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PTI, visuals from the airport depict the challenging weather conditions affecting the schedule. “Due to bad weather and poor visibility in Kolkata (CCU), all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights may get affected," SpiceJet wrote on X.

Sanjay Singh announced U-15 and U-20 nationals to take place in Nandini Nagar, Gonda (UP) before the end of this year. The WFI elections were held on December 21 with former president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's loyalist, Sanjay Singh, and his panel winning the polls by big margins. Singh, the UP Wrestling Association vice-president hailing from Varanasi, secured 40 votes as against seven of his rival and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anita Sheoran.

India Today, the incident occurred on Saturday night when Mani collapsed at his home in Chennai's Pozhichalur. He was promptly taken to the government hospital in Chrompet, where, following a thorough examination, doctors pronounced him deceased.

Click here to read the full report Apple has begun ramping up production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headsets at the company's facilities in China in recent weeks, with the goal of having customer-bound units ready by the end of January, while the headset could be launched in February, Bloomberg's Mark Gurnman noted in a recent report, citing sources. However, the report noted that last-minute production problems and other issues could derail the planned launch schedule.

Soboroff, who bought the New York Yankees Hall of Famer's typewriter in 2011, found the little pieces underneath the keys while cleaning it. Soboroff also unearthed childhood photos of Ernest Hemingway in the writer's 1926 Underwood Standard Portable. But greatest discovery with these machines — and others, including typewriters belonging to Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, John Lennon and Shirley Temple — was a historical connection to great people. «These are really hard for me to give up,» Soboroff said on a video call last week. After 20 years of assembling what may be the greatest typewriter collection in the world, Soboroff is putting all 33 of his beloved machines up for auction.

Indian Navy warship INS Mormugao reached MV Chem Pluto, the India-bound merchant vessel, which was 'attacked' by an Iranian drone, on Saturday night and ascertained details of the attack, officials informed on Sunday. According to officials, the Indian Navy has opened an investigation into whether the drone used to attack the vessel was launched from long range or from a nearby vessel. «The vessels operating in the area where the attack took place are being checked,» an official told ANI.

cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate such activities, the bank said in its latest circular. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in February 2021 barred banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in crypto assets, citing money laundering and terrorism financing risks.

crude oil tanker in the Red Sea reported that it was hit by an attack drone fired by Houthi militants, sending out a distress call to a US warship in the area, the US military said Saturday. According to the US military, they received reports from two ships in the Southern Red Sea that they were under attack. The USS Laboon reported distress signals from a Norwegian-operated chemical/oil tanker and a Gabon-owned, Indian-flagged crude oil tanker. The US military says that the Norwegian tanker, Blaamanen, reported a near miss from a Houthi one-way attack drone with no injuries or damage reported, while the Indian tanker, Saibaba, reported a hit but no injuries.

COVID-19 test swabs for whole genome sequencing after the country witnessed an outbreak of JN.1 sub-variant of SARS-COV2. So far, India has reported 22 cases of Covid subvariant JN.1. The affected states, including Maharashtra, Goa, Puducherry, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, and Telangana, have amped up their preparedness against the new variant.

RERA across 27 states and eight Union Territories have resolved up to 1,16,300 cases of homebuyers' disputes till November 28, 2023, according to ANAROCK Research report based on data from the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Out of this, 38% of cases, or approximately 44,602 complaints were resolved in Uttar Pradesh alone, ANAROCK said. Haryana came a distant second with 18% of cases or approximately 20,539 cases resolved in the state. Thirteen per cent of cases or around 15,423 cases were resolved in Maharashtra. The three states cumulatively accounted for nearly 69% of the total disposed cases under RERA in the country. «Resolving homebuyer concerns is one of the main functions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, which it has been demonstrably fulfilling,» says Anuj Puri, Chairman — ANAROCK Group. “Uttar Pradesh has resolved the highest number of cases. Considering how severely Noida and Greater Noida in UP had been impacted by unscrupulous players, this is noteworthy.” RERA: State-wise list of total cases disposed

Stock market this week: Indian frontline indices S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 ended with half a percentage points cuts on weekly basis amid profit booking at higher levels. When markets resume trading on Tuesday in the holiday shortened week, a host of important domestic and global events lined-up during this week are likely to impact them. Major global markets will remain shut for trading on December 25, Monday on account of Christmas holiday. «Nifty gained for the second consecutive day after witnessing a sharp fall on Wednesday. The index closed with gains of 94 points at 21,349 levels. Majority of the sectors ended in green with buying seen in IT, realty, metals and pharma. The underlying tone of the market remains positive. However, as we enter into holiday mood starting this weekend, we expect the market to remain range bound with stock specific action next week,» Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Factors that are likely to impact movement when markets reopen this week: US Markets

The year started on a negative note as the equity bulls were nearly thrashed out by the bears. But the bulls picked themselves up from the ground and the run that they began in March was simply unstoppable. This tug-of-war between the bulls and the bears on Dalal Street was influenced by a zillion factors that unfolded during the course of the year. In this special year-ender 2023 section, ETMarkets has tried and wrapped all of those events. So, let’s do a recap of all of those movers and shakers on D-Street. January Just when investors were grappling with a high inflation and interest rate situation, US-based Hindenburg Research on January 25, threw a fireball on D-Street through a 106-page report filled with allegations against the Adani Group. The short seller accused the group of financial forgery, corporate misgovernance, stock price rigging, and highly leveraged balance sheets.

Ukrainian Defence Ministry has been apprehended on charges of embezzling USD 40 million (1.5 billion Ukrainian hryvnia) related to a contract for artillery shells, CNN reported the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). The SBU alleged that the official, in December of the previous year, entered into an agreement with a specialised export company for the procurement of a substantial batch of artillery shells. Subsequently, a more advantageous contract for the supply of these shells, excluding intermediaries, thereby reducing delivery time and costs, was later signed with the same manufacturer, CNN reported. According to the SBU, the defence official extended the original, costlier contract, resulting in the transfer of funds amounting to USD 40 million to the accounts of a connected foreign intermediary firm. The SBU claimed that it is in possession of documents substantiating these illicit activities, with the accused facing a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years if proven guilty. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has initiated efforts to recover the misappropriated funds.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has listed the most requested features from the ChatGPT maker in 2024. The list of requested features includes many notable mentions, including artificial general intelligence, GPT-5 language model, more personalisation, better GPTs and more. The suggestions were in response to a question posed by Altman on X (formerly Twitter), where he asked his followers what they would like OpenAI to build or fix in 2024.

Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, causing visibility issues. According to the Flight Information Display System at Delhi Airport, a combined total of 11 international flights and 5 domestic flights arriving at or departing from the airport experienced delays on Saturday, ANI reported.

Vladimir Putin has been quietly signaling that he is open to a ceasefire in Ukraine despite publicly refusing to back down from the ongoing conflict between the two nations, The New York Times reported. The United Nations reported that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed and over 18,500 injured since the war began between Russia and Ukraine. Former senior Russian officials close to the Kremlin and other American and international officials said Putin has been signaling since September that he is open to stopping the fight at the current boundary lines, as per NYT reports.

Covid news LIVE: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and the detection of a subvariant JN.1, India SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) chief Dr NK Arora said that no additional dose of vaccine is needed against the subvariant at present.“Every week you hear something new coming up in different parts and then it spreads all over India. We have identified a large number of subvariants, over 400 subvariants, or mutations of this virus, and fortunately, none of these Omicron variants have really been associated with more severe disease or hospitalisation," Dr NK Arora told ANI.The total number of active cases of Covid-19 in the country was recorded at 3,420.The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently designated JN.1 as a variant of interest, differentiating it from its parent lineage BA.2.86.

Google is planning to reorganise a large part of its 30,000-strong ad sales unit as a result of the company's recent advances in artificial intelligence, according to a report by The Information. Notably, Google laid off around 12,000 employees earlier this year, making it the biggest job cut in the company's history.

United States shot down four drones headed towards a U.S. destroyer in the southern Red Sea and launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections with wrestler Sakshi Malik announcing retirement and Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia returned his Padma Shri, Bharatiya Janata Party MP, Ramesh Bidhuri has said that the athletes should have the mentality of athletes, they should not become the tools of someone. «They have made the country proud, they're talented athletes. Athletes should have the mentality of athletes; they should not become the tools of someone.

Taiwan's defence ministry said on Sunday that over the previous 24 hours it had detected eight Chinese fighter jets crossing over the median line of the Taiwan Strait, as well as one Chinese balloon. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has repeatedly complained of Chinese military activity around the island over the past four years. China has been stepping up its missions near Taiwan as the Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections on the island approach. Taiwan's defence ministry said the Chinese J-10, J-11 and J-16 fighter jets had crossed the median line at points to the north and centre of the strait. The median line once served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, but Chinese planes now regularly fly over it. Taiwan sent its own forces to monitor, the ministry said. The ministry also reported another Chinese balloon in the strait, the latest in a spate of what Taiwan says are most likely for monitoring the weather, driven by prevailing winds at this time of year. It said the balloon was spotted after crossing the median line late on Saturday morning 97 nautical miles (180 km) northwest of the northern Taiwanese port city of Keelung at altitude of approximately 20,000 feet (6,100 metres). The balloon headed east and disappeared around one hour later, the ministry added. The potential for China to use balloons for spying became a global issue in February when the United States shot down what it said was a Chinese surveillance balloon.