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Roman Surovtsev and Samantha Surovtsev are seen in a photo from August 2024. Credit: Surovtsev family hide caption toggle caption Credit: Surovtsev family Samantha Surovtsev met her husband, Roman Surovtsev, in 2017 while jet skiing. When they started dating, Surovtsev was honest about his past. He told her that he had come from the former Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of four. And that when he was a teenager, his green card was revoked after pleading guilty to carjacking and burglary charges in California. He explained that after being released from prison, in 2014, he spent time…

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with medications, he offers tunes on request and sometimes sings. His repertoire ranges from folk songs in English and Spanish to Minuet in G Major and movie favorites like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”Patients often smile or nod along. Salaysay even sees changes in their vital signs like lower heart rate and blood pressure, and some may request fewer painkillers.“There’s often a cycle…

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, the BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, ran into protesters at different locations across the South 24 Parganas district on Sunday as he attended Kali Puja.Speaking to the media later, Mr. Adhikari said his car was attacked at several places in the district. “In South 24 Parganas district, today I faced repeated attacks from illegal Bangladeshi Muslims. The obstruction, vandalism, and chaos were orchestrated by none other than the TMC Zila Parishad member, Rekha Gazi, with the aid and support of SP Koteswara Rao,”…

Fabrice Moizan, the general manager of Eden Rock — St Barths (#10 Resort in the Caribbean Islands), the legendary red-and-white-flecked property in St. Barts, began noticing the off-season trend in the summer of 2020, when travel restrictions across Europe rerouted many vacationers to the Caribbean. The property had an unexpected surge in bookings from May through August, traditionally a quiet period. In addition to offering more affordable rates, “low season is even better temperature-wise because, although it’s warmer, it’s breezier,” he says. In 2025, Eden Rock was almost fully booked the entire year.São Lourenço do Barrocal’s seasonal farm-to-table fare The…

Private sector lender ICICI Bank reported a 5.2 per cent growth in its profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 12,359 crore in the quarter ended September 2025, compared to Rs 11,746 crore in the year-ago quarter. Net interest income (NII) rose by 7.4 per cent year-on-year to Rs 21,529 crore from Rs 20,048 crore in Q2 of FY25. Net interest margin (NIM) stood at 4.3 per cent in the reporting quarter. Its fee income grew by 10.1 per cent y-o-y to Rs 6,491 crore in Q2 FY26 from Rs 5,894 crore during the same quarter of the previous fiscal. Fees…

After childbirth, many women are advised to “take it slow,” prioritise rest, recovery, and gradual physical activity. Yet for some new mothers, movement — whether walking, dancing, or light exercise — can be a powerful way to reconnect with themselves. Actor Gauahar Khan, who welcomed her second son, Farwaan, with Zaid Darbar on September 1, recently shared a video of herself performing Bhangra just a month after delivery. Dressed in a bright yellow suit, she danced to Karan Aujla’s For A Reason, captioning it: “Raat ke 12 baje, No rehearsal, but this song made me do it!!! 1 month postpartum #mombomb.” Gauahar…

File photo of Australian bowler Matthew Kuhnemann. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Australia’s seven-wicket win in a rain-truncated opening ODI in Perth on Sunday (October 19, 2025) was indeed set up by taking wickets upfront but spinner Matthew Kuhnemann backed India to bounce back strongly after a heavy loss in the first game of the tour.India were blown away as they could manage only 136 for nine in the first half which was marred by repeated rain interruptions here but it was the disappointing return of Rohit Sharma (8) and Virat Kohli (0) at the start of the game which…

The company is also expanding Copilot Vision, which can analyse content on users’ screens and answer related questions, to all markets where Copilot is offered [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Microsoft on Thursday rolled out a series of artificial intelligence upgrades to Windows 11 that would make its Copilot AI assistant more appealing to users by making it easier to automate tasks and connect with services across devices.Users can now use the wake word “Hey Copilot” to activate the AI assistant and execute voice commands in a new opt-in feature on any Windows 11 PC, Microsoft said.The company is also…

Kolkata: Infighting among Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in some West Bengal districts surfaced on Saturday and Sunday at the post-Durga puja meetings being held at all community blocks, party officer bearers familiar with the matter said.The incidents took place at a time when the TMC state leadership is forming new organisational committees in the districts in the run-up to the 2026 assembly elections. Several new committees were announced on Sunday as well when Bengal was preparing for Diwali.“The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not the TMC’s enemy. Nor are Congress or CPI(M). TMC is TMC’s enemy.” Anubrata Mondal, TMC’s former Birbhum…

The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM on Sunday announced its first list of 25 candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections, including two leaders from the Hindu community. “We are happy to announce the list of AIMIM candidates for upcoming Bihar elections. The candidates were finalised by AIMIM’s Bihar unit, in consultation with the party’s national leadership. Inshallah, we will be a voice of justice for Bihar’s weakest and most neglected,” the party said in a post on X. The party’s lone MLA and state unit chief, Akhtarul Alam, has been renominated from Amour, while former Bihar minister and ex-Begusarai MP Munazir Hasan…