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New Year's Eve is here and it's time to rejoice on December 31. The evening before the new dawn is a special one and there are several events which mark the occasion. The highly anticipated yearly New Year's Eve special, «Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest» on ABC, is set to return with a global flair. This time, the K-pop girl group NewJeans will take the stage to perform their chart-topping song «Super Shy» live in South Korea.

When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the US national anthem at NFL games to protest against racial injustice in 2016, little did he know the butterfly effect his deed would have as it sparked debates and polarised a country. But his gesture has since been embraced by top leagues around the world, none more so than England’s Premier League. A spillover from the Black Lives Matter movement that began over three years ago, the league’s players continue to fight discrimination by taking a knee before some games this season. “We are unified in our belief that any form of discrimination has no place within football or wider society,” the 20 Premier League captains said earlier this year. The continued protests are, to a large extent, to do with rampant online abuse which rears its ugly head every week, with social media platforms seemingly unable to stem the flow of unbridled rage and racial abuse that lands in players’ inboxes.

Birthdays are when we take stock, replenish, and make a tentative plan to move forward. I say tentative because the future, we know, is always uncertain. We inhabit the same planet, and yet each country is mired in its own gook, whether it's the news cycle, the arts, festivals, religion, politics, or sport.

Mizoram's after their camps in the neighbouring country were overrun by an armed ethnic group. Around 151 Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) personnel entered on late Friday in Mizoram-Myanmar border Tuisentlang village in southernmost Mizoram's Lawngtlai district. They fled their camps in Chin state of Myanmar adjoining Mizoram after the Arakan Army (AA) militants overran and captured the military camp.

Naga groups came together on Saturday and decided to pursue negotiations for a solution to the decades-old Naga Political Issue with the Centre jointly. The decision was taken during a meeting attended by leaders of the three groups — National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) led by Akato Chophy, NSCN led by Khango and Naga National Council (NNC) led by Z Royim. All three are splinter groups.

COVID-19 were recorded in the Greater Mumbai Area on Saturday, the health department said. This brings the total number of positive patients to 208, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Public Health Department. Of the new cases, three were hospitalised today (Saturday), increasing the total number of hospitalised patients to 22. Currently, 14 out of 4,215 available beds are occupied, the Public Health Department said.

organisations have so far confirmed to be partners for the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) 2024, the state government said on Saturday. The 10th edition of VGGS, based on the 'Gateway to the Future' theme, will be organised in Gandhinagar from January 10 to 12.

affected flights, Air India's AI 850 from Pune to Jaipur, originally scheduled to depart at 20:55, faced a delay with a new estimated time of departure (ETA) at 22:38. Similarly, flight 9I 696, operating from Ahmedabad to Udaipur, was delayed from its initial departure time of 15:55, now expected to take off at 21:05. Flights to and from Goa's airport were also affected, with SpiceJet's SG8212 experiencing delays.

₹15,000 in Ayodhya. During his visit to the holy city, PM Modi also stopped at the residence of Meera Manjhi, a Ujjwala Yojana beneficiary. While revealing the details around PM Modi's visit Meera Manjhi revealed how the Prime Minister asked her for tea, but found it too sweet.

Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday accused the administration here of hiding something as she wasn't allowed to meet families of three civilians killed allegedly in army custody in Topa Pir village of Surankote in Poonch district of Pir Panchal region of Jammu. Mufti had reached Bafliaz region of Poonch in Jammu on Saturday along with few of her party members. However, the local police stopped her a few kms ahead of Topa Pir village and didn’t allow her contingent to move further. They put a concertina wire on the road and female police personnel tried to remove Mufti from the road, where she protested against the administration decision. “These people don't want us to meet the families and balm their wounds…it seems they want to hide something which has happened there.

New Year! Although it signals the ending of another year, this is also the time to bid goodbye to it, with a bang! New Year’s Eve often brings forth party lovers from all corners of the country. While some aim to dance the night away, others are content to drown themselves in an array of drinks. No matter, what your ideal of a ‘jolly good time’ maybe, this is the time to let yourself go, your last chance to not look back at 2023 with a tinge of regret! However, it won’t pay to compromise your safety. As a certain Jeon Jungkook had once said: “Safety, first, safety second, coolness third!” Wondering how to party the night away, while keeping yourself safe? Here’s a no-nonsense guide:

Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon’s South Pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat. Here's a look at other top 10 breakthrough moments in scientific discoveries and inventions: 1. Can humans reproduce in space? In a first, researchers successfully grew mouse embryos aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said while people are eager to come to Ayodhya on January 22 for the Ram temple consecration ceremony, it is not possible for everyone to reach the holy city on the day and they should visit later on according to their convenience. Addressing a public rally here after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of development projects worth more than Rs 15,700 crore, Modi said only those who have been invited should come for the event on the day. «It is my 'karbaddh prarthana' (prayer with folded hands) because everyone wishes that they (people) themselves come to Ayodhya to witness the event on January 22.

Vinesh Phogat left her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards on a pavement at Kartavya Path in New Delhi. Earlier this week, the wrestler though a social media post had said that she has decided to return her Khel Ratna and Arjuna award saying that such honours have become meaningless in the current situation where the grapplers are struggling badly for justice.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Here's a comprehensive guide to help plan your errands and deliveries as 2023 transitions into 2024.

Vivo India Hong Xuquan alias Terry, a Chinese national, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Harinder Dahiya and consultant Hemant Munjal were earlier arrested by Enforcement Directorate under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The executives were arrested in connection with its money laundering probe against the Chinese smartphone maker and some others. The federal agency had earlier made four arrests in the case which included mobile company Lava International's MD Hari Om Rai, Chinese national Guangwen alias Andrew Kuang and chartered accountants Nitin Garg and Rajan Malik.

India arm of British multinational group Compass Group PLC which manages large office complexes and food services for corporates, is looking to make India among the top five markets for the company, Vikas Chawla, MD of Compass Group India told ET. The company is looking to expand its facility management business from 2 million sq ft to 10 million sq ft as employees are returning back to offices and corporates continue to lease big space. “In India, the share of facility management business is much higher than globally and we will continue to expand both the verticals.

Lorraine ‘Lo’ StomskiSVP, Walmart Associate Learning & Leadership Furner met Stomski at company events after she joined Walmart in 2016 from a human-resources consulting firm. She suggested an “interesting, smart blend of using science and performance data," to make personnel decisions, he said. When Furner became CEO of Sam’s Club, he frequently turned to Stomski for data-driven advice on filling out what he thinks of as his “team roster." At a company with 2.2 million employees, “you can miss a lot," said Furner.

Ayodhya before that also. Yes, I have not received any invitation and I don't need one. I just have one request that this event should not be made a political one," Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's presence in the temple town of Ayodhya was a reason for locals to celebrate, with the launch of projects worth Rs 15,000 crore causing much fanfare. One of the many people in the crowds was a former litigant in the Ayodhya land dispute case, Iqbal Ansari.

Kashmiri Pandits who got displaced from the Valley with the advent of separatist militancy, possibly because they were not «such a big electorate» as to invite «political intervention», former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul has said. Justice Kaul, who was part of the bench which upheld the abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and recommended setting up an «impartial truth and reconciliation commission» to probe and report on human rights violations by both state and non-state actors since the 1980s, said people of different communities lived in unity before insurgency shattered the peace and he was at a loss to comprehend how the situation «slowly degenerated». A Kashmiri Pandit himself, Kaul feels, it is time now for the people to move forward, after more than 30 years of unbridled violence. In an interview with PTI on Friday, Justice Kaul spoke about the unanimous verdict of the five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud which upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution that bestowed special status on Jammu and Kashmir. «It was a unanimous verdict which means all of us must have thought that this is the correct path to follow. Of course, every judgement, especially every important judgement, will generate debates.