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Breaking News
Treasury Department and IRS provide safe harbor for small businesses to claim deductions relating to first-round Paycheck Protection Program loans
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, on April 22, issued Revenue Procedure 2021-20 for certain businesses that received first-round Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans but did not deduct any of the […]
Coronavirus
US warns against travel to 80% nations amid surge in Covid cases
“If you must travel to India, get fully vaccinated before travel”: CDC WASHINGTON (TIP): The US has advised its citizens to reconsider travelling to 80 per cent of the world. It has also warned them […]
Breaking News
U.S. House passes bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state
By a vote of 216-208, the Democratic-controlled House approved the initiative with no Republican support. WASHINGTON (TIP): The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, April 22, narrowly voted, for the second time in less than […]
United States
US jobless claims fall to 5,47,000, another pandemic low
About 17.4 million people were continuing to collect unemployment benefits in the week that ended April 3 WASHINGTON (TIP): The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell last week to 5,47,000, a new low […]
Editorial Comment
Earth Day 2021 Is Set to Galvanize Climate Action
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April, will again see more than 1 billion people participating in activities around the world to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis and […]
Comments
The Floyd verdict
Mindsets must change to rein in police brutality, racism Nine minutes and 29 seconds — that’s how long Derek Chauvin, a White police officer, kept African-American George Floyd pinned under his knee on a pavement […]
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Exiting Afghanistan: On U.S. troop pullout
By announcing that all U.S. troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan by September 11, President Joe Biden has effectively upheld the spirit of the Trump-Taliban deal, rather than defying it. In the agreement between […]
Dance
WIPA CELEBRATES GALA: “MESSENGERS OF HOPE”
By Mabel Pais HONOREES: JOHN C. DEBNEY, ROBERT MORRISON & ARTS ED NJ ANNUAL GALA APRIL 22, 2021 @ 7 PM EDT, FREE REPLAY AVAILABLE ON WHARTONARTS.TV The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts (WIPA) […]
Dance
ReelAbilities Film Fest: New York
By Mabel Pais Celebrating Stories of People with Disabilities Highlighting Themes of Inclusion, Accessibility, Authentic Casting and Responsible Representation at JCC Manhattan Virtual Cinema April 29 – May 5 The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s (MMJCCM) […]
Coronavirus
Dialysis patients are at high risk to contract Corona-19 virus
30-40 percent already got afflicted in India: Nephrology Expert Can Covid-19be kind enough to my Kidneys!! Any patient having diabetes or Kidney illness can be apprehensiveof virus attack specially during ongoing second wave of pandemic […]
Incredible India
Mizoram: The land of Blue Mountains
Tucked away in the thickets of green on the southern tip of Northeast India, Mizoram, the “Land of Blue Mountains”, is a nature lover’s paradise. Sandwiched between Bangladesh and Myanmar, this fifth smallest state in […]
Festival
Ram Navami: Celebrating the birth of Lord Rama
Ram Navami is one the most celebrated Hindu festival that is observed on the ninth day of the Shukla Paksha in the month of Chaitra (Hindu calendar). As per the Gregorian calendar, the day usually […]
Business & Economics
Asian stock markets advance after new Wall Street high
Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday after US inflation ticked up and Japanese machinery orders fell. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney rose. Tokyo was off less than 0.5%. Wall Street’s benchmark […]
Business & Economics
Bitcoin touches $64,000 high as traders eye coinbase listing
Bitcoin advanced Wednesday, breaching the $64,000 level for the first time after eclipsing its most recent record in March a day earlier as the mood in cryptocurrencies turned bullish ahead of Coinbase Global Inc.’s listing […]
Business & Economics
At Rs 20.16 lakh cr, FY21 tax collection tops revised estimate
With all major tax heads yielding revenues significantly higher than the respective revised estimates (RE) shown in the Budget, the Centre has appropriated an additional Rs 78,000 crore as net (post-devolution) tax revenue in FY21. […]
Business & Economics
Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises $1.16 billion in equity financing
Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised about $1.16 billion in equity financing over the last two months, the private rocket company said in an amended regulatory filing on Wednesday, April 14. The filing comes after […]
Business & Economics
Oil holds near 1-month high as demand forecasts raised
Oil prices were lower on Thursday , April 15, though holding near one-month highs after futures jumped in the previous as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and others upgraded forecasts for oil demand as major […]
Science & Technology
Facebook testing video speed dating app ‘Sparked’
After Facebook Dating, the social networking platform is now testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked that will first allow 4-minute dates to help users find if they are compatible to each other. Once you […]
Science & Technology
Physicists use rapidly spinning black holes to look for dark matter
Clouds of ultralight bosons — such as axions — can form around a rapidly spinning black hole, if the black hole radius is comparable to the bosons’ wavelength. The cloud rapidly extracts angular momentum from […]
Science & Technology
Google Assistant will now find your iPhone, help order takeout
Google on Wednesday launched some new skills for Google Assistant, the AI-powered assistant found across devices. It’s also encouraging Google Assistant users to set up “routines,” which perform multiple actions with a single command. The […]
Science & Technology
Scientists discover new method to lengthen lifespan of electronic devices
A research by scientists at the University of Sydney claim to have developed a technology that would lengthen the lifespan of electronic devices. This marks a significant step in the field of materials science, for […]
Science & Technology
Instagram launches test where users can choose to hide likes
Instagram is launching a small global test on Wednesday where users can choose whether to hide like counts on their own posts or other people’s posts, a Facebook spokeswoman said. The photo-sharing site, which is […]
Food Corner
Home remedies that will cover your greys
Hair turns grey when melanin is stopped being produced by your cells. If your hair turns grey below your late 30s, it is considered premature greying. There are multiple reasons for this early greying to […]
Food Corner
Nutri kulcha
By Tript Arora This famous Street food from Punjab is finger licking good. Nutri is basically Soya chunks in a gravy. Soya chunks are high on protein. So they fulfill the requirement of protein in […]