WASHINGTON — The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House fell down during high winds but later was hoisted back upright, and its lighting ceremony will go ahead as scheduled. The tree, a 40-foot-tall Norway spruce from West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest, had been planted just two weeks ago on the White House Ellipse, an area known as …
Prices of existing owner-occupied homes fell again in December compared to the previous month. Home prices dropped 2.3 percent compared to November - the strongest decrease in ten years, Statistics Netherlands and the Land Registry reported. Over the whole of 2022, home prices were still 13.6 percent higher on average than a year earlier. Compared to the low point in …
It was reported earlier this week that the ancestral house of former Tripura chief minister and BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Biplab Deb was “attacked by CPI activists”. However, the police categorically said it was a political clash between BJP and CPI workers after the latter put up Left party flags near Deb’s ancestral house. Since the CPI workers involved included …
