JANUARY 4, 2021
SHANGHAI - China said on Tuesday it will put in force new rules to increase its oversight of plans by Chinese platform firms to list on overseas stock markets in the latest move to tighten its grip on its sprawling technology sector.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the new rules come into effect on Feb. 15...
JANUARY 2, 2021
The D.C. area is expected to get 2 to 6 inches of snow Monday—more than previously anticipated—after mild weather Sunday and high temperatures in the 60s.
Storm Team4 is in Weather Alert mode and says to expect a storm Monday that may affect your schedule. D.C. advised residents to plan on slippery road conditions that could snarl the...
JANUARY 1, 2022
The first celebrity wedding of the year has kicked off the New Year. Mohit Raina’s wedding photos have surprised his fans after Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif were married in a private ceremony in December. On New Year’s Day, the Mahadev actor took to Instagram to announce his marriage.
Mohit captioned a photo of himself with his wife...
JANUARY 1, 2021
Kapil’s grit and gusto, his flamboyant style of batting, his energetic run up, his diction and his mannerisms are all on display on screen through an actor who was born two years after 1983. (Representative Image/HT File)
Those were very different times in India. Simplicity, quite simply, adorned people’s expressions. Success was rare. But we had our heroes....
DECEMBER 31, 2021
A picture shows a vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination drive at the al-Manahel School in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, on December 12, 2021. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
Even after Covid-19 cases fall from their current record-high levels, it's...
DECEMBER 31, 2021
After the somber welcome that greeted 2021, many people saw this year’s holiday season as a time to revel in a return to near-normal. But New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world have once again been canceled or scaled back amid a new wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant.
In Germany, large public gatherings, including...
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Betty White. - Credit: Matt Sayles/AP/Shutterstock
"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," Betty White's agent and close friend Jeff Witjas tells PEOPLE in a statement
Betty White, TV's perennial Golden Girl, has died. She was 99.
"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," her agent...
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Brief Scorecard: India 327 (Rahul 123, Agarwal 60, Ngidi 6-71) and 174 (Pant 34, Rabada 4-42, Jansen 4-55) beat South Africa 197 (Bavuma 52, Shami 5-44) and 191 (Elgar 77, Bumrah 3-50, Shami 3-63) by 113 runs
India's captain Virat Kohli, second from right, celebrates with teammates at end of the fifth day of the Test Cricket match...
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Dow, S&P 500 set intraday records as stock market aims to extend year-end rally in 2021’s penultimate session. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
MARKET SNAPSHOT
U.S. stocks rose modestly Thursday morning, with the S&P 500 index and the Dow extending their march to fresh records to cap 2021, as investor buying is driven, at least partly, by the belief that...
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 197 and 94 for 4 (Elgar 52*, Bumrah 2-22, Siraj 1-25) need a further 211 runs to beat India 327 and 174 (Pant 34, Rabada 4-42, Jansen 4-55)
Jassi, yeh dekh, yeh dekh yahan pe crack hai!” Virat Kohli was his usual animated self, gesticulating, leaping around, offering suggestions to his pace spearhead Jasprit...
