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To celebrate the illustrious works of renowned Hindi novelist and short stories writer, Premchand, on his 139th birth anniversary, an event named Jashn-e-Premchand has been organised by Katha Kathan founder, Jameel Gulays, in Versova, Mumbai. The three-day event which started on 28 July, will have its finale today with dramatized readings of Prem Chand's stories in Urdu done by a group of narrators, at Veda Factory. According to Gulays, this is a good way of introducing authors like Premchand to the younger…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Tom and Barb Hansen’s search for a retirement spot reads like the script to a road movie. California’s Lake Tahoe. Sedona and Scottsdale in Arizona. The Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Myrtle Beach, S.C.Over a decade or so, the couple traveled the country to imagine life after Mr. Hansen retired as president of a community bank in the suburbs west of Chicago. In 2018, the Hansens, ages 61 and 60, picked rural Sevier County, Tenn. A lot of other people had the…

Drivers can now have less junk in their trunk, and more in their frunk.People have long prized having storage space in the back of their cars, whether for stashing tools or tailgating. As more buy electric vehicles, they’ll increasingly be tossing stuff in an inelegantly named space where the engine used to be. Meet the frunk, for front trunk. EVs trade out the engine for a battery pack, which typically lines the vehicle’s floor. That opens up a big front-end cavity for a new role. While under-hood storage…

European Union antitrust authorities on Monday charged Apple Inc. AAPL 0.20% with abusing its dominant position by restricting access to the technology underpinning contactless payments on its mobile devices, adding to the bloc’s efforts to clamp down on alleged anticompetitive behavior by some of the world’s biggest tech companies.The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it took issue with Apple’s decision to prevent mobile-wallet app developers from…