Professor Khurshid Ahmad, the former Deputy Leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, passed away on Sunday in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the age of 93. Born in Delhi on March 23, 1932, Professor Khurshid Ahmad completed his undergraduate studies with a focus on law and earned master’s degrees in Economics and Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi. Later, the University of Karachi awarded him an honorary doctorate in Education in recognition of his significant contributions to the academic field. Ahmad became a member of Islami Jamiat Talaba Pakistan in 1949 and was elected as its central president in 1953. He formally joined…
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Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sources told Reuters. The details of the push provide an insight into the US smartphone company’s private strategy to navigate around the Trump tariffs and build up inventory of its popular iPhones in the United States, one of its biggest markets. Analysts have warned that US prices of iPhones could surge, given Apple’s high reliance on imports from China, the main…
Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan’s coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this enigmatic lineage of archaic humans once inhabited a vast expanse in eastern Eurasia in environments ranging from cold and arid to warm and humid. Scientists were unable to extract DNA from the fossil — part of the lower jaw, with five teeth attached — but identified two protein variants present in the remains that they knew were specific to Denisovans, rather than either Neanderthals or our species Homo sapiens, based on previously studied fossils. Protein fragments in the dental enamel of the…
In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, becoming what is called a red giant. New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope — sort of a postmortem examination — indicate that the planet’s demise happened differently than initially thought. Instead of the star coming to the planet, it appears the planet came to the star, with disastrous consequences — a death plunge after an erosion of this…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new chat memory feature for the Meta AI chatbot, and it is already available to some beta testers via the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.11.13 update. The new feature allows users to manually store details within the chatbot’s memory by explicitly instructing Meta AI to remember them. For example, if a user tells the chatbot that they work as a graphic designer and request it to remember this information, Meta AI will store it and use it to offer personalised suggestions, such as recommending productivity tools, suggesting useful design software, or sharing the latest…
At the heart of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located about 300 million light-years away from us, a supermassive black hole, which remained previously inactive, was seen erupting with the longest and most powerful X-ray blasts ever seen from such a cosmic titan. The start of the supermassive black hole devouring matter around it and erupting with short-lived flaring events called quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) is marked by this active phase, reported Space.com. The black hole is responsible for a region at the heart of its galaxy called an “active galactic nucleus,” or “AGN.” The team has dubbed this AGN “Ansky.” In late…
A Wisconsin teenager allegedly killed his parents as part of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, federal authorities said in newly unsealed court documents. Nikita Casap, 17, called for the assassination of the president and overthrow of the US government in written documents and text messages found by investigators, according to a federal affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WISN. The alleged killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to attain the “financial means and autonomy” to carry out his plan, investigators said. Casap faces nine felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of…
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a 20-year-old man accused of plotting a mass shooting at a high school later this month, one day after the anniversary of the Columbine massacre. Braeden Phillips is accused of conspiring with another individual “to commit murder(s) by planning a coordinated school shooting on April 21, 2025, at the State College High School,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by CNN. Police say the suspect, a former State College resident, also planned to place bombs inside the school’s bathrooms and that he and another individual had compiled a “hit list” of people to target. The…
When a Wyoming woman phoned the state’s only abortion clinic recently to make an appointment to end her pregnancy, she received news that complicated her life even more. Wellspring Health Access had stopped providing abortions that same day, responding to a slew of new requirements for the Casper clinic to become a licensed surgical center. “It was kind of really bad timing on my part,” said the woman, who declined to be named because of abortion’s stigma in her community. Though abortion remains legal in Wyoming, it has become increasingly difficult because of new requirements for abortion clinics and women…
A New York judge has relaxed a ban she’d put on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) preventing it from accessing sensitive Treasury Department information related to millions of Americans. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas said in a written opinion late Friday that one DOGE worker, Ryan Wunderly, can access sensitive payment and data systems if he completes training that Treasury employees typically go through before given such access and submits a financial disclosure report. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over privacy issues amid DOGE’s assertion that it was working…
