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China and India on Monday decided to organise 100 activities, including in the areas of films and broadcasting, to boost people-to-people contacts. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is on a crucial three-day visit to China, called on Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan and later held talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi. "We also discussed some new proposals and ideas to further promote such exchanges. As a result, we have also agreed to organise 100 activities to further strengthen our people-to-people ties," Jaishankar said. Читать дальше...

If you read System Shock 2’s patch notes on Steam you might notice something unusual, as I did. In the list of fixes, additions, and technical talk, there’s a note thanking “Le Corbeau” for providing the patch. It’s an official patch that the game’s publishers pushed onto Steam, but reading the note it looked to […]

Democrat Stacey Abrams repeated her claim that her 2018 governor's race was "stolen from the people of Georgia" in an MSNBC special on voting airing Sunday.

The LT sandwich at Daily Provisions is a seasonal stunner, combining peeled and marinated beefsteak tomatoes and baby watercress on focaccia baked in-house. (Bacon is optional.)

Rice University scientists have found a way to engineer a new kind of cell differentiation in bacteria, inspired by a naturally occurring process in stem cells.

The BJP's Karnataka unit on Monday hit out at Congress Legislature party leader Siddaramaiah for not visiting his flood-hit Badami assembly constituency and instead attending a "biryani party." The BJP has also posted pictures of Siddaramaiah purportedly having food along with KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, veteran congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, party legislators B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, M B Patil, K J George, Krishna Byre Gowda, among others. "Twitter preacher @siddaramaiah has time to attend biryani party at Congress MLCs house... Читать дальше...

Conservative commentators cheered when Universal shelved Blumhouse's "The Hunt," starring Hilary Swank

Supercapacitors turbocharged by laxatives  Phys.org

An international team of scientists, including a professor of chemistry from the University of Bristol, has worked out a way to improve energy storage devices ...

Cook Brings In Apple Earlier this year, Tim Cook announced Apple TV+, the company’s long-awaited over-the-top (OTT) video service, would launch this fall. The presentation of the news came in Apple’s typical hype-building fashion. But with news of original programming comes celebrities and with that a new degree of hysteria – even for Apple. The […]

Match Information: Walton Casuals vs Farnborough BetVictor Southern Premier South Tuesday 13 August 2019 Kick-Off 7:45pm Match Officials Referee: Daniel Austin (Bognor Regis) Assistant Referee’s: Calum Mcfarlane (Newport) and Nicolas Hucker (Hook). Venue address Walton Casuals Football Club, Xcel Sports Hub, … Continued

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities have characterized their surprise move to strip Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status as freeing the disputed Himalayan territory from the bonds that kept it from realizing its economic potential. But the argument is flawed. The region already outperforms India on measures such as life expectancy, literacy and poverty, and

Rescue and relief operations continued in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat on Monday with the death toll climbing to 192 in the four flood-hit states, while heavy showers lashed Uttarakhand and Jammu leaving nine people dead in landslides. Rains subsided in many parts of the flood-hit states where over 12 lakh people have been affected and the water level has started receding in the deluge-ravaged areas, officials said. The death toll in Kerala increased to 76 on Monday, while in Karnataka... Читать дальше...

As director of the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, I regularly talk to people about how they can use data to help their communities thrive. The decennial census is particularly important – and the next one is less than a year away. People living in rural and small town America in particular have […]

For some entrepreneurs, their own trips have inspired them to start companies catering to travelers’ unique needs. The Sursy Founder and CEO Lauren Richardson, for instance, traveled quite a bit for work. At one point, she was staying at a hotel in Chicago, where she fell in love with a coffee table book. She wondered […]

About 20 men and women have rallied outside a building housing several European countries' embassies in Kazakhstan's capital, Nur-Sultan, demanding that the authorities immediately release jailed politicians and activists.

Television actor Abhinav Kohli has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a woman and beating her up, police said on Monday. Kohli (39) was arrested after the victim approached the Samta Nagar Police Station in suburban Kandivali along with her mother, who is also a TV actress, with a complaint on Sunday evening, an official said. He used filthy language with the woman and showed her obscene photos of models on mobile phone on several occasions since October 2017, a second official said. Читать дальше...

The “musicale finale” of Amazon’s series “Transparent” will make its world premiere as part of the Tribeca TV Festival this fall, Tribeca announced as part of the festival’s lineup Monday. It will be followed by a conversation with executive producers Jill Soloway and Faith Soloway.

Live updates of the situation in JK after Centre#39;s move to revoke Article 370 provisions

A truck driver was trampled to death on Monday by a herd of wild elephants in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, a forest official said. The incident occurred around 5:30 am near Bojiya village on Gharghoda-Chhal road under Chhal forest range, said Pranay Mishra, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Dharamjaigarh division. As per preliminary information, Sanoj Ram (35) had parked his truck along the road that passes through a dense forest after it broke down. "He was sleeping inside the cabin of... Читать дальше...

The state of California has introduced "blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel" lessons into its official high school curriculum, drawing outrage and concern in the state's Jewish and pro-Israel communities, according to multiple sources involved in the controversy.

To get its first 5G phone to market without Qualcomm's chips, Huawei rushed out an inefficient design that wastes power, space, and money, IHS suggests.

Gird your schweddy balls, Alec Baldwin: Comedy Central has set Robert De Niro, Blake Griffin, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, Chris Redd and Jeff Ross as the roasters who will join Roast Master Sean Hayes on the dais for the “Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin.”

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New research finds that using focus boosting drugs without a prescription has few benefits and may affect memory and sleep quality in the long run.

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