NEW YORK - Mayor Bill de Blasio, who 18 months ago in his inaugural address pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with his one-time boss and friend of more than two decades Gov. Andrew Cuomo, revised his opinion of him on Tuesday in a highly unusual and extraordinarily personal news conference.
Economic uncertainty, steep fall in the rupee, and attractive interest rates offered to NRIs by Indian banks made NRI deposits in Gujarat swell by 115% over the past three years. The deposits breached the Rs 50,000 crore mark in 2014-15.
GUNKANJIMA, Japan - Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious. It is also a source of national pride.
[...] it also gives the sprawling airline a way to cut its sizeable greenhouse gas emissions, should the federal government require it. “This agreement catapults United into a whole new level of commitment to the future of alternative fuels,” said Brett Hart, the airline’s executive vice president and corporate counsel. In return, Fulcrum gets another major partner to help the small company leap the infamous “valley of death” between product development and full-scale production. Cathay Pacific... Читать дальше...
The second installment of a special from Mills College student reporters: "Waking up from the American Dream: Stories about young immigrants in America." Plus local musicians Natalie Cressman and Mike Bono.
Is the proposed choice-based credit system going the way of the four-year undergraduate programme? Teachers are alleging similar lapses on part of Delhi University as far as its implementation is concerned.
The US government announced that the skies over Washington, DC were a “No Drone Zone”.
It's a deep pool of shooters in free agency.
Celgene Corp. will pay Juno Therapeutics Inc. about $1 billion as part of a 10-year partnership to study cures for cancer and autoimmune diseases, the largest payment in a biotechnology licensing agreement ever. The payment surpasses the previous record, when Pfizer Inc. agreed to give Merck KGaA $850 million in a cancer drugs deal announced last year. Celgene is betting on an approach to cancer treatment that uses modified versions of immune cells to target malignancies, a process known as CAR-T. Читать дальше...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature may vote on a financing deal for a Milwaukee Bucks arena and changes to the prevailing wage law in a special session.
Margot Robbie arrives at the Toronto airport with rumored fiance Tom Ackerly and a pal on Monday (June 29) after spending some downtime in London. The 24-year-old actress is currently in the midst of shooting Suicide Squad but will be first headed to the big screen in Z for Zachariah this August. Margot and co-stars [...]
A module pumping heroin from Myanmar and Nagaland into the capital was busted with the arrest of three people, including a woman from Assam who acted as a conduit between suppliers.
The airline plans to reinvest the millions of dollars it will collect from bag fees into new seats and TVs, according to Marty St. George, JetBlue’s executive vice president of commercial products and planning. “Some of these changes are going to help pay for what’s the biggest product upgrade JetBlue has had in the history of the company,” he said in advance of the announcement. Under pressure from investors and Wall Street analysts, JetBlue has been slowly adopting the practices of other airlines. Читать дальше...
Three members of a family and two of their close relatives were electrocuted when they came in contact with an 11 kV high tension wire hanging low at Urmilanagar in Bhavanipuram on Tuesday.
Your daily roundup of news from The Wall Street Journal related to Japan: Japanese companies are beginning to feel the chill from China. Export volumes from Japan are down and figures released this week showed the nation’s industrial output is slackening.
The Supreme Court was no less polarized this term, nor were its opinions any less divided. But its landmark decisions saving the Affordable Care Act and declaring that the Constitution provides a right for same-sex couples to marry create nationwide norms for an increasingly divided country.Read full article >>
The Andhra Pradesh capital region is virtually sitting on several ‘heat islands’ thanks to the average day temperature going up in areas in and around Vijayawada in the last 13 years.
Two Uber France managers have been ordered to stand trial on charges including “deceptive commercial practices” and complicity in illegal activities linked to its low-cost ride-hailing service, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. Thibaud Simphal and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were taken into custody on Monday after a police sweep at Uber France headquarters. French authorities say UberPop is illegal and have expressed frustration that Uber doesn’t pay the same taxes and social charges as traditional taxis. Читать дальше...
Human rights attorney Abbe Jolles claims that the United States renewed military assistance to Bahrain despite that country’s human rights violations in order to preserve control of the region.
The Shahinayatgunj police have arrested a man for duping people in the name of black magic and recovered property worth Rs 3.75 lakh from his possession.
Over the past six months, student reporters from Mills College in Oakland have been tracing the path of the American dream. Jessica Toyota brings us the story of Lisa Hsia, whose Chinese parents thought very differently than she did.
Will either side be able to rebound from the latest incident?
Art exhibit appears covering art exhibit that never appeared An uncanny strain of irony practically fogs the glass of the first installment of a new Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibition series: In That Case: The focus is on absence: an ill-omened show on an English estate conceived by a doggedly obscure fin de siècle art group called Das Beben (the Tremor). Taking a cue from the series’ inspiration, the Jewish tradition of havruta, or the study of religious texts by pairs of scholars, Bay Area... Читать дальше...
The first-term senator launched her re-election bid Tuesday in Manchester with a speech focusing squarely on New Hampshire and rarely on her party identification. Ayotte is seeking to counter that message by highlighting her work on expanding veterans' health care, reducing government waste and cutting red tape for businesses.
Arizona is getting back its former center.