Rose Marcario, CEO of outdoor clothing company Patagonia, believes providing employees with high quality on-site child care isn’t just is good for families – it’s good for the bottom line. “It’s true, there are financial costs to offering onsite child care, and they can be expensive if you offer high-quality ... Read More »
Akshay Kumar’s Rustom is reaching new heights with each passing day at the box office. The movie, which is loosely based on the infamous case of KM Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra, struck the right chords with the audiences. Despite the box office clash with director Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro ... Read More »
LEWISTON — Many veterans never receive hard-earned medals in recognition of their military service, but the family of a Lewiston veteran of a National Guard call-up for the “Berlin Crisis” of 1960-62 has taken steps to correct an important omission. Normand R. Marquis, who died this past Easter in Colorado, ... Read More »
Introducing the Salish — a 399-square-foot tiny house in Wildwood Cottages, a new development of lakefront vacation homes along Washington’s Lake Whatcom. Located 90 miles north of Seattle, this former-camping-ground-turned-luxury-resort consists of 90 for-sale units, one of which is the Salish. The tiny abode is going for $312,500 plus an ... Read More »
A portable device may allow doctors to create single doses of biopharmaceutical medications on demand, potentially speeding the treatment of diseases that include diabetes and cancer. The portable production system was developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ... Read More »
Even as the death toll in the current wave of devastating floods in Assam claimed 26 lives and affected 37 lakh people in the state, union home minister Rajnath Singhon Saturday in Guwahati called for finding long-term solutions to tackle the recurring problem. “Short-term measures are temporary. What we require ... Read More »
DNO, a Norwegian oil and gas company with strong Iraqi assets, said Friday it made a $300 million bid for Gulf Keystone Petroleum, which is restructuring debt. DNO said it was offering 40 percent of the full offer in cash, which it said would give investors in Gulf Keystone Petroleum ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s life, in many respects, traces the arc of progress for women in American society. Her mother, Dorothy Rodham, was born in 1919, a year before the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. It has taken a long, long time for that amendment’s promise of women’s full participation in ... Read More »
Hamilton’s giddy growth rate has forced the building of another new school in the burgeoning northeast of the city. The new school will chalk up a tally of four new schools built in four years when the latest one opens in 2019. The most recent announcement was a new primary school in ... Read More »
people with diabetes are at higher hazard for developing heart ailment, and people who have a heartassault are at considerably more danger of demise than people who do now not have diabetes, researchers in England report. heart assault sufferers with diabetes are 50 percentage much more likely to die from ... Read More »
TEHRAN, April 12 — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, on Tuesday unveiled its newest aerial surveillance drone during large-scale military exercises in the western part of the country. Iranian media reports the drone, named “Hamasseh” or “Epic” in English, conducted its first ever surveillance flights during the exercise in ... Read More »
In November last year, when pieces of the poll puzzle in Assam were scattered all over, the BJP looked the most sure-footed, with a defined target, a dynamic leadership and surging popularity. The only hitch was Badruddin Ajmal-led AIDUF, which claims to represent the state’s minorities — not the BJP’s ... Read More »
