“A Thief Who Robs a Thief Has a Hundred Years of Pardon”: Imagine a scammer being conned out of his own money. Or a thief discovering that someone has stolen from him. For many people, the immediate reaction is not sympathy but satisfaction. There is even a proverb for that feeling: “Ladrão que rouba ladrão…
Maldivian proverb of the day reminds us how a rat works hard to open a coconut and a bat drinks the water like an opportunist. Somebody does the work and someone else reaps the benefit. This is the crux of this old Maldivian saying, explained through imagery of vegetation. In the Maldives, the coconut palm…
The protester was waving an upside-down American flag when she was hit, video shows. A protest outside a US immigration detention centre turned chaotic on Sunday after a demonstrator was struck by a car while waving an upside-down American flag, reports the New York Post.The incident happened outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey where…
A Redditor shared US visa interview (tourist visa) experience in Delhi. An individual wants a tourist visa to the US to watch the FIFA final. The visa officer asks him whether he watched last night’s match. The answer is negative. Then the visa officer asks whether he watched any match at all. No is again…
Savitha Shan posthumously received two degrees from the University of Texas two months after being killed in a mass shooting. 21-year-old Indian-origin Savitha Shan would have graduated by May, but her life was cut short by a March 1 mass shooting. Her parents Shan Muthian and Selvi Shan refuse to continue grieving and announced the…
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer nearly broke down as he found himself on the scrapheap of history on Monday when like Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss before him, he was booted out of No. 10 by his own MPs.After just two years in the job, having watched his authority within his party…
Imagine meeting someone for the first time. Before they say much about themselves, you notice the people around them—their closest friends, colleagues, and companions. Instantly, assumptions begin to form. Are they ambitious? Trustworthy? Reckless? Kind? Long before social media algorithms and personality tests, people relied on a simpler measure of character, captured in a timeless…
Proverb of the day: The more grains it bears, the lower it bows Some evergreen sayings are there in all countries and cultures; only the words are different and local. In the traditional villages of the Malay Archipelago, wealth was historically measured not in gold coins or digital ledger balances, but in the yield of…
Report on voting vulnerabilities delayed White House officials have delayed the release of a US intelligence report that identifies vulnerabilities in the country’s voting machines ahead of the November midterm elections, according to Reuters sources familiar with the matter.The report, prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), outlines security weaknesses in…
For the Trump administration, Vance appeared to have clinched a desperately needed truce to calm growing political disquiet at home ahead of the mid-term elections in November, with the vice-president’s own political future at stake. TOI correspondent from Washington: US vice-president JD Vance emerged from two days of talks with Iranian leaders in the Swiss…
