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Steph Bohrer has gone viral on social media after she received a handwritten note from a pilot at the airport, praising her beauty. The message called Bohrer “the most beautiful human.” The 23-year-old shared a 11-second video on TikTok and Instagram on Wednesday that features the message she received while waiting at an airport, People magazine reported.

This is the second one-month postponement Trump has announced since first unveiling the import taxes in early February.

Santander banking services have been down in a major outage, leaving customers unable to get onto banking services, make payment transfers while facing other issues. This follows a series of outages across major high street banks, which have caused the apps of several leading banks to be briefly offline. Over 600 customers have reported issues with the bank on outage-tracking site Downdetector. The issue first arose around 12.30 pm today, with hundreds of users reporting problems across the bank’s services, and more than half of those reports flagging issues with payments, according to service status website Downdetector.

The size of the 2025-26 budget is expected to reach Rs 4 lakh crore, an increase from the Rs 3.71 lakh crore allocated in the current fiscal year. In a post on 'X', Siddaramaiah said, «Over the past few days, I have held meetings with our cabinet ministers; senior officials of various departments; leaders of — farmers, exploited, minority, backward class organizations; and religious leaders.» He said that he has made an effort to listen to the aspirations of people from all castes, races, and classes of society in a non-partisan manner and has tried to respond positively to them through this budget. «I believe that the budget is not merely a calculation on sheets of paper, but a manual for shaping the future of the seven crore Kannadigas of the state. I am confident that I have made a sincere effort through the budget to make every citizen of the state a beneficiary of some government scheme,» he added.

spouse accountable for one's shortcomings is a tactic as old as, well, marriage. 'My husband made me do it,' or 'My wife told me not to do it,' are standard tropes that are on par with 'the dog ate my homework'. But the defence of a provincial armed constabulary (PAC) constable in Meerut to charges of tardiness and negligence of duty takes the khasta gur revdi.

Premier League. Runaway leader Liverpool looks certain to win a record-equaling 20th title. At the other end of the standings, three from the current bottom four clubs will probably be relegated. The Champions League places, however, are up for grabs with just six points separating the teams placed from third to 10th. And with the Premier League in pole position to win a bonus fifth spot in the Champions League next season, the likes of Bournemouth, Brighton and Fulham are in contention.

BSP supremo Mayawati after she expelled her nephew Akash Anand from the party, Congress leader Udit Raj on Thursday claimed that the move showed the BSP is being controlled by the BJP, and invited Anand to join the Congress. Mayawati would not have taken such a «suicidal step» without being under pressure, he said. Mayawati on Sunday removed her nephew Akash Anand from all party posts, appointing his father Anand Kumar and Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Gautam as national coordinators in his place, and said she would not name a successor in her lifetime. Kumar, however, turned down the offer. A day after Akash Anand's removal, Mayawati on Monday said she expelled him «in the interest of the party and the movement».

Kashmir dispute would be solved after the «return of the stolen part of Kashmir which is under illegal Pakistani occupation,» External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. Jaishankar was speaking at a session at the Chatham House think tank in London on Wednesday, prompting Pakistan on Thursday to reject as «baseless» his remarks regarding Kashmir, while making counter demands to address the issue. Responding to an audience question on «solving» issues in Kashmir, Jaishankar stated, «On Kashmir, actually we have done, I think, a good job solving most of it.» «Removing Article 370 was step number one, restoring growth and economic activity and social justice in Kashmir was step number two, and holding elections with a very high turnout was step number three.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite making financial strides, women in India represent a small fraction of the country’s investor base. According to NSE data, only 22% of stock market investors are women, while CAMS reports that 28% of mutual fund investors are women, with most preferring systematic investment plans (SIPs).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Meta Platforms Inc and Google’s parent Alphabet Inc have raised concerns about Indian rules barring tech giants from monitoring internet browsing by children under 18 as it will make safety filters ineffective, according to three executives privy to the discussions. “The DPDP Act’s rules include an exemption that allows social media intermediaries to use the age of a user as part of the data that the platform can use to identify them.

The Grammy winner recently dropped her new music and debuted her latest single Love in Real Life. Now, she has announced three concerts in March to celebrate its release, USA Today reported.

Meta AI is changing the game — and it's now available on all the subsidiary social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. What was once a distant dream is now at your fingertips, seamlessly blending artificial intelligence into everyday digital experiences. From creative tools to mind-bending personalization features, Meta AI is reshaping how we interact online. If you've been scrolling through your apps without exploring these futuristic upgrades, you're seriously missing out. Here are 8 incredible Meta AI features that will blow your mind — and might just make you question how you ever lived without them.

A tornado watch was issued Wednesday morning for parts of North and South Carolina until early afternoon. Tornado warnings were issued in Florida and South Carolina on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, high winds forced some changes to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, which moved up and shortened the two biggest parades to wrap them up ahead of the bad weather. Tornadoes touched down Tuesday in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, according to preliminary information from the National Weather Service.

Facebook/ Meta will be published next week. Flatiron Books announced Wednesday that «Careless People» is scheduled for Tuesday. The memoir is written by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who left what was then Facebook in 2018. "'Careless People' takes readers inside Meta's board rooms, private jets, and meetings with heads of state, revealing the appetites, excesses, blind spots, and priorities of executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan," the publisher's announcement reads in part. «Wynn-Williams paints a portrait of this group as profoundly flawed, self-interested, and careless human beings, callously indifferent to the price others would pay for their own enrichment.»

The Sustainability Disclosure Regime (SDR) label denotes investment products that aim to invest in assets that have the potential to improve environmental and/or social sustainability over time. M&G's Sustain Paris Aligned fund range includes three funds: M&G Global Sustain Paris Aligned, M&G European Sustain Paris Aligned and M&G UK Sustain Paris Aligned.  The first two strategies are managed by John William Olsen, who heads M&G's sustain and impact equity investment team overseeing over £4bn in assets. The M&G UK Sustain Paris Aligned fund is managed by Rory Alexander. 'Sustai...

Steve Smith announced his retirement from One Day Internationals (ODIs). Virat Kohli’s 84-run knock was key to India’s successful chase of 265 runs.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tech companies and their services-focused revenue don’t appear to be in the crosshairs of the new tariffs imposed between the U.S., Mexico and Canada on Tuesday. But they’re far from immune from a growing trade war.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Growing up mostly in Bhopal, then the capital of undivided Madhya Pradesh, I was exposed to a range of language variants that we bundle between Hindi and Urdu, all of which I loved. English was a part of the environment, including at school.

Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, was removed from the House of Representatives chamber on Tuesday night after repeatedly heckling President Donald Trump during his speech to a joint session of Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, ordered Green's removal after multiple warnings.

The landmark legislation setting some of the world's most stringent limits on social media was approved by Australia's parliament in November, forcing such firms to bar log-ins by minors, or pay fines of up to A$49.5 million ($31 million). YouTube stands to be exempted from the ban set to take effect by the end of the year as it is considered a key educational tool and is the only service allowed for children as part of a family account with parental supervision rights.

President Donald Trump has announced a ban on protests he considers that he deemed as illegal on Tuesday, March 4. He stated that if schools or colleges allow these protests to take place, they will lose all federal funding. The move comes just hours ah