तभी ढाबे पर हलचल मच गई। एक प्रतिष्ठित टेलीविजन चैनल की टीम नाश्ता करने आ गई थी। चैनल के उद्घोषक साहब जाना-पहचाना चेहरा थे। चाचा-भतीजा उनकी आव-भगत में दौड़ पड़े थे। ‘क्या चल रहा है?’ उन्होंने आते ही ढाबे वाले से बड़े इसरार से पूछा। चाचा ने भतीजे को आगे कर दिया। पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश…Continue Reading

एक वक्त था, जब नरेंद्र मोदी और सही समय पर उनके वित्तमंत्री निजी क्षेत्र पर पूरा भरोसा करते थे। कृषि और उद्योग में भी दूसरी सेवाओं की तरह मोदी का प्राथमिकता माडल निजी क्षेत्र के नेतृत्व वाला विकास रहा। एक वक्त था, जब नरेंद्र मोदी और सही समय पर उनके वित्तमंत्री निजी क्षेत्र पर पूरा…Continue Reading

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comPARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) – A convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions breached police defences and drove into central Paris on Saturday, snarling traffic around the Arc de Triomphe and on the Champs Elysees, as police fired tear gas at demonstrators.Protesters in cars, campervans, tractors and other vehicles had converged…Continue Reading

Olumide Gbenro has never called one place “home” for long. The 33-year-old entrepreneur grew up in Nigeria until he turned six, when his minister parents decided to move to London. Then, seven years later, the Gbenros were granted visas to immigrate to the United States through the country’s green card lottery — so Olumide, his parents…Continue Reading

WASHINGTON – As many anti-vaccine and anti-mandate protesters in trucks continue to paralyze Canada’s capital and block border crossings, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he hopes truckers would come to the United States as soon as this weekend to clog up streets in Los Angeles during the Super Bowl or next month to Washington.Participants in…Continue Reading

FOGGIA—On a November morning, Gianpaolo Romano found an unsigned letter under the glass entrance of his car showroom in this south Italian province known for its pristine beaches, vast tomato fields and, these days, a ruthless local mafia. The message said he had to pay €250,000, equivalent to $286,000, to be safe. It didn’t say…Continue Reading

BURIN, West Bank — The Israeli settlers streamed down the hill toward Palestinian farmland, some waving sticks, some throwing stones, all masked.They began beating a group of Palestinian villagers and Israeli rights activists, who had been planting olive trees on the edge of a Palestinian village. One settler threw a flammable liquid across an activist’s…Continue Reading

In recent weeks, podcaster Joe Rogan’s commitment to disseminating vaccine misinformation has caused Spotify, the streaming service that exclusively hosts his wares, no end of self-torture. Rocker Neil Young, unwilling to continue being associated with the platform because of Rogan, took his leave; a number of other musicians followed suit. More recently, Spotify has deleted scores of old…Continue Reading

There is no better cure for that harassing sense of poverty than a casual study of our statistics of wealth. The Census Bureau has recently reported that the wealth of the United States for the year 1912 was over one hundred and eighty-seven billions—thousands of millions—of dollars. It is a sum literally staggering, an aggregate…Continue Reading

Here’s what happened this weekIt was another big week in developments related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer and a frequent main character of these updates, reportedly asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to turn over his county’s voting machines to the Trump team.…Continue Reading