Month: April 2025

[ad_1] Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and a burnt room inside his official residence Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro reopened his official home to the public for an Easter egg hunt on Tuesday, barely a week after a fire, started by an alleged arsonist, destroyed one of the wings at the residence.“I'm not going to live in fear,” Shapiro told reporters on the west lawn of the residence, along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania's capital Harrisburg.He further said "the smell of smoke is gone from the living quarters," adding that he hoped the fire-damaged rooms would have been "restored by mid-summer." However, the 51-year-old Democrat declined to detail the security improvements which have been made or would be made.PollDo you think Governor Shapiro is right to reopen his official residence to the public after the fire?The fire broke out in the early […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The attack on tourists in Pahalgam Tuesday a shadow over J&K's overbooked summer season, with travel operators bracing for a wave of cancellations and a slump in one of the region's biggest economic lifelines. Multiple industry leaders said they could not recall a major terrorist strike so openly targeting tourists from a specific community. The shock has been immediate. "We are getting a lot of calls for cancellation," said Nasir Shah of Indian Association of Tour Operators. The UT has seen record-breaking tourism numbers since the pandemic. Soaring demand pushed airfares and hotel rates to all-time highs. A return flight between Delhi-Srinagar has hovered around Rs 24,000, with the lowest fares rarely dropping below Rs 17,000-18,000. Hotels saw similar spikes, with Gulmarg's Khyber charging Rs 70,000 a night and Srinagar's largest five-star property priced between Rs 30,000 […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central govt to file a status report on implementation of its policies to encourage electric vehicles (EVs) as a PIL petitioner alleged that though in 2012 Centre had targeted to have about 70 lakh EVs on road by 2020, their numbers are just 35 lakh in 2025. Appearing for an NGO, advocate Prashant Bhushan told a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh that the promised infrastructure to encourage people to buy EVs has not been fulfilled, resulting in 26.6 crore fossil fuel-run vehicles on the road which cause pollution, increase in fuel import cost and harm to the environment aiding climate change. Though the bench asked attorney general R Venkataramani to file a status report on implementation of various EV policies, it believed these are issues which are […]

[ad_1] BENGALURU: In a twist to Monday's road-rage episode that snowballed into a language controversy, Bengaluru police registered an FIR against IAF Wing Commander Shiladitya Bose on Tuesday, charging him with attempt to murder and provoking breach of peace. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, meanwhile, condemned the episode & took strong objection to Bose's unwarranted and derogatory remarks about Karnataka and Kannadigas.BPO employee Vikas Kumar, the biker involved in a fistfight with Bose while the latter's wife Madhumita Dutta was driving him to a bus stop on Old Madras Road, was arrested late Monday based on Dutta's complaint alleging that she and her husband were abused in Kannada before being assaulted.On being released on bail Tuesday afternoon, Kumar uploaded a video on social media stating the allegations against him were false. "He (Wing Commander) attacked me and has given a false complaint […]

[ad_1] A fast-moving wildfire in Barnegat Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, has prompted mandatory evacuations for residents in several areas. According to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, the fire has already burned about 1,200 acres and remains completely uncontained. Evacuations are currently underway along Wells Mills Road, between Bryant Road and the Garden State Parkway. CBS news reported that authorities have confirmed sixteen structures are under threat and have been evacuated as a precaution. Aerial footage from the area shows parts of the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area engulfed in flames, with thick smoke visible from miles away.New Jersey Wildfire Causes Evacuations The wildfire has also caused significant traffic disruption. The Garden State Parkway has been shut in both directions near Exit 69. Several local roads have also been closed, including Rt. 532 (Wells Mills Road) from Route 72 […]

[ad_1] United States Food and Drug Administration US President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced its plans to ban synthetic dyes from the country's food supply, a move which would see the eight approved artificial food dyes being phased out by the end of 2026."For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals," Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference, surrounded by young families.Makary cited studies linking synthetic dyes to conditions including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, cancer, genomic disruption, gastrointestinal issues and more.Of the eight synthetic dyes derived from petroleum, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Red 40 constitute the lion's share of those in use, according to Peter Lurie, president and executive director of the non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest.These are […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah, who rushed to J&K on PM Modi’s directions within hours of terrorists massacring unsuspecting tourists in Pahalgam, vowed Tuesday to come down heavily on the perpetrators “with the harshest consequences”.Immediately after his arrival, Shah held a security review meet amid indications that the terrorists may have exploited the gap between Army patrols to attack the tourists in a meadow, with no way to escape, making them easy targets — almost “sitting ducks”.Officers were looking into if the terrorists timed the attack to coincide with shooting practice by Army personnel in a nearby range so that shots fired by them did not engage immediate attention of security forces deployed in the area“Anguished by the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam. My thoughts are with the family members of the deceased. Those involved in this […]

[ad_1] Pallavi Rao had just seen her husband fall to a terrorist bullet. As life ebbed out of the Shivamogga realtor, his distraught wife pleaded with the gunmen to shoot her and their son dead, too. The reply? "Go, tell Modi." Kashmir wasn't just a dream destination for Manjunatha Rao. He hadn't been on a family holiday outside his native Karnataka in his 46 years. On Tuesday, the Raos were soaking in the beauty of Pahalgam's meadows when gunshots broke their reverie. Manjunatha was among two tourists from Karnataka - the other was Bengaluru's Bharat Bhushan - singled out and shot dead.Manjunatha had booked the trip after his son Abhijit's Class XII exams. They were part of a group that left Shivamogga on April 19. Pallavi, branch manager of Malnad Areca Marketing Co-op Society's Birur branch, recounted to a TV […]