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Ajit Bharti moves Delhi high court against trial court order denying anticipatory bail in SC/ST act case | India News

Ajit Bharti moves Delhi High Court against trial court order denying anticipatory bail in SC/ST act case NEW DELHI: Social media influencer and YouTuber Ajit Bharti has approached the Delhi high court seeking anticipatory bail in the SC/ST Act case registered against him over his comments concerning Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, after a trial court denied…

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A Colorado motorcycle instructor and Desert Storm veteran challenged drilling rights beneath his mountain; after regulators rejected him, he kept fighting as more than 400,000 acres head toward oil and gas lease sales

Mayne is challenging drilling rights beneath the mountain where he lives and has brought other landowners into the dispute. (Photo: The Slope) A Colorado motorcycle instructor and Desert Storm veteran is continuing his fight against oil and gas drilling rights beneath his mountain after federal regulators rejected his protest. Joel Mayne, who lives near Craig…

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IT giants’ PERM filings suspended: What does this mean for Green Card applicants?

US official said they have suspended the Green Card filings of Cognizant and Cloudera. Thousands of foreign technology workers hoping to secure US Green Cards through employer sponsorship are facing fresh uncertainty after the US Department of Labor suspended PERM filings by IT services giant Cognizant and software company Cloudera amid an investigation into alleged…

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A South African farmer planted trees to stop erosion in 1976; 50 years later, the land became a major forest-restoration experiment | World News

A small planting on a South African farm in 1976 was meant to solve an immediate problem: stopping floodwater from washing away soil and threatening livestock. The spekboom cuttings survived, but their story did not end there. More than four decades later, the same hillside had become a valuable example of how degraded land can…

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This Hawaii company is making boats from volcanic rock and recycled plastic instead of traditional materials | World News

3D printed RHIB hull. Image Credit: Voltage Vessels A Hawaii-based company is taking a unique approach to boat manufacturing by combining recycled plastic with volcanic rock-derived basalt fibre. Voltage Vessels, a startup based in Hawaii, has developed a material called ‘Eclipse X9’ which can be used in large-scale 3D printing and is being tested for…

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In 1984, Romanian dictator ordered the construction of a giant palace in Bucharest demolishing 10,000 homes; today, the Palace of the Parliament stands as the world’s heaviest building that is slowly sinking every year

The Palace of the Parliament, originally called the House of the Republic was built during the rule of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. In Romania’s Bucharest, there is a government building so large that its construction changed the shape of the city around it. The Palace of the Parliament, originally called the House of the Republic…

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Meet Aubry Allbridge, the 22-year-old Utah woman with Down syndrome who became a certified fitness instructor and led her first class of 60 people

Aubry Allbridge, a 22-year-old woman from Utah with Down syndrome, has become a certified fitness instructor for the fitness programme UpBeat Barre. She recently took another step in her journey by leading her first class at a local gym, with 60 people attending the session.Allbridge had been attending several fitness classes before becoming an instructor,…

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Vijay Alliance With Congress: Evening news wrap: Vijay-led TVK alliance gets official name; Mayawati puts condition on nephew’s party role & more | India News

Vijay named his alliance with Congress, VCK, MDMK and IUML the “Secular Social Justice Victory Alliance”. Mayawati said Akash Anand can regain party responsibilities only if father-in-law quits politics. Philippines defence chief Teodoro rebuked China over its rejection of the South China Sea arbitration ruling. SC said “all are treated equally” after a plea for…

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Mahmood Farooqui on Storytelling, Survival and the Human Cost of Imprisonment | India News

Mahmood Farooqui is an acclaimed writer and performer known for reviving Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling. He has received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Besieged: Voices From Delhi-1857. He has been visiting fellow at the University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley. Mahmood has co-directed Peepli Live and produced The Great Shamsuddin…

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