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As festive sales light up shopping apps and inboxes, so do scam alerts. Seen a pop-up from Amazon offering “free Diwali gifts” for taking a quiz? Or a message from “India Post” claiming your delivery failed and linking to an “address update”? These are among the season’s most common scams, designed to dupe hurried shoppers.“With festivals such as Diwali, Dhanteras, and Christmas around the corner, people have been rushing to grab limited-time deals. Shoppers look for festive sales but often click on a link first and verify its authenticity later,” said Srinivas L, Joint MD and Joint CEO of 63SATS Cybertech. “Cybersecurity…

Published on: Oct 11, 2025 07:29 am IST An anti-ICE protestor in Portland is making waves on social media by wearing an inflatable frog costume. Among all the protestors in Portland, Oregon, one has captured social media’s attention for turning up wearing unusual attire – an inflatable frog costume. Since then, videos and pictures of the protestor, dubbed the Portland Frog, have taken over social media. A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands in front of law enforcement officers during a protest outside the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in South Portland, Oregon. (REUTERS) The person said…

Earlier this month, comedians, including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, and Bill Burr, flew to Saudi Arabia to perform at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival. The organizers claimed it was the largest comedy festival in the world, with over 50 international comedians performing stand-up, sketch, and improv. It was put on and paid for by the Saudi government as a part of their effort to increase investment in their local economy — and also to improve their global image.The Saudi regime’s human rights record is why other performers such as Marc Maron, David Cross, and Atsuko Okatsuka have strongly…

On Capitol Hill, there has been almost no sign of progress toward ending the shutdown. Senators say they aren’t even formally negotiating, which begs the question: what are they actually doing?

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Christopher Blevins, the first U.S. male winner of the World Cup for cross-country mountain biking in 34 years.

A Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) bus operator has been hailed a hero after she stopped her vehicle in the middle of the road to rescue a child wandering alone. Her quick actions were captured on a camera and later shared on social media. A bus driver rescuing a child in Florida. (X/@GoHART) “HART OPERATOR REUNITES LOST CHILD IN STREET WITH FAMILY,” reads the first line of a tweet, followed by, “HART proudly recognizes Bus Operator Barbara Baker for her quick thinking and compassion that helped reunite a lost child with his family.” “When she noticed a small child in…

A still from ‘The Smashing Machine’ | Photo Credit: A24 The story of an MMA fighter called The Smashing Machine would naturally have blood, guts and gore, right? The meteoric rise, the fall from grace, and the redemptive clawing back to the top, all set to that anthemic music with a rousing training montage, are par for the course. When you have professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson, who also happens to be a stratospherically successful movie star headlining the film, one should not be blamed for expecting standard fare — great fights and a feel-good story.And that is where The Smashing…

United States President Donald Trump has unveiled a second deal with a major pharmaceutical company to offer lower-cost prescription drugs direct to American consumers.This time, the agreement concerned AstraZeneca, a multinational based in the United Kingdom.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTrump hosted the company’s chief executive, Pascal Soriot, in the Oval Office on Friday to publicly cement the deal, which he described as “another historic achievement in our quest to lower drug prices for all Americans”.“Americans can expect discounts, and as I said, it could be, in many cases, way over a hundred percent,” Trump said.As in previous…

The last words Afsana Khan heard from her son, Usaid, were the lines of a nursery rhyme — “Anaar ka meetha daana (The sweet seed of the pomegranate).” A drowsy and weak Usaid had tried to recite the rhyme as he lay in a hospital bed at New Health City Hospital in Nagpur, Maharashtra.“I was trying to cheer him up. He had started going to nursery school just two months ago, so I asked him to recite the rhyme. He fell unconscious after saying these lines and never woke up,” says Khan, sitting in her two-room house in Parasia town…

The Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group, which is a key stakeholder in Tata Sons, has demanded the public listing of the Tata Group’s influential holding company — a move that comes amidst an ongoing dispute between two factions within Tata Trusts.In a statement Friday, the SP Group said listing Tata Sons was not merely a financial reform but a “moral” obligation. It described such a move as a step that would revive founder Jamsetji Tata’s vision of transparency and restore faith among stakeholders, employees, investors and the public. “The SP Group has consistently advocated the listing of Tata Sons,” it said…