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90 km from Srinagar, a village without network, a class on a hill

  
The Indian Express - 06.08.2021 Original article ›
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Online classes 90 miles from Srinagar across the Jhelum river in Kashmir in a village of 650 households during the pandemic. The online classes are downloaded from the Education Department and teachers meet students for the classes in the mountains. Children study, socialize and log in for exams. The struggle to get an education during the pandemic goes on for children in Kashmir just as it does in other parts of the world.

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Mann Ki Baat - India records 3.5 billion fin-tech digital transactions for cleanliness and transparency in economy

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mint - 09.26.2021 Original article ›
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PM Modi says in Mann Ki Baat monthly radio program that Unified Payments Interface UPI has recorded 3.5 billion digital transactions in the month of August. Digital payments of 2 trillion rupees is happening using UPI on average. In this way it is transforming India. "Through this the economy of the country is acquiring cleanliness and transparency, and we all kn ow that the importance of fin-tech is increasing a lot," said Modi

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Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law

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NYTimes.com - 08.16.2022 Original article ›
Jim Tankersley
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President Biden signs the $379 billion Climate bill and tax legislation into law. Mr. Biden told a White House crowd to standing ovation "This is the biggest Climate Bill ever." At the signing event Mr. Biden tells Senator Manchin  "Joe, I never had a doubt." Senator Schumer quietly negotiated the final bill with Senator Manchin in one crucial week just recently to get it through a 50-50 split US Senate.

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Forbidden fruit: why vegans are up in arms over Tesco’s oranges and lemons

  
The Guardian - 08.22.2022 Original article ›
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Artificial coatings such as shellac and beeswax to make lemons and oranges shiny are seen as totally unneeded by buyers. When one goes to a neighborhood vegetable market for fresh fruits and vegetables one does not see this kind of behaviour, everything is how nature intended it to be. Then why do supermarkets and grocery stores behave in this way? Bad habits were acquired over the last two decades, including overuse of plastic.

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Linda Ronstadt’s Tucson

  
NYTimes.com - 02.04.2024 Original article ›
Abbie Kozolchyk
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Places singer Linda Ronstadt visits in Tucson, Arizona, her home town, are shown here in the NYT. Abbie Kozolchyk herself from Tucson takes us to places in the Sonoran desert type region with Saguaro cactus. These are places which she has known from her childhood- the San Xavier del Bac Mission and the Mission Garden, the oldest European building in Arizona. Then there is the Sonoran Desert Museum. The Arizona Inn and the Barrio Brothers bakery.

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How did Yashasvi Jaiswal prepare for the James Anderson onslaught

  
The Indian Express - 02.20.2024 Original article ›
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Jaiswal's double century at Rajkot in the third Test cricket match against England was achieved with cricket skills developed though hard work on the pitch.Sriram Veera reporting from the Rajkot cricket grounds says Jaishwal is a player who has worked hard on his batting, methodically improving it to build a sound base. This discipline was seen in practice sessions and on the pitch when Sharma pointed out for him to keep his bat straighter.

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Infantino, Chaubey discuss infrastructure, grassroots, women's football development in India

  
The Hindu - 09.11.2022 Original article ›
Pti
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India begins preparations for the Women's Under 17 FIFA Women's World Cup soccer games. A new effort will be laid on developing soccer in India with focus on infrastructure, grassroots, and women's soccer. The games will kick off on October 11 to go to Oct. 30. The All India Football federation and the Government of India have identified 40 cities, and areas where games can take place.

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Investors Are Betting Yet Again That Inflation Will Cool

  
WSJ - 08.15.2022 Original article ›
Matt Grossman
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Prevailing bets in financial markets by investors are that inflation over the next 12 months will be 3.3%. This is also reflected in the way oil, copper and commodities markets prices are declining. Some of the decline comes from sharply slower growth in China of less than 4%. This means inflation is headed in the right direction, and circumstantial driven by the war in Ukraine and supply chain issues, and not embedded or structural, say experts. 

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Social Security COLA Expected to Rise in 2024, but Not by a Lot

  
WSJ - 08.10.2023 Original article ›
Anne Tergesen
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Social Security payment are likely to increase by 3.3% in 2024 in line with about 3% inflation, after an increase of 8.7% in 2023. 46% of retirees paid taxes on a part of their benefits. About 40% of Americans depend on social security payments for half of their income, and 14% for 90% of their income. Average 401K balances are up to $223,000 for people 65 to 69 years, according to Fidelity Investments.

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China floods: The families torn apart by 'huge, furious waves'

  
BBC News - 08.12.2023 Original article ›
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Typhoon winds that exacerbated the floods in Beijing, China, are shown here in a BBC report. Recent floods in China and fires in Maui, Hawaii, show effects of climate change on opposite sides of the planet in August 2023. This is one more reason for the US and China to work with other countries in limiting the effects of climate change and focus on the important issues that require cooperation and mutual effort.

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Is Reclining Your Airplane Seat Upright Behavior or Downright Rude?

  
WSJ - 08.17.2023 Original article ›
Joseph De Avila
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A You.gov poll shows Europeans by 64% consider reclining seats fully "unacceptable" compared to 46% in the US. The seats squeezed into a tight space make it more difficult for passengers making airline decisions on seat arrangement an issue. Delta tried limiting reclining to 2 inches to improve passenger comfort on 20% of its planes in 2019, but has not moved ahead to do this with the rest of the planes.

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Iran Slows Buildup of Near-Weapons-Grade Nuclear Fuel

  
WSJ - 09.04.2023 Original article ›
Laurence Norman
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One of the side effects of the Ukraine war is the gradually improving relations between the US and Iran. The US released some funds to Iran that were frozen. Here Iran responds by slowing down its buildup of near weapons grade nuclear fuel. In this way president Biden has tackled the difficult problem of Iran's nuclear program in a low profile way, one of the achievements of the Biden administration's foreign policy.

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Roger Federer’s Life After Tennis: Less Cardio, More Carpool

  
WSJ - 09.11.2023 Original article ›
Chavie Lieber
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With two 9 year old twin boy and two 14 year old twin girls Federer spends a lot of time taking the children to and from school. He owns a minority stake in a Swiss sportswear company ON where he designed a new sneaker. He has tried Soul Cycle classes in East Hampton, New York, and he sees a physio 4 times a week for knee issues, which means he does less cardio at the gym.

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Here’s What It’s Like to Take the Classic Learning Test

  
NYTimes.com - 09.06.2023 Original article ›
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The Classic Learning Test is an alternative to use of ACT and SAT. It includes Christian thought and classic writings from English and American literature and culture. It tests reading comprehension in different ways than the ACT and SAT to make certain key concepts in an essay are correctly understood. Today two thirds of American 4th grade children do not pass the ACT reading comprehension test making a campaign for reading comprehension practice essential.

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Kaiser Permanente, Unions Reach Deal on New Contracts

  
WSJ - 10.13.2023 Original article ›
Melanie Evans
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The union representing 75000 nurses and pharmacists and other workers in California reached a settlement after a 3 day strike. Julie Shu, acting Labor secretary participated in the negotiations. Kaiser Permanente has 40 hospitals, medical offices and 213,000 employees other than doctors, serving 12.7 million people on the West Coast of the US. A sticking point was outsourcing. It is the largest strike of healthcare workers in the US for wages and benefits.

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GM Scales Back EV Plans as Buyers Hesitate

  
WSJ - 10.24.2023 Original article ›
Mike Colias
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GM benefits from strong pricing for EV's. It has an average price of $50750 for EV's sold in the third quarter 2023. Higher interest rates are slowing demand in the EV market. GM will not make 400,000 EV's in America by mid 2024, yet GM executives say they will not change the target of 1 million EV's made in North America by the end of 2025.

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Far-right populist Wilders books major victory in Dutch election-exit poll | CNN

  
CNN - 11.23.2023 Original article ›
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Netherlands has a population of 17.2 million people concentrated in a few cities Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Hague. Immigration is increasing rents in this region. Wilders is likely to form a coalition governmnt with the centrist Mark Rutte's Freedom and Democracy party and the Social Contract party, all seeking to control immigration. Critics say it would take building a city like Utrecht every few years to find housing for all the immigrants entering the country.

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U.S. Offers India Drones, Jet Engines to Lure It From Russia

  
WSJ - 06.22.2023 Original article ›
Gordon Lubold, Michael R. Gordon, Sabrina Siddiqui
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President Biden describes the relationship with India as at an inflection point. Looking back decades from now this point will be where the US developed a new relationship with India, said Biden as he welcomed the Indian prime minister to the US. A closer relationship in manufacturing with new supply chain arrangements, trade, energy and fighting climate change, and increased investment, is planned. The US will jointly manufacture F414 GE jet engines in India.

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Biden Calls for Steep Hike to Tariff on Chinese Steel

  
WSJ - 04.17.2024 Original article ›
Andrew Duehren, Bob Tita
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What the president is doing about the surge in imported goods from China that are subsidized and affect US jobs and industry. For steel president Biden plans to place an additional tariff that takes the existing 7.5% to 25%. Even though imports of Chinese steel have dropped to about 600,000 tons the imports from Mexico are high at 4.2 million tons and there is the risk that Chinese subsidized steel is coming through Mexico.

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Opinion | This new report confirms that Trump’s megalomania threatens our democracy

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Washington Post - 12.14.2017 Original article ›
Greg Sargentgreg Sargent
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Greg Sargent cites an exceptional Washington Post report based on 50 interviews with Trump connected officials showing that Trump failed to accept findings of the intelligence community on meddling by Russia. Sargent says the result of Trump's action is that no meetings at the cabinet level have discussed this issue. This has led to protests about how the Mueller investigation is proceeding, even though as Sargent points out the intelligence community has different views.

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Theresa May abandons plan for vote on Brexit bill

  
The Times - 05.23.2019 Original article ›
Francis Elliott, Political Editor
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Theresa May  faces a mutiny in her Conservative Party with the resignation of ally Ms. Leadsom, the leader in the House of Commons. Her repeated efforts to put her unpopular Brexit deals for a vote in parliament, with one planned on June 7 2019, is rejected by the Conservative Party. This sets the stage for another controversial election to leadership of the Conservative Party of Mr. Boris Johnson, who leads in party member support.

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Dr. Fauci Was a Basketball Captain. Now He’s America’s Point Guard.

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WSJ - 03.29.2020 Original article ›
Ben Cohen
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The man who has provided leadership in America for so many epidemics from HIV and H1N1 to coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci is the short kid with a Brooklyn accent in this story in the WSJ, fighting battle after battle against epidemics. Character is built through many stumbles, and overcoming adamantine walls of difficulties. Dr. Fauci has shown this kind of resilience as he joins the president in the latest fight against an epidemic.

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Indian hockey team ends 52-year wait, beats Australia at Paris Olympics

  
The Indian Express - 08.02.2024 Original article ›
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India win over Australia 3-2 at the Paris Olympics the first win in 52 years of competition. A match winning save by the goalie Sreejesh saved the day for India. India is now second to Belgium in the Group. India will now play Britain or Germany in the quarterfinals. Is progress so far a draw with Argentina, loss to Belgium and wins over New Zealand and Australia. Harmanpreet scored the most goals for India.

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The World’s Best Table Tennis Player Was Crushing the Olympics. Then His Paddle Got Crushed.

  
WSJ - 07.31.2024 Original article ›
Stu Woo
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The loss of his table tennis racket when a photographer accidentally stepped on it meant that China's table tennis champion had to use his backup racket. Wang threw his racket into the photographers area after winning not realizing what he was doing. Because table tennis is all about margins, such a precise sport, the loss of even 1% can affect performance. Wong lost to a Swedish player in the game that followed.

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A Stock-Market Rotation of Historic Proportions Is Taking Shape

  
WSJ - 07.22.2024 Original article ›
Karen Langley
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Tech heavy S&P 500- for the largest tech companies- gains are now reversing after a rally based on potential for AI. Nvidia with its AI potential alone was 30% of the gain in S&P 500 at one time. The change in the election situation in July 2024 may be one of the causes. Smaller companies in the Russell 5000 are doing better. It is not clear if this is a trend. 

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