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How a wrong phone call turned into NORAD’s global Santa tracker tradition every Christmas Eve

Millions of children every Christmas Eve eagerly await updates on Santa Claus as he embarks on his magical journey, delivering gifts across the globe. A misprinted phone number in 1955 sparked the creation of NORAD’s Santa tracker. Today, NORAD’s Santa Tracker uses cutting-edge technology, including satellite imagery, GPS, and even social media, to share Santa’s progress. NORAD takes its role …

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6 days ago

League Cup: Gabriel Jesus scores a hat trick as Arsenal reaches semifinals

The Hindu

Gabriel Jesus scored a hat trick — including a crucial second goal from an offside position — as Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 3-2 to advance to the English League Cup semifinals on Wednesday. Jesus had previously only scored one goal in 20 appearances in all competitions this season — and that was also in the English League Cup at second-tier …

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6 days, 1 hour ago

Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle Advance to English League Cup Semis

Deccan Chronicle

Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool advanced in the English League Cup on Wednesday to ensure a heavyweight lineup for the semifinals.Gabriel Jesus scored a hat trick — including a crucial second goal from an offside position — as Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 3-2 to reach the last four for the first time since the 2021-22 season.Liverpool kept alive its title defense …

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6 days, 12 hours ago

Amit Shah's 'next 15 years' prediction for Mallikarjun Kharge: 'My resignation won't change...'

Hindustan Times

BJP leader Amit Shah on Wednesday reacted to Mallikarjun Kharge's demand for his resignation as the union home minister, saying it won't make a difference to the Congress's poll prospects. Kharge demanded Amit Shah's resignation over the latter's remark on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha. During a debate in the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah said the Congress had …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Bill Belichick gets enthusiastic reception at UNC basketball game having been unveiled as the new football coach

CNN

CNN — Bill Belichick received a warm reception when he was introduced to the crowd at a University of North Carolina men’s basketball game, days after he was named as head coach of the school’s football team. “Welcome to the Smith Center, Coach Belichick!” the Tar Heels wrote on social media, alongside photos of the 72-year-old being introduced to the …

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1 week, 4 days ago

'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators

Raw Story

Conservative CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton implored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday to extricate himself from the efforts of a key adviser to get the FDA to revoke the decades-old polio vaccine approval. Appearing with host John Berman, Singleton was asked about a report in the New York Times that RFK Jr's advisor, Aaron Siri, "is waging war against vaccines of …

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1 week, 4 days ago

'The quackery': MSNBC analyst goes off on Trump ally for questioning polio vaccine

Raw Story

Reacting to a New York Times report that a lawyer representing Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle angrily called out the potential Donald Trump Cabinet member. With the Times reporting that RFK Jr. attorney Aaron Siri has been waging war against …

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1 week, 4 days ago

When Deceased Govt Employee Married Second Wife Without Divorcing First Wife, Only The Latter Will Get Family Pension: Rajasthan High Court

Live Law

Rajasthan High Court has accepted the petition by the first wife of a deceased government employee for family pension on the grounds that no valid divorce took place between them since “social divorce” was not recognized by our legal system. In this light, since the marriage with the second wife was not valid as per the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, …

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1 week, 5 days ago

RFK Jr.’s lawyer petitions the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine

Salon

Aaron Siri, the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — petitioned the federal government on Friday to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. “I love Aaron Siri,” Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Informed Consent Action Network …

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1 week, 5 days ago

For divorces in India, the process is the punishment

India Today

On July 15, 2024, the legal counsel of Omar Abdullah, the now Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said in the Supreme Court that his marriage had been irretrievably "dead" as he and his spouse had lived apart for 15 years. HOW DIVORCE LAWS MISUSED IN INDIA, PROCESS IS PUNISHMENT "Let’s start with how, after filing for divorce, a person …

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NFL world reacts with excitement, surprise, questions after Bill Belichick is hired to coach UNC

Associated Press

Minutes after the University of North Carolina announced it had hired Bill Belichick as its next head football coach, the Tar Heels’ Instagram account posted a photo of the legendary NFL coach — at no more than 3 years old — sitting in the UNC bleachers. “I think he’s going to do good,” said Patriots receiver Kendrick Bourne, who played …

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1 week, 5 days ago

The climate future: We're entering a world of falling GDP and overheated seas

Live Mint

Sitting down to write this newsletter, I was thinking about a way to introduce it that would chime in with the fact that we are in December. According to the November data of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the average global surface temperature was 1.62 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels. View Full Image In May, a working …

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Long Separation, Absence Of Cohabitation, Complete Breakdown Of Bonds Between Spouses Is Cruelty U/S 13(1)(ia) HMA: MP High Court

Live Law

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that long separation, absence of cohabitation, the complete breakdown of all meaningful bonds and the existing bitterness between the spouses must be read as 'cruelty' under Section 13 of the 1955 Act. With this, the Court allowed an appeal filed by the Husband challenging a family court order whereby his application filed under …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

The best books of 2024, according to Slate’s book critic.

Slate

Slate has relationships with various online retailers. Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham David Hammond, the exquisitely cultured 22-year-old Black man who narrates Vinson Cunningham’s masterful debut novel, gets plucked almost by chance from an idling existence as a tutor to work on the campaign of a charismatic Black senator running for president. She was 66 years old, and had spent …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Supreme Court Cites CAA While Granting Relief To Person Who Migrated From East Pakistan In 1969

Live Law

The Supreme Court recently cited the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 while allowing the citizenship claim of an individual who migrated from East Pakistan to India in 1969.The bench comprising Justice J.K. Maheshwari and Justice R. Mahadevan referred to the proviso added to Section 2 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 by the 2019 Amendment to state that. The Supreme Court …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Amid the crash and bash of T20 cricket, bowlers have slowly reclaimed control in Tests and the game is better for it

ABC

Conversations surrounding cricket since the introduction of the shorter formats of the game have been dominated by the balance of power between the bat and ball. The numbers behind the resurgence of the ball in Tests Assessing the numbers in Test cricket over the last decade compared to the decade that preceded it makes for some interesting reading. Firstly, of …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Ethnic Slovak naïve paintings from Serbia join UNESCO’s list of cultural heritage

Associated Press

KOVACICA, Serbia — Nearly a century ago, two farmers in an ethnic Slovak village in northern Serbia started painting to pass the time during the long winter months. With their bright colors and folk motives, the self-taught naïve painters of Kovacica, about 50 kilometers northeast of Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, have developed a unique tradition among the country’s ethnic Slovak minority. …

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3 weeks ago

Mystery in Laurel Canyon: Questions cloud death of William de Rothschild

LA Times

The elderly man told his neighbors he was a Rothschild — a member of the prominent European family whose collective fortune is worth billions of dollars. It’s a strange feeling.” De Rothschild’s body was found after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a blaze at his Lookout Mountain Avenue residence on Nov. 27. The man, who requested his name …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Banking Bill seeks to resolve issues about unclaimed deposits, nomination among 17 other changes

New Indian Express

MUMBAI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has tabled the Banking Laws Bill in the Lok Sabha, proposing to make as many as 19 amendments, including changes in the RBI Act, the Banking Regulation Act, the SBI Act, the Banking Companies Act, and the Banking Companies Act. The bill The bill seeks to bring about changes in the RBI Act of 1934, …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Tamil Nadu government sets up ₹50 crore fund to conserve endangered species, enhance conservation efforts

The Hindu

The State government has issued an order to establish the Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund with an initial corpus of ₹50 crore, aiming to protect the endangered and critically endangered species. These include surveying, assessing, and mapping threatened species across the State, enhancing conservation efforts both inside and outside protected areas, and building partnerships for the long-term protection of …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

WI vs BAN: Kraigg Brathwaite breaks Gary Sobers' 52-year-old historic Test record

India Today

Kraigg Brathwaite has broken Gary Sobers’ record for most consecutive Test matches for the West Indies. Desmond Haynes, Brian Charles Lara, Rohan Kanhai, Sir Viv Richards and Courtney Walsh also feature in the list. Former England captain Alastair Cook holds the overall record after he played 159 Tests from May 2006 to September 2018. Most successive Test matches for the …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Hyderabad hospital sells medicines to patient at exorbitant prices: DCA

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Telangana Drugs Control Administration conducted a raid on Hyderabad Multispeciality Hospital in Judges Colony, Malakpet and detected the sale of medicines to patients at exorbitant prices exceeding the prices indicated on the labels. Sales bills of drugs sold at higher prices were seized, and a case was registered against the hospital under the Essential Commodities Act- 1955, read …

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4 weeks ago

Landslide at Lothal Harappan site: One official dead, another critical

New Indian Express

AHMEDABAD: Two women official were caught in a landslide while collecting soil samples at the Maritime Museum site in Lothal, a key Harappan civilisation site in Gujarat. Four fire brigade vehicles and 15 personnel from Dholka and Ahmedabad were deployed for rescue operations at the site, where roadwork was also underway near the historic Harappan site. The landslide at Lothal …

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1 month ago

Huskers end Badgers’ mastery over them, qualify to play in 1st bowl since 2016 with a 44-25 victory

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Dylan Raiola threw for 293 yards and a touchdown, Dante Dowdell ran for three scores, and Nebraska beat Wisconsin 44-25 on Saturday to become eligible for a bowl for the first time since 2016. “This is on our defense today.” Nebraska’s Emmett Johnson went over …

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How a wrong phone call turned into NORAD’s global Santa tracker tradition every Christmas Eve

League Cup: Gabriel Jesus scores a hat trick as Arsenal reaches semifinals

Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle Advance to English League Cup Semis

Amit Shah's 'next 15 years' prediction for Mallikarjun Kharge: 'My resignation won't change...'

Bill Belichick gets enthusiastic reception at UNC basketball game having been unveiled as the new football coach

'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators

'The quackery': MSNBC analyst goes off on Trump ally for questioning polio vaccine

When Deceased Govt Employee Married Second Wife Without Divorcing First Wife, Only The Latter Will Get Family Pension: Rajasthan High Court

RFK Jr.’s lawyer petitions the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine

For divorces in India, the process is the punishment

NFL world reacts with excitement, surprise, questions after Bill Belichick is hired to coach UNC

The climate future: We're entering a world of falling GDP and overheated seas

Long Separation, Absence Of Cohabitation, Complete Breakdown Of Bonds Between Spouses Is Cruelty U/S 13(1)(ia) HMA: MP High Court

The best books of 2024, according to Slate’s book critic.

Supreme Court Cites CAA While Granting Relief To Person Who Migrated From East Pakistan In 1969

Amid the crash and bash of T20 cricket, bowlers have slowly reclaimed control in Tests and the game is better for it

Ethnic Slovak naïve paintings from Serbia join UNESCO’s list of cultural heritage

Mystery in Laurel Canyon: Questions cloud death of William de Rothschild

Banking Bill seeks to resolve issues about unclaimed deposits, nomination among 17 other changes

Tamil Nadu government sets up ₹50 crore fund to conserve endangered species, enhance conservation efforts

WI vs BAN: Kraigg Brathwaite breaks Gary Sobers' 52-year-old historic Test record

Hyderabad hospital sells medicines to patient at exorbitant prices: DCA

Landslide at Lothal Harappan site: One official dead, another critical

Huskers end Badgers’ mastery over them, qualify to play in 1st bowl since 2016 with a 44-25 victory