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Actor Henry Winkler remembers the life of Betty White. The former Golden Girl and national treasure has died at age 99, her longtime agent said in a statement to People. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3FJmXA1

2022 is finally here. And for China, there's no shortage of big moments on the horizon -- from the Beijing Winter Olympics to the 20th Communist Party Congress in the fall. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3FMW5zd

Depicting a heap of screaming faces and contorted torsos, the "Pillar of Shame" was not just a reminder of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre -- it was, for many, an emblem of free speech in Hong Kong. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3FMarQj

Colorado resident Hunt Frye was shopping for his sick wife when suddenly told to evacuate Costco as fast moving fires were moving through the community. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3qCsQca

In the wake of an increase in Covid-19 cases, particularly of the Omicron variant, the Mumbai police on Friday issued an order prohibiting people from visiting beaches, open grounds, seafronts, promenades, gardens parks or similar public places between 5 pm and 5 am, starting with immediate from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qGXpNI

Here's how countries around the world are celebrating the start of 2022. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3sOyM4E

In 2021, Greater Mumbai recorded the highest apartment sales in a decade with total property registrations of 1.1 lakh flats. This was 70% more than in the previous year and 45% higher than the pre-pandemic year of 2019, said a report. The previous annual high was 80,746 in 2018. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32ST2XS

Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister is to be knighted with the highest possible ranking in the New Year's Honours List, Buckingham Palace announced Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32P8mVs

The Omicron variant has been found in 55% of the Covid positive samples that were sequenced recently from the city. A fortnight ago, the variant was present in just 2% of the samples, underlining its rapid spread in the community within days. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Hoyq8K

The Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Cardinal Gracias has "asked pardon" from the community after the conviction of a Catholic priest under the Pocso Act. He said he continued to pray for both the victim and his abuser. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zgntTP

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Churches citywide have voluntarily curbed midnight mass on New Year’s Eve, owing to the state’s new restrictions on public assembly. Some have cancelled physical services and opted to stream online. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zliT6Y

From Friday, resident doctors from across the state will be withdrawing from all non-Covid routine duties, including emergency services, to join the nationwide protest against the delay in conduct of postgraduate medical admissions. The move is likely to hit healthcare services. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FK2JGD

The US Medical Glove Company, or USMGC, aims to reduce US reliance on imports of medical gloves from the Far East, especially China and Thailand, while creating American jobs that pay well beyond the minimum wage. CNN's Scott McLean has more. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3HmDgTP

Dharmendra Yadav and Vikas Yadav, the two men arrested for Wednesday’s heist at an SBI branch in Dahisar (West), had been preparing for months by studying internet videos, said the police on Thursday.The police said Dharmendra’s father had run up debts of Rs 4. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pJ1CBv

South Dakota lawmakers voted on Wednesday to broaden their examination of the state attorney general's killing of a man in a fatal collision last year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3eDMYFc

The BMC has received a record sum of over Rs 11,000 crore so far this year from Mumbai’s builders rushing to avail of the 50% discount on premiums offered from January 2021. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ETZYBr

Police in Branson, Missouri, say they've identified the remains of David Koenig, an amateur mixed martial arts fighter, who had been missing for almost two years. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3Ex5g5y

For close to a month now, passengers undergoing rapid Covid tests at the Mumbai airport have been unknowingly opting for the costlier tests as the cheapest test priced at about a thousand rupees less is not listed on the airport websites for pre-booking. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3n4bbt5

China's ride-hailing firm Didi Global on Wednesday reported a 1.7% decline in third-quarter revenue, as its domestic business took a hit from a regulatory crackdown. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3ECPBSk

SenseTime rallied in its Hong Kong debut Thursday, as it tried to move past a politically-fraught month that forced the Chinese artificial intelligence startup to delay its initial public offering. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3ey0vht

What would make a driver mad enough to dynamite his own Tesla? How about a $22,600 repair bill. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the explosive report. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3Hn38Pz

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According to author Robin Wright, Iran will be reluctant to sign a new nuclear deal with the US because it currently has the largest missile program in the Middle East and is capable of producing enough fuel for a nuclear bomb in three weeks. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3ezBAKm

Maharashtra reported a 75-day high in new Covid infections with 2,172 cases on Tuesday. Mumbai, which is largely driving the surge, saw its highest daily detection (1,333) in seven months. The silver lining was the low count of Covid fatalities-22 in the state and one in Mumbai. The state also didn't detect any new Omicron infections on Tuesday, thereby restricting the cumulative tally of the new variant to 167. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32vgzy9

Inside one children's hospital in Chicago, Covid-19 cases are roughly three times higher than the hospital's previous peak in December 2020. In the past week, hospitalizations are four times higher what the hospital typically sees. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3qDOBse

Air quality in Mumbai and Pune has plunged to the ‘poor’ and ‘moderate’ categories, with both particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) crossing their maximum permissible limits in the two cities. The data was released by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s (IITM) System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3z6x3bI

Certain American citizens living or traveling abroad will be able to return to the United States if their passports have expired. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32yUG0X

It's boom time for electric vehicles in Mumbai and Maharashtra. While the state saw a phenomenal 153% rise in new e-vehicle registrations in the first nine months of the financial year 2021-2022, the city recorded a growth of 112% in the same period, the latest transport statistics show. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sCds25

CT scanning has revealed tantalizing details about the life and death of the pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time since his mummified remains were discovered in 1881. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32HDZQI

The number of new private cars, including SUVs, registered in Mumbai in 2021 saw a 13% jump over the pre-Covid time (2019), the latest statistics of the state transport department on Monday showed. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Exh2wS

IIT-Bombay’s class of 1996 pledged Rs 17 crore towards the institute’s legacy project during the Alumni Day event. The funds will be utilised for supporting some of the start-up incubations at the institute’s Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and students’ tech clubs to facilitate their participation in global competitions. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jq6Vxe

A vacation bench of Bombay high court on Monday permitted a 12-year- old girl to undergo termination of an almost 23-week pregnancy caused allegedly by her rape. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pzI5U1

An ex-navy man and a house painter have been felicitated by Khandeshwar police for their courageous act of chasing and catching a robber who had snatched the gold chain of a 70-year-old woman on the street in New Panvel on December 25 morning. The other painter could not come to the police station for his felicitation due to a prior commitment. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32KCZve

A 48-year-old woman sarpanch of a village in Mahad taluka of Raigad was found brutally murdered; her naked body was dumped in the bushes near Beloshi village road at around 1.30pm on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FDXQyH

Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose paintings breathed color into the everyday symbols of post-war America, has died age 101, according to a statement from the University of California, Davis, where he taught for more than 40 years. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3psWQrn

Driven by a sharp spike of cases in Mumbai, Maharashtra saw a 64-day high in new Covid infections on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32Dh2Oh

The Covid-19 toll among BMC employees crossed the 250 mark last week. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32ySZjF

Ahead of the New Year festivities, a 32-year-old Kashmiri man has been arrested on suspicion of being a militant after he was picked up from an Andheri hotel for a fight with the hotel staff. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3z4iLbU

Rajkot is air-linked with Mumbai by an hour-long flight that has nothing in particular to make it stand out, except when Covid is factored in. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qthiaV

Maharashtra saw the highest number of abandoned babies, foeticides and infanticides combined across the country between 2015 and 2020, accounting for 18.3% of the national tally of 6,459. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pruCxq

The state government’s Covid-driven imposition of night curfew and curbs on New Year parties, weddings and gatherings has caused a wave of cancellations citywide. ​​​The Christmas-New Year spell is a peak revenue earner for the hospitality industry, plus the marriage season is under way in full swing. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3yYxdBX

A 47-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested allegedly with cocaine worth Rs33 lakh in an operation carried out by the Mumbai crime branch’s anti-narcotics cell, an official said on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Fw7djM

About 20 passengers who landed in Mumbai on early Saturday morning flights were found positive for Covid after tests at the airport. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3yWJDui

In order to check if the Omicron variant is responsible for the sudden surge in cases in Mumbai, the BMC will send all Covid-positive samples till December 31 for gene sequencing. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sDlGqC

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The city’s Covid graph climbed for the fifth consecutive day, with the BMC registering 731 cases on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3z0Jpm0

The Mumbai police have arrested two members of a gang of five who allegedly threatened, blackmailed and extorted huge sums of money from a young woman, telling her that the ‘Narcotics Control Bureau’ (NCB) was probing her role in an alleged escort services racket, resulting in her death by suicide. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3szPFzY

A city sessions court has dismissed appeals and confirmed four convictions for non-deposit of TDS amount within the stipulated time; a ruling that the income-tax department prosecutor says is uncommon in Mumbai’s legal circles for such an offence. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qtEjLb

There's barely enough space for two people to stand together and spread their arms. There’s a loft hanging low overhead, which provides additional space to lie down. In rooms as tiny as 40-100 sq feet, over three generations of families have lived together and continue to live. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3JbjjkG

The state’s former intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla has filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court against the recent Bombay high court rejection of her quashing petition. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3puuxcp

Since specific contents of the reports were leaked, the state home department had entrusted the probe to the cyber cell of Mumbai police. In fact, the cell had registered an offence against unknown persons after Fadnavis’ press conference in Nagpur. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jg9Kkw

Mumbai’s Omicron tally is the highest in the state at 46, which includes 24 people who were picked up at the international airport during screening or during surveillance of foreign returnees from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3el1JMW

A departmental inquiry has been initiated against Patil based on the non-cognizable offence (NC) under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code that has been filed against him with Vakola police station. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jha56z

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The safai kamgar, Ramesh Parmar (27), had consumed poison on Tuesday at the office since he was under financial pressure, according to his uncle Pitambar. Ramesh was admitted to HBT Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari, and later to Parel’s KEM Hospital, where he was declared dead late on Thursday. He is survived by his brother and mother. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mwqvhy

The doubling time here has dropped from 1,424 days on November 12 to 699 now. Doubling rate, which represents the number of days it takes for Covid-19 cases to double, is an indicator of how quickly cases are increasing; lower the doubling rate, faster the cases multiply. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pojBwQ

​​Contact tracing revealed that 12 of his contacts, all colleagues at the pathlab, were also Covid-19 positive. The lab is located on Dadar’s Shankar Ghanekar Marg. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mwqoTa

There has been a 37% rise in the weekly Covid-19 caseload in the city, with 2,554 cases registered between December 18 and 24 as against 1,447 cases between December 11 and 17. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Ha1sJg

Nearly every district in Maharashtra has recorded extreme and untimely rainfall in the last five years, with half the districts reporting five to seven such incidents. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34115CB

The state government on Friday tabled amendments to the Maharashtra Public Universities Act to introduce the post of a pro-chancellor which will be occupied by the minister of higher and technical education. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32BElZ7

A male surfer was killed in a shark attack in Morro Bay, California, on Christmas Eve, the Morro Bay Harbor Department confirmed to CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3pp9Heg

Prosecutors in a filing say the parents of alleged Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley are at a "greater risk of flight" now than when they were arraigned on involuntary manslaughter charges earlier this month and allege the couple "willfully ignored the needs and well-being of their son and the threat he posed to others." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3qrYjhf

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's friendship will go on, despite distance or time. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3pozB1I

The BMC on Friday made a seven-day home quarantine compulsory for all passengers arriving from Dubai, a travel hub where many change flights leading to mixing of people. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Ep5VFV

With Covid cases in the state surging to 1,410 and the Mumbai tally hitting a nearly six-month high of 673 infections on Friday amid the fear of Omicron spread, the Maharashtra government has imposed a ban on the assembly of more than four people (up to 4 allowed) in public places between 9pm and 6am, and issued fresh norms restricting attendance at weddings, social, political and religious functions. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/33LWh3A

At least two major airlines in the United States have canceled flights just before Christmas Eve. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3Enhpd9

With New Year just a few days away, the BEST on Thursday announced a slew of measures being undertaken to ensure safe travel for women commuters in 2022. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sBBavv

A congressional panel will investigate Live Nation Entertainment, the concert promoter behind the tragic Astroworld Festival that left 10 people dead and hundreds injured last month. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32yVzWL

A group of Maldivian fishermen lines up at the back of a boat. As they cast their fishing rods and barbless hooks into the water, they lure in fish by throwing tiny baitfish on the surface. The trick is to create an illusion of prey for the tuna. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32nqYfg

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Elizabeth Holmes' fate in her criminal fraud trial will not be decided before Christmas as the jury failed to reach a verdict in its first week of deliberations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3ekUHb3

The number of people who have not taken their second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine after completing the prescribed interval between two doses has crossed a crore in Maharashtra. The state has so far administered a single shot to 87% of its eligible population, but the full vaccination coverage is around 55%. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3J6DxMB

Kamila is almost 3 years old, but she weighs just 11 pounds (5 kilograms). Her wrinkled skin sags off her skeletal limbs and stretches around her distended belly. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3FCMefz

It took officials in Virginia five hours to pry open a time capsule found in the base of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. They had a list of items they expected to find, but it didn't turn out that way. CNN's Randi Kaye has more on what they discovered. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3yPVGtn

The special investigation team Mumbai police probing allegations of extortion in the arrest of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan in a drug case is likely to close it as the actor’s manager Pooja Dadlani, who is alleged to have handed over the money, is yet to appear for giving her statement. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3JfQuU8

The state government on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that allowing everyone, irrespective of their vaccination status, to travel by public transport will not only endanger lives but also negate all its efforts taken so far to prevent Covid-19 transmission. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3efEd3W