Despite classes being hampered for 10 days in February after the murder of 12-year-old Vinay Mahto, around 20 students of Sapphire International School (SIS) appeared for the Class XII board exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday.
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) environmental advocacy group condemned a US Senate committee bill on biotechnology labeling solutions the non-profit claims would deprive states of laws requiring labeling genetically engineered (GE) food.
Aubrey McClendon, the former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was indicted Tuesday on a charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in ...
Her plan to regroup old comrades led a woman cadre of the CPI(Maoist), who was part of the ambush team that killed Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar, to the police net on Monday night even before she could reach Giridih for her mission, police said.
“You’re, like, the coolest person I’ve ever met, and you don’t even have to try”.
Twenty-three Jewish services organizations, including agencies in greater Washington and Baltimore, will receive $2.8 million to help aging Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Federations of North America announced Tuesday.
There is a growing transgender movement in America today, fueled in part by celebrity icons such as Laverne Cox, Caitlin Jenner, and Janet Mock, but trans and gender non-conforming people have always existed. Some have lived and loved quietly to avoid detection and discrimination while others have been political activists who openly and defiantly challenged unjust laws.
[Stonewall veteran and S.T.A.R. co-founder Sylvia Rivera. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1970.]
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Investing cynics may be leery of China’s shaky real-estate market but one contrarian institutional real-estate investor, a Hong Kong-based family-run firm, is still making aggressive bets.
"Black box" warning will be placed on the Essure implant, but some women say that doesn't go far enough
With expatriates and health-conscious Indians leading the way, residents of Delhi are finally taking steps to protect themselves from the health-threatening atmosphere, as people in Beijing and some other heavily polluted Asian cities have already done.
With expatriates and health-conscious Indians leading the way, residents of Delhi are finally taking steps to protect themselves from the health-threatening atmosphere, as people in Beijing and some other heavily polluted Asian cities have already done.
FUKUI, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. has put a nuclear reactor at its Takahama plant in a state of cold shutdow...
While it's unlikely the Senate’s Conservative majority would defeat C-6, it could send the contentious Liberal legislation back to the House of Commons with amendments
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NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- The Russian ambassador to the United Nations said the U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea should be adopted soon.
RICHMOND, Virginia - Scoochie Smith scored 24 of his career-high 26 points in the second half to help Dayton rally for an 85-84 win over Richmond on Tuesday night.
After 25 years, the biannual Globe series of conferences on sustainability and leadership has become a well-known feature on Vancouver’s business landscape, but this year’s edition is of particular interest because it follows so closely behind last November’s United Nations climate change talks in Paris. “We positioned Globe as the next step after Paris. ‘The road from Paris’, we’re calling it,” said Mike Gerbis, the recently installed CEO of the Globe Series.
Indresh Kumar, a senior functionary of RSS, the ideological mentor of PDP’s alliance partner BJP, said that confidence building measures cannot be demanded but have to be built as the minds of the two allies synchronise.
One narrative of the new Vancouver goes like this: High real estate prices have made it impossible for anybody to live here except Shanghai money launderers, dot-com wunderkinds and Chip Wilson.
The Blind Auditions continued on season 10 of The Voice tonight, with coaches Pharrell Williams, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Blake...
Japan’s Nikkei up as much as 4.1% as yen falls back
Newly released documents show Osama bin Laden struggling for relevance and fearful of being tracked.
India is organising an international dialogue in Delhi on March 10-11 to present a model of ‘no strings attached’ assistance to developing countries.
All hail the Snowking.
For the last two decades, people in Yellowknife have built astonishing snow castles as part of the Snowking festival. The builders use the pure snow and ice from Great Slave Lake to build a new winter wonderland from scratch every time.
The castle itself is located on Yellowknife Bay, which is connected to the lake. It takes dozens of people a few months to design, build, and decorate the snow castles.
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