Year: 2024

Here are some spectacular photos of athletes in action at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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Delta has hired prominent attorney David Boies to pursue potential damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a mass outage earlier this month.

Vice President Kamala Harris is eyeing a number of Democratic men as possible running mates for the election race against former President Donald Trump.

An IIT Bombay professor, Chetan Solanki, experienced the impact of climate change firsthand when his flight from Leh was cancelled due to unusually high temperatures. This highlights the growing issues of global warming, even affecting high-altitude areas like Ladakh. Airlines cited reduced air density and engine performance issues at such altitudes as the reasons for…

Paramjeet Singh Bisht, a 23-year-old from Khalla village in Uttarakhand, faced ridicule while training for the men’s 20km race walk. Despite challenges, he honed his talent with support from his school coach and will now represent India at the Paris Olympics. Bisht is also a national record holder and enlisted in the Navy under the…

India reported 2,829 human deaths from elephant attacks and lost 528 elephants due to electrocution, train accidents, poaching, and poisoning over the past five years. Habitat loss and fragmentation were the primary causes of these conflicts. The government is promoting awareness campaigns and financial assistance to reduce human-elephant conflicts and promote alternative crops.

The Allahabad High Court nullified the conviction and four-year sentence of Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari in a Gangsters’ Act case related to BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s 2005 murder. The decision removes uncertainty regarding Afzal’s Lok Sabha membership. Despite previous convictions, he was acquitted of Rai’s murder in 2019, although the CBI has appealed this in…

The Bombay High Court extended a two-week stay on a CBI court’s order permitting Indrani Mukerjea to travel abroad. The CBI had challenged a July 19 ruling allowing her to visit the UK and Spain under specific conditions. Mukerjea, arrested in 2015 for allegedly murdering her daughter, was granted bail in May 2022 by the…