Longtime Bay Area radio legend Ronn Owens. Image Credit: The Mercury News A $132,000 GoFundMe campaign created amid radio host Ronn Owens’ health problems became the focus of a federal review after he and his wife sought bankruptcy protection. Court records examined by the US Trustee showed that only about $17,000 of the money was…
The Mushroom Shed was designed to resemble a mushroom. A 12-year-old girl from Surrey, England, gave her father £500 from her savings and asked him to build a house shaped like a mushroom in their back garden. Her father, Ben Swanborough, took up the challenge and built a two-storey wooden hideaway with a trapdoor, stained-glass…
SC says restrictions cannot be reconsidered unless denial of permission for CJP protest is challenged. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday raised concerns over the closure of Metro station entry gates ahead of the October 10 CJP protest in Delhi, saying the restrictions would affect thousands of commuters.The court pointed out that students, employees…
Travis Kelce (Getty Images) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s new Ohio property has become the centre of a growing dispute, with neighbors raising concerns about plans to improve privacy around the sprawling lakefront estate. What began as a disagreement over fencing and landscaping has expanded into a much wider clash involving wildlife, security, access and…
Photo credit: ArchitecturalDigest/YouTube [Enhanced using AI] Dakota Johnson has sold the Los Angeles home she once described as a leafy “tree house” for $5,924,372, bringing the property’s decade-long chapter under her ownership to a close. The actress paid $3.55 million for the midcentury residence in January 2016, shortly after her career reached a new level…
Archaeologists collect deep soil samples from Turkey’s Mount Ararat site in the search for Noah’s Ark. (Photo: Getty Images) The long-running Noah’s Ark mystery has taken a new turn after researchers drilled into the Durupinar formation, a boat-shaped geological site near Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.The formation has attracted researchers and Noah’s Ark enthusiasts since…
Inflation has stayed above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) target of 4% for the past three months (Photo: Reuters). MUMBAI: RBI has tightened daily cash reserve requirements for banks, impounding an additional Rs 1 lakh crore, and has announced a Rs 25,000 crore bond sale, moves that will drain liquidity from the banking system…
NEW DELHI: From listening to bhajans and reading the Bible to finding the direction of Mecca or discovering what the stars have in store, Indians are increasingly turning to smartphones for matters of faith and fortune. Religious, spiritual and astrology apps recorded nearly 30 crore downloads in the first nine months of 2026, emerging as…
MUMBAI: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $13 billion to $734.6 billion in the week ended Oct 2, driven by a sharp decline in foreign currency assets and gold reserves. Foreign currency assets, the largest component of the reserves, dropped by $10.7 billion to $604.7 billion.Gold reserves declined by $2.3 billion to $106.4 billion. The…
NEW DELHI: For decades, a state’s growth was measured by relying only on the production approach, or by gauging what factories, farms, and services within its borders produced. That model is now set for an overhaul, as the statistics ministry unveiled a new manual to compute state GDP via expenditure approach — by tracking household…
