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Scheme of Assistance for Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse Assistive Living Devices Given by M/o Social Justice & Empowerment to Senior Citizens Financial Assistance Given by M/o Social Justice & Empowerment to Non-Governmental Organisations The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India launches integration & availability of TRAI Mobile Apps on UMANG platform 1.60 million Visitors for the revamped Incredible India website in less than two months: Shri. K. J. Alphons Review Committees by States on TB Special Provision for Treatment of BPL/AAY Patients in Hospitals PHCs transferred under PPP model Multi Drug Resistant TB population in India Centralised health record for citizens Organic Farming Buffer Stock of Sugar Consumer Grievance Redressal System Sale of Fake Products ASCI Reported 732 Complaints of Misleading Advertisements Regarding Herbal Medicines Nepal: Most of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims stuck in Simikot due to bad weather evacuated NITI Aayog working on strategy document to define 2023 objectives ... - Economic Times RIP Kalaignar: Indian film industry pays tribute to Karunanidhi Marathe, Gurumurthy appointed part-time Directors on RBI board Congress seeks JPC probe into Rafale deal Asia's biggest data centre to be set up in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg: Govt US Navy veteran who killed Indian techie Kuchibhotla gets 3 life sentences A US Navy veteran was today sentenced to three consecutive life sentences on federal hate crime charges for killing Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounding two others at a suburban Kansas City bar last year. Family firms see rise in promoter holding that is playing key role: Study What our DNA foretells Nigerian Beverage Company AJEast Raises $50 Million Channel - Block D - Billionaires - blog - Position 5 - Nigerian Beverage Company AJEast Raises $50 Million Article Teaser A failed drone attack shows that Nicolás Maduro is vulnerable A bubbling Islamist insurgency in Mozambique could grow deadlier Is capitalism rigged in favour of elites? Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors? The world is losing the war against climate change more Cabin crew are mutinying over high temperatures on planes Why Nord Stream 2 is the world’s most controversial energy project How to make Eritrea, Africa’s North Korea, less horrible Greece exits its bail-out programme, but its marathon has further to go Russia leads the world at nuclear-reactor exports Glenn Close seethes brilliantly in “The Wife†Anti-immigration, like pro-immigration, is a legitimate political position Women, especially younger ones, could swing the mid-terms What would happen if Britain left the EU with no deal? Instead of houses, young people have houseplants Xi’s world order: July 2024 Universal lessons Breaking point: December 2020 Generation XX: January 2069 Run, TaskRabbit, run: July 2030 What if people were paid for their data? Avast, me hearties Empty sky, empty Earth? The future of food, served up right here in augmented reality What if AI made actors immortal? A different dream Hair today, gone tomorrow? The ideas of liberalism’s greatest thinkers How nature sounds became a multi-million dollar industry Is South American football in decline? Ten years after the financial crisis Cheer up, Deutschland Remembering Tessa Tennant, giant of green finance India shows how hard it is to move beyond fossil fuels Countries team up to save the liberal order from Donald Trump A more realistic route to autonomous driving Japan’s habits of overwork are hard to change The world relies on Russia to build its nuclear power plants Saddam Hussein: my part in his downfall How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself Could he become the world’s best tennis player? Homer meets #MeToo Why business travel leads to vice How to use data to pick the perfect one Greek fascism is satirised in a dark comedy It’s hard to have an unusual name in China Print Edition article">Fighting fire with data Story collection 2 How to make Eritrea Greece exits its bail-out programme Culture Run Avast Empty sky The future of food Hair today Single story collection - The Big Read Daily Watch The changing face of tourism Saudi Arabia: open for tourists Global population: what it means for the future of the world Are wildfires becoming more deadly? Are identity politics dangerous? Putin's Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs Ramaphosa: can he deliver Mandela's dream? Women and the Saudi revolution How to revive the NHS A softer Brexit is a better Brexit Highlights from 1843 magazine Infowars Hot and bothered Open Future: Debate In the line of fire Pakistan Germany sulks Productivity Liberalism Elections in Zimbabwe Growing pains Simulation software Dilemma in the Horn Far from the finish line Global economy Charlemagne The black hole of coal Keeping it together Gently does it Death by work Atoms for peace If China made the rules If every child went to school If Europe’s divides deepened If 50% of CEOs were women If companies had no employees Data workers of the world If drones ruled the waves If there was no Moon What’s on the menu? Performance anxiety If Martin Luther King had not been assassinated If people had no hair on their heads The brains trust Tourism This Week in History South Africa Driving reform Health Sun Procrastination Alexander Zverev Summer's best books A sinner confesses Beaches What the world is watching A difficult character IT MAY be sinking ever deeper into slump, misery and corrupt dictatorship, adorned only by threadbare revolutionary rhetoric, but Venezuela has retained a surprising stability. Over the past 18 months Nicolás Maduro, the president, has pulverised the democratic but divided opposition. RESIDENTS of Naunde village were woken by gunshots at around 2am on June 5th. Two of the attackers carried guns. The other three, armed with machetes, set houses on fire. Then they chased down a local chief and hacked off his head in front of horrified neighbours. null,"rubric": ONE of the internet’s most odious conspiracy theorists has had his videos and podcasts removed from Apple, YouTube, Spotify and Facebook. EARTH is smouldering. From Seattle to Siberia this summer, flames have consumed swathes of the northern hemisphere. One of 18 wildfires sweeping through California, among the worst in the state’s history, is generating such heat that it created its own weather. A WEEK after a general election rocked by suspicions of fraud, the dust is beginning to settle. It looks all but certain that Imran Khan, a former captain of Pakistan’s cricket team, will be sworn in as the country’s next prime minister. His party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), will dominate the legislature. A VISITOR to Germany this summer will find a country living well. Gentle chit-chat and the clink of glasses murmur from sun-dappled beer gardens. Barges laden with exports chug up the Rhine. Prosperous vacationers travel to lakes and seaside resorts in new cars and slick, reliable trains. HOW much yarn per day could an 18th-century British woman spin? Such questions are catnip for economic historians, whose debates typically unfold unnoticed by anyone outside their field. But a running debate concerning the productivity of pre-industrial spinners, and related questions, is spilling beyond academia. LIBERALS are in the market for new ideas. For roughly 30 years, they ran the world. Starting in the early 1980s, free markets, globalisation and individual freedoms flourished. Liberalismâ€"in this broad classical sense, rather than the narrow American left-of-centre oneâ€"saw off communism as well as social conservatism. SO MUCH for a fresh start. The elections in Zimbabwe on July 30th were meant to usher in a new era for a country ruined by nearly four decades of misrule by Robert Mugabe. But the vote and its aftermath have showcased an all-too-familiar mix of chicanery and violence on the part of Zanu-PF, the ruling party, and its military backers. STATISTICAL releases seldom propel presidents onto the White House lawn for press conferences. But on July 27th President Donald Trump was “thrilled†to announce that America’s economy grew by the “amazing†rate of 4.1% in the second quarter of 2018â€"enough to put it on track for average annual growth of over 3%. LEST anyone doubt the speed with which a brush fire can strike, consider how rapidly flames engulfed Mati, a seaside resort near Athens, on July 23rd. Less than 90 minutes after fire was reported, flames had reached densely populated areas. Hordes of people fled into the sea, the only refuge, to escape. At least 91 were killed. The northern hemisphere is suffering from a historic heatwave that has caused droughts and wildfires. It is affecting business travellers too, in the form of flight cancellations. Worse, extreme temperatures pose a lethal danger to passengers. A major campaign by flight attendants across America seeks to address that. PIPELINES are meant to be safe, reliable and deadly boring. Yet the proposed €9.5bn ($11bn) Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipeline, which from next year will double the natural-gas carrying capacity from Russia to Germany, is as controversial as energy projects come. SOMETHING good is happening in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa. Eritrea and Ethiopia are making peace. It is as if North and South Korea made friends, not just with platitudes at a summit but with actions on the ground. “NO ONE buys furniture in a crisis,†laments Konstantinos Vourvoulakis. He and his father used to sell handmade furniture, but as customers became strapped for cash, they shut up shop in 2014. A chatty man with a sunny disposition, he started driving a taxi instead, ferrying tourists around Athens and offering travel tips. THE nuclear power industry, which had been in the doldrums since the 1980s, suffered a devastating blow in 2011 when a tsunami engulfed the Fukushima power plant in Japan, ultimately causing a meltdown. The amount of electricity generated by nuclear power worldwide plunged 11% in two years, and has not recovered since. APPEARING in her first film at the age of 35, Glenn Close arrived late on the silver screen. She quickly came to dominate a certain kind of female role, thanks in part to her angular and unusual good looks. An historian by training, Yuval Noah Harari rose to prominence with two best-selling books. Sapiens looked at humanity’s past and Homo Deus at its future. His latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, considers the here-and-now, spanning subjects from technology and terrorism to populism and religion. What do women think of Donald Trump? The most recent Gallup polling suggests 35% of women approve of the president’s performance, compared with 49% of men. That 14-point difference is one of the largest since his term began. BREXIT is due to happen on March 29th 2019, two years after Theresa May invoked Article 50, the withdrawal provision of the EU treaty. Britain and the European Union are working towards a withdrawal treaty and a framework agreement for future trade. But the gap between the two sides is large. PEOPLE born after 1980 have been slower than previous generations to settle down. Some want to explore the world before they get married and have kids. Others simply cannot afford to buy a house. But they can afford houseplants, and many are finding that nurturing them is a more manageable form of domesticity. IN 1984 Edward Wilson, a Pulitzer-prize-winning biologist at Harvard, published his theory of “biophiliaâ€. BARELY a fortnight after the end of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the 2022 edition might seem a long way off. But the wait will feel almost interminable in South America. Not a single team from CONMEBOL, as the continent’s conference is known, made it to the semi-finals in Russia. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. By Adam Tooze. Viking; 720 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. WHEN asked how he went bankrupt, one of Ernest Hemingway’s characters replies: “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.†That’s rather how the crash was for the world. LAST November investment managers and prominent figures from many faiths (including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Taoists) gathered in the Swiss town of Zug and agreed to help each other direct the vast financial assets controlled by religious bodies towards projects that help rather than harm the earth. DARKNESS is falling as coal starts its long, lawless journey from the pit. The first signs are the cycle-pushing foot-soldiers, such as Ravi Kumar, a 26-year-old whose yellow shirt and grey turban are as coal-smudged as his face and hands. FOR the past four years senior officials from a group of leading democracies, calling themselves the “D10â€, have quietly been meeting once or twice a year to discuss how to co-ordinate strategies to advance the liberal world order. NOBODY likes it when a taxi takes longer than expected to arrive. But that is what is happening with self-driving cars. Building a vehicle that can handle a busy street, with cyclists, pedestrians, roadworks and emergency vehicles, is a tall order. YOSHIHISA AONO could be a model for Japanese executives. The offices of Cybozu, his software company, would appear staid were they in Palo Alto. But they are radical for central Tokyo, where each day waves of black-suited Stakhanovites make their way to grimly utilitarian offices. IN MARCH 2011 a tsunami engulfed the Fukushima power plant in Japan, ultimately causing a meltdown. The worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, it was a devastating blow to an industry that has been in the doldrums since the 1980s. Nuclear plants closed around the world. NEWS OUTLETS call him “China’s Edward Snowdenâ€. His fans worldwide call him “Brother Fuâ€â€"a tag now seen on T-shirts and in internet memes. Both labels are said to mortify Fu Xuedong, the shy Canadian-educated software engineer whose allegations about Chinese cyber-spying have been the summer surprise of 2024. AS YOU WALK from classroom to classroom at Tibba Khara school on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan’s second-biggest city, the children seem to disappear. Pandemonium prevails in the first classroom, packed with five- and six-year-olds in their first year of school. IT HAD SEEMED a small thing at the time. A court ruling in Ireland in March 2018 attracted little attention in a period when an uptick in growth meant the European Union was, for once, basking in an unexpected glow of optimism. AS THE GLOBAL elite gathered this week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the exclusive Alpine mountain-biking resort, the picture was familiar. Rotorpods with blacked-out windows dropped off captains of industry, there to discuss the plight of the world, as they have since the 1970s. THE EMAIL that landed in Eva Smith’s mailbox at 7pm on Friday October 13th 2028 had the ominous subject line “Changesâ€. Ms Smith, a director at a private-equity firm in New York, opened it with trepidation. “DATA SLAVERY.†Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,†she says. IT IS A bright morning in the eastern Mediterranean, and a small robotic watercraft operated by Greenpeace, an environmental group, is quietly approaching two fishing boats about 160 miles north of Egypt’s coast. WAXING AND WANING from invisible new to full-beam full and back, month in and month out, the Moon is famously inconstant. But appearances deceive. Its aspect in the sky may change; the brute fact of there being 73 thousand trillion tonnes of rock orbiting at a distance of some 380,000km does not. THE WORLD will need to rethink its approach to food as the planet warms and the population grows towards an expected 9.7bn people in 2050. AUDREY HEPBURN DIED in 1993, but in 2013 she nevertheless starred in an advertisement for Galaxy, a type of chocolate bar. She was shown riding a bus along the Amalfi coast before catching the eye of a passing hunk in a convertible. WHAT IF, INSTEAD of going to Memphis in April 1968 to lead yet another march, Martin Luther King had returned home, exhausted, to Atlanta? What if he had then avoided all his other would-be assassins and lived to old age well into the 21st century? null,"rubric":"Our cartoonist, KAL, considers a truly hair-raising scenario Venezuela’s president has many enemies Militants have torched villages and carried out a spate of atrocities in the gas-rich north The media platforms’ banishment of Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, raises difficult questions about constitutional standards Rising energy demand means use of fossil fuels is heading in the wrong direction Perhaps he will surprise The biggest risk to Germany is excessive pessimism Researchers differ on whether rising wages gave the impetus to industrialise And why they still matter Army brutality and allegations of vote-rigging dash hopes of a new start The economy is as strong as Donald Trump saysâ€"but perhaps not for long And also how to stop it happening Many passengers are sympathetic to their calls for more regulation Critics say that the natural-gas pipeline will strengthen Russia’s hand in Europe and isolate Ukraine Peace gives Eritrea a chance to open up The economy is expanding again, but the crisis has caused lasting damage China is its only real competitor One of America’s best actors, Ms Close brings a new vigour to an old part A book excerpt from “21 Lessons for the 21st Century†by Yuval Noah Harari But it comes down, as always, to turnout Food shortages, grounded planes and a hard border with Ireland are all possibilities They are cheaper, greener and easier to maintain Before meditation and “wellness†apps, there was an enterprising New Yorker peddling LPs By 2022, 20 years will have passed since the continent won the World Cup. Should fans be worried? The patient is in remission, not cured A rainmaker who cajoled the religious and made them greener A renewable-energy revolution is neither imminent nor pain-free As America retreats from global leadership, coalitions of the like-minded try to limit the damage A six-month trial in Texas focuses on what self-driving tech can do now No one is happy with Japan’s workstyle, but it is proving hard to change And Russia is happy to oblige As America defies and dismantles the international rules-based order, a report from the future imagines what might replace it Their lives would be better, even if they did not learn very much After the euro crisis and Brexit, Poland and Italy could open up new fissures within the EU. A report from 2020 imagines how How the business world finally reached a milestoneâ€"and what had to change along the way Driven by technological and legal changes, how far can the “gig economy†go? Advocates of “data as labour†think users should be paid for using online services How aquatic, autonomous robots could reduce lawlessness at sea Whether complex life would still have arisen on Earth in the absence of the Moon is the subject of much debate Examine the foodstuffs that might sustain mankind in 2050, right on your kitchen table Once filmmakers have no need of human actors, expect more sequels, more lawsuitsâ€"and fewer opportunities for newcomers Fifty years on, how might things have been different? Our cartoonist, KAL, considers a truly hair-raising scenario Data workers of the world, unite Sun, sex and bomb disposal Summer's best books Putin's Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs Ramaphosa: can he deliver Mandela's dream? Chennai bus operators, theatres cancel services on Wednesday Bengal former IPS officer's husband arrested in extortion case Private bus operators have decided to stop their services to and from Chennai till Wednesday evening as large number of passengers have cancelled their tickets and also as a precautionary measure, said an office-bearer of All Omni Bus Operators Association. The Central government on Tuesday announced the appointment of Satish Kashinath Marathe and Swaminathan Gurumurthy as part-time non-official Directors on the central board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). (1 minute ago) (17 minutes ago) (25 minutes ago) (27 minutes ago) The Indian film fraternity, led by megastar Rajinikanth, on Tuesday paid rich tributes to DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi, an erudite writer and political stalwart who went from scripting films to drawing out the political narrative of Tamil Nadu. 3-day water expo in Delhi from August 23 A three-day expo, showcasing India's latest technologies in the water and waste water management sector, will be held here from August 23. Blocking apps will hit travel, banking: COAI (Lead) Let your heart guide the way: Tendulkar's advice to Kohli Himachal Governor launches Shimla-Kalka rail track cleanliness Centre gets $200 million WB loan for nutrition scheme UNAIDS Calls for Bold Leadership to Tackle HIV Prevention Crisis Paint, Varnish Exposure May Increase Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Genes for childhood chronic kidney disease identified Multivitamins May not Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases John Abraham’s school crush story SC allows liquidator to sell Sahara’s Aamby Valley property in parcels This flexible fingerprint sensor can measure temperature Lanka violence: Guterres concerned, UN official to visit Kandy Veteran actress Rita Bhaduri dead at 62 (Lead) Successful day for Indians at Badminton Worlds WB: Flood washes away 2-storey house DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi dies at 94 India expects HSBC data from Switzerland in 10 days Faircent RED BULL Ad: Mobiistar India Urban-rural mobile ownership gap: India below Pak, B’desh Mint street to get an RSS hand on its boardThe govt cleared appointment of S Gurumurthy, the co-convenor of RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch. DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi dies at 94 The end came on Tuesday evening, 11 days after he was admitted in hospital with fever and urinary infection. There is a 22% gap between India's urban and rural populations in mobile ownership and it trails behind less developing countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kenya. राजकारणात जाणार की नाही ?, जाणून घà¥à¤¯à¤¾ इंदà¥à¤°à¤¾ नà¥à¤¯à¥€à¤‚चे उतà¥à¤¤à¤° Odisha: 'Raped by school headmaster', minor girl wrote before slashing wrist The other Trump Arrest of a journalist The Colossus Ricky Ponting says shot clocks would help erase ‘dead time’ Ricardo Vilanova in Syria Donald Trump Jr and Natalia Veselnitskaya Business Live: Tesla shares suspended Sport Today Spanish photojournalist Ricardo Vilanova meets two of the men accused of holding him hostage in Syria. The comments come after his father tweeted the 2016 meeting was "to get information on an opponent". Face to face with IS captors Trump Jr says 2016 meeting a 'distraction Sitharaman to accompany PM to pay last respect to Karunanidhi in Chennai Vice President condoles death of Karunanidhi DMK Chief Karunanidhi passes away, President, PM, leaders condole death, Birla Corporation announces a 94-percent on-year rise in its net profit in Q1, 2018
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