Rescue workers in India found 18 bodies on Friday after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river earlier in the week, a report said. According to the report, 23 people are feared dead after two buses and a car plunged into the Savitri River when an aging bridge on a ... Read More »
IT was the young and earnest Abhinav Bindra’s persistence, no doubt, that convinced his German coach Heinz Reinkemeier to start working with the shooting prodigy 16 years ago. A dozen new kids approach the reputed coach, tactician and psychoanalyst every month in Germany, sport shooting’s ultimate hub, so he wasn’t ... Read More »
Curfew continued on Saturday in many parts of Kashmir, a day after fresh violence left three persons dead and 150 injured, while normal life remained paralysed for the 29 consecutive day. “Curfew remains in force in six police station areas of Srinagar — Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, Safakadal, Maharajgunj and Batamaloo — as a precautionary measure to maintain law ... Read More »
The long-planned and oft-delayed Sandpiper pipeline through the U.S. Midwest may not be dead, but it appears to be on life support, a likely casualty of the oil-and-gas industry’s infrastructure overbuild amid a two-year global oil rout. After years of delays, refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp and midstream giant Enbridge Inc ... Read More »
GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Donald Trump on Friday offered an olive branch to the Republican Party, endorsing the three Republican lawmakers — House Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Sen. John McCain and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte — that he had snubbed earlier in the week. “We will have disagreements, but ... Read More »
Clinton leads among likely voters following the Democratic National Convention. General Election Matchup Among Likely Voters, Clinton leads Trump at 43% to 39%; among Registered Voters, Clinton leads Trump by 8 points (44% vs 36%) In the 4-way ballot including Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Jill Stein, the overall picture ... Read More »
Republican Donald Trump acted to steer his White House campaign back into favor with his party’s establishment on Friday by endorsing U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and two Republican senators seeking re-election, after expressing coolness toward them earlier this week. “I need a Republican Senate and a ... Read More »
The trend of “Specu-lecting” hit the art market like an all-consuming wildfire in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis. One part speculation and one part collecting, the idea of art as investment came with the foremost goal of profit. It made some of us winners, but plenty of the rest of ... Read More »
New Delhi: Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday launched an interactive programme with citizens marking two years of the MyGov platform and said the site is for those who think about the country`s development. The MyGov initiative was launched two years ago to enable citizens directly interact with ... Read More »
For Nahid Parween, a first year nursing student of two-year diploma course in Revised Auxilliary Nurse and Midwifery (RANM), learning through a Virtual Classroom is a novel experience. The digital mode of learning from a remote centre is very useful because of its novelty and interactive nature. Similarly, Pooja Kumar, ... Read More »
Zee Learn Ltd, the education arm of Essel Group, has appointed former Manipal Global Education Services executive Debshankar Mukhopadhyay as chief executive officer, as per a press statement. Mukhopadhyay, who was previously heading the educational sales – financial services & insurance division at Manipal, has over two decades experience in ... Read More »
Venue d’on ne sait vraiment où, la méthode de rangement dite Rainbow Library devient un must-have dont la communauté hipster ne parvient toujours pas à s’emparer. Un petit rayon de couleurs au milieu du salon, dans une chambre, ou même dans une bibliothèque de prêt, et voici que l’on se ... Read More »
