JANUARY 5, 2023
Three vehicles are partly submerged on a roadway in Wilton, Calif., in south Sacramento County, after heavy rains on New Year's Eve caused levees along the Columnes River to fail. (Hector Amezcua / Associated Press)
The pounding rains of New Year's Eve had ceased, but the pastures, freeways and neighborhoods surrounding the tiny community of Wilton continued to...
JANUARY 4, 2023
Thirty-year-old Tanu Dogra dreads getting another round of COVID-19 as she has had it three times already, during every wave, and has been left with battling a leftover symptom and a much compromised body that has meant making adjustments in her work life. “I don’t have it in me to take it anymore,” says Dogra, who has...
JANUARY 4, 2023
Salesforce, the business software giant, is laying off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees, and scaling back office space because of concerns about the economy, the company said on Wednesday.
“The environment remains challenging and our customers are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions,” Marc Benioff, the company’s chief executive, said...
JANUARY 3, 2023
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has rolled out new integrated food security Scheme beginning 1 January 2023. As per the decision made by cabinet last week, the government envisions to provide free food grains to 81.35 crore beneficiaries under NFSA, for the year 2023.
Under the scheme, Government of India will provide free foodgrains to all NFSA...
JANUARY 3, 2023
Qin Gang in 2022. - hotographer: Catalina Fragoso/NBAE/Getty Images
New Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang offered effusive praise of Americans after stepping down as his nation’s top envoy to Washington, signaling that ties between the world’s biggest economies appear to be warming despite recent tensions over Taiwan.
“I have been deeply impressed by so many hard-working, friendly and talented...
JANUARY 2, 2023
Nearly six years and two months after the government announced demonetisation on November 8, 2016, currency with the public is at a new high. With cash remaining the preferred mode of payment, currency with public for the fortnight ended December 16, 2022 stood at a record high of Rs 31.27 lakh crore — up 74 per cent...
JANUARY 2, 2023
The cost of getting into the housing market has sky-rocketed over the past year. Zillow estimates that a typical American home today costs 55% more than it would have a year ago.
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JANUARY 2, 2023
The SpaceX Starbase facility under construction in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is raising $750 million in new fundraising, which values the company at $137 billion, CNBC reported, citing correspondence it obtained.
Andreessen Horowitz will likely lead the new funding round in the Elon Musk-led company known as SpaceX, the outlet reported....
JANUARY 2, 2023
On Monday, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court delivered its judgment on a bunch of petitions that challenged the validity of the Modi government's November 2016 decision to demonetize Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. The top court upheld the government's decision and dismissed the petitions.
Most petitions challenged the validity of the shock move...
JANUARY 2, 2023
Indian authorities have clarified that international travelers arriving in India from six high-risk countries - China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore - will have to upload a negative RT-PCR test report 72 hours before boarding their flights, even if their flights are only passing through these nations. This has come at a time when...
