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After wrist surgery, Ram Charan has appeared in public for the first time and gave fans an encouraging update on his recovery. The actor was seen at the Ayyappa Swamy Temple in Coimbatore with his wife Upasana Konidela, where the couple offered prayers before heading home. Photos of their temple visit have gone viral on social media in no time, with fans happy to see the actor smiling and recovering well after his medical procedure.Ram Charan offers prayers at Coimbatore temple after hospital dischargeThe temple visit came just days after Ram Charan underwent a successful surgery on his right wrist…
The story so far: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra, in a recent interview with Business Line, reiterated that the Indian rupee is “undervalued”. This has drawn attention because central bankers rarely comment on whether a currency is priced fairly. Answering a question from one of the four journalists who on Sunday (July 26, 2026) interviewed him, Mr Malhotra reportedly said, “I would like to reiterate that it would be reasonable to think that the rupee is not overvalued. If anything, one could argue that the rupee has become undervalued both in nominal and in REER (real effective exchange…
Japan’s south-western Kyushu region has had more than 100 aftershocks since it was struck on Tuesday by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake which left at least 13 people dead.Many others were said to be in “cardiopulmonary arrest” – a term often used in preliminary reports in Japan before a death is officially confirmed.Amid searing heat, rescue crews are digging through the rubble at a paper factory and a shopping mall in Kumamoto prefecture, looking for trapped survivors. The mall suffered an explosion in the hour after the quake struck. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned it was “truly a race against…
India’s electronics manufacturing sector has seen a major expansion over the last decade, with mobile phone exports recording a 165-fold increase between 2014-15 and 2025-26, the government said in Parliament on Wednesday.Mobile phone exports, which stood at around Rs 1,500 crore in 2014-15, have now reached approximately Rs 2.59 lakh crore in 2025-26, according to a written reply by Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw in the Lok Sabha.The minister also highlighted the growth in domestic mobile phone production, which has risen around 33 times during the same period. Production increased from Rs 18,000 crore in 2014-15…
Russia’s Central Election Commission has approved more than 400 candidates from Yabloko, the country’s oldest liberal political party, to run in September’s parliamentary elections on a pro-peace platform, the party said Wednesday. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Ryabkov said the decision gives Russians their first opportunity in five years “to vote for peace and freedom, offering a legal and safe way to advocate for a ceasefire agreement.” The party’s registration allows 269 candidates on its federal list and 135 single-mandate candidates to compete nationwide for seats in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. Election authorities had flagged discrepancies in application…
The verification drive would continue for seven days CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation on Wednesday began verification of EVMs used in 14 polling booths in Kolathur assembly constituency in the recent election following a petition filed by former chief minister and DMK president M K Stalin. Stalin lost the seat to Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam’s V S Babu by 8,795. Based on Stalin’s complaint to the EC, the GCC began verification of EVMs in 14 polling booths recommended by Stalin where he had said the votes were in his favour but the EVMs did not record it. “We began verifying the…
Revenue and land reforms minister Dilip Kumar Jaiswal Patna: The revenue and land reforms department has initiated disciplinary action against 12 more revenue officials and circle officers (COs) on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty, department minister Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said on Wednesday.Jaiswal said action has been taken against 82 officers and employees over the past two months. The cases involve alleged irregularities in land mutation, corruption, negligence in official duties, indiscipline and non-compliance with departmental directives.Charges have been framed against Arvind Kumar (revenue officer-cum-kanungo, Munger), Deepak Kumar (CO, Raghopur in Vaishali) and Vandana Kumari (then CO, Bisfi in…
Indian AI engineer laid off after company moved project to India/Image: Getty Images An Indian AI engineer on an H-1B visa, who spent around six years in the United States, has said he lost his job after his employer moved the entire project to India, leaving him to decide whether to return home or continue pursuing opportunities abroad.In a post on Reddit, the engineer said he had moved to the US six years ago for a master’s degree before securing a full-time role at a Fortune 500 product company. He said he worked there for more than three years before…
Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard, who was also the frontman for Irish rock group The Frames, has died in a motorbike crash in his home city of Dublin.Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.Hansard was born in Dublin in 1970 and busked on its streets before landing the role of Outspan Foster in the 1991 film The Commitments. Police are appealing for witnesses following the single-vehicle crash, which happened on Lower Road in Lucan, west of Dublin.It was reported to the emergency services shortly before 04:30 local time.This breaking news story is…
When Captain James Cook sailed through New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds during his second and third voyages in the 1770s, he deliberately released pigs and goats into the bush, hoping to establish a self-sustaining source of meat for future European sailors who might pass through the region. Cook could not have known that these animals would go on to multiply far beyond anyone’s expectations, spreading across both main islands and eventually causing serious damage to the native forests and wildlife that New Zealand’s ecosystems had evolved without any land mammals present at all. Their descendants are still found across the country…