FEBRUARY 15, 2025
A man looks out to sea from a commemorative building known locally as ‘The Tunnel’ near the ‘Point of No Return’ where enslaved people were shipped from the port at Badagry, Nigeria, 21 June 2019. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
magine this: a continent scarred by centuries of violence and exploitation, now standing united to demand justice. This weekend, the...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
My father, aged 51, currently has no investments. He owns two properties and has one ongoing loan of Rs 20 lakhs. He has his money saved in the Provident Fund. His annual income is Rs 10 lakhs. Recently, a bank representative proposed a scheme whereby he would need to invest Rs 2 lakhs per year for the...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board seal hangs inside a hearing room at the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC. - Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
The National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency that is supposed to enforce labor laws for most American workers, has been essentially shut down after President Donald Trump fired one of its board members, leaving it...
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Trump’s executive order would upend more than a century of court precedent around the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship for almost anyone born on US soil, regardless of immigration status. - Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s executive order to end so-called birthright citizenship for babies of undocumented immigrants was blocked indefinitely by a...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Dougal Main and Beth Nichol working on the distributed quantum computer.
Scientist claim they achieved a massive breakthrough in teleportation by beaming data between quantum computers.
Researchers at the University of Oxford successfully teleported logical gates - the basic components of a computer algorithm - between two quantum processors separated by more than six feet.
Using particles of light (or photons), the...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
About 400 trainee employees recently faced harrowing experiences after information technology (IT) giant Infosys terminated them at its Mysuru campus after they failed to clear internal assessments. The terminated employees were asked to leave the campus the same day, reported moneycontrol.com.
A day before that, the fired employees received an email in their inbox. It read: "You are required...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump attend a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
A data privacy advocacy group and an unnamed federal employee have filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration and the “so-called” Department of Government...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
“Gulf of America” is now in official use on a U.S. government database of geographic names, and on Google Maps, after President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shared the news Sunday on social media, saying the department had implemented the change. “It’s official,” he wrote.
Trump...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is now leading a bold $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just years after he purchased Twitter and changed it to X.
The move, although rejected by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, could redefine the future of artificial intelligence if it goes through.
Musk, along with his AI startup xAI and a...
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
President Trump's executive order on gender ideology prompted massive purges across government and military websites. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
US government and military websites went dark last week after being purged of certain content.
President Trump's executive order directed all agencies to remove information related to gender ideology.
Here's what's disappeared from the websites and public-facing communications.
The Trump...
