News Muncher - searching for averted

4 days, 11 hours ago

CRPF recovered 20 kg explosives in Bijapur before deadly Naxal attack: Report

The CRPF on Monday recovered and defused an IED weighing about 20-22 kg in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur around seven hours before Naxals blew up a security vehicle in the district 50 km away with thrice the quantity of explosives, killing eight police personnel and a civilian driver, officials said. The improvised explosive device kept inside a blue plastic drum was detected …

Naxal District Crpf Ied Bijapur

5 days, 5 hours ago

Chandigarh: Old Mehfil Hotel building collapses in Sector 17

Hindustan Times

A major tragedy was averted when the old Mehfil Hotel building in Sector 17 collapsed early on Monday morning. A week ago, cracks were detected in three load-bearing pillars of the building during the ongoing repair work. “All roads leading to the building had been barricaded to ensure public safety a week ago,” said UT senior superintendent of police Kanwardeep …

Building Chandigarh Sector 17 Mehfil Hotel

5 days, 11 hours ago

Video: Woman, daughter fall from safari in front of rhinos in Kaziranga

India Today

A major accident was averted on Monday in Kaziranga National Park when a mother and daughter fell from a moving vehicle during a safari, landing dangerously close to two aggressive rhinos. The event took place near the Donga, Raumari, and Bholukajan areas of the park when the daughter suddenly fell from the speeding jeep. However, the mother and daughter dodged …

Kaziranga Safari

VIDEO: Disaster Averted At Los Angeles Airport As Jet Has Near Miss With Another Aircraft On Runway

ABP News

A crisis was averted on Friday after a private jet nearly crossed a runway as another flight was taking off at the Los Angeles airport. The video of the incident has been widely shared on social media where air traffic controllers are heard stopping the plane operated by Key Lime Air as Delta aircraft took off. “Air traffic controllers directed …

Los Angeles Flight Delta Runway Key Lime Air Lime Air Jet Near

Stop, Stop, Stop: US university team's flight narrowly avoids runway collision

India Today

A private jet carrying the Washington's Gonzaga University men's basketball team narrowly averted a collision at Los Angeles International Airport. The incident happened when the team's jet nearly crossed a runway as another aircraft was taking off, prompting the air traffic controller to issue an urgent order to halt the plane immediately. "Air traffic controllers directed Key Lime Air Flight …

Air Team Incident Los Angeles Flight Stop Faa

1 week, 6 days ago

Janet Yellen warns Congress ‘extraordinary measures’ will be needed to stop US hitting debt limit

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to …

Congress Trump Debt Treasury Republican House Inside Washington

Janet Yellen tells Congress US could hit debt limit in mid-January

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon. “Treasury expects to hit the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and January 23,” Yellen wrote …

Congress Trump Treasury House Jan Yellen Extraordinary Measures

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Possible terror act averted, 2 suspects held: Assam Police

Hindustan Times

The Assam Police on Wednesday said they averted a possible terrorist act by arresting two terror suspects and recovering a large cache of arms and ammunition at Namapara in Korajhar late on Tuesday night as part of a crackdown under Operation Praghat against fundamentalists. Special director-general of police Harmeet Singh said Assam Police’s Special Task Force made the arrests and …

Bangladesh Sheikh Singh Terror

2 weeks, 4 days ago

TSX extends rebound as investors eye ’Santa Claus rally’

Live Mint

* TSX ends up 0.6% at 24,748.98 * Energy sector advances 2% * Materials group adds 0.7% * Eight of 10 major sectors end higher By Fergal Smith Dec 23 - Canada's main stock index rose on Monday, led by gains for resource shares as the seasonal optimism of investors offset an uncertain outlook for the Canadian economy and domestic …

Canada Canadian Tsx Sector Rose

Wall Street today: US stocks mixed as funding bill averts partial shutdown, Nvidia gains 1.6%, Qualcomm climbs 2.8%

Live Mint

US stocks were mixed on Monday, as a stopgap government funding bill averted a partial shutdown. At 11:07 a.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 247.19 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 42,593.07 and the S&P 500 lost 5.47 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 5,925.38. At 09:45 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 132.48 points, or 0.32 …

Cent Points

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Not 10K, Just These Many Steps A Day Can Reduce Risk Of Depression: International Study Reports

ABP News

Forget the mandatory 10,000 steps that many fitness enthusiasts insist you must clock to stay fit. Any additional steps you take each day could help reduce depression symptoms, according to a new study published last week in JAMA Network Open, a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The data suggested that the number of steps linked to reduced depression symptoms is fewer than …

Health Research Cnn Study Reduce Steps Depression Symptoms

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Vehicle in Pawar’s Convoy Collides with Ambulance in Beed, Nobody Hurt

Deccan Chronicle

Mumbai: A major accident was averted after a vehicle in Sharad Pawar’s convoy collided with an ambulance that led to a chain collision in Beed district on Sunday. According to reports, an ambulance ahead of the vehicle, which was part of Mr. Pawar’s convoy, applied a sudden break resulting in a pile-up of four vehicles colliding into each other. The …

Pawar Beed Deshmukh Parbhani Convoy Collides

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Politics chat: Government shutdown averted as Biden signs stopgap funding bill

NPR

Politics chat: Government shutdown averted as Biden signs stopgap funding bill AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: The federal government is not shutting down, at least not this time. Yesterday, President Joe Biden signed a stopgap funding bill that essentially kicks the can down the road to mid-March, well into the first months of the next Congress and second Trump administration. And that …

Congress Trump Debt Democrats Elon Musk House Biden

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Sri Lanka declares end of debt default, says economic crisis was ‘man made’

Live Mint

Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry said on Saturday the island nation has officially ended its debt default. In a statement, Mahinda Siriwardana, a top bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry said: “December 20 marked a major milestone in our economic recovery process as Sri Lanka officially exited sovereign default.” The island nation had plunged into an economic crisis when it declared sovereign …

Sri Lanka Lanka Sri Default Siriwardana

3 weeks ago

US Senate passes urgent funding bill to avert govt shutdown, saves Christmas for 800,000 workers

Live Mint

The US Congress averted a government shutdown early Saturday after weeks of negotiations that went down to the wire, as the Senate rubber-stamped a bill passed earlier by the House to fund federal agencies through mid-March. Earlier the US House of Representatives voted late Friday to avert a potential government shutdown, securing a vital funding package that would keep federal …

Funding Republican Elon Musk House Democrat Bill Funding Bill

3 weeks ago

Week in politics: The threat of a government shutdown dominated political news this week.

NPR

Week in politics: The threat of a government shutdown dominated political news this week. NPR's national political correspondent Sarah McCammon joins us now. Musk called the initial spending bill gigantic and horrible and said nothing should be passed until Trump takes office. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee for director …

Congress Trump Musk House Johnson Republicans Bill

3 weeks ago

How Congress averted a government shutdown with a stopgap funding vote

NPR

How Congress averted a government shutdown with a stopgap funding vote SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For more on last night's vote to avoid a government shutdown, we're joined by Congressman Dusty Johnson. It's 435 people with pretty strongly held opinions and world views that don't change on the whim just because one person makes an argument or another person posts something. …

Congress Trump Republican South Dakota House Johnson Mike Johnson

3 weeks ago

Playbook: Shutdown? Averted. Crisis? Delayed.

Politico

Presented by With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine DRIVING THE DAY Last night, the House and Senate passed a spending patch that funds the government at its current levels until March. So we’ll readdress it.” — A fight against so-called “revenge porn.” The proposal would have forced social media companies “to remove so-called revenge porn and …

China Canada Congress Trump Social Security White House Trudeau

3 weeks ago

US government shutdown averted as Congress clears funding bill; now awaits Biden's approval

India TV News

As the Trump administration is set to replace Biden's presidency in the United States, the Senate rushed through the final passage of a bipartisan plan, which is aimed at temporarily funding federal operations and disaster aid. House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would “meet our obligations” and not allow federal operations to shutter ahead of the Christmas holiday season. …

Trump Debt Senate Republican House Biden Gop

3 weeks ago

Stampede-like situation at religious discourse in Meerut

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW A stampede-like situation prevailed during a religious discourse, ‘Shivpuran Katha’, by Pandit Pradeep Mishra in Meerut on Friday when some people fell over each other amid crowd surge in the pandal, but police alertness and elaborate arrangements averted any untoward incident, said officials. A stampede-like situation occurred during a religious discourse, at Shatabdi Nagar in Meerut, Friday. Another police …

Meerut Stampede Religious Discourse

3 weeks ago

Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump’s debt limit demands

Associated Press

▶ Follow live updates on federal funding negotiations as a government shutdown looms. WASHINGTON — Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. But the day’s outcome was …

Congress Trump Debt Musk Democrats Senate House

3 weeks ago

What Switzerland should have done to save Credit Suisse

Live Mint

Switzerland might have averted the collapse of Credit Suisse, its second largest bank, if the country’s financial regulator took a harder line overseeing it and enforcing capital rules, a parliamentary report found Friday. UBS said Friday it didn’t receive regulatory concessions like Credit Suisse did, and now holds additional capital since the merger. The parliamentary report traced Credit Suisse’s problems …

Credit Report Banks Switzerland Ubs Credit Suisse Suisse

3 weeks, 1 day ago

'No-go': House Republican doubles down on defying GOP's 'reckless' spending bill deal

Raw Story

A defiant Rep. Chip Roy doubled down on his opposition to the GOP's revised spending bill, which was shot down during a Thursday evening House vote. Responding to Trump's attack that Roy is "ambitious," Roy retorted, "I'm ambitious to make sure that we actually cut spending." "I'm ambitious to do what we said we would do, and I'm in support …

Spending House Vote Roy Gop Bill

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Protests in Bengaluru demand 'unconditional apology' from Shah over Ambedkar remarks

New Indian Express

BENGALURU: Members of Dalit Vidyarthi Parishat, Bangalore University Research Scholars’ Association, Ambedkar Students’ Association of GKVK, All India Students’ Association and others protested against Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his alleged remarks against Dr BR Ambedkar. Shah’s words trivialise the historical and ongoing struggles of Dalits, adivasis, and other marginalised communities who see Ambedkar as a beacon of hope …

Protest Shah

Filters

Search results for averted

CRPF recovered 20 kg explosives in Bijapur before deadly Naxal attack: Report

Chandigarh: Old Mehfil Hotel building collapses in Sector 17

Video: Woman, daughter fall from safari in front of rhinos in Kaziranga

VIDEO: Disaster Averted At Los Angeles Airport As Jet Has Near Miss With Another Aircraft On Runway

Stop, Stop, Stop: US university team's flight narrowly avoids runway collision

Janet Yellen warns Congress ‘extraordinary measures’ will be needed to stop US hitting debt limit

Janet Yellen tells Congress US could hit debt limit in mid-January

Possible terror act averted, 2 suspects held: Assam Police

TSX extends rebound as investors eye ’Santa Claus rally’

Wall Street today: US stocks mixed as funding bill averts partial shutdown, Nvidia gains 1.6%, Qualcomm climbs 2.8%

Not 10K, Just These Many Steps A Day Can Reduce Risk Of Depression: International Study Reports

Vehicle in Pawar’s Convoy Collides with Ambulance in Beed, Nobody Hurt

Politics chat: Government shutdown averted as Biden signs stopgap funding bill

Sri Lanka declares end of debt default, says economic crisis was ‘man made’

US Senate passes urgent funding bill to avert govt shutdown, saves Christmas for 800,000 workers

Week in politics: The threat of a government shutdown dominated political news this week.

How Congress averted a government shutdown with a stopgap funding vote

Playbook: Shutdown? Averted. Crisis? Delayed.

US government shutdown averted as Congress clears funding bill; now awaits Biden's approval

Stampede-like situation at religious discourse in Meerut

Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump’s debt limit demands

What Switzerland should have done to save Credit Suisse

'No-go': House Republican doubles down on defying GOP's 'reckless' spending bill deal

Protests in Bengaluru demand 'unconditional apology' from Shah over Ambedkar remarks