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Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that he does not believe the FBI taking over the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance would necessarily be the best course of action.Attorney General Todd Blanche said he doesn’t think the FBI should take over the Nancy Guthrie investigation. (REUTERS)Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home on February 1.AG Blanche says FBI taking over isn’t ‘the right thing to do’Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he does not believe it would be the best course of action for the FBI to take over the…
As the country has progressed, so has the theme of PM Modi’s speeches. NEW DELHI: From access to aspiration and from problems to potential – the focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speeches has kept changing since 2014.Those tracking his speeches over the last 12 years have noted how in the initial year, Prime Minister Modi focused on issues such as toilets, bank accounts, poverty and fertiliser shortages. That has given way to attention to priorities like 6G, semiconductor, AI and quantum computing.If 2014 had mention of toilets as a challenge, Saturday he renewed his pitch for women’s…
Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Awarapan 2’ was one of the most anticipated films of the year. While the first installment was not a hit at the box office, over the years, it grew on the minds of the audience, largely due to its music which has become cult. Evidently, the craze for the sequel was hard to miss and on the first day itself, the film crossed the lifetime collection of ‘Awarapan’.Awarapan 2 Movie ReviewIt benefitted from the Independence day weekend and made Rs 22 crore on day 1 according to Sacnilk. It saw a growth of 55 percent on day 2…
Yet, within Ghana itself, the conversation around African complicity is far more nuanced, and for some traditional leaders, acknowledging the past is a vital prerequisite part of healing.King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the Ga Mantse, leader of Ghana’s Ga people, recently took the step of publicly apologising for his ancestors’ involvement in the slave trade.”I think that the transatlantic slave trade was the greatest crime against humanity, and ancestors also took part as players in that trade,” says the king.The Ga people became middlemen who traded with Europeans. They sold gold, ivory and ultimately enslaved Africans, often those captured in…
Trump cited South Korea’s refusal to join US efforts to denuclearise Iran as reasons for scaling back the exercises. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the Pentagon to “substantially” scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, citing Seoul’s refusal to join US efforts to “denuclearise” Iran. Trump also cited his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as reasons for scaling back the exercises.In a post on social media, Trump said the exercises scheduled to begin this week “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and…
The opposition parties in the BMC demanded that the proposal be sent back to the administration for reconsideration Mumbai: Even as the Rs 122-crore Mumbadevi robotic parking project remains stalled under Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar’s stay since July 2024, the BMC has floated a Rs 58-crore tender to beautify the temple precinct. The move has raised concerns that the proposed works could overlap with the parking project, which its contractor, SMS Ltd, has challenged in the Bombay High Court while seeking Rs 55 crore in damages.The development comes a month after the Bombay High Court observed that government officials who…
New Delhi: Delhiites witnessed sultry weather conditions as rain eluded the city. No significant respite is expected in the next few days. The city may receive light to very light rain, but no colour-coded warning has been issued.The maximum temperature was recorded at 34.4 degrees Celsius, one degree above normal Sunday. The heat index remained high, causing discomfort. It was 40 degrees Celsius at 11.30 am and rose further to 42.7 degrees Celsius at 2.30 pm. The ‘feels-like’ temperature settled at 45.1 degrees Celsius at 2.30 pm a day earlier.The day temperature is predicted to stay between 33 and 35…
Residents said the road connects Gunjur with Mahadevapura, Marathahalli and other parts of the city, with several schools located nearby. They added that the poor condition of the stretch poses a particular risk to women and children Bengaluru: A year after a group of techies took to the streets to fill potholes on a bad stretch in Gunjur, next to the city’s tech corridor, residents were back on the roads on Independence Day, warning authorities that more than 1,000 voters could abstain from voting if road infrastructure is not improved.TOI had reported last year how techies stepped in to fill…
Hyderabad: Hostel-born startup Apollyon Dynamics has successfully launched its jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — ADX-1 — from the roof of a moving car and is now developing indigenous technology to reduce India’s dependence on imported target drones used for military training.The founders — two 21-year-old fourth year B Tech students from Hyderabad — said the UAV, once fitted with the necessary sensors and avionics, can be configured as a target or decoy to simulate threats such as the S-400 and Akash missile systems during military exercises. The same platform, they said, can also be configured as a kamikaze drone.“We’re…
Chennai: The West Asia conflict may have disrupted global trade, but it has not dampened the appetite of Indian companies to strengthen their presence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. While the UAE serves as a key economic gateway to the GCC and African markets, Indian companies are also looking to cater to the diaspora closer to home. From retail jewellery and consumer durables to healthcare, companies are seeking to tap the region’s vast opportunities.Eye care chain Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is looking to enter the GCC region. Operating 19 hospitals across nine countries in Africa, it will launch…