Artist: B.K. Mitra. (via Twitter: Gita Press, Gorakhpur, India) Before religious images could be created digitally, artists relied on paper, paint and painstaking handwork to give visual form to stories from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Hindu scriptures. Among those artists was B.K. Mitra, or Binay Kumar Mitra, whose paintings became closely associated with the religious…
The 1975’s frontman Matty Healy and model Gabriette Bechtel have tied the knot in Los Angeles. The couple announced their engagement in 2024, after dating for nine months, and got married on Saturday. A statement shared from the couple’s representatives said the pair were married “at a private ceremony in Los Angeles, attended by their…
Colorful epic aerial panorama of San Francisco skyline downtown with business building skyscraper and waterfront at twilight in California, USA. Prasit Photo | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions,…
Kratom is banned in 11 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin. Massachusetts was the last state to make it illegal, issuing a temporary emergency order in August. Ten years earlier, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) had moved to classify kratom as a Schedule 1, the most…
Shares of Figma closed up 7% on Thursday, but were short of the initial surge following earnings. The stock was up by as much as 15% after the bell on Wednesday, when the design software maker reported fourth-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations and offered rosy guidance. Figma’s revenue grew 40% year over year to…
A woman’s LinkedIn post about her husband losing his job after 12 years at Oracle has struck a chord online, with her account highlighting the years of dedication she says he gave to his work.“My husband Sourabh lost his job today,” Pooja Sahu wrote in the post. She said that after working at Oracle for…
France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old’s hand was blown off earlier this week. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday’s incident in Lens had been “clarified”, with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and…
D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Bots have taken over the internet. The State of AI Traffic report released Thursday by Human Security, a cybersecurity firm, showed that artificial intelligence and bots have officially eclipsed human users. “The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on…
Lenders have sanctioned Rs 3,361.83 crore to 774 applicants under the Rs 20,000-crore Credit Guarantee Scheme for Exporters (CGSE) within a month of its rollout, as the government steps up support for exporters facing headwinds from steep US tariffs, official data showed as reported PTI.The scheme, approved by the Union Cabinet on November 12 and…
Merz’s government has taken a tougher line on refugees and migrants, amid surging support for the anti-immigration AfD party. Source link