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Some of the most important law changes taking effect on 1 January 2025
1 day, 18 hours ago

Some of the most important law changes taking effect on 1 January 2025

NL Times  

At the start of every year, the Dutch government implements law changes. As the government was in the process of changing hands for the first half of the year, the new Cabinet only took office in early July, there are not many big changes taking effect on January 1. The Netherlands is getting an extra income tax bracket next year. …

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College Football Playoff bracket: CFP committee picked SMU over Alabama—for good reason.
1 week, 6 days ago

College Football Playoff bracket: CFP committee picked SMU over Alabama—for good reason.

Slate  

SMU is in the College Football Playoff. The selection committee finally biffed out, making the outrageous decision to exclude undefeated Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State in favor of a one-loss Alabama team that had won the vaunted Southeastern Conference. Rather than selecting four teams, the committee was picking 12 for the first year of the college game’s expanded playoff. …

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Penn State earns 6-seed, most favorable path through College Football Playoff
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Penn State earns 6-seed, most favorable path through College Football Playoff

New York Times  

Penn State’s path through the College Football Playoff is set. While Penn State didn’t get the fifth seed, which went to Texas, it was still rewarded for an 11-1 regular season and ended up with a more favorable path than the Longhorns. The biggest lesson Penn State should take from the Big Ten Championship Game loss and carry into the …

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College Football Playoff bracket revealed: Oregon No. 1 overall, SMU gets in over Alabama
2 weeks, 1 day ago

College Football Playoff bracket revealed: Oregon No. 1 overall, SMU gets in over Alabama

New York Times  

Follow live updates and reaction to the 12-team College Football Playoff field. The first 12-team College Football Playoff will include SMU but not Alabama. The Crimson Tide were the first team out of the field when the selection committee released its final ranking Sunday, setting the bracket for the first expansive, pro-style playoff in the history of major college football: …

Georgia Teams Alabama Oregon State Sec Field
SEC losses are big gains for SMU and Indiana in latest College Football Playoff rankings
3 weeks, 5 days ago

SEC losses are big gains for SMU and Indiana in latest College Football Playoff rankings

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. “They dropped five but we still felt their body of work was strong enough …

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Dutch government's tax plans will allow higher incomes to deduct more mortgage interest
4 weeks ago

Dutch government's tax plans will allow higher incomes to deduct more mortgage interest

NL Times  

Homeowners earning a middle income or higher will be able to deduct more mortgage interest from their taxes next year, while the deduction for lower-income homeowners will become smaller, NOS reports based on the 2025 tax plan. Next year, this will be half a percentage point higher for homeowners earning higher incomes, while those earning lower incomes will be able …

Dutch Tax Income Mortgage Higher Earning Bracket
Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Playoff bracket, bubble and Big 12 race have new main characters
1 month ago

Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Playoff bracket, bubble and Big 12 race have new main characters

New York Times  

And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Week 12, where no one won bigger than Indiana’s Curt Cignetti. In Saturday’s 49-24 win over Utah, the two-way star did something no NFL or FBS player had achieved in almost exactly 24 years: post 50 receiving yards, score a rushing touchdown and intercept a pass. Shane Beamer’s team is known for …

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IPL auctions: 366 Indians, including 13-year-old Vaibhav among 574 players listed
1 month, 1 week ago

IPL auctions: 366 Indians, including 13-year-old Vaibhav among 574 players listed

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Arshdeep Singh will headline a 574-strong list of players with top base price of Rs 2 crore at the upcoming Indian Premier League auction scheduled in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on November 24 and 25. Thirteen-year-old India U-19 cricketer Vaibhav Suryavanshi from Bihar is the youngest among the lot at Rs 30 …

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IPL 2025 mega auction: Full list of players included in top bracket of Rs 2 crore
Top News
1 month, 1 week ago

IPL 2025 mega auction: Full list of players included in top bracket of Rs 2 crore

Firstpost  

A total of 81 players have also been included on the top bracket of Rs 2 crore, some of whom are expected to fetch to the highest bids in the IPL 2025 mega auction that will take place in Jeddah on 24 and 25 November. Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Jos Buttler have been included not just in the top …

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Oregon tops Week 2 College Football Playoff rankings and Georgia drops out of the bracket
1 month, 1 week ago

Oregon tops Week 2 College Football Playoff rankings and Georgia drops out of the bracket

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Undefeated Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while Tuesday’s poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi. Those byes go to the four highest-ranked conference champions, meaning Miami of the Atlantic Coast Conference …

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Big Ten dominates latest College Football Playoff rankings
1 month, 1 week ago

Big Ten dominates latest College Football Playoff rankings

CNN  

CNN — The Big Ten dominated the latest edition of the College Football Playoff rankings, with the conference claiming four of the top five slots in the new standings revealed Tuesday night. There is still much to be decided in the final weeks of the regular season, however, and when all the dust settles only the Big Ten champion will …

Georgia Sec Big Ten Conference Big Indiana Ole Miss
No let-up: Air quality continues to be in ‘poor’ bracket in Punjab, Haryana
1 month, 1 week ago

No let-up: Air quality continues to be in ‘poor’ bracket in Punjab, Haryana

Hindustan Times  

The air quality in several parts of Punjab and Haryana was recorded in the ‘poor’ category on Saturday, while it was the worst in the joint capital Chandigarh with an AQI of 322 which falls in the ‘very poor’ band. Commuters struggle to make their way amid smog in Amritsar on Saturday This comes a day after Punjab reported 730 …

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Top Seeds Hold Their Ground as AP Top 25 Rankings Approach
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Top Seeds Hold Their Ground as AP Top 25 Rankings Approach

Associated Press  

Oregon, Georgia, Miami and BYU remain the top seeds in the AP Top 25 college football poll. Indiana's appearance in the top 10 is a significant milestone for the Big Ten and SEC, with four teams each from the conference making the field. Alabama returns to the bracket as the No. 11 seed, while Notre Dame and SMU advance to …

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Strength of Schedule: A Key Factor in the 12-Team Playoff Brackets
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Strength of Schedule: A Key Factor in the 12-Team Playoff Brackets

Associated Press  

The 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee will consider strength of schedule as a factor in determining the bracket. Strength of schedule is a measure of how difficult it is for a team to schedule games against other teams. This factor is not included in the traditional AP Top 25 poll, but it could play a significant role in determining …

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Fat Bear Week 2024 takes grisly turn as fatal fight is caught on camera
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Fat Bear Week 2024 takes grisly turn as fatal fight is caught on camera

The Independent  

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CFP Bracket Watch: Alabama and Iowa State join Ohio State and Miami as top four seeds
2 months, 3 weeks ago

CFP Bracket Watch: Alabama and Iowa State join Ohio State and Miami as top four seeds

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Alabama and Iowa State are now top-four seeds in The Associated Press’ College Football Playoff bracket projection, with Texas getting a first-round home game rather than a bye and Utah losing its bye and knocked off the bracket. 3 seed out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, …

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CFP Bracket Watch: More Southeastern Conference teams in 12-team field after Week 2
3 months, 2 weeks ago

CFP Bracket Watch: More Southeastern Conference teams in 12-team field after Week 2

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Haters of the Southeastern Conference got a glimpse of a nightmare College Football Playoff scenario two weeks into the season. Using the AP Top 25 to set a projected 12-team bracket, half of the field would be SEC teams, including two-thirds of the top nine seeds. …

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Who will make an expanded College Football Playoff? A potential bracket, using the Top 25 as a guide
4 months, 1 week ago

Who will make an expanded College Football Playoff? A potential bracket, using the Top 25 as a guide

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Unpredictability lingered into 2022, when five teams that would have gone on to make a 12-team playoff started the season unranked by AP, including national runner-up TCU. — Overall, 29 teams from 2014-23 that started the season unranked by AP would have made a 12-team …

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Calculation: Will you pay more income tax or less after Budget 2024 changes?
5 months ago

Calculation: Will you pay more income tax or less after Budget 2024 changes?

Firstpost  

The government has introduced a simplified tax regime for the fiscal year 2024-25, aimed at streamlining the tax structure to make it more taxpayer friendly. As we move to higher income levels, for the range of Rs 1,500,000 to Rs 5,000,000, the tax rate is set at 30 per cent with an effective tax rate of 31.20 per cent. For …

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French Open: Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are among the men to watch in 2024
7 months ago

French Open: Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are among the men to watch in 2024

Associated Press  

PARIS — Here are some of the men to watch at the French Open, which starts at Roland Garros on Sunday: Novak Djokovic Seeding: 1 Career-Best Ranking: 1 Country: Serbia Age: 37 2024 Record: 12-5 2024 Titles: Zero Career Titles: 98 Grand Slam Titles: 24 — French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open Last 5 French Opens: 2023-Won Championship, 2022-Lost …

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NC State, Baylor headline the field for the 2025 Maui Invitational as it returns to Lahaina
7 months, 1 week ago

NC State, Baylor headline the field for the 2025 Maui Invitational as it returns to Lahaina

Associated Press  

LAHAINA, Hawaii — North Carolina State, Baylor and Texas will be among the eight teams in the field for the 2025 Maui Invitational. The tournament returns to the Lahaina Civic Center this November after being played in Honolulu last year following a series of fires that killed 101 people and decimated the historic town of Lahaina. N.C. State is coming …

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PU retains spot in 201-250 bracket in Times Higher Education Asia rankings
7 months, 3 weeks ago

PU retains spot in 201-250 bracket in Times Higher Education Asia rankings

Hindustan Times  

Panjab University has retained its spot between the 201-250 bracket in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings released on Wednesday. In the country, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore secured the 32nd rank, Anna University Chennai secured the 119th and Mahatma Gandhi University Kerala secured the 134th rank. In the latest rankings, in the region, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and …

University Indian Institute Rank Secured
NCAA men's tournament bracket reaches the Sweet 16 milestone
8 months, 4 weeks ago

NCAA men's tournament bracket reaches the Sweet 16 milestone

NPR  

NCAA men's tournament bracket reaches the Sweet 16 milestone March Madness basketball play reaches the Sweet 16 on the men's side — the women's will be solidified by the end of the day. The TVs at work switch to sports - the NCAA basketball tournament, men's and women's. We only have one double-digit seed making it all the way to …

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Marquette busts NFL star Bijan Robinson’s perfect NCAA tournament bracket
9 months ago

Marquette busts NFL star Bijan Robinson’s perfect NCAA tournament bracket

LA Times  

Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson runs off the field after an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts on Dec. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson had a perfect NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket after the first full day of action. 6 Texas Tech in the South Regional, the NCAA March Madness X account tweeted …

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