Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah and President Ramchandra Paudel share heartfelt festive wishes for Bada Dashain, underlining family cohesion and social harmony. (Pic Credit: IANS) Nepal Prime minister Balendra Shah and president Ramchandra Paudel on Saturday conveyed their greetings to the people on Bada Dashain, also known as Vijaya Dashami, the country’s biggest festival, highlighting…
A proposed A$15 billion data-centre campus near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales has sparked a debate over the future of regional development, with residents raising concerns about agricultural land, energy demand and environmental impacts. Reporting by ABC Riverina and The Daily Telegraph, alongside details in the project’s planning documents, highlights a growing divide between…
US President Donald Trump. The White House on Friday listed investments worth over $10.87 trillion in the US, including more than $330 billion from India, placing the country among the leading investors in the American economy.The investment figures were displayed in a video played on a loop on the White House’s YouTube channel. The list…
Thousands of young people gathered outside Albania’s Education Ministry in central Tirana on Saturday. (Pic Credit: Reuters) Thousands of young people gathered outside Albania’s Education Ministry in central Tirana on Saturday, marking the fifth consecutive day of a growing student-led movement calling for Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign.The demonstration turned violent when a group…
US Congressman Riley Moore. US Congressman Riley Moore has alleged that H-1B visa holders are replacing American computer science graduates, claiming employers are hiring foreign workers because they are willing to accept lower wages.In a post on X, Moore described the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) programmes as “SCAMS”, alleging that they allow…
The latest strikes have heightened concerns about Ukraine’s ability to maintain electricity and heating supplies as winter approaches. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of seeking to leave millions of Ukrainians without essential services by targeting the energy system. Russia attacked more than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities across Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on…
In August 2024, country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actor Kimberly Williams-Paisley, pledged the first $1 million towards a $5 million campaign to open a second location of their nonprofit grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee. The new site opened on January 14, 2026, at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, allowing eligible families to select…
Representational AI image A New York woman’s attempt to secure her daughter’s lifelong rights to a family property has ended in a court ruling nearly four decades after the original transfer. In 1987, Mary Mangiaracina transferred a property in Ridgewood, Queens, to another person but included a condition intended to protect her own right, as…
Nine people were injured after a fire gutted a three-storey seaside resort in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, killing at least 10 people (Image credit: The Observer Lens’s X) At least 10 people were killed and nine injured after a fire broke out at a seaside resort in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district early Saturday, The Express Tribune…
Rocky Prestangen and Randy Stevenson (Photo: Institute for Justice, AI-enhanced image) A dispute over who should pay nearly $300,000 in legal expenses has brought a group of North Dakota ranchers and a natural gas pipeline company before the US Supreme Court. The ranchers had challenged the compensation offered for pipeline access across their properties and…
