File photo for representationNEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it supports the decision to reserve seats for Other Backward Communities (OBCs) in panchayat and municipal elections, but also added that it cannot provide state governments with the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data as it is “flawed, inaccurate and unreliable”…Continue Reading
A special POCSO court in Mayurbhanj district on Tuesday awarded a 62-year-old man to 10 years rigourous imprisonment after convicting him of sexually assaulting a two-and-a-half year old girl in 2014. As per sources, a villager of Jamada area in Mayurbhanj district had taken his daughter to a marriage function in March, 2014 where the accused,…Continue Reading
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A 65-year-old woman was shot and killed during what was described as an attempted robbery at a gas station in Virginia Beach, police said.Virginia Beach police said officers responded to a report late Monday afternoon of a person with gunshot wounds, according to a news release. When the officers arrived,…Continue Reading
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Adrian Phillips was thinking the worst as he was lying on his back, his right knee being attended to by the training staff in the closing minutes of the Patriots’ Week 13 win at Buffalo. The safety had just made one of the plays of the game, knocking away a third-down…Continue Reading
The St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Corp. said in a court filing Tuesday that it will close a coal plant several years early, a move that follows a court order this summer requiring pollution controls that would potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars.The plant sits along the Mississippi River near Festus, Missouri, about 40…Continue Reading
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The Parker Solar Probe actually flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft’s eighth close approach to the…Continue Reading
Coronavirus Takalane Mulaudzi, 29, is processed before getting her COVID-19 vaccination at Soweto’s Baragwanath hospital on Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jerome Delay / AP By ANDREW MELDRUM, Associated Press December 14, 2021 | 11:39 AM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus, and…Continue Reading
National By Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post December 14, 2021 | 11:28 AM Ryan Brandt stood next to one of the more than 30 diners she’d just waited on as the man made an announcement. “We are tipping,” Grant Wise hollered so the entire party could hear, “a total of $4,400.” Cheers erupted from the table.…Continue Reading
Coronavirus America’s response to the variant highlights both how much progress we have made over the past two years — and how much work remains. The work before us now — detecting, tracking and slowing the spread of a health threat we do not fully understand — is the same work that will be required…Continue Reading
Health Two drugmakers have been mired for years in the pre-application phase of getting FDA approval for over-the-counter use. Shannon Connell-Robichaud asked her doctor to change her birth-control pill prescription after she learned that it would increase her risk of a stroke.Credit…Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Hannah Yoon / The New York Times…Continue Reading