Pune: A weaker rupee and elevated airfare may weigh heavily on international travel this festive season. The rupee is currently hovering around Rs95.7 to the US dollar, compared with around Rs84 a year ago. This raises the cost of forex, hotels and spending abroad, making an overseas holiday cost significantly more.“The cost of travelling overseas…
Representative Image (AI-generated) What looked like an ordinary overnight shipment turned into a scam intervention after a Minnesota shipping company worker became suspicious of a woman’s unusually urgent request. The woman had arrived at Graphic Mailbox in Northfield, Minnesota, last week hoping to send a package to Texas. She was prepared to pay $500 for…
Sean Ono Lennon, the son of late Beatles legend John Lennon and Yoko Ono, has welcomed his first child with longtime partner Charlotte Kemp Muhl.The musician announced the arrival of their baby boy, shared his first photo and revealed his name in a social media post. Posing with the little one and Charlotte, Sean captioned…
Who is Shankh Mitra, the Jadavpur University graduate who became one of the world’s highest-paid CEOs? (Photo: LinkedIn) An engineering graduate from Kolkata has found himself among the world’s highest-paid corporate leaders, but his journey to the top did not begin at an IIT or in Silicon Valley.Shankh Mitra, an Indian-origin executive and the CEO…
NEW DELHI: Shubham Gautam hails from Narora, a town located on the banks of the Ganga River in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. Narora is famous for its nuclear power plant, operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).In the NPCIL campus, Ankit Kumar Rajput runs a cricket academy, where he first…
Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi on Wednesday morning, bringing relief to residents from the humid heat.The city recorded a minimum temperature of 28.4 degrees Celsius, according to the weather office. Safdarjung also recorded 28.4 degrees Celsius, while Palam recorded 22.4 degrees Celsius, 3.8 degrees below normal.Lodi…
Boat services are currently suspended on the Ganga river in Varanasi due to rising water levels that have exceeded safety limits VARANASI: Boat services on the Ganga have been suspended in Varanasi after the river crossed its warning level, with the district administration increasing surveillance in flood-hit areas, officials said on Wednesday.The Central Water Commission…
Kaithal MLA Aditya Surjewala Chandigarh: Congress MLA Aditya Surjewala on Tuesday trained his guns on the BJP govt over the 26-day strike by sanitation and sewer workers and the proposed parallel power distribution licence for Gurgaon and Nuh, accusing the Nayab Singh Saini dispensation of reneging on its commitments and paving the way for “backdoor…
The festive travel landscape is shifting dramatically this year, with the weakening rupee putting a strain on international outings PUNE: A weaker rupee and elevated airfare may weigh heavily on international travel this festive season. The rupee is currently hovering around Rs 95.7 to the US dollar, compared with around Rs 84 a year ago….
Lucknow: A bank probationary officer (PO) died after his motorcycle was hit by a pickup vehicle in the PGI area in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.The deceased was identified as Rahul Singh, son of Digambar Singh, a resident of Kharika, Rajiv Nagar Ghosiyana in Telibagh. He was working as a probationary officer at…
