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The real estate and infrastructure sectors are currently short of 20 lakh skilled workers — a gap that could widen to 50 lakh over the next five years, according to Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman of the Hiranandani Group. Speaking at an industry event on Friday, Hiranandani also flagged declining sales in the affordable housing segment, adding that high land costs around city centres must be addressed for developers to build such housing.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “In real estate and infrastructure, we are 20 lakh skilled workers short in India today… On one side we have unemployment, on the other side we…

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan. “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement. Story continues below this ad “WKRP in Cincinnati” aired from 1978 to 1982 and was set in a flagging Ohio radio station trying to reinvent itself with rock music. The cast included Gary Sandy, Tim Reid, Howard…

The decision, part of the BJP’s poll pledges, comes at a time when the state government has launched an intense drive against “illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants” across the state. Behind this outreach is a BJP-RSS push to bring Sindhis, who were forced to migrate from Sindh in Pakistan after Partition in 1947, under the larger Hindu umbrella. What is the scheme? While announcing the scheme Tuesday, state Revenue Minister and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said, “The Special Abhay Scheme will be implemented, under which residential and commercial land in 30 colonies of the Sindhi community, displaced after the…

Lewis Hamilton said there was a lot going on in the background after he finished 12th in the Hungarian Grand Prix, a day after calling himself useless and suggesting Ferrari should find a replacement.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO The seven-times world champion cut a despondent figure, giving only terse replies to media questions about the race and his earlier words, but confirmed he would return after the August break. “I look forward to coming back,” he said. “Hopefully, I will be back, yeah.” On Saturday Hamilton had told reporters that “it’s me every time. I’m useless, absolutely useless” and said Ferrari…

Here is how things stand on Monday, August 4:Fighting A Russian attack killed three people in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region on Sunday, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a major fire at an oil depot in Sochi in southern Russia, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratiev, said on Sunday. The fire was extinguished hours later after 120 firefighters were deployed, officials said. Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, briefly halted flights at Sochi’s airport during the fire. Ukraine’s military says it used drones to target several sites inside Russia, including refineries, an airfield and an…

In this week’s film discussion, NPR staffers weigh in on the state of the superhero movie.

This photo taken from video by Artem Sheldr shows an aerial view of the eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano of the Eastern volcanic belt, about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the regional center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia far east, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. Artem Sheldr/AP hide caption toggle caption Artem Sheldr/AP A massive volcano has erupted in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula region for the first time in centuries, just days after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked the area. The Krasheninnikov Volcano began erupting early Sunday morning local time, according to a post from the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, where…

NPR’s Sarah McCammon talks with Edward Lengel, former Chief Historian of the White House Historical Association, about President Trump’s plans to build a ballroom at the White House.

The series Tested from NPR’s Embedded podcast and the C-B-C delved into the history of sex testing and what’s considered “fair” in sports.

This time next year, anyone logging onto social media in Minnesota will see a warning that the sites can harm their mental health. Social media companies want to block enforcement of the new law. A law in New York may not be too far behind. Sponsor Message