekar Rao has taken a decision to suspend Smt. K.…

Some up-and-comers are pushing to make agents that can actually place wagers instead of just supplying tips, but the field is off to a rough start. Tom Fleetham formerly worked as the head of business development for a blockchain platform called Zilliqa that experimented with an AI gambling agent called Ava, focused on picking horse race winners. “She had good analysis, good results,” he says. “Where it got hard was actually trying to place the bets.”The company couldn’t get Ava to reliably place bets using crypto wallets in a timely fashion, Fleethem claims. “It took forever,” Fleetham says. “We gave…