JANUARY 17, 2022
Farmers linked to DeHaat have access to more than 3,000 agricultural inputs. (File)
In a bid to expand its outreach among farmers with small holdings, DeHaat, a technology-based start-up that currently provides services from seed to markets to farmers in the eastern and central regions, aims at expanding its presence across the southern and western parts...
JANUARY 17, 2022
FILE PHOTO: Antonio Horta-Osorio speaks at the British Chambers of Commerce annual meeting in central London. - Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
Credit Suisse's chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio resigned on Monday following an investigation by the Swiss bank's board into his personal conduct.
He will be replaced by Axel Lehmann, who joined the Credit Suisse board in October to head its risk committee...
JANUARY 16, 2022
If you’re a working parent with young kids, chances are the new year hasn’t been as happy as you’d hoped. Omicron is raging, guidance is constantly changing, vaccines aren't approved for little children, and COVID-19 test kits are in short supply.
Meanwhile, reliable, affordable child care options are scarce. Centers are canceling classes or closing down altogether as employees...
JANUARY 16, 2022
Satellite imagery shows the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the Pacific on Jan. 15, 2022. - Rammb/Noaa/Nesdis Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
The Hunga Tonga volcano in the southwest Pacific erupted explosively on Saturday evening local time, producing a tsunami, sending ash 100,000 feet high and generating an atmospheric shock wave that rippled around the globe. The eruption was...
JANUARY 15, 2022
Documents show that when Wilbur Ross was commerce secretary, he was enlisted to lobby Republican governors whose states had been reluctant to turn over records that could be screened for non-citizens.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A newly disclosed memorandum citing “unprecedented” meddling by the Trump administration in the 2020 census and circulated among top Census Bureau officials indicates how...
JANUARY 14, 2022
The Justice Department on Thursday announced the first sedition charges related to the January 6 insurrection, a watershed moment in the year-long investigation.
The case revolves around the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, and its leader Stewart Rhodes. Many of the defendants were already facing charges for storming the US Capitol building and deny wrongdoing. But the...
JANUARY 14, 2022
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 210 and 101 for 2 (Petersen 48*, Elgar 30, Shami 1-22) need another 111 runs to beat India 223 and 198 (Pant 100*, Jansen 4-36, Rabada 3-53, Ngidi 3-21)
Rishabh Pant celebrates his hundred. - Getty Images
Rishabh Pant is a shot-maker of such quality that he can take the conditions out of the...
JANUARY 12, 2022
Snow forecasted in D.C. area on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022
A storm looks likely to hit the Washington, D.C., area during part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, and there’s a chance for snow Sunday into Monday.
Forecasting this storm is tricky because the American and European weather models differ on whether this storm will be more rain...
JANUARY 10, 2022
Serbia's Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan, center, brother Djordje, right, and mother Dijana attend a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. Tennis star Novak Djokovic on Monday won a court battle to stay in Australia to contest the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated against COVID-19, but the government threatened to cancel his visa a second...
JANUARY 10, 2022
People are seen in a TSA security checkpoint line at Orlando. - SOPA Images
Forget accidentally bringing a full-sized tube of toothpaste to the airport — agents confiscated a myriad of unusual items at checkpoints in 2021, including a "meth burrito." The Transportation Security Administration released its annual list of some of the oddest confiscated items from...
