After spending six years in Canada and building a career at Deloitte, Preeti Bisnik has decided to leave her job and return to India. Her decision is not driven by a lack of opportunities or a job loss. Instead, she says she wants to spend more time with her ageing parents, improve her own health…
Laptops offer plenty of power, but they’re not always the easiest thing to carry around. Tablets, on the other hand, tend to be more portable, less bulky and now, often mirror the functions of a full-size computer. NBC Selected editors have used tablets as computer replacements and entertainment centers for years, and one thing keeps…
“The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come,” he said. The marching bands and military flyovers on Thursday may serve a larger purpose, however – at least for Trump. “This is a little bit of intentional pageantry to talk up the positive vibes of…
Image credit: instagram.com/koushh_lakshara/ There are some photographs that feel ordinary when they are taken, but become powerful years later. For Koushik Kharvi, one such photograph was sitting in his gallery until it resurfaced nine years after it was taken.It showed an old delivery-agent ID card. Kharvi had shared the photograph on Instagram while looking back…
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Thursday evening that she gave Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell “until tomorrow” to resign after an investigation found he had violated state ethics and harassment policy. “Today, I’m announcing the conclusion and findings of an independent investigation into allegations regarding Lieutenant Governor Dale Caldwell,” Sherrill wrote on X. “The investigation…
Today, the practice of giving lavish gifts mostly exists in Gulf states and autocratic governments. “Autocracies like China give much more expensive gifts,” says Morten Skumsrud Anderson, who co-authored a study on diplomacy and gifts with Sending. In the West, Anderson says, the tradition has been watered down by democratic guardrails and restrictions. For example,…
The uncomfortable truth for Xi is that his domestic economy is in trouble. While the country sells a record number of goods around the world, consumers at home are holding back. Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high and property prices have slumped in a country where 80% of people own their own homes. Trade is helping…
British rapper Yung Filly will face a retrial for rape in Australia next June after a jury failed to reach a verdict during an earlier trial. In July, a jury acquitted the 31-year-old – whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos – of three counts of rape, one of assault and one of strangulation…
A workplace story shared by a man named Harshit Mahawar has sparked discussion online after he claimed that regularly using incognito mode while working helped create an unusual impression among his employers and colleagues. According to Mahawar, he uses private browsing for his office work because he believes employers monitor employees’ browsing activity. However, his…
A Pittsburgh pediatric doctor was killed and his wife was wounded when they were brutally stabbed while they slept in their bed, police said Thursday. Police responded to a home in Edgewood on Thursday shortly after midnight and found Idris Evans, 46, and his wife with “multiple stab wounds,” Allegheny County police said. Evans, a…
