How Chinese siblings struck gold in the stock market A stock market debut has delivered a billion-dollar glow-up for a former elementary school teacher and his sister in China, turning them into billionaires after shares of their adhesive products company skyrocketed nearly eightfold on their first day of trading.Michael Mai, 62, who once taught at…
Abdul El-Sayed’s hilarious reply to Egyptian uncle over marrying an Indian Abdul El-Sayed made history on Wednesday by becoming the first Muslim elected to the US Senate in the midterm elections, which saw Democrats gain control of Congress.A video of the newly elected senator recalling a humorous family exchange about his marriage has since gone…
Khan also sought interim bail by invoking the Supreme Court’s powers under Article 142 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan‘s plea seeking bail in a fresh Enforcement Directorate (ED) case, transferring the matter to the Allahabad high court and asking the Chief Justice to list it…
Google founder Larry Page publicly announced that he will give his billions to Elon Musk, but how an ‘argument’ over AI changed their friendship forever … Google co-founder Larry Page once said he would consider leaving his entire fortune to Elon Musk rather than giving it to a traditional charity. The two billionaires were once…
The Pentagon’s technology chief Emil Michael has said the United States was unprepared for the rise of modern drone warfare and admitted that Ukraine had to develop some of the battlefield technologies it needed because the US could not provide them. Speaking at the WSJ Tech Conference, Michael said the conflict between Ukraine and Russia…
Trump does not necessarily have to wait for a bill to reach his desk to exercise influence The Democrats’ sweeping victory in the US midterm elections has dramatically reshaped the balance of power in Washington, handing the party sizeable majorities in both chambers of Congress and setting the stage for a confrontation with President Donald…
Tanvi Patri (Image credit: BAI) India’s Tanvi Patri scripted history on Wednesday by becoming the first Indian woman to reach the badminton final at the Youth Olympic Games.The 15-year-old defeated Japan’s Yuzuno Watanabe 21-14, 11-21, 21-19 in a thrilling three-game semifinal in Buenos Aires.Before her, only three Indian shuttlers – HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen and…
NEW DELHI: Observing that laws aimed at controlling population growth in the country had lost their significance because of a fall in the total fertility rate (TFR) from 3 to 1.9, below the replacement level of 2.1, Supreme Court Wednesday said the foundation of such laws had “crumbled”, they had become “counter-productive” and their validity,…
In a result that would have seemed fanciful even a few months ago, Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated three-term Republican governor Greg Abbott, becoming the first Latina governor of a state that was successively a province of Spanish America, a Mexican territory, and an independent sovereign republic before being annexed into the United States.Texas also elected…
Through the night after Pia Dandiya was elected to the US House of Representatives from Florida’s 22nd congressional district, her father, Dr Rohit Dandiya, phone didn’t stop ringing. Calls came from relatives in India and US.For the Dandiya family, whose roots trace back to Jaipur, the result was more than a political victory in faraway…
