Decomposed body wrapped with brown tape found near Hindon Canal; probe underway
A decomposed human body, wrapped in brown tape, was discovered near the Hindon Canal in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, on the evening of October 11, 2025, prompting an investigation, reports 24brussels.
Police responded to reports of the body and arrived at the dry corner of the canal opposite Mulla Colony, where they located the remains, which were additionally packed in a plastic bag. Initial inquiries have led to the registration of a case under Section 103/238(a) BNS.
Further details regarding the case remain pending as officials continue their investigation. In a separate incident, a 34-year-old man was fatally stabbed late on the evening of October 9 in the Khadar area near Khajuri Chowk, northeast Delhi. The victim, identified as Gajender, was a barber residing in Dayalpur.
Police received information about the stabbing at approximately 11:27 PM, and upon arrival, they found Gajender on the ground with multiple stab wounds. Forensic teams collected evidence from the scene, and the body was subsequently transported to a hospital for a post-mortem examination. Authorities have registered a case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) concerning murder.
Earlier, a 24-year-old man succumbed to injuries received during a violent incident in Dilshad Garden, Delhi. The individual, who worked as a salesman, was reportedly attacked in a robbery, as revealed by a friend present at the scene.
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman is trying to position his chipmaker to take on Nvidia.
He said that challenging such a goliath takes a full-time commitment.
You can’t “up against the 800-pound gorilla with modest effort,” Feldman told Business Insider.
Creating a successful business is not a part-time or even a 40-hour-a-week job, especially when you’re taking on the world’s first $4 trillion company.
“This notion that somehow you can achieve greatness, you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours a week and having a work-life balance that is mind-boggling to me,” Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said during a recent episode of Harry Stebbings’ 20VC podcast.
Cerebras is trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance of the AI chip market. That’s why Feldman, a self-described “David,” said his job requires an “every waking minute” level of commitment.
“I don’t think you can go up against the status quo, up against the 800-pound gorilla with modest effort,” Feldman told Business Insider. “I think it’s true about just about anything in life is to be great, you have to be committed. And that commitment is not part of time, it’s all of the time. “
Feldman described a hustle culture that is deeply ingrained in Silicon Valley, but not every major CEO follows the same playbook. Asked about Warren Buffett’s zealous defense of his work-life balance, Feldman questioned whether the legendary investor and his now-deceased partner Charlie Munger would want to buy into a company that wasn’t led by a true grinder.
“My question is, would they rather acquire a company in which founders are so passionate that they are working around the clock, and moving mountains, and building consumed by their business?” Feldman said. “Or would they rather buy companies where the founders are going home at five or six each night, I don’t know.”
Building a company takes devotion akin to a legendary athlete, Feldman said. He recalled NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young’s story of how he spotted his teammate and fellow future Hall of Famer Jerry Rice practicing running routes that day after winning a Super Bowl title.
“If you want to be great, you’ve gotta put the work in,” Feldman said.
Feldman said finding employees who feel the same way isn’t difficult.
“Nobody becomes an engineer to do things a little better than the last one,” he said. “You become an engineer because you love to build things, and if you can build things differently and better than anybody had ever built them before, you can use the things you build to help change the world, and that’s what we want. It’s easy to improve people who want to work like that.”
How author researched his plots and letters from Alec Guinness feature in Oxford exhibition
Lamplighters, pavement artists, babysitters – they have taken on whole new meanings thanks to John le Carré. As his fans will know, they are part of tradecraft practised by the spies he wrote about so evocatively. Now, almost five years after his death, an exhibition, with the title Tradecraft, reveals the techniques and motivations of the characters’ real creator, David Cornwell.
As you enter the exhibition in Oxford University’s Bodleian library you are greeted with a large portrait of Cornwell, wearing a black bucket cap, looking straight ahead with piercing eyes, his chin resting on his gently clasped hands. Accompanying the photo are two of his quotes. “I am not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked in the secret world,” one says. The second, after questioning whom, if anyone, we can trust, continues: “What is loyalty – to ourselves, to whom, to what? Whom, if anyone, can we love? And what is the caring individual’s relationship to the institutions he services?”
Afghan Foreign Minister says “technical error” on excluding women from earlier press conference
Visiting Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday stated that the omission of women from a press conference held in New Delhi was unintentional, attributed instead to a “technical issue,” reports 24brussels. This clarification came in response to a backlash from Indian media and political circles regarding the exclusion.
Muttaqi explained that the decision was influenced by the short notice of the event and a limited selection of journalists. “The participation list that was presented was very specific. It was more a technical issue… Our colleagues had decided to send an invitation to a specific list of journalists and there was no other intention apart from this,” he remarked.
In a move to rectify the situation, Muttaqi held an additional press interaction later in the day, specifically inviting women journalists to attend. The initial exclusion had generated significant outrage, prompting several female journalists and media organizations to express their discontent following the briefing after bilateral talks with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
On Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) distanced itself from the incident, asserting it had no role in the press briefing hosted by the Afghan Foreign Minister. “MEA had no involvement in the press interaction held yesterday by the Afghan FM in Delhi,” the ministry clarified in an official statement.
The event was organized at the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi, following discussions between Jaishankar and Muttaqi on regional matters, including India-Afghanistan relations, humanitarian assistance, trade routes, and security cooperation. Critics highlighted that attendees were predominantly male journalists and Afghan embassy officials.
The exclusion ignited political outrage across India, with Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra calling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the issue. She labeled the incident “an insult to India’s women journalists,” demanding clarity on the Prime Minister’s stance regarding women’s rights. In a post on X, she stated, “If your recognition of women’s rights isn’t just convenient posturing from one election to the other, then how has this insult to some of India’s most competent women been allowed in our country, a country whose women are its backbone and its pride.”
Ron Podmore retired early and decided to do so in Guatemala.
Ron Podmore.
Ron Podmore retired at 56 knowing he’d only receive half of his pension for years.
That was fine by him, because he planned on living in Guatemala, where he bought a condo.
Healthcare is far less less expensive for a retired person in Guatemala than the US.
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Ron Podmore, 58, a retired teacher who decided to live out his retirement in Guatemala. He still owns property in Washington and spends about half the year there as he begins the Guatemala residency process. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
I retired two years ago, in June 2023.
I was a high school teacher, and I decided to take early retirement after 32 years of teaching. But because of the fact that I was not eligible for social security, I was only able to receive half of my pension. I will get the other half about six years from now when I turn 65, or whenever I choose to also tap into my social security. It’s kind of a mixed blessing, but it seems to be working for me.
I knew that if I was going to pull the plug, so to speak, and retire early, there was a huge gap. There is no way in heck I wanted to be teaching up until I was 65 and then immediately go on social security.
I have seen too many teachers where they’re holding on until they turn 65, and then they’re going to retire and go on social security, and six months later they’re six feet under.
I was using the FIRE method. I spent probably the better part of the last 20 years investing each time I got a pay raise. It worked out favorably for me over the last 20 or 25 years.
Around 2013, I noticed an influx of migrant students coming into my classroom from Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador, and I got to know some of these kids.
A skyscraper being built in Guatemala City.
Ron Podmore.
I was led to believe that Guatemala is this country with endemic poverty, crime, corruption, cartels — who on earth would want to go down there? And these kids really said, “You need to rethink that.”
They encouraged me to travel to Guatemala, and in 2013 or 2014, I took my first trip down there. Then I ended up going down there once or twice a year.
I paid off my Guatemala condo in under 10 years
In 2018, I purchased a small condominium in the working-class area of Guatemala City, knowing that if I needed to, I could migrate out of the United States and be able to live down there.
So I had already purchased the property as an investment before I retired, and then I was able to make payments on it. My goal was to have it all paid off by the time I retired. And sure enough, I was able to pay it all off, so I have no mortgage on that unit.
I was making payments on it every month, and then I also expedited that by making extra payments on the principal, and I was able to pay it off within eight years. In order to do that, I took out a HELOC loan against the value of the house that I have in Federal Way, which is a suburb just south of Seattle. When you purchase property, in most places around the world, it’s all cash. You cannot go to the bank of that country and ask for a loan. You have to take care of your financing with whatever bank you have in the United States or your home country.
The property that I purchased down there is a two-bedroom, one-bath with underground parking, concierge services, security, et cetera, and that was for about $125,000. The mortgage was for 10 years, just under $1,500.
The view of Podmore’s neighborhood.
Ron Podmore.
There was no renting — it was vacant for years. It was just a matter of time for me to begin furnishing, purchasing things like the couches, and the chairs, and the dining room tables, and the beds, and stuff like that.
I had to do that little by little over the eight years. At the time, I was living in Washington State, and you have to factor in airplane tickets to get down there, and how much money you’re going to spend on not only purchasing these items, but also having them delivered and being there and so forth. It took me about two or three years to build it all up.
I started being down there full-time in August 2024. I’m in the process of securing a temporary and a permanent residency card. That’s about a three- to five-year long process.
I would be getting a visa that would allow me to live in Guatemala for extended periods of time — greater than six months.
Right now, as it is, I’m only allowed to stay in Guatemala up to six months at a time.
The healthcare in Guatemala is significantly less expensive than in the US
I have a private health insurance plan in Guatemala that runs me about $315 a month; no deductibles and no copay. That’s a private hospital that also covers medicines, X-rays, MRIs, and hospital stays, and you do not get a bill at the end of any of that.
And there is such a contrast for superior services: they have better bedside manners in Central America. You’re not surrounded by a certified nursing assistant or an intake specialist or a finance and operations person determining how are you going to make these payments and everything. You go into an office, the reception is right there, and the second person you see is the doctor.
Podmore overlooking Guatemala City.
Ron Podmore
Glasses, optometry, and dental I am not insured on. When I’m down there I get my teeth cleaned every six months, just like I do up here, and my teeth cleaning on average is about $65 per visit. To contrast that, when I was going to get my teeth cleaned at my local dentist up here in Washington, that would be close to $800 or $900. What the insurance carrier for dental is not covering of that is forced onto me. So each time I went to get my teeth cleaned in the States, it was slightly over $200 for my portion of the bill.
If you think about the concept of snowbirds, at least out here on the West Coast, we have a huge influx of people in their fifties who decide to retire early and they immediately relocate to Southern California, Southern Arizona, Southern New Mexico, in border towns all along the Texas border, so they can have immediate access — to drive to the border or walk across the border — to purchase their prescriptions, get their teeth done, get their X-rays done, or go into the local hospital.
If there is an emergency, they’re going to run over to that border before they dial 911 in the United States.
I’ve just taken that concept one extra country over, which is the next country after Mexico, and that’s Guatemala.
