Well we've never taken the AsapSCIENCE peeps to be party poopers, but here's the video explaining why your New Year's Eve will inevitably suck. (Are we the only ones that consistently have fun on New Year's?? House parties are always the way to go.)

What do you think? Do you look forward to New Year's Eve?</s>The Perfect Cocktails for New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day</s>The new year day of 2017 brings with new hopes and expectations for all in the upcoming year. With the end of another eventful year people relished the last few moments of the year end in celebratory mood in all corners of the state.

The last few moments of the year end popularly known as zero hour marked sumptuous jubilation in several ways. while some enjoyed the late night in clubs, dance bars, some others arranged for the same in the open spaces.

It was a feast time for all.

Fireworks also marked the onset of the new year.

People lighted cracker lamps to welcome the new year.

Strict police check-up to prevent any untoward incident during late night celebration

Public greet CM on the eve of New Year

Scouts meet and greet Governor on New Year’s eve.

Abundance of flowers in markets on new year’s eve.</s>EMBED More News Videos Police are investigating a $6 million jewelry heist in Manhattan.

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police are searching for three men in connection with a $6 million New Year's Eve jewelry heist in Midtown, Manhattan.Surveillance shows two of the suspects armed with a hammer and a crowbar. They worked for about 10 seconds until they noticed the camera - then, it was lights out.As more than a million people packed into Times Square under the watchful eye of 7,000 police officers, just a few blocks away in a nondescript office building, police said the three suspects got away with a fortune.The ultimate New Year's Eve diversion provided cover for an epic heist at 12:01 a.m. in the offices of high-end jewelry designer Gregg Ruth, whose website offers rings costing as much as $62,000.After the suspects busted their way into the offices, they seemed to have had free run of two different safes.Law enforcement sources said officers found no sign of forced entry. The thieves grabbed handfuls of loot, making off with an estimated $6 million worth of jewels. They then fled the building down the fire stairs.Police are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 1800-577-TIPS or visit the website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com</s>They've had a rocky year, playing out a very public split in December after welcoming their first child.

But Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian appeared to have put 2016 behind them as they rung in the New Year together.

Blac Chyna, 28, and Rob, 29, looked in good spirits as they enjoyed an intimate dinner, and the new mum's engagement ring was firmly back on.

'Happy New Year's 2017 from @RobKardashian and I', Blac Chyna wrote alongside the video which she posted on Snapchat and Instagram, blocking comments from the latter social network.

Sporting peroxide blonde hair and a heavy blunt fringe- similar to the style she rocked when she was still with her ex-fiancé Tyga, she wore a plunging silk halter-neck body.

Flaunting her eye-popping cleavage, the original queen of booties squeezed her rear into a semi-sheer sequin encrusted skirt.

And Rob shared a proud picture of his fiancée holding celebratory balloons, flashing her huge diamond ring.

The duo documented their car ride together before enjoying an intimate dinner together.

Their appearance comes shortly after Rob was rushed to hospital due to health problems.

The couple have had a year of ups and downs, welcoming their first child Dream into the world on November 10.

However in December they went through a very public split, when Blac Chyna packed all her stuff and left with their little girl, a move documented on Rob's Snapchat.

The pair soon reconciled on social media, and appeared to cement their reunion on New Year's Eve.

Taking to Snapchat earlier in the evening, Blac Chyna put her cares to one side on Saturday night as she headed out to celebrate the New Year.

Dressed to the nines in a clinging dress, she looked ready to do some serious partying.

The new mother showed off her post-baby curves in the revealing outfit, and was sure to share a series of selfies with fans.

Earlier in the evening she enjoyed a cuddle from her son King, who she shares with ex Tyga.

Her night out came days after Chyna's on/off fiancé Rob Kardashian was released from hospital after the health scare.

The sock designer was admitted to a medical facility in Hidden Hills, California on Wednesday where he was treated for complications related to his Type 2 Diabetes.

According to People magazine: 'Rob wasn’t feeling well and recognised that his symptoms were diabetes-related.

'Rob has made some changes to his lifestyle, but all the latest drama with Blac Chyna has made him depressed. And he has been on a terrible diet.

'He hasn’t been taking care of himself, and that’s why he’s now sick again.'

TMZ reported that Rob had gained an 'alarmingly large amount of weight after excessively eating' due to arguments with his fiancée Blac Chyna.

However, the morning after he was admitted to hospital, Rob was released by medical staff.

The engaged pair - who have their own reality show 'Rob & Chyna' - separated earlier this month after constantly fighting with one another, but reconciled just before Christmas to spend the holiday with their newborn daughter Dream.

However, it was later claimed Chyna had been left off the guest list for Rob's mother Kris Jenner's annual Christmas bash as the family 'can't stand' the constant arguments between the new parents.

An insider said at the time: 'Rob's family is over Chyna. She is not invited to Kris' holiday party.

'Rob's family is trying to distance themselves from Chyna. They can't stand the toxic relationship.

'They very much care about baby Dream though. It's just come to the point when they think Rob is better off without being in a relationship with Chyna.'</s>Despite a ban on advertising short-term rentals that comes with heavy punishments for anyone who tries, New York City had more Airbnb rentals than any other location in the world on New Year's Eve.

The San Francisco-based short term rental service told the New York Daily News that there were more than 55,000 rentals in the city on the final night of 2016, up from about 47,000 on last New Year's Eve. There were more Airbnb rentals in New York City than anywhere else on the globe as 2016 became 2017.

With perhaps the most famous New Year's Eve celebration in the entire world, it's no surprise that people flocked to the Big Apple on December 31, but the number of people using Airbnb in defiance of the city's ban should make officials question that policy and will likely upset hotel executive who pushed for the ban in order to limit competition.

The real heroes, though, are the residents of the city who flouted a silly law and risked fines of up to $7,500 for doing so. New York officials have promised to use the Airbnb ban to crack down on what they call "illegal hotels"—that is, locations used exclusively for short-term rentals year-round—rather than going after residents who rented-out their apartments or homes for the holiday weekend.

The only beneficiaries of New York's ban on Airbnb rentals are the city's hotels—which, naturally, were the driving force behind the passage of the ban in the first place. That's why hotel executives were toasting the ban after it passed.

In reality, though, the ban helps prop-up one of the worst hotels in America by giving tourists fewer, better options.

As New Year's Eve shows, visitors to The Big Apple are looking for other options and residents of the city are willing to freely exchange their space for money. Aside from protecting users against fraud and violance, there's little reason for the government to be involved in those transactions.

The lesson that city officials should take from all this is that Airbnb (and other short term rental services like VRBO and Home Away) can't be legislated out of existence. Visitors to New York, or any other city, have more lodging options than ever before—that's a good thing—and the marketplace is only going to get more diverse in the future.

Instead of fighting that tide, city planners should look for ways to accommodate new forms of accommodations.</s>Three unidentified men waited until the New Year's Eve ball dropped to pull off a multi-million dollar diamond jewelry heist in Midtown, Manhattan.

The heist took place inside KGK Holdings jewelry wholesaler at 70 W. 36th St., in what appears to be an inside job, since the thieves didn't have to crack the safes when they got inside.

'The safes were opened. They didn't even have to pry', police told the New York Daily News.

thousands of police were patrolling Times Square just a few blocks away.

'They laid in wait until the ball dropped', police told the New York Post.

The trio allegedly stole $6 million worth of diamond jewelry and are still at large.

In the surveillance video, a bearded white male wearing a hoodie and a backpack can be seen banging a hammer for several seconds. At one point, he looks straight into the camera.

His accomplice, wearing a hoodie and face mask, makes numerous attempts to break the surveillance camera with a hammer.

They used a hammer and crow bar to gain entry into the building through the freight entrance to the sixth floor at about 10pm, as revelers gathered at Times Square.

Once they were inside, the trio snuck into the sixth-floor offices of Gregg Ruth, a commercial jewelry store owned by KGK Holdings known for its rare yellow and pink diamonds, and allegedly grabbed the gems from two safes.

Police said one of the safes wasn't locked.

A security guard posted in front of the business said the company had no security officers protecting the premises before the robbery.

The wholesaler reported the theft at 3pm on Sunday.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.</s>Police released footage Monday of thieves who they say made off with $6 million worth of jewelry on New Year’s Eve.

A clear black and white video shows two men breaking into the KGK Holdings jewelry wholesaler at 70 West 36th Street using a hammer and a pry-bar as light snow appears to fall around them at around 10 p.m.

The men look straight into the camera several times before trying to whack it.

Police said the thieves stole jewelry valued at $6 million from two safes, and then fled from the sixth floor of the building using the stairwell.

The suspects have not been apprehended.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.</s>
• Celebrating New Year's Eve in Times Square is a tradition dating back to 1904.
• Each year, it draws a massive crowd to the heart of New York City.
• Here's a look at what's changed about the yearly celebration — and what hasn't.



 On January 1, 1905, the New York Times ran a front page story about a "big new year fete" that had taken place the night before in Times Square. More than 200,000 people had flooded the square to herald the coming new year, and when the clock struck midnight, a fireworks show lit up the sky. It's said that the roar of the revelers and their noisemakers could be heard 30 miles away.

It was the very first New Year's Eve celebration in New York City's Times Square — a tradition that continues to draw enormous crowds more than 100 years later.

According to the Times Square Alliance, that inaugural party was the brainchild of August Ochs, then-owner of the New York Times. Ochs wanted to throw a party to commemorate the opening of the paper's new headquarters — the Times Tower — so he organized a street festival that ran into the night and culminated with the aforementioned fireworks.

In fact, those fireworks were launched directly from the base of the Times Tower — a practice that was unsurprisingly banned two years later.

But every year, the party kept happening, even when the New York Times outgrew the tower and relocated elsewhere in the city. And from the looks of old photos, the crowds were at least as big as they are today.

The revelers looked just as spirited, too — though modern New Year's partygoers have the added advantage of light-up glasses like the ones pictured at right.

Even the New Year's ball drop dates back more than 100 years, according to the Times Square Alliance, which now organizes and plans for the December 31st festivities. The original ball debuted in 1907, measured 5 feet in diameter, and weighed 700 pounds — likely because it was made of wood and iron. It's been lowered every year since then except for 1942 and 1943, when the city held a wartime "dimout" of its bright lights.

Over the past 110 years, there have been several versions of the ball, including the apple-shaped one pictured below, used from 1981 to 1988. Today's ball, pictured on the right, is illuminated by 32,256 LED lights and weighs six tons. (Believe it or not, " time balls" were a thing long before they became part of New Year's — they're actually a 19th century maritime tradition.)

Today, New Year's Eve in Times Square is a highly orchestrated event that brings crowds up to a million strong. It features performances by music superstars and it's televised across the world. You can even watch the ball drop on a dedicated smartphone app. Revelers come to stake out their spots hours in advance, and when the ball finally drops, more than a ton of confetti rains down over the square.

The celebration has certainly grown more elaborate, and Times Square has gotten a whole lot brighter thanks to a preponderance of high-tech billboards. But a lot of the city's New Year's traditions — the ball, the noise, and those unbelievable crowds — haven't changed much at all.

Read more about the history of New Year's Eve in Times Square over at the Times Square Alliance.</s>The best known New Year’s Eve attraction in New York City is at Times Square: it’s the “ball drop”. A big, brightly lit sphere is hoisted to the top of a pole and drops as the clock strikes 12. Officially, you can’t drink on the streets in New York. But you might notice people with beer cans in brown paper bags, cocktails secreted in McDonald’s cups and booze in hip flasks. As you can imagine, Times Square gets pretty busy. And touristy. Brooklyn is a good alternative. There are fireworks and live music at Grand Army plaza, at the north end of Prospect Park, from 11pm. But there’s more to do than watch fireworks explode and balls drop. If, like me, you don’t mind being a hipster stereotype, there’s a number of warehouse parties around Brooklyn’s Bushwick and Williamsburg areas. My plan is to go to one until as late as possible. Then, on New Year’s Day, engage in a different type of New York tradition: the Coney Island Polar Bear club New Year’s Day swim. It’s a swim in the Atlantic, first thing in the morning. I think it will be cold.

Adam Gabbatt is a writer-presenter for the Guardian, based in New York 



The archetypal Madrid New Year’s Eve plan is to squeeze into the heaving Puerta del Sol square and, when the clocktower chimes midnight, swallow 12 lucky grapes and roar “feliz año nuevo”. But the reality for most is more homely, and more fun. Come midnight, families and friends – after a seafood, jamón and perhaps lamb feast – watch the clocktower countdown on their living room TV and choke on those lucky grapes together (I’ll be at the in-laws). Midnight is a crescendo of cava clinks and – outside – firecracker armageddon. But we’re just warming up. At 12:01 bars open and we flood the streets, dancing and drinking until that most madrileño all-nighter climax: queuing in the cold dawn for deep-fried churros and warm chocolate solace.

James Blick is co-founder of devourspain.com

Ringing in the new year in Stockholm is all about your vantage point. Sweden’s photogenic capital sprawls across 14 islands with a labyrinth of waterways, and on New Year’s Eve, its streets are filled with families bundled up in thick coats with stashes of glögg (mulled wine), pepparkakor (gingerbread cookies), and bubbly cider. They head up to some of the best spots, such as Monteliusvägen on Södermalm with marvellous views of Mälaren lake, Gamla stan, Riddarholmen and the City Hall on Kungsholmen; Fåfangan with views towards Gamla stan and Djurgården; and Skinnarviksberget with panoramic views of Riddarfjärden and Kungsholmen – then they await fireworks popping across each island, lighting up the winter sky.

Lola Akinmade Åkerström is editor of Slow Travel Stockholm

Even though Buenos Aires is revered for its lively nightlife, year-end celebrations tend to be quite tame and family oriented. In the hot and humid summer locals go to the beach, while those who stick in town gather with family and friends for a meat asado (barbecue) feast, with lots of sparkling cider, red wine, and Fernet (an aromatic bitter) with Coke. When midnight strikes, I make sure to find my way high on a rooftop for a festival of light. The Porteño skyline illuminates with a colourful spectacle, and residents (dangerously) shoot fireworks from balconies and terraces. Shouts of “Feliz Año Nuevo” and even fútbol chants ricochet off the concrete buildings.

Allie Lazar is a food writer based in Buenos Aires, she blogs at pickupthefork.com

San Francisco brings in the new year with a literal bang thanks to an amazing fireworks display. A romantic view can be seen from Ina Coolbrith Park or you can take a boat ride on the bay. The citizens of SF get real flashy this time of year and anything sequined becomes the official fabric of the city. Swanky underground venue Doc’s Lab kicks off 2016 with the North Beach Brass Band. One of my favourite neighbourhoods on NYE is the lively Mission District, which boasts some of the best food in the city and you can laugh your way into the new year with comedy legend Marga Gomez at Brava Theater. Gay nightlife is abundant in the Castro and South of Market neighbourhoods. Personally, I’ll be ringing in the new year at the North Bay Cabaret. Wherever you end up on NYE make sure to get out the next day and enjoy the most important meal in SF: brunch. We brunch hella hard.

Wonder Dave is a writer and performer from San Francisco, wonderdave.org who wrote Travel’s guide to San Francisco’s gay scene

Thais love any excuse for a party. So it should come as no surprise that we end up celebrating new year twice (and sometimes three times, if we join in on Thai-Chinese new year’s celebrations). While Thai New Year – held in April when the hot season really gets going – is our chance to mix merry-making and family with the occasional ferocious water fight, the beginning of a new calendar year is more about flocking to the banks of the Chao Phraya river to watch the fireworks, dance badly in public, and maybe have a tipple or two. 

Chawadee Nualkhair is a food writer based in Bangkok, she blogs at bangkokglutton.com

It’s no surprise that in the land of the rising sun, the start of a new year is a significant event, but in Tokyo don’t expect the massive parties and firework displays so prevalent in other major cities. Instead, there is a more introspective vibe and a homage to tradition, as most people spend the early evening eating buckwheat noodles at home with loved ones, before heading out to join the huge crowds for hatsumode (the first shrine or temple visit of the year) to pray for good fortune and buy lucky charms for the 12 months ahead. At Meiji shrine there is a festival atmosphere, with colourful food stalls and the din of distant ringing bells, as thousands of people patiently shuffle towards the shrine’s inner sanctum from midnight onwards, with festivities (and trains) running until well after dawn. Alternatively, escape the city and hop on a train to Mount Takao (one hour from Tokyo station) to view the sunrise from a sacred mountaintop.

Tom Fay is a journalist based in Japan

Sydney relishes its status as the first major city in the world to greet the new year (sorry, Auckland) and attempts to outdo itself annually with ever-bigger fireworks displays on the harbour. On the night, the waterfront areas nearest the Opera House and the bridge are predictably choked with spectators, but there are several secluded green spaces fringing the harbour where it’s possible to turn up relatively late and still secure a patch of grass for your picnic blanket (just don’t expect any local to reveal where they are). For every family or couple that celebrates the evening alfresco, there is another that uses New Year’s Eve as an excuse to stay in and cook a big meal, then watch the fireworks on the television. There’s even a televised 9pm test run for those who want to be in bed before the clock strikes 12.

Dan F Stapleton is a journalist from Sydney

The city at the foot of Table Mountain takes advantage of its natural splendour to offer a range of new year celebrations. Locals choose between beach parties hosted by the likes of Pacha Ibiza, psychedelic trance gatherings, such as Rezonance, picnics on wine estates, fireworks at the V&A Waterfront, and no end of themed events, comedy evenings, dinner-show cabarets and swish rooftop soirees. In practice, the typical Capetonian’s mix of laid-back cool and fear of missing the big party – or wave – will render them unable to commit to buying tickets for these events. The typical NYE will start with a sunset picnic on Clifton Fourth Beach, a cable car ride up Table Mountain (last car down at 9pm) or a walk up Lion’s Head. Then it’s on to the bars of Long Street, where punters can pull their own pints and down unlimited beer until the bells at Beerhouse’s Open Tap party. If local hipsters do make it to a venue, it will be an old favourite such as Yours Truly bar; most will more likely stagger between house parties in Woodstock, Obs and Mowbray. A tip for a memorable evening is a candlelit picnic in the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden, with live music by local sample-folk-meister Jeremy Loops; needless to say, tickets are still available.

James Bainbridge is a travel writer and tour guide, myriadafrica.com

Things that dominate New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen: drunk people and fireworks, and drunk people with fireworks. A lot of Copenhageners imagine they will celebrate New Year’s Eve attending a swanky ball with hundreds of interesting and attractive strangers. What most of us will actually be doing is attending a dinner with people we have known for ages spending hours debating whose party to crash later. Others will be gathering in thousands at midnight at the town hall square, armed with rockets, Roman candles and champagne, ready for the party to evolve. This may include hugging and snogging strangers in a state of champagne-induced bliss. What everyone will be doing on New Year’s Day: tending to their hangovers while watching the new year’s ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on the television. What will I be doing on New Year’s Eve? Celebrating with a small group of friends and their children. I find pyrotechnics and alcohol to be a tricky combination, so I will avoid the streets and enjoy the fireworks from the balcony. I’m done slowly freezing to death while searching for a good party. I suppose I will just have to live with not hugging or snogging a stranger.

Andrea Bak is a journalist from Copenhagen

St Petersburg city centre lights up for the New Year’s Eve – strict classical buildings give up the attention in favour of twinkling lights, and the naturally gloomy people on the streets laugh and shout as they watch fireworks being shot from the Peter and Paul Fortress over the Neva river. The smell of champagne and clementines and the shouts of “Oura!” (hooray) and “S novim godom!” (happy new year) fill the air. Nevsky Prospect is closed for traffic for one night and people go out to roam the streets. While celebrations in Moscow clubs and bars are known to be more glamorous – with longer queues, strict face control, and higher prices – St Petersburg, known as the bar capital of Russia for its artsy bohemian bashes, is more welcoming. Parties with lots of dancing take place at the Konyushennaya square bars and clubs such as Mosaique and Stackenschneider. Dumskaya street is another popular destination, with the karaoke bar Poison proving to be the most notorious, and hipsters and intelligentsia favour cafes and bars on Rubinshteina street.

Sasha Raspopina is a journalist based in St Petersburg

It might be chilly in Sweden in the middle of winter, but the best place to spend New Year’s Eve in Gothenburg is outdoors: on one of the many hills surrounding the city centre. From there, amid a huddle of revellers in thick jackets clutching bottles of beer and champagne, you’ll get a great view of the fireworks that light up the sky and the dark waters of the Göta älv. Afterwards, head on down to either Andra Långgatan or Avenyn to continue the party until the sun rises. But pace yourself: at this latitude, that sun will be a while.

Duncan Geere is a science, technology and culture journalist

One can argue about almost everything else … but Berlin knows how to party. Almost one million Berliners (and tourists) take to the streets to enjoy the fireworks at Brandenburger Tor, the night’s most crowded and popular spot, where you’ll see people coming from all parts of the planet to rejoice together and drink beer and schnapps. For those who want to carry on the celebrations until morning, the city offers an abundance of club nights in popular venues such as Berghain, where the party runs straight through to Saturday evening. As with most permanent residents, however, I prefer to avoid the river of tourists, having a dinner at home with friends and later going to a rooftop to toast the new year above the city lights.

Cesare Alemanni is editor of Berlin Quarterly

New Year’s Eve in London has its own ambience: that of blind-drunk survival. Every year the capital becomes an industrious end-of-days assault course, as costumed squads litter the streets and the tube turns into a 24-hour nightclub. Choice is another defining factor: parties are sardined into every restaurant, bar and pub back room, all vying to charge you £20 to see their mate DJ. And thousands who “just want to have a chilled one” jostle around the river for the annual fireworks display, only to lose everyone in the rush to the tube afterwards. Tiring of these scenarios, the professional partier knows that New Year’s Day is the new New Year’s Eve. While the rest of the city resembles those opening scenes of 24 Hours Later, these Londoners emerge fresh-faced to enjoy a dance in one of the many Berlin and Ibiza-channeling ravespots that pop up on 1 January. Me, I’ll be escaping to Havana, but if I was London-bound I’d no doubt be found seeing in 2016 here. After all, isn’t celebrating better than just surviving?

Kate Hutchinson is deputy editor of the Guide

In the thick of a crowd, in the light, sound and colour of a 16-minute fireworks extravaganza, Copacabana beach on New Year’s Eve may sound like an unlikely place to find spiritual communion. But on the candle-lit sand and even on the avenue above the beach, a sense of stillness and joy prevails in the white-dressed throng. By the water, people will release flowers into the waves in honour of the goddess Iemanjá – more than usual this year, perhaps, since according to the Afro-Brazilian religions Candomblé and Umbanda, 2016 is ruled by Iemanjá and Oxalá (god of peace and creation). Also, this year, in honour of the Rio Olympics, the fireworks display will climax with a 2,000-drummer drumroll, as the sky turns bright white. Away from the beach, there are many fixed-price parties in places such as the Museu de Arte Moderna and Sociedade Germânia in Gávea, and more economical events at Rio’s many hostels. But best of all is to get yourself invited to a house party, or tag along to one with your new best friends from the beach. Failing that, you can’t go far wrong on the streets of the Lapa neighbourhood, where the year-round party crowd ramps it up one more notch.

Claire Rigby is a journalist based in São Paulo

Rome’s magnificent piazzas host spontaneous, as well as city-sponsored parties. Although this year’s official festivities remain in limbo thanks to empty public coffers, Romans will nevertheless take to the streets, bundled in parkas and clutching bottles of beer and wine to numb them to the relative cold. I spent most of 2015 in the crowded historical centre, so to ring in the new year, I’ll be doing the opposite and going to a rooftop party on the Janiculum Hill overlooking Rome, prime position for an eyeful of the midnight fireworks displays. For similarly sweeping views, visitors can go to the Janiculum’s Fontanone, a monumental fountain, for a impressive front row seats. Meanwhile, down in the centre, expect tipsy crowds with blow horns, firecrackers, and a healthy buzz to be partying well into the first morning of 2016.

Katie Parla is a food and travel writer

In my many years here, I have come to realise Mumbai is a sentient being. Alive, pulsating and ever-growing. Home to people with diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, there’s always reasons to celebrate. New Year’s Eve is no different. This year there’s governmental permission for restaurants and bars to stay open till 5am and foreign liquor retail shops can do business till 1am, as opposed to the previous deadline of 10.30pm. This means Deepak wines in Bandra, one of the most popular wines shops in the suburbs, will be raking in the money! My gang is planning on stocking up on alcohol and has booked suites at a hotel. We aren’t very keen on going to a club, because all of us are on the sadder side of 25, and spending 3,000-4,000 rupees to go to a club full of strangers doesn’t seem like such a good idea anymore. As for the more public celebrations, midnight at Marine Drive sea face in south Mumbai is a delightful sight. People gather and let loose many flying Chinese lanterns, though lots of people have the same idea and the likelihood of you getting stuck in traffic is extremely high.

Sucharita Tyagi is a show host at Radio City Mumbai, @su4ita
Authorities seek three men after they rob $6 million on New Year's Eve from the offices of high-end jewelry designer Gregg Ruth in New York City.