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Drawn by deals, consumers spread out their spending in the weeks leading up to the day after Thanksgiving. Business Shopping and Retail, Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Shopping), E-Commerce, Shutdowns (Institutional), United States Economy

Scottish cooks and diners are putting sustainable fish and shellfish on the plate in a tangible (and delicious) move to curb the effects of climate change. Food Seafood, Fishing, Commercial

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“30” tops the Billboard album chart with the equivalent of 839,000 sales in the United States, leaving Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” as the last LP to cross the million mark. Arts Pop and Rock Music

“We’re doubling down” on current mask guidance, the mayor said. He also extended the city’s vaccine mandate to cover workers in child care settings and early intervention programs. New York Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Disease Rates, Vaccination and Immunization, Masks

The Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has nabbed two more people and seized heroin worth Rs 3.25 crore from a Nigerian national's house in Delhi as part of its probe into the recovery of heroin worth Rs 730 crore from Morbi and two other districts recently, an official said on Monday.

​In the email, Agrawal spoke about how in the 10 years he has been with the social media platform. “There’s no limit to what we can do together,” Agrawal told Twitter employees.

In his prime he played in a league for Black players, but in 1975, at 40, he became the first African- American to take part in the Masters tournament. Sports Golf, PGA Championship, Masters Golf Tournament, Black People, Race and Ethnicity, Deaths (Obituaries)

Ballet companies are reworking the holiday classic partly in response to a wave of anti-Asian hate that has intensified during the pandemic. Arts Dancing, Discrimination, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

“We’re doubling down” on current mask guidance, the mayor said. He also extended the city’s vaccine mandate to cover workers in child care settings and early intervention programs. New York Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Disease Rates, Vaccination and Immunization, Masks

The lawsuit, which was filed in the Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, appears to have been at a standstill since August 2020. New York Sex Crimes, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Human Trafficking

Según los científicos, la nueva variante presenta mutaciones que pueden permitirle evadir los anticuerpos. Pero habrá que seguir investigando para saber cómo se comporta frente a las personas vacunadas. en Español Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Disease Rates, Vaccination and Immunization, Antibodies, Tests (Medical), Genetics and Heredity, Research, your-feed-science

The variant has yet to be detected in the United States and crucial questions about the variant itself remain. U.S. Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization

Xiomara Castro, headed toward becoming her country’s next president, promises to expunge its legacy of corruption, but change may be tempered by her establishment ties and conservative opposition. World Politics and Government, Corruption (Institutional), Elections

US-based IT firm, Cohesity, and first-time recruiter Glean, are likely to make the coveted US offers on day one of the placement season at IIT Bombay. Cohesity is expected to offer the highest package of Rs 1.46 crore, followed by Glean, that has a package of Rs 1.12 crore on offer. These packages include incentives and stock options. The annual placement season will kick off virtually at all major IITs on December 1. Students are expecting this year’s placements to start on a good note.

The UP teachers eligibility test (TET) scheduled for Sunday was cancelled after it was found that a question paper had leaked and cops rounded up 29 people of a network of exam frauds from various places in the state, prompting CM Yogi Adityanath to direct stern action against the suspects, including pressing charges under National Security Act and Gangsters Act.

The opposition indicated that it plans to raise several issues ranging from fresh demands put forward by agitating farm unions such as removal of junior home minister Ajay Mishra over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to the Pegasus controversy even as the government is set to move for repeal of the new farm laws in Parliament on Monday. The all-party meeting on Sunday, which was not attended by PM Narendra Modi, saw the opposition listing several issues they intend to raise in the winter session.

With the proposed resumption of international flights on December 15 under review, the government issued fresh guidelines on Sunday, mandating RT-PCR test on arrival for all passengers from Covid at-risk countries. While those testing positive will be isolated and their samples sent for genomic testing, those testing negative will have to home-quarantine for a week and test on the eighth day.

The opposition indicated that it plans to raise several issues ranging from fresh demands put forward by agitating farm unions such as removal of junior home minister Ajay Mishra over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to the Pegasus controversy even as the government is set to move for repeal of the new farm laws in Parliament on Monday. The all-party meeting on Sunday, which was not attended by PM Narendra Modi, saw the opposition listing several issues they intend to raise in the winter session.

The lyricist and composer, who died on Friday, wrote dozens of piercing tunes for Broadway. Here is a selection of them, as lean as a Sondheim couplet. Theater Theater, Music

The country has one of Africa’s better vaccination rates: Just under one quarter of its population has been fully vaccinated. World Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Coronavirus Omicron Variant

To hide his identity, the accused had burnt the body on a heap of garbage by putting fuel cakes on it, the officer said.

With the proposed resumption of international flights on December 15 under review, the government issued fresh guidelines on Sunday, mandating RT-PCR test on arrival for all passengers from Covid at-risk countries. While those testing positive will be isolated and their samples sent for genomic testing, those testing negative will have to home-quarantine for a week and test on the eighth day.

A major fire broke out during wedding function at ground in Bhiwandi on Sunday night. Luckily before fire could spread guest present at wedding ground managed to escape from the spot.

Here's a very plausible threat: Some developer with a left-pad package, some dependency-of-a-dependency, injects malware into their library. A developer (who is broadly trustworthy) updates their package's dependencies without auditing them properly, and the malware ends up in a VSCode plugin that you use. You open VSCode, your system is infected. We know this sort of malware is making its way onto package repositories [1]. We know people are falling for these attacks. How do we protect ourselves against this family of threats? [1]: https://ift.tt/3eIvIio We could trust nothing beyond our base system and our browser, and refuse to use any code we don't fully audit, but this would be an impossibly austere way to live. I expect most of us, when pressed, would admit that we're trusting much more code than we would like to. The alternative is sandboxing, using a lightweight option like firejail (which I use) or a totalizing system like QubesOS. But these systems are awkward...

For however you choose to define "worth".

Shiva Shankar, one of South India’s most prominent choreographers, has died at the age of 72. He had an illustrious career that stretched four decades and choreographed some of Tollywood's most iconic and popular songs.

Amid concerns over the new Covid-19 variant Omicron, the Jabalpur district administration and health department are on a desperate hunt for a Botswana origin woman who, they were informed, went untraceable after landing at the city's Dumna airport last week.

Should the Omicron variant cause severe illness, that will become apparent if there is a significant rise in hospitalizations over the next week or two, one expert said. Health Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Disease Rates, Vaccination and Immunization

Quinnipiac University, which had opened Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in 2012, said that it could no longer afford to operate it. Arts Museums, Colleges and Universities, Famine, Immigration and Emigration

​​​​​Police received a PCR call at Shastri Park police station regarding a fatal accident. Complainant Mohammad Muid (34) stated that his friend Poonam, a resident of Cigrette Wala Bagh, Model Town, was returning from Haridwar, they said.

A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court that granted bail to the alleged drug supplier of Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Merchant in the cruise liner drug seizure case has observed that barring his statement there is no prima facie evidence to show that he was the supplier of the contraband. “Therefore, contention of the prosecution cannot be accepted that applicant is peddler and that he supplied contraband to accused no 2 (Merchant),” special judge VV Patil said.

Six years after the Supreme Court nixed Parliament’s NJAC Act that had replaced the “judges-selecting-judges” collegium system, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday gave fresh momentum to calls for reforming the selection method and suggested nurturing of grassroot-level judges, chosen through an all-India exam, for promotion to higher judiciary.

“Governments will come and governments will go, but the idea of India, the Constitutional idea of India, resilient though it has proved to be, must be protected,” Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay high court said on Friday, adding “history will not judge us by our highways or bridges or statues, it will judge us by how well we have preserved the Constitutional idea of India and saved it from being undermined.”

Two decades ago, Spain was the new France, leading gastronomic innovation. Now two iconic chefs have joined forces in Paris. World French Food (Cuisine), Restaurants, Chefs, Cooking and Cookbooks

With Starling Marte, Eduardo Escobar and Mark Canha, the run-starved Mets addressed their biggest need while adding some defensive versatility. Sports Baseball

Marianne Elliott, director of the Broadway revival of “Company,” and the actress Patti LuPone spoke onstage about the legacy and death of Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans. Arts Actors and Actresses, Theater, Music

“Governments will come and governments will go, but the idea of India, the Constitutional idea of India, resilient though it has proved to be, must be protected,” Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay high court said on Friday, adding “history will not judge us by our highways or bridges or statues, it will judge us by how well we have preserved the Constitutional idea of India and saved it from being undermined.”

Hailing the judiciary for maintaining the highest standards of conduct and for being the most trusted institution in which people have reposed faith, President Ram Nath Kovind, however, said judges should exercise utmost discretion while passing observations in court proceedings as it could lead to dubious interpretation. Kovind also emphasised the need to bring reform in the judiciary to make justice more speedy and accessible and also to improve gender balance in the institution.

Six years after the Supreme Court nixed Parliament’s NJAC Act that had replaced the “judges-selecting-judges” collegium system, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday gave fresh momentum to calls for reforming the selection method and suggested nurturing of grassroot-level judges, chosen through an all-India exam, for promotion to higher judiciary.

Six years after the Supreme Court nixed Parliament’s NJAC Act that had replaced the “judges-selecting-judges” collegium system, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday gave fresh momentum to calls for reforming the selection method and suggested nurturing of grassroot-level judges, chosen through an all-India exam, for promotion to higher judiciary.

Bollywood actress Yami Gautam who recently got married to Aditya Dhar, shares that her first birthday post her wedding feels ‘extra special’. Speaking to a news portal, Yami reveals how she plans on celebrating the day.

Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay alleged that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao did not seek the appointment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to Delhi and tried to malign the BJP in the name of self-respect.

Six years after the Supreme Court nixed Parliament’s NJAC Act that had replaced the “judges-selecting-judges” collegium system, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday gave fresh momentum to calls for reforming the selection method and suggested nurturing of grassroot-level judges, chosen through an all-India exam, for promotion to higher judiciary.

Diogo Jota struck after just 97 seconds as Liverpool closed to within one point of Premier League leaders Chelsea after a 4-0 stroll against Southampton on Saturday.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Judi Dench and an all-star Zoom trio find the wit, pathos and heartbreak in a remarkable songbook. Theater Theater, Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming

Here’s a guide to films, documentaries and other productions that provide insight into the composer-lyricist’s sly wit and melodic acumen. Theater Theater, Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming

Even as President Biden achieves some significant victories, Democrats are warning that many of their most loyal supporters see inaction and broken campaign promises. U.S. Midterm Elections (2022), United States Politics and Government, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021), Voting and Voters

The capital of Texas has long been an attractive place to call home. But with an average of 180 new residents a day arriving, its popularity has created a brewing housing crisis that is reshaping the city. U.S. Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Renting and Leasing (Real Estate), Affordable Housing, Building (Construction)

A penalty of Rs 10 lakh a day will be imposed on the concessionaire building Noida international airport if it exceeds the deadline of September 29, 2024. A day after the airport project was launched by the PM, officials said when the concessionaire, Zurich AG, and the UP government had signed the final agreement, it had been decided the company would be liable to pay 0.1% of the bank guarantee it had deposited every day as liquidated damages if the project breached the deadline.

CJI NV Ramana’s at Constitution Day celebrations on Friday said, "The framers of the Constitution made accountability an integral element with respect to the legislature and executive. However, they consciously decided to keep the judiciary on a different pedestal. They trusted the competence of the men and women who would adorn the Bench, in upholding the Constitution. As an institution, the judiciary has lived up to the faith reposed in it by the Constituent Assembly."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the colonial mindset of developed nations which is attempting to restrict developing nations like India from using those resources and paths which they themselves took to become developed and regretted that some in India are using western benchmarks and environment to impede the country's progress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the colonial mindset of developed nations which is attempting to restrict developing nations like India from using those resources and paths which they themselves took to become developed and regretted that some in India are using western benchmarks and environment to impede the country's progress

Reserve Bank of India has not accepted a proposal to consider large corporates or industrial houses for a banking licence. It has however allowed promoters of banks to hold up to 26% in their banks, which is a positive for many lenders including Kotak Mahindra Bank, IndusInd Bank, Bandhan Bank and CSB Bank. The new norms allow those who have already diluted stakes to hike their shareholding.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the colonial mindset of developed nations which is attempting to restrict developing nations like India from using those resources and paths which they themselves took to become developed and regretted that some in India are using western benchmarks and environment to impede the country's progress

Biden administration to limit travel from 8 southern Africa countries amid omicron variant spread

On Tuesday and Wednesday, 66 students tested positive for Covid-19 barely a week after about 300 students attended a cultural event in the college attended by freshers as well as seniors. Following the cluster outbreak, the health department sent samples of 1,000 students, doctors and college employees on Thursday and 138 of them turned positive on Friday.

The draw for Europe’s final three qualifying places ensured that either Italy, the European champion, or Portugal, with Cristiano Ronaldo, would miss the finals in Qatar. Sports World Cup 2022 (Soccer)

Whether you need simple recipes or are in marathon cooking mode, we have options. Food Cooking and Cookbooks, Content Type: Service, Recipes

Protests against the French island’s coronavirus protocols, requiring a health pass to enter most public venues, have been exacerbated by frustrations and anger over economic inequality with the mainland. World Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Demonstrations, Protests and Riots

The Pentagon isn’t doing what is necessary to protect and care for service members facing trauma.  Opinion United States Defense and Military Forces, Suicides and Suicide Attempts, Depression (Mental), Sex Crimes, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans

Business

The charred body of a 75-year-old man was recovered from his house following a fire in central Delhi's Kamla Market area, police said on Friday.

However, former Congress MLA Mohammad Asif Khan said he had no knowledge that they were SDMC staff. "I don't know who they were. I have also received no call or a message from the SDMC about the incident," he said.

The Bombay high court on Thursday confirmed a death sentence in heinous and gruesome rape and murder executed by a man in his 20s on a three-year-old child in a 'diabolical manner' in Thane in 2013. The man bludgeoned her head with a rock after raping her and left her to rot in a mud pond.

More often than not, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas often dedicate heartwarming posts to each other. Having said that, Nick recently took to his Instagram handle to extend Thanksgiving wishes to his Instafam, with a dreamy pic with wifey Priyanka Chopra.

​With intense action and drama (a tad too much), ‘Antim: The Final Truth’ checks some of the boxes for mass entertainment.

Post singularity, people (?) might look back and attribute certain events as a major indicator of the impending singularity. But for someone without the hind sight, looking into the future, what types of indicator would you look for? Also assuming that even if singularity is achieved (?) at some locations, the effects would take times to spread. Say it's already reached at the opposite corner of the world. How long would it take for it to be apparent and what are some indicators? Also, happy thanksgiving.

A gently seasoned pot of rice and lentils is the perfect antidote to holiday feasting. Food Cooking and Cookbooks, Content Type: Service, Recipes

World

Business was brisk for some as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returned to New York City. Delis, supermarkets, and even a man selling a turkey hat were overjoyed by the thousands of spectators. World Thanksgiving Day, Parades

World

His first book, “The Rabbi,” was a best seller in the U.S. Almost all his other novels were best sellers, too — but in Western Europe. Books Deaths (Obituaries), Books and Literature, Writing and Writers, Book Trade and Publishing

About 2.3 million people passed through security at airports on Wednesday, more than twice as many as in 2020. World Airport Security, Airlines and Airplanes, Thanksgiving Day, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization

Several BJP corporators, including women, and party workers were booked on Wednesday for allegedly ransacking the office of Hyderabad Mayor at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation here on November 23 and vandalising public property, demanding that a council meeting be held immediately to discuss civic issues, police said.

India A made a cautious reply to South Africa A's mammoth 509 for seven declared as they ended day 2 of the opening unofficial Test at 125 for one here on Wednesday.