Over 50,000 Muslim women and men have signed a petition spearheaded by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) seeking a ban on triple talaq. The women have sought support to abolish the “heinous” practice, which they have termed as “un-Quranic” The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) wrote to the National Commission ... Read More »
Australia has received State Department approval for acquisition of as many as 80 SM-2 missiles through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which manages the program, said the possible deal carries a total value of $302 million and would include vertical launch canisters for ... Read More »
Virtual reality is about to make its way into all sorts of places where it doesn’t belong, from the bathroom to the bedroom — and now to the courtroom. Industry knows no restraint unless it is imposed through the will of consumers, and in the case of the evidence-analysis industry, ... Read More »
The lack of residences on the market, leading to price jumps and bidding wars, isn’t stopping buyers from closing on the homes of their dreams. In April, the number of existing homes sold shot up 4.9% year over year, to 471,000 purchases across the great U.S. of A., according to ... Read More »
For all those parents who fret about how quickly their baby will learn to walk, read up. British scientists report that toddlers who can walk, run and jump by the time they are 18 months old may have stronger bones as teenagers. The researchers suggested that their findings could help ... Read More »
During an unusually cold and rainy winter in Phoenix, Arizona, Carlos, a senior at Phoenix Union High School, stopped going to school. Not because he was struggling academically or because he’d lost interest in his education. He didn’t have discipline or behavioral problems either. Carlos stopped going because the only ... Read More »
Lithuania is to hold talks with Norway on procuring the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System. The decision on talks for the medium-range defense system was made late last week by the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense. “We have decided to open negotiations with the Norwegian government on possible ... Read More »
In examining the Title I education funding program, U.S. News combined data points from several different datasets and sources. Poverty and Child Population Estimates We used the Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates for school districts to get an estimate of the number of children and the number of children ... Read More »
When Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 earlier this month, it established its new Pascal-derived GPUs as leaders in the top of the market. Now, as expected, the GTX 1070 has dropped, piledriving both Nvidia’s previous cards and every top-end GPU AMD has to offer. First, let’s hit the technical specifications. ... Read More »
Only half of parents of children with asthma fully understand the use of their youngsters’ asthma medications, a new study finds. A survey of parents of 740 children with probable persistent asthma found just 49 percent knew what kind of medication their child was prescribed and how often to use ... Read More »
Mobile handsets worth about Rs 10.37 lakh were allegedly stolen from the godown of an e-commerce company by its employees in Thane, police said on Wednesday. According to a police complaint lodged by Amazon, on May 22, a total of 17 mobile handsets were stolen by five contractual employees from ... Read More »
Food manufacturer General Mills on Tuesday announced a voluntary recall of more than 10 million pounds of flour due to concern over a recent E. coli outbreak possibly involving several of the company’s brands. The Minnesota-based company announced that the recall involves the Gold Medal, Wondra and Signature Kitchens brands ... Read More »
