MOSCOW, April 12 — Russia and Bolivia are holding negotiations over how Russian defense firms can help the South American nation revitalize its aging military arsenal over the next decade. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss current and ... Read More »
Welcome to House Beautiful Homes, an exciting new concept in construction and design. Stylish, spacious, modern and thoughtfully designed, House Beautiful Homes is a premier collection of custom-built homes manufactured off site using state-of-the-art modular construction techniques. Reflecting the changing patterns of family life, the House Beautiful Homes designs include ... Read More »
TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 — Almost 14 percent of U.S. veterans surveyed during a two-year Veterans Affairs (VA) study reported having suicidal thoughts. More than 2,000 veterans were surveyed in 2011 and again in 2013. Each time they were asked whether they’d had suicidal thoughts in the past two weeks. ... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday laid out an ambitious 10-year plan to connect the world’s 7 billion people via his company’s social media network. The Facebook chief executive, speaking at the F8 Developers conference Tuesday,submitted a vision of the future in which everyone on ... Read More »
Rapping the BCCI and the cricket associations in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra over water wastage when the State is reeling under severe drought, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should ideally be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis. “Only ... Read More »
Turf war:The Bombay High Court on Wednesday suggested shifting the forthcoming IPL matches out of drought-hit Maharashtra to stop wastage of water needed to maintain cricket grounds. The Supreme Court also questioned the Centre over relief measures taken in the affected States.—Photo: Vivek Bendre . [Source:- The Hindu] Read More »
A day after a 34-year-old man from Bhatkal town in Karnataka was detained at the Pune airport for alleged links with the Islamic State (IS), a senior government official said on Wednesday it could have been a case of mistaken identity. Ismail Musab Raoof Ahmed, a shoe salesman, was on ... Read More »
The ongoing all-India strike by jewellery associations against additional excise duty on gold, has turned into a political battleground. Senior political leaders from the Shiv Sena, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have come out in support of jewellers who have been on strike for 37 days – the longest ... Read More »
School facilities is second only to highways as the largest sector of public infrastructure spending, but it’s been more than 20 years since the federal government conducted a comprehensive review of the nation’s school buildings. The fill this void, the Center for Green Schools teamed up with 21st Century Fund ... Read More »
In order for clinical trials to be worth the time and money, researchers must enroll enough participants to fairly judge the effects of treatments. Nearly a quarter of trials for cancer drugs, however, fail to enroll enough people for reliability, representing a waste of what researchers in a new study ... Read More »
The Zaatari camp in northern Jordan opened in 2012 as a temporary refuge of tents for Syrians fleeing the civil war. Today, this camp alone is home to nearly 80,000 people. The tiny kingdom with a population of 8 million struggles to cope with its 2 million migrants. Zaatari camp, ... Read More »
You might be tempted to say that Todd Rose isn’t your “average” high school dropout. He is, after all, currently on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But Rose is also author of a new book that explains why you shouldn’t refer to him, yourself or anyone around ... Read More »
