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The Fall Army Worm (FAW) infestation in Mizoram has been contained, a senior Agriculture department official said on Monday. The FAW insects attacked the maize crops in the state but it had been contained due to the coordinated efforts of the Agriculture department and the farmers in using pesticides, joint director in the Agriculture department James Lalsiamliana said. The FAW infestation has come down as compared to the peak outbreak in mid May, Lalsiamliana told PTI. "The onset of monsoon also helped a lot in containing the outbreak... Читать дальше...

Oliver Stone is working on a memoir, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces

Puppies of stray dogs are being sold as expensive canine breeds to animal lovers after colouring them, police said Monday. A complaint in this connection has been filed at the Worli police station and process is on to register an offence, an official said. Animal rights activists and NGOs suspect this is part of a big racket. Reports of stray puppies being sold for high price after colouring them were received from Crawford market in South Mumbai and some other places in the city, they said. Читать дальше...

A 30-year-old man was seriously injured after his mobile phone exploded when he was speaking to a relative while riding a bike, police said here Monday Arumugam had tucked the phone in his helmet and was speaking to the relative while riding his motorcycle Sunday when it exploded, they said. He managed to bring the bike to a halt before losing consciousness. Local people rushed to the spot and got him admitted to a hospital, police said.

Mumbai is known to many as the City of Fashion.An amalgamation of high fashion, unique style and bold statements, every nook and corner of the city is flooded with fashion you can breathe.Amidst the sweet chaos, there is one designer who stands out from the rest by a mile - Sonali Jain.Bestowed with a name that itself signifies 'Beautiful Colour', the fashionista is known to draw inspiration from the royalty of Indian heritage along with contemporary touches, creating magnificently luxurious attire with splendid embellishments. Читать дальше...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday assured the minority Tamil community in the North that they would be granted a political solution within the next two years. "We are closer to achieving a political solution. We will provide a solution during the next two years. That will lead to a future where all Sri Lankans can live with pride," he said while speaking at an event in Jaffna. The prime minister said that his government was not able to achieve a solution to the Tamil minority... Читать дальше...

1. Calls for Investigations after Power Restored in Manhattan  Snopes.com
2. New York City Blackout Caused by Power Grid’s Protection System Failing  The Wall Street Journal
3. Mysterious blackout leaves New Yorkers in the dark  ABC News
4. Cuomo sends warning to Con Ed after blackout: 'They can be replaced'  New York Post
5. Preliminary report shows faulty relay protection system caused NYC power outage  CNN
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, came together to watch Serena Williams in the Women's Final of this year's Wimbledon - but it was very different to their 2018 visit

Looking ahead at Chicago, weekend review, and more in today’s links

Philadelphia Union News

It’s gut-check time for Philadelphia Union
Since Major League Soccer returned from the CONCACAF Gold Cup break, the Philadelphia Union have not looked like a first-place team.

This is Who They Are: Chicago Fire 1, FC Cincinnati 2
The Union return home to face Chicago on Saturday, so let’s see how they fared in their last game.

MLS News

Armchair Analyst: All 24... Читать дальше...

Frustrated by the menace of hawkers, residents of at least twelve residential societies in Thane have sent 1000-odd postcards to municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal seeking his intervention into the issue. They have demanded that the entire stretch of Gladys Alvares Marg be declared as a "no hawking zone". "Despite holding protests like submitting representations to officials, arranging meetings with local corporators, organising a silent morcha and posting tweets, the TMC chief didn't bother to respond to our complaints. Читать дальше...

1. Will United Airlines Keep Its Earnings Surprise Streak Alive?  Market Realist
2. Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change  The Guardian
3. Boeing under pressure as 737 Max stays grounded 'until 2020'  Telegraph.co.uk
4. Boeing 737 Max likely to be grounded till 2020 as software needs to be fixed: Report  The News Minute
5. Ryanair appears to rebrand Boeing 737 Max planes amid crisis with jets  Business Insider
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Sebi issued 47 warning letters to mutual fund houses in the last financial year, and the watchdog in consultation with the central government is examining various issues related to mutual funds on a continuous basis. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Union minister Anurag Thakur said that Sebi, in its regulatory oversight, has noticed various irregularities with respect to functioning of mutual funds like failure to identify and appropriate all the expenses in individual schemes as per regulatory requirements. Читать дальше...

Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members on Monday batted for higher funding for Ministry of Aayush for encouraging traditional systems of medicine, stressing it will benefit millions of people in the country. Some MPs also suggested convergence of modern medical science with traditional systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy during a discussion on Ministry of Ayush in the Upper House. Initiating the debate, Ram Gopal Yadav (SP) said, "The... Читать дальше...

American Airlines is taking the troubled Boeing 737 Max jets off its schedules for another two months until at least Nov. 2.The move will force American Airlines to cancel about 115 flights each day. American has 24 Boeing 737 Max jets in its fleet, the...

Lakeshore Towing: Giving You the Business

A Kent MP says it was "very upsetting" to visit a 17-year-old in hospital - where he remains in a coma following a vicious assault.

The new education minister's remarks in favor of the controversial practice that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals came under widespread criticism.

The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants.

The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of his battle to curtail the number of people crossing the border.

The Bank of England on Monday said World War II code-breaker Alan Turing had been chosen to feature on the back of Britain's new 50 pound bank note. "Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today," Bank of England governor Mark Carney said as he unveiled the note at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, northwest England. "As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far ranging and path breaking. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court Monday directed the Centre to deposit Rs 10 lakh in an account to meet the expenses of a court-appointed high-powered committee, set up for suggesting measures to make competitive entrance exams fool proof. The top court had on May 9 constituted a 7-member committee, headed by former apex court judge Justice (retd) G S Singhvi, while hearing a plea which has sought probe into alleged paper leak of 2017 Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exams. The matter came up on Monday before a... Читать дальше...

The ABVP Monday staged a protest against the Delhi University vice-chancellor over inclusion of "objectionable and unilateral material" in the new syllabus of some courses. The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) said it condemns the efforts made by some departments of the varsity to impose the "leftist ideological agenda" on students. It demanded that the alleged biased articles on "nationalist organisations and objectionable content on Hindu religion" be removed. A member of... Читать дальше...

The US vs. China isn’t the only trade war in town, and a similar dispute is brewing between two other major world economies, Japan and South Korea. And the whole thing might be affecting the imminent Galaxy Note 10 launch, Samsung’s next smartphone flagship. Samsung already announced a launch event for August 7th, with the Note 10 expected to hit stores on August 23rd, according to recent rumors. Samsung is already mass-producing the phone in anticipation of its launch, of course, but the company... Читать дальше...