JANUARY 28, 2022
NEW DELHI: Air India flights started operating under the Tata banner from Friday after nearly seven decades. Getting the most suitable buyer means the debt-laden airline has avoided a shutdown like Kingfisher or Jet Airways. But what does it mean for passengers?
This TOI reporter took a Friday morning Delhi-Mumbai flight to find that out and ended up...
JANUARY 28, 2022
CHENNAI: “God is omnipresent. God does not need a specific place for his divine presence. It is the fanatic who is the root cause of all problems to divide people in the name of religion (sic),” Madras high court said on Friday, refusing to stall the removal of a temple standing on public land.
“The petitioner, in the...
JANUARY 28, 2022
New Delhi: A novel drone show will be one of the major attractions of this year's 'Beating the Retreat' ceremony and will be graced by President Ram Nath Kovind at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on Saturday (January 29, 2022).
For the first time, the ceremony will have a show of over 1,000 'Made in India' drones to commemorate 75...
JANUARY 28, 2022
City workers hand out take-home Covid-19 test kits in lower Manhattan on December 23, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The U.S. economy grew last year at its fastest pace since 1984, rebounding from a sharp but brief coronavirus-induced recession in March 2020.
The nation's gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced, expanded...
JANUARY 27, 2022
Former Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley. - DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley called on President Biden and VP Harris to resign.
In a Fox News radio interview, Haley said Biden should "step down and take Kamala with him."
Haley also said she's worried the US will...
JANUARY 26, 2022
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham. - Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
In an interview with Bloomberg, Jeremy Grantham added to his earlier warnings of a market crash and pointed to climate change.
Grantham believes markets will face a future of high inflation, slow economic growth, and labor shortages.
"We're going to live in a world of bottlenecks and shortages...
JANUARY 26, 2022
Omicron Deaths in U.S. Exceed Delta's Peak. - Rob Engelaar/Shutterstock
More signs emerged that the Omicron wave is taking a less serious human toll in Europe than earlier phases of the pandemic as U.S. data showed daily average deaths from the disease exceeding the peak reached during the surge driven by the previously dominant Delta variant.
In the...
JANUARY 26, 2022
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is among the professional athletes who have struck promotional deals that involve converting their salaries into crypto. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
By the end of last year, the value of Hasten Carter’s cryptocurrency holdings had climbed to about $250,000. He moved to a nicer apartment, bought a new...
JANUARY 26, 2022
FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a face mask walks through Chinatown Chinatown in San Francisco. - Reuters/SHANNON STAPLETON
San Francisco city leaders pledged to step up policing in Asian-American communities on Tuesday after statistics showed that 60 hate crimes were committed against Asians in the city during 2021, up from only nine the year before.
San Francisco is the...
JANUARY 26, 2022
New Delhi: The price of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval from India's drug regulator, is likely to be capped at Rs 275 per dose plus an additional service charge of Rs 150, official sources said.
According to them, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been directed to...
