MARCH 10, 2019
BRIEF SCORECARD: Australia 359 for 6 (Handscomb 117, Khawaja 91, Turner 84*) beat India 358 for 9 (Dhawan 143, Rohit 93, Cummins 5-70) by 4 wickets
CHANDIGARH - Indian crowds usually tell a story. Between stunned silence at every big shot from Australian bats and booing of their own, Rishabh Pant, for a missed stumping, they narrated a...
MARCH 10, 2019
FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Zuckerberg’s new “privacy-focused vision” for Facebook looks like a transformative mission statement for the much-criticized social network. But critics say the announcement obscures Facebook’s deeper motivations: To expand lucrative...
MARCH 9, 2019
Donald Trump (Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
Cindy (Li) Yang, a Florida entrepreneur who founded a chain of spas and massage parlors that included the one where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was arrested recently for allegedly soliciting prostitution, also runs a consulting business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago,...
MARCH 9, 2019
Plastic, paper, glass, and cardboard at a Recology facility in San Francisco - Robert Galbraith / Reuters
Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country...
MARCH 9, 2019
A new study finds that suburban neighborhoods outperform urban ones across the board.
The rise of the city and the decline of the suburbs has emerged as a common meme in recent years. The young, the educated, and the affluent have come streaming back to the urban core, driving up rents, driving out the poor, and giving rise...
MARCH 8, 2019
Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, appeared in a televised hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday.- (Credit: Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
For 14 seasons, on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump presented a gilded image of the Trump Organization, which the reality show depicted as a hard-charging, happy, successful business.
On Wednesday, before...
MARCH 8, 2019
A private dining room at Punjab Grill is covered in 150,000 hand-laid mirrors. - Rey Lopez/Eater DC
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The new North Indian restaurant from a global group looks like a palace
When diners step into the Penn Quarter outpost of Punjab Grill, the first stateside location of the luxury Indian brand, they’ll find a 4,700-square-foot palace...
MARCH 8, 2019
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that he did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize but suggested who could be conferred with the honour.
“I am not worthy of the Nobel Peace prize. The person worthy of this would be the one who solves the Kashmir dispute according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people and...
MARCH 8, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 313 for 5 (Khawaja 104, Finch 93, Kuldeep 3-64) beat India 281 (Kohli 123, Richardson 3-37, Cummins 3-37, Zampa 3-70) by 32 runs
RANCHI - There hardly goes a day when Virat Kohli is not compared to Sachin Tendulkar, but in the Ranchi ODI he was a little more like Tendulkar: he scored an imperious...
MARCH 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Indians’ “American dream,” in jeopardy ever since the rise of Donald Trump, has already soured further in the first few months of 2019.
A series of measures taken by the US administration has ensured that the hopes of securing the much-sought-after H-1B visas became tougher—not just for techies, its biggest beneficiaries, but also their spouses...
