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Families flying together may soon have an easier time getting through security.That’s thanks to a new initiative from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aimed at creating dedicated family lanes at airports, offering discounted TSA PreCheck fees, and more. The agency’s “Families on the Fly” campaign is “designed to enhance hospitality for families” during airport security screening.”DHS and TSA are committed to making the airport security experience as smooth and stress-free as possible for traveling families,” Adam Stahl, the senior official performing the duties of deputy TSA administrator, said in a statement last month. “The Families on the Fly campaign, being rolled out…

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney listens while touring the Royal Canadian Navy torpedo recovery vessel Sikanni at the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Aug. 4. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. Carney said Canada will include the carve-out that the U.S. has on Canadian goods under the 2020 free trade deal that shields the vast majority…

With a tight timeline for implementing the next-generation reforms under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime by early October, the 56th meeting of the GST Council will be held for two days beginning September 3. A meeting notice issued late Friday by GST Council and signed by Revenue Secretary Arvind Shrivastava, who is the ex-officio secretary of the Council, also stated that the meeting of officers’ of states and Centre will be held on September 2, a day before the Council’s meeting.The Council’s meeting comes after chief ministers, finance ministers and other ministers from states had come to the Capital…

Prime Minister Mark Carney says most Canadian goods will be exempted from US tariffs while some sectoral duties remain.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that his country will drop retaliatory tariffs in tandem with tariff exemptions offered by the United States, as the two ease away from their costly trade war.Speaking to reporters on Friday, Carney said that the US clarified that it will not impose tariffs on Canadian goods that comply with the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. Some tariffs on sectors such as steel, aluminium, and cars will remain in place.“In this context and consistent with Canada’s commitment…

Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread across the enclave, a United Nations-backed global hunger monitor has said.On Friday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system said 514,000 people, close to a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza, are experiencing famine, with the number due to rise to 641,000 by the end of September.This comes after 22 months of war, during which Israeli forces have destroyed infrastructure and bakeries, blocked the entry of aid into the besieged Strip, and targeted and killed desperate Palestinians seeking food.This is the first time the IPC…

Tejas Shirse reigned supreme in men’s 110m hurdles. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Heavy rain disrupted proceedings on the third day of the National inter-state athletics championships at the Nehru Stadium here on Friday.No athlete was able to make the cut for next month’s World championships for the third successive day. Haryana’s Ravina broke the meet record in women’s 20km race walk with a time of 1:35:13.49 seconds, erasing the previous mark set by Bhawna Jat (1:37:03.00) in Bhubaneswar in 2023. Tejas Shirse, the season’s best runner in men’s 110m hurdles, expectedly clinched the gold (13.60s). He tripped on the first hurdle but…

Instagram has introduced a new feature where content creators can link multiple reels into a ‘series’. Due to the up-and-coming trend of creating a series of reels, Meta, with the help of insights and feedback, has added this as a feature to Instagram.  This also makes it easier for the audience to keep track of the series without scrolling through the content creator’s feed.  Content creators can link one reel to another one based on context, topic, and theme with the help of linking a reel. Linked reels can be included in both new reels and reels that have already…

With the Venice Film Festival just around the corner (August 27-September 9, 2025), it’s only fitting that we delve into the historic hotels that have served as crucial backdrops for film festivals around the world—not merely the buzzy five-stars where celebrities like to stay, but bonafide landmarks whose corridors are steeped in all things New Wave and Hitchcock.Take, for example, the Sundance Resort, which has served as a hub for the Sundance Institute, an independent filmmaking incubator, since 1981. Other institutions, like the Excelsior Venice, are filled with lore about famous movie stars that have made their mark on the…

US President Donald Trump. (File) Hours after FBI agents raided former US National Security Adviser John Bolton home in a high-profile national security probe on Friday, US President Donald Trump lashed out at his former aide, while maintaining that he had no knowledge of the raid and learned about it watching TV.  “I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s a real sort of lowlife,” Trump told reporters, adding, “He was one of the people that forced Bush to do the ridiculous bombings in the Middle East. He wants to always kill people. And he’s very bad at what he…

Music composer Electronic Kili  | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT There is nothing about the way music composer  Electronic Kili (Stephin Jose) talks that reveals he is the voice behind that 2024 earworm ‘Eyy banane oru pootharamo’, from the underdog film, Vaazha – Biopic of a Billion Boys. “The lyrics don’t make a lot of sense, it is a ‘silly’ song. I just sang it for the director, while composing it. It worked, I didn’t realise the song would click the way it did. ‘Eyy banane…’ is high energy, and I did not like the raw version of it so much!”…