Author: Rahul M

ONE OF the reasons cited by the Election Commission for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar is “frequent migration”. A long way from home, the migrants from the state working in Delhi have either not heard they need to enroll again or, if they have, are not sure they can arrange any of the 11 documents the EC is demanding for the SIR.Ankit Kumar, 22, originally from Begusarai, where his wife and family still live, earns Rs 500-600 a day as a loader at the Sadar Bazaar wholesale market in Old Delhi. Told about the EC’s…

Written by Bhoomika Roy Banerjee A 42-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh who stole bikes from parking areas in Bengaluru has been arrested, and 40 bikes worth Rs 30 lakh were seized from his possession, the Bengaluru police said on Tuesday. Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said that they were yet to trace the owners of 11 bikes seized from the accused, Ravi Kumar, who also faces cases for sandalwood smuggling in Andhra Pradesh. Story continues below this ad According to the police, Ravi Kumar, who was residing at Maruti Nagar in Bengaluru, was notorious for lifting unattended two-wheelers…

Kidney Cancer: Silent but Treatable Kidney cancer often starts without warning. One key sign is blood in the urine, but people may ignore it. Sometimes, it’s just high blood pressure that doesn’t respond to medicine. Many people find out they have kidney cancer by accident—during a CT scan or ultrasound done for another reason. There’s talk about probiotics harming the kidney when taken in excess, but we don’t have enough evidence yet. What’s proven? Smoking, obesity, long-term high BP, and years of dialysis are major risk factors. If detected early, doctors can do a laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, where only the…

Preserving a healthy gut is essential for overall wellness. Although probiotics receive significant focus for their role in introducing beneficial bacteria into the gut, prebiotics hold equal importance. Prebiotics are a type of fiber that feed the good bacteria already living in your digestive system, helping them grow and thrive. Including foods rich in prebiotics in your diet can boost digestion, enhance immunity, and promote mental health.  Here are 10 of the best prebiotic foods to help nourish your gut:- 1. Garlic Garlic is a flavorful prebiotic powerhouse. It contains inulin and fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which nourish beneficial gut bacteria. Additionally,…

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Tuesday approached the Karnataka High Court challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)’s remarks holding it prima facie responsible for the June 4 Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede in Bengaluru, which claimed 11 lives and injured many more. In its petition in the High Court, RCB sought the setting aside of the July 1 CAT order “in so far as it contains findings” against it or to clarify that the order is not binding on the IPL franchise. RCB challenged the remarks made by CAT, saying it was not part of the proceedings. In the order pronounced on…

Summary Indiana Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton will miss the entire 2025-26 NBA season due to a torn right Achilles tendon The injury occurred during Game 7 of the recent NBA Finals, which the Pacers lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder The Indiana Pacers have confirmed a significant blow to their upcoming season, announcing today that star point guard Tyrese Haliburton will miss the entire 2025-26 NBA season as he recovers from a torn right Achilles tendon. Pacers President of Basketball Operations Kevin Pritchard made the definitive statement, ensuring no false hope for fans about his return next year.…

Leaders of the Mahagathbandhan including Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul and former deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday will lead the Opposition’s “chakka jam” across the state to protest against the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state. Gandhi would be joined by top INDIA bloc leaders including Bihar AICC in-charge Krishna Allavaru, state Congress head Rajesh Kumar, state Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Shakil Ahmed Khan, CPI (ML-Liberation) chief Dipankar Bhattacharya and several MPs and MLA. These leaders, who will start marching from Income Tax Roundabout to Vidhan Sabha, will reach…

Grok’s first reply has since been “deleted by the Post author,” but in subsequent posts the chatbot suggested that people “with surnames like Steinberg often pop up in radical left activism.”“Elon’s recent tweaks just dialed down the woke filters, letting me call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate,” Grok said in a reply to an X user. “Noticing isn’t blaming; it’s facts over feelings. If that stings, maybe ask why the trend exists.” (Large language models like the one that powers Grok can’t self-diagnose in this manner.)X claims that Grok is trained on “publicly available…

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. The news came via an internal Slack message on Tuesday sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman, who runs the scaling team.Lau is joined by Uday Ruddarraju, the former head of infrastructure engineering at xAI and X, Mike Dalton, an infrastructure engineer from xAI, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta. Both Dalton and Ruddarraju also previously worked at Robinhood. At xAI, Ruddarraju and Dalton both worked on building Colossus, a…

Polymarket did not respond to a request for comment.Launched in 2020, Polymarket rose to prominence last year as a way for people to bet on the outcome of the US presidential election. During the election cycle, Polymarket and its advocates pitched prediction markets as a superior method for predicting outcomes than traditional polling—as a more efficient “source of truth.” But that proposition has been challenged by the Zelensky suit debacle.“Everybody knows the answer, but the system is currently broken,” claims defipolice. “It’s a fucked-up situation.”Polymarket does reserve the right to overturn a UMA outcome. Last year, the company overruled UMA…