For Telugu cinema, 2025 was a year of split screens with glittering highs at the box office on one side, and a shadowy underworld of leaks, hacks and digital theft on the other. While some films soared and others sank, the real plot twist unfolded far away from theatre halls. Behind the scenes, a coordinated,…
The night before she first walked into Clinton High School in 1956, Jo Ann Allen beamed over her outfit with the excitement of any teenager starting ninth grade. Her grandmother had sewn the dress — white with a careful trim, pleats and a wide-pressed collar. With her best friend Gail Ann Epps Upton, she buzzed…
To attract a larger pool of applicants, many private and autonomous colleges in Bengaluru have opened admissions for their undergraduate programmes months ahead of the usual schedule. Institutions that typically begin the process only in late January and some even after February, have already started accepting applications for degree courses this year. While a few colleges said the…
It’s a bad look when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ahead of you on scientifically sound health policy — women’s health, to make matters worse — but that’s exactly what happened to Gov. Gavin Newsom last week. Ouch. In a Cabinet meeting, Kennedy went on a six-minute-plus grovel to Trump. That’s pretty standard for these…
Behind a pair of green surgical curtains, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun struggles to sit cross-legged. It’s hard for her to tuck her swollen feet into the crooks of her knees while balancing her baby bump. Carefully shifting her balance, she sits next to her daughter while mixing some rice and piping hot chicken curry on a…
About 30 minutes into Friday’s World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, a landmark that Donald Trump would like to rename for himself, the president was called on stage to receive an award from FIFA chief Gianni Infantino. The so-called FIFA Peace Prize didn’t exist five weeks ago. And when Infantino created it, there were…
Internal strife within the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra came out in the open in the Assembly on Thursday when BJP legislator Ameet Satam asked School Education Minister and Shiv Sena leader Dada Bhuse to explain the delay in the implementation of the Mukhyamantri Vidyarthi Vigyan Vari scheme. Under the scheme, the Maharashtra government plans to send 51 students every year to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters in the U.S. According…
Five months after joining the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff delivered a floor speech on what he called “the top 10 deals for Donald Trump and the worst deals for the American people.” Schiff spoke of Trump and his family getting rich off cryptocurrency and cutting new development deals across the Middle East, and of the…
The Chennai district election workers checking EVMs and VVPATs at the ware house in Chinthadripet on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU The first-level checking of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) commenced in all districts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday for the upcoming general elections to the…
Video gaming platform Roblox is facing more lawsuits from parents who allege the San Mateo, Calif., company isn’t doing enough to safeguard children from sexual predators. A Los Angeles County mother, whose identity wasn’t revealed in a November lawsuit, alleges that her daughter met a predator on Roblox who persuaded her child to send sexually…