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MMRDA plans to extend metro to Mira Road, Bhayandar

Edit The Hindu 20 Jun 2016
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is considering extending the metro connectivity to the nearby areas of Mira Road and Bhayandar ... Pravin Darade, Additional Metropolitan Commissioner, said in a statement on Sunday....

Should Virginia pay more for Metro?

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 20 Jun 2016
... letter addressed to Jack Evans, chairman of the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and a District of Columbia councilman....

Water Board to launch 'Dial Your Manager' service

Edit The Times of India 20 Jun 2016
Hyderabad. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) will soon launch a phone-in programme 'Dial Your Chief General Manager' on the lines of 'Dial Your MD' to receive complaints from people of their respective jurisdictions ... RELATED....

Forest officials seize 160 parakeets, 300 muniya birds from four women

Edit The Times of India 20 Jun 2016
Trichy. Forest officials on Sunday seized 160 parakeets and 300 muniya birds from four women in the city on Sunday. The women were arrested when they were trying to flee to Chennai ... Trichy forest range officer Saravana Kumar said these birds are sold in metropolitan cities for a high price ... RELATED. From around the web....

Can Car-Centric Suburbs Adjust to Aging Baby Boomers? (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
Some researchers foresee conflicts between seniors and families with school-age children over increasingly scarce government resources ... Nearly two-thirds of boomers in metropolitan areas lived in the suburbs in 2014, and most want to age there, according to national ... 'Older people don't move that much,' said William Frey, demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program....

Orlando shooting: Attorney General says Mateen investigation moving forward

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
(Source. AP File Photo) ... “We are hurting. We are exhausted, confused, and there is so much grief,” said Larry Watchorn, a ministerial intern, during a sermon at Joy Metropolitan Community Church in Orlando, whose congregants are predominantly gay ... 3 }); }); ... Megan Currie, a Joy Metropolitan Community Church member, said during a Sunday morning sermon that Mateen’s attack was an effort to put fear in the gay community....

CCTVs to be set up at service reservoirs

Edit The Times of India 20 Jun 2016
Hyderabad. In a bid to boost security, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) will install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at over 50 service reservoirs. All water tankers too will get global positioning systems (GPS) to monitor their movement. At present, private security personnel guard the service reservoirs, which play a key role in supplying water to over 70 lakh people ... RELATED....

CHRONICLE OF A LAST SUMMER: A Novel of Egypt, by Yasmine El Rashidi (Crown Publishing Group)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
'An uncannily clairvoyant and astute portrayal of metropolitan life in Egypt ... detail the tone and texture of the protagonist's daily life in Cairo-from conversations with fruit vendors and interactions in a record store, on a bus, in a government office, to intimate moments at home and with friends discussing politics, protests, and life....

Nurses at 5 Minneapolis-area hospitals begin weeklong strike

Edit WPTV 20 Jun 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — About 4,800 nurses at five Minneapolis-area hospitals began a weeklong strike Sunday over a contract impasse.  . Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association began striking at 7 a.m. at the hospitals, all operated by Allina Health ...  . No new contract talks are scheduled ...   ... The last major Twin Cities nurses strike was in 2010, when 12,000 nurses walked out at 14 metropolitan-area hospitals for a day ... ....

Delhi govt: Licence of BSES Yamuna, Rajdhani may be cancelled

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
A government source said, “Despite several warnings from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the performance of both BSES companies continues to be poor. Therefore, the government is considering the ......

Government to provide free education to specially abled students

Edit The Times of India 20 Jun 2016
The state government on Sunday announced extension of free education to specially abled students from Class IX till university level, including government-run engineering, medical and polytechnic institutes ... The state government had recently announced ... The government will appoint women in 30% of the posts as per government rules....

Wide-ranging briefing on steps taken to ensure nuclear safety at Taishan (Macau Special Administrative Region Government)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
Macau Special Administrative Region Government). The Government would organise shortly a visit to the construction site of the nuclear power plant in Taishan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, said today the Secretary for Security, Mr Wong Sio Chak. The delegation would include Government representatives, members of the media and community representatives ... Protecting public health and safety is the Government's priority....

Arun Jaitley takes a dig at Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh, AAP

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday attacked Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh over his family’s alleged foreign accounts and also took a dig at Aam Aadmi Party, which he said was more interested in creating controversies than running the government ... “The information about (bank) accounts in Switzerland was given to the Indian government was given for the first time by the French authorities....
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