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...
DECEMBER 29, 2021
ITR 2021: The last date to file ITR for AY 2021-22 still is December 31, 2021 (Photo: IANS)
New Delhi: In a latest tweet, the Income Tax department said that CBDT has decided to provide one-time relaxation for the verification of e-filed ITRs which are pending e-verification. The last date to file ITR for AY...
DECEMBER 9, 2021
HARIDWAR: Prominent seers in Haridwar have condemned the provocative statements that were made at the ‘Dharma Sansad’ held recently in the holy city. Several speakers at the meeting had then lashed out at the minority community, with one even threatening to kill former PM Manmohan Singh for his alleged “appeasement views”.
Mahant Ravindra Puri of Mahanirvani Akhada said...
DECEMBER 27,2021
After a second consecutive year in which the word “unprecedented” did more than its fair share of narrative heavy lifting, economists are looking ahead to 2022 with a sense of wariness: Sharply escalating prices and the uncertain severity of the omicron variant of the coronavirus cast twin shadows over forecasters’ expectations, but some still found reason for optimism...
DECEMBER 27, 2021
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The Union home ministry has blocked foreign funding of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, but denied freezing any of its bank accounts.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and several Kolkata-based minority and inter-faith groups called the move “an attack on India’s poorest of poor” and said they were appalled by “the timing (on Christmas) and lack of...
DECEMBER 26, 2021
An NYPD officer snapped a photo of the box, which contained stacks of $100 and $50 bills, amounting to $180,000. / Credit: NYPD via City College of New York
It started out as a normal day for Vinod Menon, professor and chair of physics at City College of New York in Harlem. He was back to in-person teaching...
