On any given work day, Ray wakes up, brews coffee, smokes a cigarette, and then “takes a hit of pot” before sitting down to morning Zoom meetings. “Yeah, maybe my eyes are red, but no one can see that on Zoom,” says Ray, a West Coast executive, who typically continues to take a puff of…
According to figures available around 3.30 pm, 2,59,278 (0.7 per cent) out of the nearly 3.84 crore people who came out to vote on Wednesday exercised the NOTA. Over 2.6 lakh voters who exercised their franchise in the May 10 Karnataka assembly polls used the ‘none of the above’ or NOTA option, according to Election Commission figures….
Congress has won the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections by the biggest vote share and seats after a whopping 34 years. Even as the counting was on, political activist Yogendra Yadav said that this election is the biggest victory for “any party in Karnataka” after 1989 during Veerendra Patil’s regime when the Congress had won 178 seats with…
The cyclone’s name ‘Mocha’ is suggested by Yemen and was named after the Red Sea port city which is known to have introduced coffee to the world. The Indian Meteorological Department has said that the severe cyclonic storm ‘Mocha’ is set to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on Friday and head to the…
The Delhi government has control over bureaucrats assigned to departments under its purview, a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, giving chief minister Arvind Kejriwal a significant boost at a time when his administration has been locked in a bruising fight with the Union government for executive control over the Capital. The…
First I thought it was normal pain because of training but it reached a point when I was popping four to five painkillers and yet there was no relief. I was not able to sleep at night. Hath uthne band ho gaye (It reached a point when I was not able to raise my hand),”…
Pune Police commissioner has directed all police stations to transfer cyber fraud cases over ?2.50 lakh to the dedicated cyber police station at Shivajinagar. This decision was made due to the rising number of online cyber fraud cases being reported in the city. Pune Police commissioner Retesh Kumarr on Thursday issued directions to all the…
The fire reportedly occurred due to a short circuit; flames also spread to adjoining buildings, but it was brought under control. Raw material worth lakhs of rupees was gutted after a major fire broke out at a hosiery unit located in the congested lanes of Madhopuri locality near Islamia School on Thursday. The fire broke…
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday slammed the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government after the Supreme Court held the governor, speaker, and the chief whip’s action illegal during the political crisis in the state. Ramesh alleged that the “double engine sarkar” in Mumbai is “triply illegal. Today in relation to the overthrow of Uddhav Thackeray &…
President Joe Biden and Ke Huy Quan had a hilarious encounter during a meeting at the White House that the POTUS shared on social media. In a tweet shared today, the president shared a video excerpt of their meeting, with the caption “Little did Ke know he was dealing with a selfie expert.” In the…
