AMMAN — Donor countries have pledged close to $100 million to help Jordan enroll all Syrian refugee children in the kingdom in schools next month. In the previous school year, 145,000 Syrian children in Jordan attended school, while 91,000 didn’t, in part because of overcrowding. Jordan is now adding a ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Joel Benenson, got angry at MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday when he was asked about Hillary Clinton’s health, particularly her receiving injections. Mitchell asked Benenson if he would give a rebuttal to the photo that has recently gone viral about Clinton allegedly receiving medical injections. She also asked him ... Read More »
The Centre on Thursday announced a ‘special assistance’ of Rs. 1,976.5 crore for residual Andhra Pradesh to help it tide over the financial impact caused by the bifurcation of the erstwhile undivided State. MPs from the State had raised the issue in the recently-concluded session of Parliament and the State ... Read More »
Google’s Chromebook has been particularly successful in the education market — and that’s helped drive its broader software platform, Google for Education. It’s similar to the business offerings Google offers, with access to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and so on, but it also adds the specialized Google Classroom tool that ... Read More »
Hiren Tambe, who owns a 500-sqft store in Navi Mumbai, has at least 800 stock keeping units (SKU). Having run the store for over 15 years, he has always understood his typical customer’s requirements. Or so he thought. But with modern retail arriving in his vicinity, Hiren realised that many ... Read More »
– Sony Pictures Classics says it will release the star-studded Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer in North America, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and most of Asia. Written and directed by Joseph Cedar, the film features Richard Gere, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josh Charles, Michael Sheen, ... Read More »
Lockheed Martin Missile and hearth manage has been presented a $14 million cost-plus-fixed–charge,value-plus-incentive-price U.S. army contract for aid of the sq.-89 undersea struggle system. The agreement capabilities options that will convey its price to $169.five million if those options are exercised. The AN/square-89A(V)15 is a surface ship undersea battle combat ... Read More »
Mind loss of life is normally seen as crossing the ultimate frontier of life, as a minimum in a clinicalplacing. until a affected person has gone via mind demise, we believe that a few vestige of theirpersonality need to nevertheless be in there. however damage to the CNS, specifically axonal ... Read More »
Facebook wants to get us to start oversharing on video, too. The social-network’s Live video feature, which lets folks broadcast live from their smartphones, got a handful of new tools, including more “reaction” buttons, such as Love and Wow, as well as filters like sepia tone. Facebook needs to keep ... Read More »
Giving a shot in the arm to the Oommen Chandy government, the Election Commission (EC) has lifted the ban it had imposed on the launch of the free ration scheme announced in the 2016-17 budget. The commission has permitted the government to go ahead with the scheme subject to the ... Read More »
The One Rank One Pension scheme, brought in last November to benefit more than 2.5 million ex- servicemen and war widows, on Wednesday received ex-post facto approval from the Cabinet. Under the scheme, pension would be revised on the basis of the pension of retirees of calendar year 2013 and ... Read More »
Petrol price was hiked by Rs 2.19 per litre and diesel by 98 paise per litre on Monday. The hike will come into effect by midnight of 4th and 5th April 2016. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 61.87 per litre as against Rs 59.68, said Indian Oil Corporation, ... Read More »
