Prince William and his wife Kate went Saturday to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This final stage of their one week journey in India and Bhutan rekindles remembrances for the royal couple ... – WN.com, Ayite C. d'ALMEIDA. ....
photo: NASA / ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500...Vice President Jorge Glas reported the death toll at a somber news conference, while PresidentRafael Correa flew back from Rome to deal with the crisis ... ___ ... ....
QUITO. Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades, a 7.8-magnitude tremor, struck off the Pacific coast on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and causing damage near the epicenter as well as in the largest city of Guayaquil. PresidentRafael Correa declared a national emergency and urged the Andean nation's 16 million people to stay calm ... Authorities urged people to evacuate coastal areas for fear of rising tides ... Refinery closed. ... ....
-->. Aurangabad authorities had announced 10% water cuts for industrial units while 20% for breweries and distilleries ... The CM conceded that the situation in Marathwada region is grim ... On the occasion, he announced a scheme under which Rs 25,000 will be given to a newly-wed couple belonging to SC and ST communities towards financial assistance and Rs 15,000 to those couples from Economically Backward Class (EBC) from general category ... ....
"Our party has always favoured reservation for the SC, ST and extremely backward caste (EBC) groups, and supported it when the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government introduced reservation for these sections in the state's panchayat bodies on the single seats like mukhiyas, sarpanchs and zila parishad members," Modi said....
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The UA107x's aspherical elements have been treated with the latest High Transmittance Electron Beam Coating (HT-EBC). Using HT-EBC in tandem with FUJIFILM's exclusive AsphericTechnology, the UA107is able to reduce ghosting and lens flares,while increasing the amount of light transmitted through the lens to the camera's sensors....
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A key source close to the development told TOI that since the state government does not see any apparent solution to the Patidar reservation stir, it is actively considering doing some damage control by announcing reservations for Patels under the Specially Backward Class (SBC) or Economically Backward Class (EBC) as done by the Rajasthan and Haryana governments recently, by passing bills in the state assembly....
While state BJP chief Mangal Pandey attacked the CM for his remarks on the Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan, former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi took him on the issue of dalit and EBC uplift ... Sushil Modi maintained that be it the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS) or the BJP, it has always remained committed to the welfare and uplift of the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), EBC and people of other deprived sections....
The second phase of election in Assam and second part of phase one poll in West Bengal will be held on April 11 ... "Such advertisements in the last stage of election vitiates the election ... One of the advertisements alleged that RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar are "snatching the plate of dalits" by planning to transfer the quota meant for dalits and EBCs to minorities ... ....
The Commission had issued similar directions ahead of phase one of polls in the two states last week ... The second phase of election in Assam and second part of phase one poll in West Bengal will be held on April 11 ... RelatedArticle ... One of the advertisements alleged that RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar are snatching the plate of dalits” by planning to transfer the quota meant for dalits and EBCs to minorities....