A simple question from billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has reignited debate about one of the most confusing aspects of the US healthcare system. In a discussion on X, Cuban challenged the logic behind insurers paying around $2,500 for an MRI scan when an independent imaging centre nearby might offer the same service for…
Representative image (Photo credit: AP) Iran’s annual inflation rate surged to its highest level since World War II in May, highlighting the deepening economic crisis facing ordinary citizens as the country grapples with the fallout of conflict, sanctions and long-standing structural problems.According to data released by Iran’s Central Bank, the consumer price index rose 77.2…
Henry Nowak (left) was killed by Vikram Singh Digwa (right) with a knife. A day after Sikh man Vickrum Digwa was given a life sentence for stabbing 18-year-old student Henry Nowak and then lying to the police that Nowak subjected him to racial abuse, MAGA activists questioned why there was no outrage over the UK…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Historians may someday conclude that US President Donald Trump‘s greatest contribution to American political discourse was not immigration enforcement or peace treaty, or even a trade war. It may have been a painstaking seminar on how he coined the word “Dumocrats.“In several interviews and speeches over the past week, Trump has…
KSI shocked fans when he announced he was leaving Sidemen after being part of the group for 13 years. Since then, people have been trying to understand what really pushed him to make such a huge decision. Now, a recent video from the YouTuber has given fans a clearer picture of what may have been…
Michael Stewart and Anthony Stewart Two UK brothers have been found guilty of the 1984 murder of a London civil servant after a reopened police investigation uncovered family confessions and fresh evidence.The case had remained unsolved for more than four decades before detectives reopened the investigation in 2022, eventually linking brothers Michael and Anthony Stewart…
Indian-American CEO says if he were 25 again, he would not come to the US. Indian-American CEO Srini Madala who came to the US in 1986 and then went on to make it big in a foreign land as he founded three startups said he would not have come to the US now. Speaking to…
TOI correspondent from Washington: One day US President Donald Trump declares that prolonged negotiations with Iran are “boring.” The next day he predicts a breakthrough agreement “within a week.” On another, he hints that military action remains very much on the table.In between, according to an explosive new report by Axios, Trump unleashed a profanity-laced…
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza on Tuesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene on behalf of residents of PoK, alleging widespread rights violations and growing pressure on political activists in the region.Mirza claimed that political and civil rights campaigners in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) were facing arrests, detentions and other…
Even the most ardent, tanned-fully-orange MAGA supporter would admit that Trump 2.0 hasn’t gone according to plan. Iran has realised that it can hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage and dangle it like the Sword of Damocles over the global economy. China, unperturbed by bluster around reciprocal tariffs, is holding sermons on avoiding the Thucydides…