The UK government has committed £20 million ($25.8 million) to support commercial drone services and the development of “flying taxis.” The initiative aims to advance new technologies and streamline regulations, potentially allowing air taxis to operate by 2028.The transport ministry announced that £16.5 million will be allocated to the Civil Aviation Authority from 2025-26 to […]
The Trump administration is preparing to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants to Brown University, as part of a wider campaign to crack down on what it described as relentless anti-semitism on university campuses, as per two White House officials familiar with the plans.Brown is now the fifth American university to face the […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) The US federal government has suspended $27.5 million in family planning grants while investigating whether recipient organizations, including multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates, are complying with legal requirements. The funding freeze affects services such as contraception, cancer screenings and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, particularly for low-income […]
Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup promising to transform the student financial aid process, has been found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by vastly exaggerating her customer numbers.A Manhattan federal court jury delivered the guilty verdict on Friday after a five-week trial leaving 32 year old Javice along with her […]
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File Photo: Sirajuddin Haqqani (ANI) The United States has lifted its $10 million bounty onTaliban‘s Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led regime, officials in Kabul said on Sunday.The US government has also removed the bounties placed on two other senior Taliban figures, namely Abdul Aziz Haqqani and Yahya Haqqani, interior ministry spokesman Abdul […]
