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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union government of abandoning the people of West Bengal in their hour of need, the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) said that Centre not releasing funds to the State amounts to deliberate financial strangulation.The West Bengal’s ruling party said that while funds have been made available to Maharashtra and Karnataka to douse their flood crisis, yet left food ravaged West Bengal has been left out in the cold.“The Modi-Shah combine is weaponising federal funds as revenge for the humiliation they…

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain all over the body. It is still unclear what causes fibromyalgia, and there is no cure for it, but its symptoms can be managed. The condition is often misunderstood, but there is no doubt that it is real and is believed to affect 2 to 3% of the population globally. Here is all you need to know about the condition.What is fibromyalgia?Fibromyalgia is a pain disorder. It is a chronic or long-term condition. It causes pain and tenderness in the muscles and soft tissues of the body and is often accompanied…

South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada, left, celebrates with teammate after taking the wicket of Pakistan’s Abdullah Shafique during the third day of the second test cricket match between Pakistan and South Africa, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on October 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: Anjum AP The No. 11 batter Kagiso Rabada and Senuran Muthusamy hit career-best half-centuries as South Africa scripted one of its most memorable comebacks to dominate Pakistan on Day 3 of the second and final Test.South Africa was all out Wednesday for 404 in its first innings — having resumed on 185-4 and being reduced to 235-8 and 306-9…

Google has claimed that its quantum processor Willow has achieved the first “verifiable” quantum advantage — a technological benchmark that means a quantum computer can outperform a classical one in practice.“This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we’re excited to see where it leads,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on X.com.The announcement was accompanied by an open-access paper in Nature in which the Google Quantum AI and Collaborators team described its setup and findings. At the heart of the effort is a special kind of quantum measurement called out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). The…

Atlanta’s newest hotel, The Tess, opened in the Buckhead neighborhood with 201 rooms, a rooftop pool and restaurant, and a podcast studio.The hotel, located near Buckhead Village District, joins Marriott’s Autograph Collection Hotels.Accommodations range from 312-square-foot Standard Rooms with a desk and floor-to-ceiling windows to the sprawling 1,048 Presidential Suite with a separate living room and eat-in kitchen. The Tess, a new hotel, opened this month in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood as part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection Hotels. The 201-room stay, formerly Thompson Atlanta-Buckhead, has been transformed by Peregrine Hospitality—the group behind Deer Valley Resort and Under Canvas—into a modern destination with a…

How are changing tariffs, the AI boom, immigration policies and uncertainty in employment and the stock market impacting the economy? Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist, explains.

A claim has gone viral that President Donald Trump has banned the ‘Plan B One Step’ emergency contraceptive pills in the United States. Multiple posts were made on social media claiming that Trump has banned Plan B, manufactured by Foundation Consumer Healthcare, in the US. But the claims are false, and Trump has made no such announcement. Donald Trump lights a diya candle during a Diwali celebration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.(Bloomberg) The viral claims originated amidst past efforts by Republican lawmakers in various states to bring in a ban on morning-after pills. For…

Around 600 employees of Meta, working in its AI Superintelligence Labs, will be laid off next month. The affected employees include those working in the Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) AI research lab, AI product division, and AI infrastructure division, Forbes reported. Meta set to lay off around 600 employees working in AI despite billions of dollars of investment: Here’s why(REUTERS) Meta lays off 600 employeesAccording to CNBC, the company’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, sent a memo to inform the employees of the cuts in manpower. It said that the termination date of the employees being relieved is November…

By Foo Yun Chee Apple hit with EU antitrust complaint over App Store policies BRUSSELS -Apple was hit with a complaint to EU antitrust regulators by two civil rights groups on Wednesday over the terms and conditions of its App Store and devices for allegedly breaching landmark rules aimed at reining in Big Tech. The joint complaint by Article 19 and Germany’s Society for Civil Rights to the European Commission could pose yet another headache for Apple, which was fined 500 million euros in April for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for…

PARIS — The Louvre’s director on Wednesday acknowledged a “terrible failure” at the Paris tourist attraction after a daylight crown jewel heist over the weekend, and said that she offered to resign but it was refused. Louvre director acknowledges failure after jewel heist and says she offered to resign The world’s most-visited museum reopened earlier in the day to long lines beneath its landmark glass pyramid for the first time since one of the highest-profile museum thefts of the century stunned the world with its audacity and scale. In testimony to the French Senate, Louvre director Laurence des Cars said…