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Kate and Leopold, or for darkness and danger, as in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of books. In an outstanding feat of restraint, Kaliane Bradley’s time-travel romance/spy thriller The Ministry of Time uses this trope extremely sparingly—although very effectively—in a few short scenes that don’t belabour the point and only add layers to her characters.

As owner, editor and sole reporter of Ku’ku’kwes News, Maureen Googoo starts the day by publishing her latest scoops about Canada’s indigenous communities. Tracking the number of people that flocked to read those stories used to be a pleasure. Nowadays, Ms Googoo says, she dreads it.

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mortality data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 and concluded that nearly 12 lakh additional deaths occurred in 2020, which is eight times higher than the official Covid-19 death toll reported in India for that year. The Health Ministry has rejected this estimate, calling it «exaggerated and misleading,» and has criticized the study for its flawed methodology. According to the study published in open access journal Sciences Advances, the authors found that in the subsample they studied, there was a reduction in life expectancy at birth of 2.6 years between 2019 and 2020, larger than reductions documented in any high-income country. This reduction was substantial even relative to trends in India: overall life expectancy at birth in 2020 was equivalent to all-India levels over a decade earlier. Relative to the 1.3-year life expectancy loss among high-caste Hindus, the loss for Muslims was 5.4 years.

Zomato delivery agents in Bengaluru, revealing that their income can surpass that of many IT engineers in India. Kamath, who runs the 'Full Disclosure' YouTube channel, shared insights from her discussions with two delivery agents, highlighting the disparity between their earnings and those of average IT professionals.

Tata Education Trust, later renewed. This event cast a spotlight on the instability and challenges faced by India’s philanthropies and nonprofits. Shortly after, the Centre for Financial Accountability's parent trust had its Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence revoked. Many prominent NGOs and think tanks in India are now struggling, along with the communities they serve. In the past few years, the sector has faced administrative hurdles, financial losses, and workforce reductions, retreating from various areas of service. Accurate data on the sector's impact is hard to come by due to the broad definition of civil society organisations, encompassing grassroots groups, large networks, faith-based organisations, research bodies, social movements, and youth groups.

‘blue screen of death’ error, Mac and Linux hosts functioned normally. Earlier, CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz, on X, had further reassured its customers, and stakeholders that Mac and Linux hosts had not been impacted.In a post on the social media platform X, Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath's sibling, Nithin wrote, “Almost the entire employee base, including non-technical folks, uses Linux laptops.

Instagram. For three years, the 21-year-old engineering student from Meerut had been battling a persistent headache, along with growing anxiety and creeping disinterest in life. That day in February, as a stream of memes and filtered photos filled his phone screen, a glimmer of hope appeared for Kumar: an account, @Hemant_Mahajan18, promised to cure anxiety “permanently without medicine”. With over 12,000 followers and claims of having helped a couple of thousand people, Mahajan’s “Happy Living” programme seemed just what Kumar needed. It claimed to “cure stress/anxiety in 28 days from its roots” and assured a 100% refund if there was no improvement.

Truman Capote. Dharamvir Bharati comes close with his deft handling of narrative nooks and crannies, most evident in his 1952 short novel 'Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda'. But Capote is still better, because he was self-taught. Born dirt poor in the American South, he was raised by two maiden aunts in Alabama and had one close friend in childhood, Harper Lee, who too would grow up to be a prominent novelist. In Lee's 1960 classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote appears as the character, Dill. In the late 50s and early 60s, when Capote was writing In Cold Blood, Lee offered to be his research assistant and minder when they were in Kansas following the Clutter family murder trials on which the book is based. The 2005 movie Capote, with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the eponymous role, captures the relationship wonderfully. While Capote never fully acknowledged Lee's role in the book, many of her observations about town folk, their routines and prejudices made In Cold Blood the true crime classic it is.

Elon Musk took to his own social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to mock Microsoft over the recent IT outage caused on Friday which led to complete chaos around the world with multiple entities including flights, super markets, hospitals and financial services being impacted. The IT outage has now been fixed but it did attract the attention of the Tesla Founder who also owns other companies including Space X and X which is a social networking site. The two posts on X went viral with many social media users commenting and re-sharing these tweets. Crowd Strike which is the cyber-security firm which dealt with the issue witnessed a fall in its stock price in the US.

Mohammed Shami has finally addressed the swirling rumors linking him to tennis player Sania Mirza. Recently, social media was abuzz with manipulated images and baseless claims suggesting that Shami and Mirza were about to get married. These rumors surfaced following Sania Mirza's divorce from Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. In a candid interview with YouTuber Shubhankar Mishra, Shami expressed his frustration and issued a stern warning to those spreading false news.

Tamil Nadu, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Minister and DMK Youth Wing Secretary, chose to play down the reports. In his speech, Udhayanidhi clarified, «There is a resolution passed today to take charge to help our CM and party president. I know some of you have initiated this resolution just to make sure we do it in advance and get a good name,» he said humorously. Addressing the reports about his potential promotion, Udhayanidhi reiterated his previous statement, «There are many news reports on the Deputy CM elevation. I have said to the press before that all ministers in our Government are Deputy Chief Ministers.»

income tax systems work more reliably, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has awarded the Taxnet 2.0 project to Bharti Airtel. As per a press release by CBDT on July 19, 2024, this collaboration with Airtel is aimed at providing network connectivity, facility management services, and video conferencing solutions to the Income Tax Department. Experts say that this project can make the e-filing ITR portal work faster, as currently it is plagued with various network-related glitches and issues. «Recently many taxpayers faced issues while using the online facility for ITR filing as opening each page of the tab was taking substantial time. We can expect that in the next season of ITR, taxpayers may find the e-filing portal's interface to load at a faster speed,» says Mihir Tanna, Associate Director-Direct tax, S.K Patodia & Associates LLP.

MUMBAI : Amit Chandra, partner and India chairman of private equity (PE) firm Bain Capital, began thinking about philanthropy in his 30s. At the time, he was leading investment bank DSP Merrill Lynch in Mumbai. One of his goals then was to lead a large bank by the age of 40, something he achieved at 33.

cyberattack, a torrent of online conspiracy theories took off Friday after a major IT crash. Airlines, banks, TV channels and financial institutions were engulfed in turmoil after the crash, one of the biggest in recent years that was the result of a faulty software update to an antivirus program operating on Microsoft Windows.

body shaming and freedom of speech to the fore, a Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of EUR 5,000 or $5,465 for making fun of her height in a social media post. It also awarded Giulia Cortese a suspended fine of EUR 1,200 for a jibe on Twitter, now known as X, reports Reuters. Giorgia Meloni compared to Benito Mussolini The controversy began in 2021 when Cortese published a mocked-up photo of Giorgia Meloni with a picture of the late fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the background. In the following tweet, the journalist wrote, «You don't scare me, Giorgia Meloni. After all, you're only 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. I can't even see you.» The Italian prime minister launched legal action against the journalist after she clashed with her on social media.

China recently presented a ground-breaking advancement in high-speed rail technology, cementing its position as a global leader in the sector. According to Interesting Engineering, the country has unveiled the first carbon fiber-only passenger train in history. Because this train is noticeably lighter than conventional trains, it will help cut pollution tremendously, as per the reports of Yahoo Tech.

President Javier Milei's office said Friday it had sent a senior official to the French embassy to explain that Victoria Villarruel's angry statement on social media was made in her personal capacity. FIFA has announced an investigation into the chants sung by Argentina players, including Chelsea and Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 23, after they won the Copa America.

Mike Tyson is finally throwing light on the big-time rumors circulating around why his showdown against Jake Paul transpired in the first place. Jake Paul and Mike Tyson both come for different timelines, with the latter having hung up his gloves years before. Paul, however, is still fit and agile, and has been looking for such iconic fights. The Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight was scheduled for July 20 at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas but has now been postponed after Tyson faced serious health issues, prompting him to pull out of this match. There was gloom among the fans who were rooting for the boxing veteran to once again enter the ring and throw those knockout punches he was known for. Instead, Paul is now facing former UFC fighter Mike Perry this time and the Mike Tyson clash has been pushed to 15th November, when it was initially slated to happen.

Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ola Cabs, while commenting on the Microsoft Windows outage on July 19, said outages could happen due to “deliberate action by bad actors". On Friday, a flawed software update sent out by a cybersecurity company caused major computer outages around the world, and millions of Windows users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error which is causing the system to suddenly shut down or restart.In a post on the social media platform X, he said, “On the @Microsoft outage, here’s the main thing I feel we can do.

Joe Biden’s post on X (formerly Twitter) is being closely scrutinized by many people including his own party members. He is presently being treated for COVID-19 and has called off certain campaign events over the past few days and returned to his home at Delaware. This cryptic post on a social networking site only raises further questions. This has been reported by Axios. In recent times, the pressure on Joe Biden to call off his election campaign has increased and there is increasing pressure on him to step aside. Hence, this message calling for political donations has only led to more confusion among the Democratic party legislators and others who are opposed to Biden’s campaign.