An old pressure cooker + mixer-grinder became a tea-processing machine: Meet 51-year-old Assam farmer Ratan Ray, whose low-cost invention crushes, tears and curls tea leaves

AI-generated image /ChatGPT An old pressure cooker and a household mixer-grinder may seem unlikely tools for making tea. But for 51-year-old farmer Ratan Ray from Assam, these everyday appliances became the foundation of an improvised machine designed to solve a practical problem faced by small tea growers: the high cost of specialised processing equipment.Ray, who…

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Meet Sharmila Mona Sinha: Kolkata-born philanthropist who became only the second Indian-origin woman inducted into US National Women’s Hall of Fame

Sharmila earned an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Columbia University. As a child growing up in Kolkata, Sharmila Mona Sinha often felt that being the third daughter in her family came with expectations she could never quite escape. She recalled wanting to be a boy and do the things boys did. Decades later, after…

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A mom vanished after she and her ex-fiancé were on ‘The People’s Court.’ Now he’s accused of murder.

An Orlando man has been arrested in the disappearance of his ex-fiancée, who vanished in 2011 hours after the pair appeared in a pretaped episode of “The People’s Court,” police said. Dale Smith Jr., 55, was arrested Wednesday at his business on a charge of second-degree murder, police said. Michelle Parker’s body has not been…

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TSMC posts record profit for a sixth straight quarter, beating estimates on AI boom

A TSMC logo is displayed on a wall in Hsinchu, Taiwan April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips. Here are TSMC’s third-quarter results against LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from…

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