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On Thursday, a grizzly attacked a female black bear and cubs in woods south of Whitecourt, and entire fight was captured on camera by Logan Hunter who was hunting with his father in this remote area at that time. Logan Hunter who caught this fight on his mobile camera later posted the video on Youtube. […]
A Healthy Lifestyle Cuts Stroke Risk, Irrespective of Genetic Risk People at high genetic risk of stroke can still reduce their chance of having a stroke by sticking to a healthy lifestyle, in particular stopping smoking and not being overweight, finds a study in The BMJ today. Stroke is a complex disease caused […]
Brain Training App Helps Reduce OCD Symptoms, Study Finds A ‘brain training’ app developed at the University of Cambridge could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) manage their symptoms, which may typically include excessive handwashing and contamination fears. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Baland Jalal and Professor […]
Over 500 students of Uttarakhand’s National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar vacated the campus on Tuesday. The students have been demanding a permanent campus building of NIT. The students have threatened that they would boycott the lectures until the “unsafe” campus is shifted from its present location along NH-58 in Srinagar Garhwal town. […]
Twenty-four government schools in Chandigarh will provide parking space to public in the wake of the festival rush during the upcoming fortnight. The campus of these schools will remain open in the evening to accommodate vehicles. Two open spaces and a college have also been designated as a parking space, and will be open […]
The 41st Annual Chandigarh Sangeet Sammelan will commence from October 26 in auditorium of Strawberry Fields High School in Sector 26. The three-day event will be organized by Indian National Theatre. According to DailyPioneer, Some outstanding artists from different parts of the country will give their performance at this festival. On first day, Ojesh […]
Cattle pound project in Panchkula has been stopped due to shortage of technical staff in the municipal corporation. The project was to be constructed in Sukhdarshanpur village, and local public had pinned a lot of hope on this project. “The shortage of senior technical hands makes it hard for us to carry on with […]
Uttarakhand’s Valley of Flowers is now open for visitors, although with some restrictions. Any visitor found using plastic within the valley will face a penalty of Rs 10,000. The government has restored all the facilities in the park including its trek route as well as the damaged bridge, and tourists can now free to enjoy […]
On Tuesday, Dehradun’s PGDAV College celebrated its student union festival. The event was inaugurated by Mussoorie MLA Mr. Ganesh Joshi. Other guests present on this occasion included Khatima MLS Mr. Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP Dehradun President Umesh Aggarwal, BJP leader Mr. Amit Goel and state Vice-President of Kisan Morcha Mr. Yogendra Pundir. While addressing the […]
Badrinath highway could not be opened on Friday at Lambagad for the third consecutive day. Continuous rain disturbed the efforts being done by the administration to open the highway. The Malari highway, which connects Niti Border to the other parts of country, is also blocked at Suraithota for the past three days. In Uttarkashi district, […]
Tragic teenage girl Aoife Winterlich from Walkinstown had actually reached the rescue helicopter door, before she fell 45m back into the sea, an Air Accident and Investigation Unit Ireland (AAIU) report has revealed. Aoife was on a weekend scouting trip on December 6, 2015 when the incident occurred. Aoife, from Walkinstown in Dublin, was walking […]
A suspected terrorist is believed to be holed up inside a house in Thakurganj area in Locknow, and exchange of fire is currently going on between the terrorist and the UP ATS team. There is heavy presence of police personnel in the area and people are being advised to stay indoors. According to reports, the […]
A Belfast PSNI officer who was shot in dissident ambush on January 22, but survived the murder bid, has revealed that at that time he thought that he was going to die. The officer has spoken for the first time since the incident that happened at a petrol station forecourt on the Crumlin Road in […]
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has ordered an “urgent investigation” into claims made by a former employee about sexual harassment and institutional indifference within the company. In a blog post, Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer who resigned from Uber in December, revealed that she was subjected to sexual harassment through a ‘string of messages’ […]
Germany now has a new president: the 61-year-old Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the former foreign minister of the country and one of the most popular politicians of the country. Mr. Steinmeier was elected by the Assembly with the 630 members of Parliament’s Lower House and an equal number of representatives from Germany’s 16 states. He received 931 […]
Authorities in California have asked thousands of people living near Oroville Dam—the tallest dam in USA—to leave their homes as an emergency spillway in the dam is danger of failing and unleashing flood waters on nearby towns. People who are living in the downstream areas are being requested to leave the area immediately. The California […]
On Thursday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told Parliament that no incidents of incursion by the Chinese troops had occurred in Chamoli, Uttarakhand earlier this month. The issue was raised by Jyotiraditya Scindia and others MPs from Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress during zero hour in Lok Sabha. Mr. Scindia said the Chinese troops had come […]
On Tuesday, two assailants allegedly associated with ISIS slit the throat of an elderly priest and took several worshipers hostage in a church in Normandy in France before the police shot the assailants dead. According to police officials, the knifemen entered the Saint-Etienne parish in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, and took four […]
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs. 50 million on Bank of Baroda (BoB), after finding irregularities in alleged Rs 6,100 crore forex transactions that were revealed in October last year. “Pursuant to the internal audit of the Bank of Baroda, the Reserve Bank of India and investigative agencies in October […]
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc will invest about $1 billion (Rs 7,000 Crore) in a joint venture with State Bank of India to invest in businesses with stressed assets. Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. is a global alternative asset manager which focuses on the real asset sectors of property, infrastructure, and renewable energy. The firm has […]
Reliance Industries’ petroleum product exports dipped below 10 million tonnes in April to June Period – the first time after three quarters – due to rise in domestic demand. The largest petroleum exporter of India exported 9.8 million tonnes of petroleum products in the first quarter of 2016-17. In January-March 2016, the company had exported […]
On Tuesday, Minority Affairs Minister Dr Najma A Heptulla and Minister of State for Heavy Industries G M Siddeshwara resigned from their posts. President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted both resignations. These resignations have come about a week after PM Modi’s major expansion and reshuffle of his Cabinet on July 5. PM Modi had inducted 19 […]
Theresa May will be the next prime minister of the UK. She was announced the winner of the Conservative leadership contest on Monday afternoon. “I am honored and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader,” said May, the UK’s home secretary, in London. “During this campaign, my case has […]
The Government of India has decided to import 5 lakh tonnes of maize to check price rise and hoarding in view of fall in domestic production of the crop. “To check prices & prevent hoarding Smt @nsitharaman approves importing 5,00,000 MT of maize under Tarrif Rate Quota by State Trading Entp,” the Indian commerce ministry […]
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