Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingJust as she did on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, it has become very fashionable, even unsuspecting, for First Lady Michelle Obama to travel the country and in her speeches declare. “I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves.” The only problem is that she is partially right, one-sixth right to be exact ... He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com ... Washington....
North Korea's top diplomat for U.S. affairs said Thursday that Washington "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war games as planned... ....
A U.S.-supported military offensive on the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group’s strategic hub in the Syrian city of Manbij has yielded a mother lode of more than four terabytes of data on the group’s foreign fighter network, Newsweek reported Thursday.The cache of information is the biggest data seizure from the radical Islamist group since the U.S ... “We think this is a big deal....
Traffic congestion is all set to worsen on KamarajRoad as the Corporation plans to dig the road for a stretch of three km from ManisTheatre near Hope College to Singanallur Bus Stand to lay cement pipes for Under Ground Drainage (UGD) works. Last week, the Corporation wrote to the City PoliceCommissioner seeking diversion of traffic on the busy road... It would take time for the junction boxes to set and for the road to be re-laid....
Ruralroads being constructed haphazardly with the use of bulldozers in Bahrabisa VDC, Bajura, on Thursday, July 28, 2016 ...Haphazard use of heavy equipment for road construction in Bajura has affected nearby human settlements negatively. A total of 23 roads, including eight agriculture roads and three rural access roads, are now under-construction in the district....
Uprooting of more than 30 trees were reported from RajkumarRoad, Basavanagudi, Ragigudda, Jayanagar 9th Cross. Meanwhile, commuters, who had been bracing traffic snarls due to inundation of major arterial roads from the past three days, probably woke up to their worst nightmare on Friday morning ... No major arterial road was an exception ... Bilekahalli junction on the road is inundated as well bringing the traffic to a standstill....
Upper Lachlan Shire Council advises several roads remain closed following recent heavy rains. ROAD CLOSURES ...Original documenthttp.//www.upperlachlan.nsw.gov.au/news/current-road-closures-shire-29-july-2016....
Vandana Shekhar is having a tough time travelling on Gangapur Road while dropping and picking her children from school since the past few days. Just like her, the road dotted with innumerable potholes has been giving the residents and commuters bumpy rides. "We have to actually find a road between the potholes. This road was developed before the Kumbh Mela, but the they (authorities) left the work half way....
ROAD CLOSURES ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal. Cushing from Eldridge to Charles DeanRoad - Tuesday, August 2, 2016. 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for road work - slurry seal ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal ... 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM, road closed for slurry seal....
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) is involving three engineering educational institutions in solving the problem of deteriorating roads. The civic administration has written a letter to the institutions requesting them to inspect the roads, provide technical solutions to the ongoing problem and to suggest permanent solutions for avoiding further damage ... The contractors will have to repair the road damages....
The city civic body has finally woken up to the apathy of the roads in the city and has decided to peanalize the contractors for constructing poor quality roads. Municipal commissionerOm Prakash Bakoria on Thursday said the civic body would take action against contractors and would soon conduct a survey of all the newly constructed roads to ascertain its damage due to recent rain showers....
Forbes Shire Council advises that unsealed roads in the Forbes Shire are now open to all traffic. Council thanks residents for their understanding during the period it was necessary to restrict the load limit on the unsealed road infrastructure....
$64,817 for grassroots road safety initiatives. 29 organisations to receive road safety grants. The LiberalNational Government has allocated $64,817 for community road safety initiatives across Western Australia in its effort to make the roads safer. Deputy Premier and RoadSafetyMinisterLiza Harvey said the range of projects across the State showed the enormous community involvement in working together to save lives....
With vehicles from all four directions pouring in, pedestrian comfort and safety take the back seat at the AnnaArch junction on PoonamalleeHighRoad... 117-crore-flyover from Poonamallee High Road to Nelson Manickam Road was opened in March this year, crossing the junction still takes a full ten minutes, say pedestrians ... Many times, people just run across the road, endangering their lives....
The AustralianAutomobile Association (AAA) is calling on government to renew its focus on road safety as a new report shows 99 more Australians were killed in the year to June 2016 than in the previous year ... The AAA today released its Benchmarking the Performance of the NationalRoadSafetyStrategy (NRSS) which shows there were 1,269 fatalities on Australianroads in the year to June 2016, an increase from 1,170 a year earlier....