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India on Saturday recorded 743 fresh Covid-19 infections, the highest single-day rise in 225 days, while the number of active cases stood at 3,997, the Union health ministry said. Seven new fatalities — three from Kerala, two from Karnataka and one each from Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu — were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am. The number of daily cases was in double digits till December 5 but it began to rise again amid cold weather conditions and after the emergence of a new Covid-19 variant. The daily numbers were…
India’s budget airline, IndiGo Airlines, on Saturday apologised to a woman who allegedly found a worm in her sandwich served to her on a Delhi-Mumbai bound flight. In a post shared on Instagram, the dietician Khushboo Gupta wrote, “I will lodge an official complaint via email soon. But as a Public Health professional, I want to know, despite knowing the quality of the sandwich was not good and informing the flight attendant prior, she still continued to serve sandwiches to other passengers. There were kids, elderly and other passengers …. What if anyone catches infection.” She added that she does…
Japan’s Naomi Osaka admitted Saturday she almost gave up tennis but had rekindled her love of the sport after becoming a mother earlier this year as she prepares for a return in Brisbane. Osaka, 26, stepped away from the game in September 2022, citing mental health concerns following her withdrawal from the second round of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. In her time away, she gave birth to daughter Shai, and did not watch any tennis until last year’s Wimbledon. Although excited to be back, she conceded that retiring permanently had crossed her mind. “I would say right after…
There are a lot of great Best Buy Black Friday deals going on right now, and whether you’re looking for TVs, laptops, or even headphones, there’s a little something for everybody. Of course, many folks may not realize that Best Buy has some fantastic deals on high-end photography gear, such as this Sony Alpha a7 III mirrorless camera. While it usually goes for a whopping $2,200, Best Buy had brought it down to $1,900, and while that relatively doesn’t seem like much, you could always spend the $300 savings on a new lens. Why you should buy the Sony Alpha…
The Ras Al Khaimah Police General Command announced a security exercise in the emirate today. Taking to X, the authority announced the exercise will be held between Al Jazeera Al Hamra and Al Marjan area on Saturday, December 30. The drill will be carried from 10am onwards. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. The authority has issued an advisory to residents requesting them to not take any photographs and make way for police units. The exercise may be accompanied be the movement of military units.
Aryna Sabalenka admitted Saturday she was feeling the pressure after a breakthrough 2023 saw her claim her a maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, but a new mindset was helping her deal with it. The 25-year-old Belarusian also finished runner-up at the US Open and made the semi-finals of Wimbledon and Roland Garros on her way to becoming world number one. Currently ranked second in the world behind Poland’s Iga Swiatek, Sabalenka is top seed at the season-opening Brisbane International, which begins on Sunday. She said she had been working hard during the off-season in a bid to…
From atomic bombs (Oppenheimer, Asteroid City) to atomic blondes (Barbie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), 2023 was a year when cinema looked ahead by going back to the past. With reliable franchises like Marvel, DC, Indiana Jones, and Transformers failing and streaming still a question mark, the movie landscape expanded, allowing for a Hayao Miyazaki film about death to be the number one movie in America and for a three-hour movie filmed partly in black and white about nuclear physics to become a summertime critical and commercial smash. It’s a weird time for movies, but it was also a great…
Russia fired one of its biggest missile barrages of the war at Ukraine on Friday, killing 31 civilians, wounding over 120 and hitting residential buildings in Kyiv, the south and west of the country and a maternity ward in the east, officials said. NATO member Poland said a Russian missile appeared to have flown into its airspace for some 40km before returning to Ukraine under three minutes later. There was no immediate comment from Moscow and NATO said it remained “vigilant”. The Ukrainian foreign ministry said the vast end-of-year air assault showed there should be “no talk of a truce”…
Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately. The object of the lawsuit was the ‘incognito’ mode on Google’s Chrome browser that the plaintiffs said gave users a false sense that what they were surfing online was not being tracked by the Silicon Valley tech firm. But internal Google emails brought forward in the lawsuit demonstrated that users using incognito mode were being followed by the search and advertising behemoth for measuring web traffic and selling…
It’s been a banner year for movies. Putting aside the uncertainty and turmoil caused by the year’s Hollywood labor strikes, 2023 has delivered more great movies than any other year in recent memory. The same goes for the year’s screen performances — of which there have been so many that putting together a list like this feels like a bit of a foolhardy endeavor. After all, how can one talk about this year’s big-screen performances without mentioning Charles Melton’s heartbreaking, fragile turn in May December, Cailee Spaeny’s time-bending, quietly expressive lead performance in Priscilla, or Rachel McAdams’ spellbinding supporting work…