Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur on Sunday, an extremist organization implicated in violence against minorities, according to the Hindustan Times. Indian media reports indicate that PM Modi visited the Dr. Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Nagpur, Maharashtra, and paid respects at memorials dedicated to RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and its second chief, MS Golwalkar. The RSS is considered the ideological mentor of PM Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This Hindu supremacist organization campaigns for India to be declared a Hindu nation, rather than a secular one as enshrined in its constitution.…
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U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a warning, stating he will impose secondary tariffs ranging from 25% to 50% on purchasers of Russian oil if he perceives Moscow is obstructing his efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, as reported by Reuters. In an interview with NBC News on Sunday morning, Trump expressed his “anger” towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, conveying frustration over the lack of progress in achieving a ceasefire. Trump’s statements followed recent criticisms by Putin directed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, which the U.S. president interpreted as a personal affront to his peace initiatives.…
Social media platforms X and Reddit were back online after thousands of users in the U.S. experienced disruptions on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. On its status page, Reddit confirmed degraded performance that affected the website at 3:16 p.m. ET. More than 33,000 incidents were reported at the peak of Reddit’s outage, Downdetector showed, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources. A Reddit spokesperson said the outage was due to a bug in a recent update, which has now been fixed. The number of reports for X was around 18,000 at the peak of its…
NASA said on Thursday it was moving toward certifying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner for crewed flights later this year or by early 2026 after its inaugural mission to the International Space Station was marred by a system fault, forcing an extended stay. The agency is working with Boeing to resolve the Starliner’s faulty propulsion system, which caused its debut eight-day crewed mission to stretch into a nine-month stay in space for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Williams and Wilmore returned earlier this month in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Joint teams are working to finalize the scope and timelines for various…
Billionaire Elon Musk has announced the sale of X, formerly known as Twitter, to his artificial intelligence company xAI in a $45 billion deal. The transaction includes $12 billion in debt, valuing X at $33 billion — a slight increase from Fidelity’s recent estimate but still below Musk’s original $44 billion purchase price in 2022. Musk, who has made significant changes to X since acquiring it, said the merger will create a powerful AI-driven platform by integrating xAI’s advanced models with X’s massive user base. “This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s AI expertise with X’s reach and…
Vivo is taking smartphone photography to the next level with the upcoming Vivo X200 Ultra, which will feature not just one but two dedicated imaging chips. A company executive has confirmed that the flagship device, set to launch in April, will include the vivo V3+ and VS1 chips to optimize image processing. How the dual ISP system works The vivo V3+ will serve as the primary ISP (Image Signal Processor), handling post-processing tasks such as noise reduction, sharpening, and computational enhancements. Meanwhile, the vivo VS1 will act as a Pre-ISP, taking care of exposure control, focus adjustments, and image stacking…
Apple’s latest iOS 18.2 update brings a game-changing feature for iPhone users: the ability to set third-party apps as the default for calls and messages. WhatsApp has now rolled out an update to support this feature, allowing users to make WhatsApp their primary communication app. How to set WhatsApp as default for calls and messages With this update, when you tap on a phone number, your iPhone can now use WhatsApp to make the call instead of Apple’s Phone app. Similarly, messages can be sent via WhatsApp by default instead of iMessage. To enable this: Update your iPhone to iOS…
A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training, sounded alarms in the cockpit of the passenger plane Friday. Delta 2983 was departing Reagan Airport around 3:15 p.m. and heading to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a regularly scheduled flight. Delta did not identify the other jet involved, but a review of tracking data from FlightRadar24 shows an Air Force T-38 jet flying past the Delta plane and DCA airport going more than 350 miles per hour…
Planned Parenthood on Thursday resumed surgical abortions in St. Louis, months after voters in November enshrined abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution. The same day, the state health department effectively blocked medication abortions throughout Missouri. The decision leaves abortion access in Missouri in a confusing state: surgical abortions are legal, but Planned Parenthood still cannot offer medication abortions. Where are surgical abortions offered? Planned Parenthood now offers surgical abortions in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis. Planned Parenthood Great Plains in February at a Kansas City area clinic performed the first abortion in the state since the fall of Roe…
A small plane crashed into a home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Saturday afternoon, setting the house on fire, officials said. The aircraft, a small executive transport plane capable of carrying six people, struck the home around 12:20 p.m. local time as it was headed to Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minneapolis from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. There are no survivors from the small plane, Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway said at a news conference. It’s unclear how many people were onboard the plane. No fatalities were reported from inside…
