APRIL 7, 2023
Chennai: At a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is aggressively trying to make inroads in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chennai Saturday and inaugurate and lay foundation stones for development projects worth over Rs 5,254 crore.
A five-tier security arrangement was put in place for the high-profile visit, with about 26,000 police personnel...
APRIL 7, 2023
New Delhi: The rise in Covid cases is indicative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus moving into an endemic state in India and behaving like other coronaviruses that cause common cold-like symptoms and can keep reinfecting, say scientists.
Giving the reassurance that a monster spike on the lines of the Delta wave in the spring of 2021 is unlikely due...
APRIL 7, 2023
Layoffs 2023: Amplitude, an American public company that develops digital analytics software, has laid off 99 employees, which accounts for 13 per cent of its workforce, amid tough macroeconomic environment.
Amplitude co-founders Spenser Skates, Curtis Liu, and Jeffrey Wang sent an email announcing the decision to reduce the company’s global team by 13 per cent on the morning...
APRIL 7, 2023
London: The Labour Party in the UK has reportedly deselected 18 of its councillors in Leicester, including all its Hindu councillors, thereby preventing them from contesting in the upcoming local elections scheduled in May.
Out of the 18 councillors, seven are of Indian-origin, including six Hindus and one Christian, TOI reported.
All these candidates had voted for a motion...
APRIL 7, 2023
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the NH Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and vaccine skeptic, will make a bid for the White House in 2024, becoming the second long-shot Democratic candidate to challenge President Joe Biden in his expected run for re-election.
Kennedy,...
APRIL 7, 2023
U.S. hiring gradually cooled in March as employers added 236,000 workers, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
The labor market has remained solid a year after the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising interest rates to tame high inflation. Employers added jobs last month in leisure and hospitality, government, professional and business services and health care. They cut...
APRIL 6, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted luxury gifts from a prominent Republican donor for more than 20 years without disclosing them, possibly violating a law that requires justices, judges and members of Congress to disclose most gifts, according to a new report.
ProPublica reported Thursday on a series of lavish trips Thomas has taken over more than two...
APRIL 4, 2023
Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023, in New York. - Seth Wenig/AP
Former President Donald Trump engaged in a "scheme" to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a series of hush money payments made by others to help his campaign,...
APRIL 4, 2023
It was Kollam-based Padmanabha Pillai and his wife Vasanta’s dream for their son to be a prominent Bharatanatyam dancer that brought a 15-year-old Hari Padman to the Kalakshetra Foundation in 1993. A prestigious and sprawling 100-acre cultural institution in south Chennai’s Thiruvanmiyur overlooking the majestic Bay of Bengal, Kalakshetra had, by the 1990s, become an autonomous body...
APRIL 4, 2023
Spaceplanes are highly sophisticated aerospace vehicles - while within the earth's atmosphere, they can glide and land on an airstrip like a plane and while in space, they can manoeuvre like a spacecraft. The most common spaceplanes are the 1980s-era American-origin Space Shuttle and the Soviet-origin Buran. But neither of these giant astronaut-ferrying spaceplanes are in operation....
