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Like Lalu, Nitish too will skip Rahul's rally today

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

JD (U) on Friday tried to play down chief minister Nitish Kumar's decision to skip Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bihar's West Champaran district on Saturday, saying it was due to his preoccupation in Patna.

Like Lalu, Nitish too will skip Rahul rally on Saturday

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

JD (U) on Friday tried to play down chief minister Nitish Kumar's decision to skip Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bihar's West Champaran district on Saturday, saying it was due to his preoccupation in Patna.



The Spy Who Was Innocent

The New Yorker 

Almost everyone who works with detection technology—whether meant for tracing disease inside the human body or for detecting explosives at an airport terminal—must contend with the pesky nuisance of false positives. What shows up as a cancerous tumor in a diagnostic scan turns out, upon closer examination, to be a benign lump. The mysterious object that looks like a weapon under an airport scanner proves to be a hair dryer. A certain number of such erroneous detections is the unavoidable price of any screening process. Читать дальше...

Blandino doesn’t admit officiating mistake on onside kick in Seahawks-Rams

NBCSports.com 

Rams coach Jeff Fisher says the NFL privately has conceded that the officials failed to penalize the Seahawks for slamming into Bradley Marquez after he called for a fair catch of the onside kick to start overtime during the Week One game in St. Louis. The NFL publicly isn’t conceding an error. NFL V.P. of…

Obama's Cable Monopoly Boom

WSJ.com 

FCC’s regulations have so far made the net-neut crowd’s favorite villain even more dominant.

Veterans to boycott President’s tea over OROP

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

A section of agitating ex-servicemen on Friday said it would boycott the “high tea” being organized next week by President Pranab Mukherjee to felicitate the 1965 war veterans, even as they wrote to defence minister Manohar Parrikar in protest against the “serious shortcomings” in the “diluted” one rank, one pension (OROP) announced on September 5.

Not-so-clean diesel: EPA says VW software cheats on smog test

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

California and federal officials on Friday accused Volkswagen of thwarting air pollution tests on its diesel cars by giving the vehicles software that can tell when they’re being tested. “Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the EPA’s office of enforcement and compliance assurance. According to the two agencies, Volkswagen admitted to installing the defeat devices when confronted by government officials this month. Читать дальше...

VC to hear ‘tainted’ principal on Sept 21

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Vice chancellor Siddharthvinayaka Kane has asked tainted principal Ramesh Dhore to present his defence to the probe panel’s recommendations against him on Monday.

VC to hear ‘tainted’ principal on September 21

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Vice chancellor Siddharthvinayaka Kane has asked tainted principal Ramesh Dhore to present his defence to the probe panel’s recommendations against him on Monday.

Volunteers to protect different city lakes during immersion

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Health department of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation on Friday convened a meeting of NGOs to discuss measures to be taken during Ganesh visarjan to ensure minimum opollution of water bodies.

Meagan Good urges women to wait for sex

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Meagan Good. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) Actress Meagan Good is hoping to encourage more couples to wait for sex in a relationship after agreeing to give her romance with her minister husband a year before they slept together. The “Think Like a Man” star gave herself the chance to really get to know her then-boyfriend, DeVon Franklin, before they consummated their romance, and now the couple is working on a new relationship self-help book, titled “The Wait,” which details their no-sex vow. Good... Читать дальше...





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