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King Salman ordered over SAR3 billion in Ramadan aid for social security households/Image: SPA As Ramadan gathers pace, Saudi Arabia has announced the disbursement of more than SAR3 billion to social security beneficiaries, following a royal directive aimed at easing financial pressures during the holy month. Royal directive backed by Crown Prince The Custodian of…
In a recent statement, producer Aamir Khan firmly dismissed rumors surrounding a potential title change for the highly anticipated film, ‘Lahore 1947’. Directed by the talented Rajkumar Santoshi and featuring Preity Zinta alongside Sunny Deol, the film is set to keep its original name and is scheduled for release on August 13, 2026. Read on…
Credit – NASA39037_Mars-viking-orbiter-olympus-mons-volcano On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against rust coloured plains. No sharp peak. No obvious violence. Only when scale is added does it begin to feel strange. This single volcano rises higher than anything on Earth and…
The video shows people hitting the tyres, kicking the roof and windshield, and repeatedly striking the car with sticks. DEHRADUN: A car travelling from Haridwar to Delhi allegedly hit Kanwar pilgrims near Abdul Kalam Chowk in Mangalore on Saturday evening, following which some pilgrims vandalised the vehicle.The incident took place around 8.30 pm as the…
Large parts of Pakistan’s Punjab province have been submerged after heavy monsoon rains triggered flooding and drainage overflows, Dawn reported.At least seven people, including two children, have been killed and 20 others injured in rain-related incidents across the Punjab province in the past 24 hours, according to the provincial disaster management authority (PDMA). Authorities have…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday awarded group captain Shubhanshu Shukla – who became the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station – with Ashoka Chakra — India’s highest peacetime gallantry award.Shukla spent 18 days in space and became the second Indian to have gone to space and the first to visit…
Cybercriminals and cybersecurity are a cat-and-mouse pair. Only that at different times they keep swapping their roles. This week, I am listing 12 use cases for AI to prevent cybercrime. Classification problems (categorical target variable) 1. Real-Time Anomaly and Attack Detection in Large-Scale Network Flow Data A security operations centre monitors enterprise network traffic, generating…
Judging excellence in maternal healthcare is not like judging most things. The numbers, whether around delivery volumes, success rates, bed counts, etc., are the starting point, far from the verdict. When the jury members for the Times Future of Maternity Awards 2026 convened for final evaluation of nominees across 13 categories, the tougher questions were…
NEW DELHI: Nearly 67% — or two out of every three people killed on Indian roads in 2024 — were two-wheeler riders or pedestrians, according to the latest report published by the road transport ministry on Thursday. In absolute numbers, a total of 1.28 lakh two-wheeler riders and pedestrians lost their lives in road crashes.This…
BJP supporters celebrate majority in the West Bengal Assembly elections in Kolkata on Monday. (ANI photo) West Bengal has turned saffron. Mamata Banerjee‘s 15-year rule has ended and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to form its first government in the state.So, what contributed to this decisive political shift in the state’s electoral landscape?…
