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The Chief Executive of the Government of National Unity Abdullah Abdullah has said the partial withdrawal of the foreign forces will not be the end of the world for Afghanistan. Speaking with a group of reporters in Kabul on Monday, Abdullah said the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and their cooperation with Afghanistan has […]

University of Pennsylvania engineers have altered a sheet of nickel to produce a material they call "metallic wood", which is extremely strong and light. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania took inspiration from the natural world to build pores into the nickel on a nanoscale level, making it less dense. About 70 per cent of

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Pupils, education minister Nick Gibb has just decided, should be banned from taking smartphones to school. After looking at his Twitter feed I've found an alternative way to deter children from digital addiction: they should be ordered to follow him online. "A pleasure to meet Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Education in the Republic of Azerbaijan yesterday evening", he told us earnestly the other day. "Very good meeting with the Vietnamese Minister for Education, Professor Xuan Nha Phung," he announced before that. Читать дальше...

Among other things, it doubled the limit for exemption from Goods and Services Tax (GST) to Rs 40 lakh, from Rs 20 lakh

Psephology is the study of elections. Some persons in Ghana think they are masters of the art. They would never render a 'thumbs-up' gesture to anybody occupying the important seat of Chairperson, Electoral Commission (EC); positive performance notwithstanding. Fate has, however, denied them the responsibility of being at the helm of the respect ...

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[CAF] Dekedda Sports Club emerged victors of the Somalia Super Cup after trouncing rivals Banadir sports Club 3-0 on Wednesday (30 January 2019) in Mogadishu.

These places are more closed than prisons. And the journalists are uninvited guests here. These are boarding schools. There are 751 boarding schools in Ukraine, 106 thousand minors and about 50 thousand adults with disabilities live here. Read more here.

Other family members' Black History Month tweets received backlash, too.

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots celebrate their 6th Super Bowl win in a game where one touchdown was enough. Also, embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is resisting calls to resign over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Get the Eye Opener delivered straight to your inbox.

: The Tamil Nadu government Monday unveiled a new solar energy policy 2019 that aims at generating 9,000 MW for the state by 2022. Chief Minister K Palaniswami had announced in June 2018 that a similar policy released in 2012 would be upgraded by combining the Vision 2023 document released by former late chief minister J Jayalalithaa and also the target set by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of 9,000 MW installed capacity. According to the new policy, Vision Tamil Nadu 2023 document includes a solar energy target of 5,000 MW. Читать дальше...

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/ -- Six days, four cities and three thrilling rounds later, on the evening of 2nd February, 2019, France was crowned winner of the IIHM International Young Chef Olympiad 2019. The winners were announced at the end of a colourful and grand closing ceremony befitting the standard of the Young Chef Olympiad, held at Nicco Park in Kolkata. Cyrene Randrianasolo, a student of Albert de Mun Hotel and Catering School, beat 49 other nations and was declared winner of the fifth edition of the world's biggest culinary extravaganza. Читать дальше...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of having snatched farmers' sleep and while referring to the sops announced in the interim Budget on Friday claimed that the peasants were being cheated before the general elections. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress chief, said if the government at the Centre changes following the Lok Sabha elections, farmers' interests will be given priority. The chief minister is on a dharna since Sunday night over the CBI's... Читать дальше...

Drugs, cash, phones and a knife were found after a car and house were searched in Lichfield.

Shares of IDBI Bank Monday plunged nearly 6 per cent after the company reported widening of loss to Rs 4,185.48 crore for the December quarter 2018 as bad loans surged. The stock slumped 4.07 per cent to close at Rs 50.65 on BSE. Intra-day, it tumbled 7.67 per cent to Rs 48.75. On NSE, shares declined 5.68 per cent to end at Rs 49.75. On the traded volume front, 36.60 lakh shares changed hands on BSE and 1.8 crore units on NSE. The bank had reported a net loss of Rs 1,524.31 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. Читать дальше...

Leading sugar firm Balrampur Chini Mills Monday reported 96 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 120.32 crore for December quarter, 2018-19. Its net profit stood at Rs 61.42 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a regulatory filing. Total income, however, dropped to Rs 962.68 crore in the latest quarter from Rs 1,007.5 crore in the same period a year ago.

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A fresh plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday challenging the constitutional validity of the 1993 central law by which 67.703 acre land, including the disputed premises of Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, was acquired. The plea, challenging legislative competence of Parliament to acquire religious land, has been filed a week after the Centre moved the apex court seeking modification in of its 2003 order and allow it to return to original owners the 67 acre of the "non-disputed" land around the disputed structure at Ayodhya. Читать дальше...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) – A captured Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist from Germany sat down for an interview with the German language news site Welt Spiegel recently to discuss his participation in the Syrian conflict. During the interview, the ISIS fighter, Farid Saal, acknowledges that he starred in a mass execution video of Syrian soldiers in […]

The Archery Association of India (AAI) does not figure in the sports ministry's list of recognised national federations after the annual renewal even after fresh elections were held under a new constitution. B V P Rao was elected president of AAI on December 22 last year in the elections held under the supervision of the Delhi High Court-appointed administrator and former Chief Election Commissioner of India, S Y Quraishi. The AAI's elections were initially not recognised by its international parent body... Читать дальше...