Sari shops and street food stalls: How e-payments have taken India by storm Indian weddings are notoriously elaborate affairs, requiring many changes of clothing for several days of celebration. It used to be common for a family visiting Brij Kishore Agarwal’s sari shop, near the narrow lanes of Chandni Chowk market in India’s Old Delhi, to leave with a large …

US safety regulations will require better automatic braking With distracted driving and pedestrian deaths on the rise, auto industry regulators believe the technology could prevent hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries each year. New regulations from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require improved automated braking systems on new cars sold in the United States by September 2029. …

GNC is struggling. It hopes Ozempic can improve it GNC, the vitamin and supplement chain, has struggled for years. The brand hopes a new strategy tailored for people taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss will help attract customers to stores and grow its business. GNC announced Monday that it is adding specialty sections in its 2,300 US stores with vitamins, …

Paramount Global ousted chief Bob Bakish as the media conglomerate’s future hangs in the balance Paramount Global on Monday parted ways with its chief executive, Bob Bakish, in a seismic move that sent reverberations through the media conglomerate as it actively engaged in acquisition talks with Skydance Media. In place of Bakish, who has led the company since controlling shareholder …

Columbia student protesters demand divestment. This is what universities have gotten away with in the past One of the core demands over the past week by a pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University has been for the school to divest investment funds from what they describe as companies profiting from Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Columbia’s endowment is valued at …

Far-right network OAN retracts false story about Michael Cohen’s affair with Stormy Daniels The far-right cable network One America News retracted a story and apologized Monday after it falsely claimed former President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was the person who had an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and secretly used her to “blackmail” ” Trump Organization. …

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee warns that camping on campus is illegal The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee warned protesters who set up camp on its campus Monday that “camping on campus is illegal” and violates state code. “The vast majority of protests on the UWM campus in recent months have been peaceful and lawful, and UWM is steadfast in respecting the right …

Video shows protesters being detained at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Police in Richmond responded to protesters on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus Monday. Video from CNN affiliate WWBT shows people being detained. Dozens of protesters gathered near the university’s library in an area they called a “liberation zone,” according to WWBT. Videos from the coalition showed officers in riot …

Some UT-Austin protesters were arrested for trespassing and others for disorderly conduct, officials said Some of the pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at UT-Austin on Monday were arrested on suspicion of trespassing, while others were charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to disperse, university officials said in a statement. Protesters set up encampments that included “an enclosure of barricaded tables tied with …

“They broke the rules.” 9 arrested in University of Florida campus protest, school officials say Nine people were arrested Monday evening at the University of Florida campus protest in Gainesville, Florida, according to Cynthia Roldán Hernández, UF director of public affairs. “They know the rules, they broke the rules, and they will face the consequences,” Steve Orlando, a UF spokesman, …