Millions of Social Security beneficiaries who receive their monthly payments through Direct Express prepaid debit cards are set to experience an important administrative change. The US Department of the Treasury has begun transitioning the Direct Express programme from Comerica Bank to Fifth Third Bank, which will become the new financial agent for the programme. While…
PC: Facebook (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Ancient stones rarely behave like still objects in Egypt. At the Karnak temples in Luxor, walls and gateways tend to reappear in unexpected forms, as if the past has been repeatedly folded and stitched back together by different hands across centuries. The latest work north of the temple…
Italy on red alert; Portugal records hottest May day ROME: Italy issued a red alert warning for the capital Rome on Thursday and Portugal and France reported their hottest days in May as Europe struggled with a heatwave that has smashed records across the continent.Britain and France have already reported their hottest-ever May days this…
A 21-year-old Austrian man who admitted plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during the singer’s Eras Tour has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.The man was identified in court only as ‘Beran A’ under Austrian privacy laws. He pleaded guilty to planning an attack on one of Swift’s sold-out…
Indian-origin tech leader in Canada says that before blaming H-1Bs, Americans should ask the corporations why they hire H-1Bs. An Indian-origin founder in Canada commented on the rampant targeting of H-1B visa holders in the US and explained that the situation is more complex than how MAGA portrays it. Vijayan Swaminathan, an Indian-origin tech leader…
Albert Bandura (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes remain relevant because human nature rarely changes as much as people think it does. Societies evolve. Technology changes rapidly. Entire industries disappear and new ones emerge. Yet human behaviour often repeats the same patterns generation after generation, especially when responsibility becomes shared among large groups of people. That is…
US CEO says Indians are good at unnecessary paperwork which Americans hate. Former US Merchant Marine captain John Konrad, the CEO of gCaptain, shared his experience of working in India and with Indians and said hardworking Indians or visa holders are not the problem. He said there is no doubt that Indians are hardworking but…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Just hours after the US and Iran exchanged verbal salvoes and fresh attacks in and around the Strait of Hormuz, the two sides are simultaneously reported to be inching towards a diplomatic breakthrough yet again.According to Axios, US and Iranian negotiators have reached agreement on a draft Memorandum of Understanding extending…
A Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer has stirred a row after the party’s official X account insulted White House adviser Stephen Miller.The controversy began when the Democrats’ official account replied to one of Miller’s posts with the words: “shut up you ugly f***.” Because the message came from the national party’s verified account, rather than…
New forensic evidence found in the case of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who disappeared in 2024 in Virginia. A nurse and a mother, Mamta Kafle Bhatt of Virginia, disappeared into thin air in 2024 and while her husband Naresh Bhatt was accused of killing her and then concealing her body, the body was never found. Two…
