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Avtaar Singh (File photo) A 57-year-old Sikh temple volunteer, Avtaar Singh was killed in California after being abducted earlier this month, authorities said. He was found dead days after he was reported missing.In a startling twist, officials have now confirmed that Singh was not the intended target of the kidnapping that led to his death.San…

Alysa Liu opens up about leaving competitive skating and chasing a completely different dream next (Imagn Images) Alysa Liu did not just win at the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games. She changed the feeling around American figure skating again. Her free skate carried sharp jumps, steady nerves, and something harder to define. It felt personal….

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’. For nearly a decade, the Boeing 727 once owned by Jeffrey Epstein has sat motionless on an outdoor slab in Brunswick, Georgia — its once-polished fuselage streaked with grime, its engines removed, its interior frozen in a kind of disquieting time capsule.Nicknamed the “Lolita Express” by the press, a moniker…

LONDON: Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian writer of Indian heritage, was on Tuesday named on the 2026 International Booker Prize longlist as the English translator of a “haunting” Portuguese language novel by Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia. ‘On Earth As It Is Beneath,’ described by judges as a stark exploration of power and corruption, is among…

Canadian officials have summoned officials from OpenAI Tuesday for a meeting following revelations that the company did not inform authorities about a user whose account had been suspended months before she committed a mass murder in British Columbia on Feb 10. The country’s minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, has sought explanations about safety protocols…

In the last month, the music artist with the largest audience across YouTube platforms wasn’t Bad Bunny or Taylor Swift. It was Slxughter, a phonk producer. The term probably doesn’t sound familiar, but anyone who’s spent any time on social media has almost certainly listened to it.Maybe it’s better to say “heard it,” since the…

Anthropic’s terms forbid anyone to harvest data for distillation. Separately, over not sharing its technology with Pentagon, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei (inset) has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked govt use of AI SAN FRANCISCO: The San Francisco artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has accused three Chinese companies of improperly harvesting large amounts of…

Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (Image source: Wikipedia) Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is an American environmentalist and the former CEO of Patagonia, one of the most important outdoor clothing brands in the world. After working in business for many years, she quit her job as a business leader to focus on protecting the environment on a large scale….

Facing racial attack as an Indian in the US is nothing new but this time an Indian-origin CEO has been asked to ‘go to China’ and not India as Nitish Kannan criticized the ongoing narrative in the US to shut out everyone, including H-1Bs, O-1 visa holders. Kannan said while the US is fighting to…

An Indian-origin restaurateur in London has announced that he will close his establishment after 16 years, citing mounting challenges including rising costs, online harassment, repeated disturbances he attributes to Pakistani groups, and what he described as inadequate support from the Metropolitan Police. Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Rangrez in Hammersmith, said on X that the…