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Volvo Taking Aim at German Wagons with New 2011 Volvo V60

Volvo unveiled its replacement for the V70 wagon, the 2011 Volvo V60, earlier this year and is set to show it for the first time at the upcoming Paris Motor Show in late September.

Photo Gallery: 2011 Volvo V60 – Paris Motor Show – Motor Trend

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Prices are Crashing on These Five Cars

If you bought a Ford Flex in July, you spent more than a grand over than you would have if you’d waited a month. A Range Rover Sport? Same problem. The prices of most cars are trending up over time, but the prices of these are on the way down. With the help of our pricing partners at TrueCar.com, we’ve identified the five cars seeing the sharpest…

Catfish – Rel asks Nev about how his relationship with Megan is progressing

	Catfish – Rel asks Nev about how his relationship with Megan is progressing Release Date: 17 September 2010 Genre: Documentary | Thriller Cast: Nev Schulman Director: Henry Joost Writers: Ariel Schulman Studio: Rogue Plot: Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost document a story involving Ariel's brother, Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, and Abby, an 8-year-old girl from rural Michigan who contacts Nev via Facebook, asking for permission to make a painting from one of his photographs. Subscribe Now: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=trailers	From: trailers Views: 54 4 ratings
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Catfish – Megan sends Nev a drawing she made of him

	Catfish – Megan sends Nev a drawing she made of him Release Date: 17 September 2010 Genre: Documentary | Thriller Cast: Nev Schulman Director: Henry Joost Writers: Ariel Schulman Studio: Rogue Plot: Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost document a story involving Ariel's brother, Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, and Abby, an 8-year-old girl from rural Michigan who contacts Nev via Facebook, asking for permission to make a painting from one of his photographs. Subscribe Now: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=trailers	From: trailers Views: 97 8 ratings
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Which Ford’s Your All-Time Favorite?

If you’re a follower of High Gear Media “on the Twitters,” as doddering journosaurs know it, you’ve seen this tweet this morning from our colleagues @Ford: “In 1953, Ford produced its 40-millionth U.S.-built vehicle. We’re still going strong! What is your all-time favorite Ford vehicle?” If it makes you take a trip down memory lane, you’re not…

Mahindra Satyam removes freeze on hiring, to recruit 3,000

This is first time that Mahindra Satyam, the new brand entity of Satyam, will visit campuses to hire talent after the Satyam Computer scam erupted in January, 2009.

Our Time with the World’s Smallest Man

Well, he has come and gone, and we had such an amazing time with Khagendra!  He is truly a special guy and we are so happy to have spent a few days with him and his family!  Here are some clips we took during his trip to NYC:

9/11: The Auto Aftermath

This story ran for the first time on TheCarConnection on November 28, 2001, and was written by Mike Davis. For a rolling memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, see John Holmgren’s 18-wheeler. The world is still reeling from the unthinkable terrorist attacks September 11 on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the thousands of innocent…

How Much Does A Meal In Gordon Ramsey’s Restaurant Cost?

Gordon Ramsay at Claridges is considered the most glamorous of all of Ramsay’s London restaurants. It is estimated that it would cost approximately £72 for dinner and drinks as a bottle of house wine is priced at about £20. They offer a fixed price lunch of 3 courses, priced at £30. At Gordon Ramsay on Royal Hospital Road, you can expect to have to pay about £60 for dinner per person. A bottle of house wine here costs £18. This restaurant won the LondonEats.com Award for Best Overall Restaurant in 2003 and 2002. It also won the Time Out Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2002.

At Gordon Ramsay’s Boxwood Café, a Set Lunch Menu is priced at £21 for 3 courses. The A La Carte Menu has starters which are from £7.50 to £13.50 while the mains are from £14 to £25. They offer a Taster Menu for £55 which comprises 6 courses. The house wine at this venue costs £26 per bottle.

WikiWorldBook: telephone directory for emails (Guardian)

Ever wanted to contact someone but can’t find their email address? Social networks, blogs and Twitter all provide ways of contacting people, but there’s nothing quite as easy as a phone book equivalent. Except there is – and WikiWorldBook is just one of the companies trying to solve this problem.Founded by and run by just one man – Oxford-based Ben Leefield – the site started up in June 2008, backed by a handful of angel investors. WikiWorldBook has 20,000 registered users so far but wants 100,000 by this time next year.? What’s your pitch?We have reinvented the telephone book for email. To find someone and instantly contact them by email, type their name into Google and if they are registered on our service, their WikiWorldBook address book page should appear high up in Google’s results. Click their page and you can instantly send that person an email, without having to register. The user’s email address is hidden in order to protect their privacy.Users can also choose to build a comprehensive address book page with as much of their contact information as they wish to display. Their contact details such as email, VOIP, IM and weblinks are all hyperlinked to the appropriate service for one-click operation.We search engine optimise each user’s ‘address book page’ so that it has the best possible chance of ranking well for their name. We have also established a good amount of trust with Google, so we tend to rank well for people’s names ? occasionally ahead of Facebook and LinkedIn ? although inevitably the SERP’s can bounce around quite a lot and it can be challenging with famous or common names.? How do you make money?Currently through advertising on the website. Our traffic has been growing strongly and recently we have been getting around 7,000 visitors a day. When we reach 100,000 registered users, we’ll introduce some value-added services to boost profitability.? How are you surviving the downturn?We’re in pretty good shape, although cash is tight. Advertising revenue per click is down but traffic has continued to grow. Luckily our running costs are very low, being a directory type service.? What’s your background?Chartered Surveyor. I was building office buildings. It’s a long story ?? What makes your business unique?No one else is really in our ‘instant email’ space at the moment, but why wouldn’t you have an email directory in the same way as you have a telephone directory? And, of course, why wouldn’t you access it via Google?? What has been your biggest achievement so far?An amazing review from Kate Russell on BBC Click, which was our first big media break. Then being tweeted by Stephen Fry came a close second. So a deafeningly loud thank you to both Kate and Stephen.? Who in the tech business inspires you?Google for their values (which even they find it hard to live up to) and Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish for his technical ability. His visual design skills may suck but his technical brilliance of running such a vast and fast web service with so few physical resources is inspirational.? What’s your biggest challenge?Media coverage. Reaching the 10 million people out there who I know will sign up tomorrow if they hear of our free service. That figure is based on our conversion rate.? What’s the most important web tool you use each day?I think I have RSI from pressing the Search button on Google.? Name your closest competitorsOur closest competitor are Telnic’s dot tel domains, which are a similar address book service with an annual charge. Other competitors include OnePage, which is beautifully designed, although they don’t use search engines as a starting point, which I think is a strategic mistake. Most people use Google, Bing or Yahoo to find people ? a third of all search queries are people related.? Where do you want the company to be in five years?Ten million users would be perfect. With good media coverage and a free service, I can’t see why it wouldn’t be achievable.? Sell to Google, or be bigger than Google?Sell to Google. Business is about both striving to achieve and being pragmatic.wikiworldbook.comInternet startupsInternetDigital mediaJemima Kissguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

SC stays HC’s order on fee reimbursement

The state government on Friday heaved a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court ordered a stay on the Andhra Pradesh High Court directions to the state government to reimburse the fee of economically backward students in private colleges at the time of their admission itself.

A Division Bench of the Supreme Court, comprising of Justice Ravindran and Justice

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British woman who loves to marry, again and again!

Meet: The 56-year-old British woman who loves to marry, again and again. And, this time she has lined up her ninth hubby — a toyboy 32 years her junior, a media report said. Serial bride Pat Higgins has hooked 24-year-old store worker Mark Sanderson and the couple held an engagement party, ‘The Sun’ reported.

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The daring story of British spy who sang for Hitler!

An opera singer, who spied on the Germans for Britain, fooled Nazi secret police Gestapo by hiding secret documents in her underwear as she sang for Adolf Hitler at Berlin’s Opera House, it has emerged. In fact, this incredible story of Brit Margery Booth’s daring double-life has been revealed for the first time after a picture of her was put up for auction, ‘The Sun’ reported.

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Salem can be tried for offences entailing death penalty: SC

The Supreme Court has rejected the argument that Abu Salem cannot be tried for the offences which entailed death penalty as the same was a pre-condition at the time of his extradition from Portugal.

Abu Salem can be tried for offences entailing death penalty

The Supreme Court has rejected the argument that Salem cannot be tried for the offences which entailed death penalty as the same was a pre-condition at the time of his extradition from Portugal.

How to Calculate Chess Tactics

Chess demands concentration

Are you able to think three moves ahead in chess? It’s harder than it sounds, but you can learn to do it. Once you learn this visualization exercise, you will realize you can calculate much further than you ever thought you could, and you won’t settle for less the next time you play chess!

Steps

1. 

   Here both the white pawns have moved to the fourth rank. This could be a real position if the knight moved out and then moved back.

   Set out a chessboard. Be sure to use a set that has algebraic notation on it: Algebraic notation is a way for you to read the moves and then play them on the board for each side so you can follow a game and study what each side has played, and analyze the moves.

   • Across the bottom will be the letters from “a” to “h.” the letters will not be capitalized. There will be numbers going up the sides from “1″ to “8.”
   • Each square has an address. The first square on the board is “a1.”
   • To represent a move, start with the first letter of the piece, capitalized, then write the square you moved it to. If two different pieces that start with the same letter can move to the same square, then include the square the piece originated from.
   • Each piece starts with the first letter of its name, except for the knight, which starts with a capital “N.” If it is a pawn, then just write the name of the square it moves to with no capital letter. Castling is written 0-0 for kingside castling and 0-0-0 for queenside.
   • There is more to explain about how to read a chess game, but for now, just follow the directions to get to a certain position where the visual exercise will begin.
2. Play the following moves, moving for each side. 1.e4 is a white move. 1.e5 is a black move. In a scoresheet it looks like this: 1. e4 e5.
   • Next play 2.Bc4 Qf6.
   • Next 3.Nf3 Qg6. 4. Nc3 Qxg2. When there is a small letter x, it means capture. So the Queen has captured the pawn on g2.
3. Begin the exercise. Though you will be calculating white’s move, you will be visualizing for both sides.
4. Analyze what has happened first. The queen has taken a pawn. It’s not good to lose pieces or pawns willy-nilly, but it’s also not generally a good idea to move the same piece twice in the opening, nor to move the queen out first, as she is such a powerful piece that she becomes a target and can get trapped. Greed can also get you into trouble, especially if you go attacking before your pieces are developed. Also there is a saying, “Loose pieces fall off, meaning that pieces that are not protected can become targets of fancy tactics. So knowing these things, let’s see if you can find a way to punish black.
5. Calculate. Find five candidate moves. Go down the branch of just one of them. This is what it means to calculate three moves ahead. You don’t just pick one move and follow it. You pick as many as you can, and then analyze each one, finding the best possible moves for your opponent as you can, and seeing if you have a good response to it. There is a rule among strong chess players that says “Look at all checks and captures.” There is a move here that satisfies both. Look for a moment at the board and see if you can figure out what it is, and then go on to the next step. But first look for it.
6. Start to visualize. Did you you find Bxf7? That’s the one. So now comes the visualization part. Don’t touch the pieces – do this in your mind.
   • Visualize what the board is going to look like after you play Bxf7. See the piece there.
   • While visualizing the piece there, ask “what are all of black’s options for getting out of check?”. How many are there? That’s right, there are three: The king can capture the bishop on f7, or he can move to where the queen used to be, on d8, or he can move forward one square to e7.
   • Visualize the king capturing the piece on f7. See in your mind the new position after these two moves have been made. Hold the image in your mind as clearly as you can.
   • Next ask what white can do from here. What moves can white make in this new position where black’s king is on the f7 square? Name several possible moves, and look for one that checks because you always want to look at all checks and captures first. See anything good? You could check by Ng5 but there is a problem with that. The queen is guarding that square and will capture. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g1. Now where can the queen go? Only one square. Visualize the queen moving to h3. Now you can check with the knight. Notice anything else about Ng5? That’s right, it’s a fork. You win the queen. So you sacrificed the bishop to win the queen. Not bad.
   • Do you see any better moves for the black queen? No. Probably just to take the rook on g1 to get as much as he can out of it. Can you reverse the order of these moves so he can’t do that? How about instead of Bxf7 first you do that second, after chasing the queen to h3. Now you can get the queen with a minimum of losses. Of course, you also may have tipped off your opponent to your plans by chasing his queen to the forking square.
7. Keep practicing. After trying this exercise, you will have visualized three moves ahead for one move. In a real game, aim to analyze more than one move. Go through this process for each of the moves that you are considering. The further you are able to go, and the more vividly and accurately you are able to visualize the positions two or three, or even four moves ahead, the better chess player you will become.

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Tips

• Look at all checks and captures.
• Try to see tricky plans for your opponent, so you can prevent them in time.
• Loose pieces fall off, so when a piece is unguarded, be aware of possible tactics that might occur.
• Don’t go for “cheapos.” A cheapo is a trick that only works if your opponent makes the worst move. Always assume your opponent sees your trap, and if your plan fails, and it makes your position worse, you can lose the game. Only go for cheap tricks if they improve, not worsen your position.

Things You’ll Need

• A chessboard with algebraic notation

Related wikiHows

• How to Begin Mastering Chess
• How to Become a Better Chess Player
• How to Play Chess
• How to Read Algebraic Chess Notation
• How to Set up a Chessboard

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Chinese woman sues cinema hall for excessive ads

A woman in China has sued a cinema hall and the distributors of a movie, claiming excessive advertising wasted her time and violated her freedom of choice.

The suit filed by movie-goer Chen Xiaomei has been accepted by the People’s Court of Yanta district in Xi’an, Xinhua news agency quoted a statement from the court.

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Emirates Cabin Crew Opportunities at Emirates Airline & Group

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Technician (x6) | Trading Enterprises at Al Futtaim Group

About the Business :
Trading Enterprises, a division of the Al-Futtaim Group, has sole distribution rights for Honda cars, Motorcycles and Marine and Power Products in the UAE. With its nationwide presence, Trading Enterprises supports all its customers through a network of 19 separate sales, service and parts facilities throughout the UAE and provides further support through a network of Power Products dealers. All the sales, parts and service facilities of Trading Enterprises are linked by an on-line, real time computer system which utilises a total of over 175 terminals and printers.Over 450 employees of 16 varying nationalities constitute the Trading Enterprises team. Customer Service has been the basis of Trading Enterprises’ remarkable growth over recent years, which has seen the company expand to achieve outstanding market share growth. This is testimony to the Trading Enterprises motto:
“Excellence in Customer Service”About the Job :
We are seeking experiencedQuick ServiceTechnicians to join our Automotive Division (Trading Enterprises). The main responsibilities of the role will include (but not be limited to):
Conduct basic servicing and routine maintenance on passenger Sedans and 4 wheel drive vehicles. Operate lifts, tools and related workshop equipment Usage of service manuals Capable to identify extra jobs required other than basic jobs Drive vehicles safely inside workshop and awareness on workshop safety and regulations Undertake basic electrical bobs Undertake computer based Self Learning for product awareness

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LAB TECHNICIAN / MICROBIOLOGIST at Petra Food Manufacturing Company

MAIN PURPOSE:

• Microbiology Analysis of Raw Materials and Finished Products on daily basis.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Receiving Raw materials and Milk from R & P store and test the quality in microbiology parameters.

• Preparation of Media, Reagent, Solution and Labelling & Keeping its records.

• Random sampling of Off line, finished products and perform microbiological test.

• Knowledge in Microbiological standards and specification.

• Contact Swab test of product handless to assess the personal hygiene.

• General cleaning of glassware, lab equipments in time intervals and sterilization techniques.

• Calibration of test equipments.

• Microbiological analysis of Water and Air.

• Maintain quality control documents and submit to lab in charge.

• Method of analysis for all organisms based on type of sample (SPC, E.Coli, Salmonella, Sheigella, Staphylococcus, aureus, Bacillus Cereus, Bacillus Cereus, Sulphite reducing anaerobes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Prtiolytic & Lipolytic Bacteria, Yeast & Mold).

• Inspection of Pest Control.

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Secretary at Jassim Al Wazzan Sons General Trading Co.

Provide personal administrative support to management and the company through conducting and organizing administrative duties and activities including receiving and handling information.

 prepare and manage correspondence, reports and documents

 organize and coordinate meetings, conferences, travel arrangements

 take,type and distribute minutes of meetings

 implement and maintain office systems

 maintain schedules and calendars

 arrange and confirm appointments

 organize internal and external events

 handle incoming mail and other material

 set up and maintain filing systems

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 collate information

 maintain databases

 communicate verbally and in writing to answer inquiries and provide information

 liaison with internal and external contacts

 coordinate the flow of information both internally and externally

 operate office equipment

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 relevant training or qualification

 knowledge and experience of relevant software applications – spreadsheets, word processing, and database management

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Buyer Furniture at Alghanim Industries

Job Purpose :
The main Job Purpose of the Buyer Home Furnishings is:
To deliver a comprehensive, profitable and customer focused product range to the business. To deliver a commercial product range that compliments and enhances the total Home Furnishings product offering influenced by all the relevant external factors including market tastes, trends, fashion influences and innovation. To continually strive to exceed our customers’ expectations with regards product choice, value for money, quality and innovation. To select and effectively manage a world class supply base that can contribute to the success and profitability of our business through quality products at the right price, innovation and on time delivery.
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To achieve key result areas – sales, intake margin, gross margin, cost of goods sold and stock budgets. To deliver these financial targets by ensuring the correct assortment of core, fashion and promotional lines with-in the good/better/best framework. Manages replenishment and repeat orders for all items through team of Assistant Buyer / Buying Associate To select, buy and deliver a range that represents the values of the brand Responsible for negotiating cost prices and establishing terms of trading and payment terms with all suppliers that minimize the cost of goods for Alghanim. Identifies world class suppliers that can deliver to the business – securing exclusive supply. Responsible for identifying and managing promotions/discounts within gross margin budgets. Manages product quality through a QC team and protects the reputation of Alghanim. Responsible for managing the workload, priorities, output and results of the buying team. Uphold the Alghanim core values with both internal and external stakeholders.

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Reel Nattha luckier than real ones?

Will he commit suicide, will he not …? Suspense continues till the end. But Nattha (played by Omkar Das Manikpuri) — the lead hero of Peepli (Live) — has been shown alive at the end of the film, thanks to the apparent commercial constraints. Director of the movie, Anusha Rizvi, has admitted that the hero, with a wife and three kids, was shown alive in view of the “happy-ending” taste of the Indian audience.

A profit-driven director changed the script to safeguard her interests, but even compulsions of the votebank politics could not bail out the distressed farmers of Bundelkhand, who seem to have inspired the central theme of Peepli (live).

A few examples from Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh exemplify as how the drought-hit farmers of the region are still deprived of the optimum benefits of the special packages offered to them. Moreover, Bundelkhand farmers were seen as major beneficiaries of the farm loan waiver announced by the union government in 2008.

In 2009, union government had approved a Rs 7,266 crore Bundelkhand package. However, it was far below the Rs 80,000 crore demanded by the Mayawati government for Bundelkhand.

Claiming to have spent over Rs 2,500 crore on afforestation drive alone within a year’s time, the state government had termed the union government package too less.

Anyway, funds are flowing in for now. But locals still complain about officials’ highhandedness and denial of the benefits promised to them. Indrapal Tiwari, a farmer belonging to Khurhan village in Banda with a land-holding of over 4 acres of land, cites his own example to prove anomalies in execution of the loan waiver scheme.

Tiwari had borrowed Rs 2.87 lakh and bought a tractor in 2004. He failed to pay the instalments and his tractor was seized and auctioned for Rs 1.88 lakh in 2006. Which means, the bank recovered almost two-third of the money it had lent.

But recently the bank issued a RC of Rs 1.99 lakh against him and a loan waiver of Rs 526 (five-hundred-twenty-six) was given to him. Tiwari has four acres of land and he was eligible for complete waiver as government had announced waiver of the entire loan amount to the farmers with a land-holding of five acres or less. Tiwari has a long list of people meeting his fate in the region.

President of Gram Swarajya Prahari, an NGO based in Banda district, Pushpendra, says that district administration had spent Rs 10-crore in afforestation drive near his Panduai village. “But we can’t see a single sapling intact,” he adds. He says that the plantation drives wre taken up but none took care of saplings’ survival.

He also alleged that the drought relief cheques worth Rs 100 and Rs 50 were still being distributed even though state government had pledged that no cheque below Rs 3000 will be issued as drought relief. Pushpendra says that the suicides and hunger deaths had come down as there were jobs but there wasn’t any long-term sustenance in sight. “Villagers are getting jobs by working as labourers in ongoing government projects like MNREGA and they are managing meals for now. But no sustained effort is being done to make the lands fertile and consolidate the local area economy,” he adds.

Successive governments including the ones led by Mulayam Singh Yadav and now Mayawati in the past eight years paid no heed to reports of farmers’ suicides and hunger deaths until Rahul Gandhi paid a few visits to the region, which was followed by the union government package. The Nehru-Gandhi scion needs to revisit the area and prevent further repetition of the apprehensions raised by his late father
Rajiv Gandhi (only 10 paisa of a rupee reaches common man).

Google search goes Instant

Google began scouring the Internet in real time, delivering results as fast as a person can type. After two days of teasingly tinkering with the log “doodle” atop its search home page Google ended the mystery by showing off Google Instant.

Satyam scam: Raju to be grilled by SEBI for 2nd time

Satyam scam: Raju to be grilled by SEBI for 2nd time

‘Vid legislators should quit en masse’

It is time people’s representatives of the region (MLAs and MLCs) quit en masse if they are serious about getting statehood for Vidarbha.

E-governance: Raj sops for masses

The time is not far when a ration card holder could purchase food items from any ration shop of his choice according to his convenience as all the rations shops in a locality would be interconnected by computers.

BSNL gives 1k cellphones to Phagi villagers

At a time when buying a new phone no longer requires a second thought, holding a new phone, Prithvi Raj Gujjar was an elated boy.

Flights on time after DGCA cracks whip

Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) notification on push-back time has come as a huge relief for Delhi. From a miserable on-time performance of 36.95% in May, a couple of months before the order was enforced, the punctuality record of airlines has improved to 78.03% by September.

Height of desperation, boy hangs self

It was the height of desperation to grow tall. All of 11, Rahul wanted to be the tallest teen in his area in no time. So much so that he used his scholarship of Rs 70 to buy a health drink. But when it didn’t do the trick in two days, the class V student of MCD school in Prem Nagar near Rohini hanged himself.

PCMC standing committee approves cultural hall project

The standing committee of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) approved a resolution on Wednesday to construct a cultural hall at Mohannagar in Chinchwad at a cost of Rs 2.46 crore after the local corporator Maruti Bhapkar threatened to launch an agitation if the proposal was kept pending for the second time.

Child welfare, a distant dream

Pending for last four years, the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) will take some more time to be in place in the state.

Shoppers get more time for Eid shopping

TRADITIONAL shopping hubs like Sabzibagh and Patna Market, which remain open till the wee hours of the night preceding the D-day with people buying ‘bakarkhani’, ‘naan roti’, ‘sheermaal’, dry fruits, mutton etc, wore a busy look even on Thursday.

Smriti Van to be complete within a month

The second part of the Rajdhani Vatika, the Smriti Van, that was dedicated to the public by chief minister Nitish Kumar last week, will be completed within a month’s time.

ORR land orders passed on holidaystimes news network

Several procedural violations reportedly took place while acquiring land for Outer Ring Road (ORR) works to benefit other powerful and influential people. Interestingly, orders for land acquisition in five cases were passed by HMDA (then Huda) on holidays just before the expiry of the statutory time limit of two years.

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Mike Tyson to become dad for 8th time, one year after daughter’s death (DNA – Top News)

The boxing champ would become a father for the eight time as his third wife, Lakiha Spicer, is five months pregnant.

Saluting the foresight of Poonawallas

Imagine going to the races for the first time and returning with a car in tow ! This strange-but-true experience has been had by a few casual visitors and first-timers at two centres, Mumbai and Pune.

Singaporean family makes time for elders during Eid

In the case of Singapore’s Muslims, Eid is primarily a family affair

Smallest Man vs. Biggest Biceps in London

Khagendra arrived in London this morning to meet Tiny Iron, the man with the largest biceps in all of the UK!  Check out this match up:

Tiny Iron kept a close eye on K, but at the end, they were cool.

They even posed for pics outside of our Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in London.

Khagendra stopped in London to celebrate the launch of our book “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! ENTER IF YOU DARE!”

You can find our book for sale HERE.

We had such a great time with Khagendra.  He is truly an amazing being, and we were sad to see him go home.  We wish him all of the best and we hope to see our tiny friend again someday!

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