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Maharashtra: No vaccine jab, no salary, says Thane civic body

By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) in Maharashtra has said its employees who have not taken even one dose of vaccine against COVID-19 will not be paid salaries. The decision was taken on Monday during a meeting of senior TMC officials, including civic commissioner Dr Vipin Sharma and Thane Mayor Naresh Mhaske. […]

Senate Banking Committee chair calls on Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to testify November 13, 2026
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON, Nov 12 - US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott sent letters on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Nvidia's former ‌CEO Jensen Huang asking them to testify over recent developments at the company.Huang ‌stepped down from Nvidia, one of the major engines behind the AI boom, after reports of a […]
By David Shepardson
Microsoft Outlook and Teams hit by outages as company works to restore service November 12, 2026
Microsoft said it was investigating an outage Thursday that left people unable to access Outlook email and other products. In a message posted at 12:54 p.m. ET on the official Microsoft 365 Status account on X, the company said it was "investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in […]
Kim Lyons
Police probe possible homeowners' association dispute after deadly D.C. shooting November 12, 2026
At least four people were wounded and one was killed during a shooting at a condo building in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., early Thursday, police said. The gunman was identified as 55-year-old emergency room physician Matt Lambert.Officers responded to reports of an active shooting at a gym inside the building just before […]
Harriet Sinclair, Dylan Stableford
Search ends at Brooklyn building collapse site with 8 dead and no more victims found November 12, 2026
The New York City Fire Department said Thursday afternoon that rescue operations had concluded at the scene of the three-story building that collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and that there were no more victims. Six adults and two children died as a result of the collapse, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a […]
Harriet Sinclair, Jasmine Andersson, Kate Murphy
Trump says 'we don't need a deal with Iran' and that Vance should focus on Democrats November 12, 2026
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday the US does not need a deal with Iran and directed Vice President JD Vance, who has played a role in efforts to resolve the war, to focus "his complete ‌and total attention" on alleged crime and corruption in Democratic-run cities and states. Trump's […]
By Bo Erickson
Hegseth honors guard who scolded his group at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier November 12, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday honored the Army sentinel who forcefully scolded members of his entourage for laughing and talking near Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day. Hegseth posted a photo of himself on social media pinning a Joint Service Commendation Medal on the unidentified soldier's chest."We love soldiers. We […]
Andrew Romano
Mexico's president rebuts Trump's migrant caravan claims as he threatens new tariffs November 12, 2026
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that no migrant caravans have reached the U.S. border since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, responding to his threat to double tariffs on Mexican goods unless Mexico stops migrants from traveling through its territory. “Not a single migrant caravan has reached […]
Who is Colette Kress? Prominent executive named Nvidia's new interim CEO. November 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) CFO Colette Kress has been named interim CEO after Jensen Huang stepped down amid allegations of an affair with a Chinese spy and a company executive.Kress, one of Nvidia's more prominent executives, joined the company in 2013 and helped guide its financial success, transforming it from a video game company into the AI […]
Daniel Howley
Super El Niño declared as forecasters predict big changes to U.S. winter weather November 12, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY: NOAA announced that the 2026 El Niño has reached Super El Niño status.Water temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific have climbed to 2.0°C above average for three consecutive months.A Super El Niño will have a major impact on the 2026–2027 winter, causing more storms in the southern tier of the U.S. […]
Alexandra Myers