New York: Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs next week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine […]
Month: February 2025
Silicon Valley and Indian investors spend big as English cricket goes up for sale
Foreign investors have been googly-eyed about English soccer for decades. Now, they are buying into an even more quintessential English sport — cricket. Auctions of […]
US Podcaster Lex Fridman “Can’t Wait” To Talk To PM Modi, Will “Fast”
New Delhi: US podcaster Lex Fridman is set to visit India later this month to interview Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he “can’t wait”. In […]
NASCAR honors ‘The Ironman’ Ricky Rudd and ‘Cousin Carl’ Edwards as Hall of Fame inductees
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One of the toughest drivers in NASCAR history joined one the most enigmatic drivers of the modern era as the newest inductees […]
DOGE Staff Quits Over “Normalize Indian Hate” Post, Elon Musk Responds
An employee from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has resigned after he was linked to racist posts on a deleted social media […]
Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners
President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner […]
Judge Blocks Trump Plan To Put 2,200 USAID Workers On Leave
Washington: A U.S. judge on Friday said he would pause plans to place 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave, as part of […]
Thailand’s struggling battle against air pollution | World News
For weeks now, most of the friends and families I know have had a cough of some kind. The pollution in the dry season in […]
Missing Alaska Plane Found With 3 Bodies Inside: US Coast Guard
An aircraft that went missing in Alaska with 10 people aboard on Thursday has been found, the US Coast Guard said on Friday. All 10 […]
Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how […]