OCTOBER 2, 2021
Brief Scorecard: Rajasthan Royals 190 for 3 (Dube 64*, Jaiswal 50, Thakur 2-30) beat Chennai Super Kings 189 for 4 (Gaikwad 101*, Jadeja 32*, Tewatia 3-39) by seven wickets
Abu Dhabi: Yashasvi Jaiswal timed it beautifully while Shivam Dube deflated Chennai Super Kings with brute power as Rajasthan Royals kept their play-off hopes alive with a morale-boosting seven-wicket...
OCTOBER 2, 2021
NEW DELHI: India is likely to send a 3-member team to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Pakistan next week, ToI has learnt. The Pabbi Anti-terror Exercise 2021 is being held at Pabbi in Pakistan’s Nowshera district from October 3 under the aegis of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) which seeks to promote counter-terrorism cooperation...
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Locals in Tamil Nadu’s Gudalur, a small town that is 50 kilometres away from Ooty and is close to the Kerala border, are fearful of stepping outside their homes these days. That’s because, they say, they are being hunted. With an elusive male tiger killing another person on Friday, the fourth in recent days, the Chief Wildlife Warden Shekhar Kumar Niraj issued orders...
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
US Senators Meet For Policy Luncheons. - Getty Images
Democrats are trying to come up with another way to raise the debt limit after Republicans blocked their latest effort Tuesday. The U.S.is now heading toward default in just a few weeks, which could have catastrophic economic consequences, government officials and economists warn.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. - MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty/Axel Springer
Elon Musk has again passed Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest person.
He told Forbes he'll mark the occasion by sending Bezos a silver medal and statue of the number two.
The two have taken swipes at each other for years as part...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Starting Friday, the U.S. Postal Service will employ “new service standards" that will result in slower delivery for mail traveling long distances, such as from New York to California. - Spencer Platt, Getty Images
Americans who have been frustrated with the slow service of the U.S. Postal Service since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic probably won’t...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Visitor services at national parks may stop during a government shutdown. - Robert Berlin, The Daily Times via AP
As the federal government teeters near the edge of another shutdown, you might wonder what it could mean for you if the slow gears grind to a halt.
Senate blocks federal spending bill that would avoid government shutdown over...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic measure aimed at averting a government shutdown and raising the federal debt limit Monday evening, leaving Congress with just days to cobble together a government funding bill.
The Senate voted 48-50, with Democrats falling short of the 60 votes needed to stop the Republican filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer changed his vote...
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
Huawei CFO Gets Hero’s Welcome While Canadians Land Quietly. - Photographer: CCTV/AFP/Getty Images
China gave a hero’s welcome to Huawei Technologies Co.’s executive Meng Wanzhou as she touched down three years after her arrest in Canada, while two Canadians freed by Beijing returned to their homeland with less fanfare.
“I am finally home after over 1,000 days of...
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
Scientists from China say they have isolated 'exquisitely preserved' cartilage cells of a 125-million-year-old dinosaur that contains organic molecules and may suggest that dinosaur DNA could one day be found.
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature found the nuclei which...
