TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday confirmed plans to gradually ease COVID-19 border restrictions, but fell short of calls from business lobbies to open up the country in line with its major trading partners.The government has decided to review border controls in stages, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters, responding to media reports that quarantine…Continue Reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Prime time has not been kind to Daniel Jones and the Giants. It was cruel to them Monday night. Locked in a taut battle with the Chiefs, the underdog Giants battled long into the evening, taking a lead early in the fourth quarter and threatening to dig Patrick Mahomes and his…Continue Reading
A 37-year-old woman was shot in the eye through the peephole of her Upper West Side apartment Monday night, cops and police sources said. The victim answered a knock at her door and heard a gunshot as she peered out into the hallway inside of her building at NYCHA’s Frederick Douglass Houses at around 7:40…Continue Reading
The Nets were already in experimentation mode, and that was before losing big men Paul Millsap and Nic Claxton. Steve Nash tried a couple small, defensive-minded bench units Sunday against Detroit, and both showed some promise. With Kevin Durant and James Harden both resting, Nash used backup center LaMarcus Aldridge and surrounded him with a…Continue Reading
The Jets don’t have a quarterback controversy, they have quarterback intrigue. And that’s a good thing. In the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s storybook performance by unheralded backup Mike White in the Jets’ stirring 34-31 comeback victory over the heavily favored Bengals at MetLife Stadium, Robert Saleh opted not to go the conventional route when asked…Continue Reading
England’s bowling attack continued its impressive show as they defeated Sri Lanka by 26 runs in a Group 1 match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Monday.After Jos Buttler’s unbeaten 101 took England to 163/4 in 20 overs, Sri Lanka overcame an early wobble and looked set…Continue Reading
Offering a new mantra and raising its pledge for combating climate change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told world leaders at the COP26 that India will target a net zero goal by the year 2070 and aim at increasing its non-fossil fuel energy to 500 GW in its energy mix by 2030.Terming it as…Continue Reading
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former Maharashtra Home Minister, Anil Deshmukh in an alleged money-laundering case after questioning him for more than 13 hours.Deshmukh, 72, had gone to the ED office on Monday afternoon for probe into the allegations of Rs.100 crore extortion levelled by former Mumbai Police Commissioner, Param Bir Singh.Deshmukh, a senior Nationalist…Continue Reading
A series of disturbing videos of some teenagers engaged in violent activities in the night has emerged a major cause of concern for residents in the Capital city of Odisha. In the videos that surfaced in the last two days, a gang of youngsters were seen copying the styles of antagonists of south Indian movies and…Continue Reading
Actress Sunny Leone ventured into the NFT (non-fungible token) space after she made an announcement to enter the marketplace following in the footsteps of megastars Amitabh Bachchan and Rajinikanth.And now, racing ahead, Sunny has gone on to mint her NFTs. Minting is a process through which digital art becomes a part of the Ethereum blockchain…Continue Reading