Former US President Barack Obama in a tweet on Thursday said that this week, Illinois joined states across the country in passing a historic gun violence prevention package.
Already in the grip of a severe cold spell, there's more bad news in the offing for North India as vast swathes of the region are likely to experience a drop in temperatures to a minimum of -4 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius in the plains, according to a weather expert.
Gujarat Titans conducted Uttarayan celebrations on Makar Sankranti across three locations in Ahmedabad -- Ahmedabad One Mall, Urban Chowk, Rajpath Club and Urban Chowk, Chandkheda, this weekend.
To mark the country's 75th anniversary of independence, the military junta announced this week that it would free some 7,000 prisoners, UN news reported. However, it did not specify whether those jailed as part of its brutal crackdown on dissent would be included.
The BCCI-appointed Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) interviewed the aforementioned players, along with Chetan Sharma and Harvinder Singh. The shortlisted candidates made presentations before the panel, which will be this week submitting its recommendations to the board
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The new series "Kaleidoscope," premiering on January 1, is intended to be viewed in any order, with its first seven episodes possible to scramble and remix however the viewer chooses ahead of a final instalment.
According to the CDC, the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant as of this week has pushed out the BQ.1 and the BQ.1.1 subvariants from their previous positions as the most detected coronavirus mutations.
Jaishankar is paying an official visit to the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and Austria from December 29 to January 3. The External Affairs Minister will be in Cyprus this week to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between India and Cyprus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are likely to communicate via video link his week, Russian state news agency TASS said on Monday, without giving details of the timing or format.