NEW DELHI: As India moves towards creating tri-service theater commands, the Army has adopted a radical change in promotion policy for senior officers by making it necessary for all lieutenant generals be rated on their performance through a “quantified evaluation system“.This new system, which will come into effect from March 31, will “facilitate merit-based selection”…
Sprinter Fred Kerley was arrested after an altercation with South Florida police that ended with the two-time Olympic medalist being hit with a stun gun, officials said Friday. Kerley, 29, was speaking to officers at 11:22 p.m. Thursday near 100 9th St. “about his vehicle parked nearby” when his “behavior became increasingly aggressive,” according to…
Foreign nationals who refuse or are unable to pay for their own travel home after being denied a stay in Canada will soon face harsher financial penalties if they ever attempt to return. According to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials, the tariff framework was updated for the first time since 1993 and will come…
The Punjab Environmental Protection Department has intensified its fight against illegal use of plastic, confiscating 40 tonnes of plastic since June last year. Radio Pakistan reported on Friday. Plastic waste remains a pressing problem in Pakistan, where more than 3.9 million tonnes of plastic is generated annually, and much of it is inadequately managed. In…
PUNE: Twelve-hour classes all year round, creative writing skills that eclipse those of their peers and multiplication tables memorized up to 1000. A school in a backwater of Nashik is creating ripples with all that and more, attracting Education in Maharastra Minister Dada Bhuse to the remote tribal village just weeks after taking office.However, the…
A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The case was Canada’s first recorded human infection of avian influenza, which has infected at least…
A Nova Scotia community is mourning the loss of two of its members after they were shot and killed in Halifax on New Year’s Eve. The Rev. Jivaro Smith, senior minister at Saint Thomas Baptist Church in North Preston, N.S., says the community and family of Cora-Lee Smith and her father, Bradford Downey, are shocked…
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accuses its digital assistant Siri of listening to users’ private conversations. The proposed settlement detailed in a court filing accessed Thursday came with Apple firmly maintaining that it did nothing wrong. “Apple has at all times denied and continues to deny any and…
NEW DELHI: After accusing the BJP government of “blatantly violating” the Law on places of worshipStarting in January 1991, Congress will join the case before the Supreme Court demanding that the 1991 law be strictly respected.On December 12, the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of studies ordered by several courts alleging that there were temples…
Just a few days before New Year’s Eve, Alicia Arritt received an unexpected text message from her ex-boyfriend, a decorated American special forces soldier named Matthew Livelsberger. The couple had not been in contact since 2022. Now, Livelsberger was asking her if she was single. They exchanged some light-hearted text messages over the next few…