Elon Musk became the first person in history to reach a net worth of more than $700 billion following a court ruling that reinstated a massive compensation package tied to his role at electric‑vehicle maker Tesla, reports news agency Reuters.Last week, the Delaware Supreme Court restored stock options from Musk’s 2018 pay package that had…
An Indian national with an intellectual disability launched a lawsuit against a Winnipeg family and a real estate broker who allegedly used his condition to push him into damaging property deals in Canada and India, costing him about $1 million.56-year-old Gagandeep Pejatta filed his statement of claim in the Manitoba Court in October. He says…
Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah (left) hugs his mother, Laila Soueif, as he arrives at his home, after a presidential pardon, in Cairo on Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Egypt’s attorney general lifted a travel ban on prominent Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, his lawyer Khaled Ali told AFP on Saturday, following a request…
A Bangladeshi man was charged in the United States for operating illegal online marketplaces that sold digital templates of false identity documents, including passports, social security cards, and Montana driver’s licences, authorities said.29-year-old Zahid Hasan of Dhaka faces a nine-count federal indictment unsealed in the District of Montana. He is charged with six counts of…
Republican Ohio governor candidate and Indian-American leader Vivek Ramaswamy defended his Democratic rival Amy Acton after a social media post attacked her Jewish religion. The exchange took place on X, where a social media user mocked both candidates in Ohio: “Ohio is cooked. Your choices for Governor are the Jewish covid lady and Vivek. Heads…
A passenger train is engulfed in flames following Russia’s drone attack on a railway station in Shostka, Sumy region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Railway via AP) Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said. Some…
(Image credits: X @RT_com) As the latest set of Epstein files was made public on Friday, a black-and-white image of a younger Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, surfaced showing him dressed in black-tie attire and reclining across the laps of several women whose faces are blacked out.Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and convicted sex trafficker, appears…
Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen on Saturday said that Dipu Chandra Das, a 25-year-old Hindu garment worker who was lynched and burned by a mob in Bangladesh, was “innocent and falsely accused of blasphemy.“Her remarks came after Dipu was lynched to death on December 18 over alleged blasphemy, in the latest…
The Department of Justice on Friday released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but a substantial number of documents remain unpublished.Congress had given the DOJ a Dec. 19 deadline to release all records in its possession. Over the past month, the DOJ and both Democratic and Republican…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Recognising his tasteful appreciation of fine arts and his architectural aesthetics, not to speak of his modesty and humility, the board of trustees of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC voted on Thursday to rename the national arts institution the Trump-Kennedy Center.The name change was…