Who is Chander Agarwal? Indian-origin CEO who spent $370,000 on ex-girlfriend for luxury gifts, loses repayment case | World News

Chander Agarwal, CEO and managing director of TCI Express/Image: TCI Express An Indian-origin CEO has lost a case seeking nearly $370,000 from his ex-girlfriend over luxury items, first-class flights and other expenses he paid for during their relationship, which he claimed were loans, CNN reported.Chander Agarwal, CEO and managing director of logistics company TCI Express…

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In 1984, Steve Jobs bought a 30-room, 17,250-sq-ft California mansion; after years of legal battles, it was demolished in 2011, while its pipe organ and historic fixtures were salvaged

The house was commissioned in the 1920s by Daniel C. Jackling, a self-made copper millionaire whose business transformed the American copper industry. For a house that once embodied California wealth and architectural ambition, the end came not with a grand renovation but with bulldozers. The Jackling House, a sprawling Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in the…

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‘Die first, white man’: US university probes Nigerian-origin professor Uju Anya’s ‘threatening’ social media posts

Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…

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160-year-old St. Louis church went through a fire, 37 service requests and 2 structural condemnations; after a year-long legal fight, a neighbourhood group has won control to rehabilitate it

For years, a 160-year-old church in St. Louis stood as a reminder of a neighbourhood’s past while steadily becoming one of its most troubled properties. The vacant structure had endured a fire, repeated complaints and two structural condemnations. City records showed 37 service requests connected to the property, as concerns about its condition continued to…

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China rejects Anthropic allegations of using Claude to train their models

China rejects Anthropic’s AI extraction allegations China has firmly rejected accusations by US artificial intelligence company Anthropic that Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, carried out large-scale efforts to extract responses from its Claude models and use them to train their own systems.Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Beijing “advocates AI…

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At 21, an Australian artist bought 25 acres in Tasmania; 18 months later a bushfire destroyed her first home, so she rebuilt it from salvage materials into an off-grid cabin for AU$7,000-10,000

She Bought 25 Acres at 21. After the Bushfire, She Built This Cabin From What Survived An Australian artist who used her savings to buy a 25-acre bush block in Tasmania at the age of 21 has built an off-grid home using salvaged materials after a bushfire destroyed her original house just 18 months after…

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In 1958, New Zealand built a power station over a volcanic field; it became the world’s first to generate electricity from geothermal flash steam | World News

Wairākei geothermal field in July 1978. Image Credit: Engineering New Zealand Wairākei Power Station in New Zealand changed the way geothermal heat could be turned into electricity when it was commissioned in 1958. Built beside the Waikato River, north of Taupō, the station drew on hot underground water beneath an active volcanic zone. Instead of…

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