Author: Rahul M

A day after “disowning her family and quitting politics”, RJD founder Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya on Sunday stepped up her attack, accusing members of her younger brother Tejashwi Yadav’s core team of humiliating her by “raising slippers at her”.“I was abused and told I am dirty, that I got my father’s kidney transplanted and took crores of rupees for it, and that I got the dirty kidney transplanted after buying the Saran ticket. I would like to tell all the daughters and sisters, especially married women, that if there’s a son or brother in your parental home, don’t even…

A look at the Bihar Assembly poll results reflects the failure of the Mahagathbandhan parties to expand beyond what is considered their traditional voter bases. While the RJD suffered losses by sizeable margins in seats where it fielded EBC and non-Yadav OBC candidates, the Congress’s bet on upper-caste candidates failed to yield any reward.The RJD’s EBC candidates performed the worst, with the highest average margin of defeat at 27,506 votes. EBCs are traditional voters of JD(U) president and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. While the RJD contested 143 seats and won 25, the Congress contested 61 seats and won six. In…

Kerala: From the first woman to become an IPS officer in Kerala in 1987 to the state’s first woman to ascend to DGP rank in 2017, R. Sreelekha has many firsts to her credit in a public service career spanning over 33 years.She is also credited with reducing road fatalities during her tenure as transport commissioner, though the change was also due to policy measures. She also earned the moniker “Raid Sreelekha” for her high-visibility operations while on deputation with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Five years post her retirement, Sreelekha is now ready to test the waters in politics.…

AHMEDABAD, India — Every summer morning, Kantaben Kishen Parmar, a 45-year-old vegetable seller in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, settles onto a patch of ground the size of a large rug, sandwiched between the warming asphalt and a simmering sky, to sell peppers and tomatoes. She doesn’t get back home until 10 p.m. Over the decades, summers have gotten longer and hotter — average temperatures can hover around 105 degrees Fahrenheit, or 40 Celsius, between March and June — but Parmar’s hours have remained the same. The toll on her health is growing. Three years ago, she collapsed during an…

As the weather turned cool this autumn across England, Frankie the flamingo had apparently had enough.On a blustery Sunday morning this month, the juvenile bird vanished from the zoo in Cornwall where she was born. After a frantic six-day search to find her, Frankie’s keepers learned this past week that she had traveled roughly 130 miles away — to a beach in France. Frankie’s journey was exceptional, her keepers said, as she is only a few months old and had a wing clipped, which should have prevented her from ever taking flight.“Being a young bird, we were quite surprised how…

Toy Story 5 Official Teaser Trailer The toys are back and have some new competition as Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios released the official teaser trailer for the sequel film Toy Story 5. View trailer below. Fans are introduced to the new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee (“Past Lives,” “The Morning Show,” “TRON: Ares”) that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime. I still don’t know how I ultimately feel about Toy…

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting immigrants living in the country illegally, undermining a wide range of law enforcement operations in response to mounting pressure from President Donald Trump, a New York Times investigation has found. Homeland Security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators.A national security probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down for months because…

PARIS — As far as his friends at the outdoor gym knew, the always cheerful 39-year-old man from a hardscrabble suburb of Paris had left his past behind. He no longer talked much about his years as a star of the city’s urban dirt bike subculture, a rider known as Doudou Cross Bitume who made his name doing wheelies up the Champs-Élysées. When asked why, his friends said, he told them he had since had children and didn’t want them associating him with that bad-boy image. Weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds on just one wheel in…

BERLIN (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Sunday that an “offensive” auction of Holocaust artifacts has been canceled in Germany, relaying information from his German counterpart, following complaints from Holocaust survivors. Radoslaw Sikorski made the comments on the X platform, saying he and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul “agreed that such a scandal must be prevented.” The top Polish diplomat thanked Wadephul for the information that the auction was canceled. Earlier, a Holocaust survivors group called on the German auction house Felzmann to cancel Monday’s sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that…

NBC The mission of the USS Enterprise is to boldly go where no one has gone before, but its crew can’t get anywhere without the expertise of the ship’s best mate, Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), AKA Scotty. The Enterprise’s chief engineer first appeared during “Star Trek: The Original Series,” Season 1, Episode 3, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” James Doohan is responsible for a key portion of Scotty’s backstory, and he continued to tell Scotty’s story long after the original series ended. Doohan reprised his role in multiple “Trek”…