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How auto firms plan to woo customers, motivate sales staff post lockdown

As India eases some restrictions and many automobile dealerships restart operations after over a month of keeping their shutters down, what will be the primary target for brands?




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‘Paul Pogba, Bruno Fernandes can thrive in United midfield’: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer




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ISL, I-League await domestic revision after AIFF approves reduction of foreigners




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Blow for Bundesliga plans as Dynamo Dresden squad put in quarantine




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‘Virgil van Dijk is the best centre-back in Premier League history’: Vincent Kompany




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Brighton Covid-19 case highlights challenges of resuming EPL




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La Liga keeps plan to resume despite five positive tests




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EB-Quess contract row: East Bengal players to approach AIFF through players’ body




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Michael Douglas teases Ant-Man 3 update, asks fans to "hang tight"

Reports state that Ant-Man 3 is in development at Marvel Studios, but the MCU is keeping its plans somewhat guarded.




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TN: Private bus carrying stranded citizens of Kerala collides with water tanker on Karur-Salem highway, 25 injured

It is said to be the first road accident in Karur district after the lockdown was announced.




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'Rankings is the keyword': Dimuth Karunaratne wants Sri Lanka to reach top four in Test and ODI

Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne said that he wants his side to reach the top four spot in both Test and ODI rankings.




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Watch: David Warner lip-syncs Mahesh Babu's famous 'Pokiri' dialogue on TikTok

Before this, David and his wife Candice were seen grooving to recent Telugu hit track Butta Bomma from Allu Arjun starrer Ala Vaikuntapuramlo.




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India-China face-off in north Sikkim, troops from both sides reportedly injured

News reports suggest that a total of 150 soldiers were involved in the face-off that allegedly took place a few days back.




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BJP leader Kapil Mishra accuses Delhi government of hiding COVID-19 deaths

In Delhi, the total number of coronavirus cases has risen to 6,923 with 381 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. 2069 people have recovered, and 73 people died, according to the data published in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website.




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'5 bfs in one...it's my choice': Neha Dhupia celebrates second wedding anniversary with Angad Bedi

To celebrate their anniversary, the actors went live on their social media channels.




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From calling AB de Villiers his favourite batsman to receiving Test cap from MS Dhoni, KL Rahul answers fans' questions

Wicket-keeper batsman KL Rahul on Sunday made sure to answer as many questions from fans as he did an 'Ask Rahul' session on Twitter.




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Congress paves way for Uddhav Thackeray to become MLC unopposed, withdraws nominee

Sena had sent a message to Balasaheb Thorat to withdraw the party's second candidate.




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Railways plans to gradually resume services from May 12

Ticket booking counters at the railway stations shall remain closed and no counter tickets including platform tickets shall be issued.




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Bois Locker Room case: Police says minor girl created fake account to suggest sexual assault on herself

A fictitious name 'Siddharth' was used by the girl to create a fake profile and the conversation was to meant to test the 'values and character' of the boy.











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How five Canberrans are marking Mother's Day in the time of COVID-19 - The Canberra Times

  1. How five Canberrans are marking Mother's Day in the time of COVID-19  The Canberra Times
  2. Eight Australian mothers share the greatest thing their kids have taught them  ABC News
  3. Mother's Day: Our special mums - your stories  New Zealand Herald
  4. Mother's Day: Jacinda Ardern shares heartwarming message in celebration of her mum  Newshub
  5. Mum, in memory: A Mother's Day Tribute  New Straits Times
  6. View Full coverage on Google News





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The COVIDSafe app – What we know and questions that remain unanswered - Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Australia - Mondaq News Alerts

  1. The COVIDSafe app – What we know and questions that remain unanswered - Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Australia  Mondaq News Alerts
  2. Readers respond to the COVIDSafe app's launch  Sydney Morning Herald
  3. COVIDSafe app downloads shoot past five million  Sky News Australia
  4. UK contact tracing app source code shared as researchers seek to solve mystery  9to5Mac
  5. Lack of honesty on virus app is a problem  9News
  6. View Full coverage on Google News









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South Korea takes first cautious steps into a post-Covid world - The Guardian

  1. South Korea takes first cautious steps into a post-Covid world  The Guardian
  2. S. Korea warned of COVID-10 second wave  NEWS.com.au
  3. South Korea reverses on reopenings amid nightclub outbreak  The Age
  4. S.Korea leader says no panic as cases rise  SBS News
  5. Coronavirus: How South Korea 'crushed' the curve  BBC News
  6. View Full coverage on Google News




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Coronavirus Australia live updates: Jenny Morrison's reveals "honest" life in lockdown - NEWS.com.au

  1. Coronavirus Australia live updates: Jenny Morrison's reveals "honest" life in lockdown  NEWS.com.au
  2. Isolated life at The Lodge brings the Morrisons closer  The Age
  3. PM in lockdown with wife, daughters, mum and mum-in-law  Daily Telegraph
  4. Jenny Morrison reveals why she used to hate Mother's Day  Daily Mail
  5. View Full coverage on Google News







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WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry - ABC News

  1. WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry  ABC News
  2. Coronavirus crisis: Weekends in Esperance back on the cards  The West Australian
  3. WA's decision to keep its mines open amid coronavirus may have saved Australia's economy | ABC News  ABC News (Australia)
  4. View Full coverage on Google News






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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

This book. This book is grounded inside its main character's mind and body in an almost visceral way, and if you've ever had a "crazy" friend--and who hasn't, but I mean one who is actually diagnosed with anxiety disorder and/or OCD--even though this book is entertaining and wonderful and all the things good fiction should be, it will help you to "get" them in a way they might not have been able to articulate to you.

Aza is the star of the show. Or maybe she's not. She's so stuck inside her head, where twisty thoughts and logic have her spinning about the bacteria in her body and how it might just take over and kill her, that maybe she's the victim. Worse, maybe she is the bad guy. And the victim. And the star.

Life is complicated.

Aza is lucky in that she has a best friend, Daisy. Daisy, who talks all. the. time. but who sticks by Aza even though Aza isn't easy to stick by. So when Daisy suggests that she and Aza make like Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to solve the mystery of the missing billionaire, Aza goes along with it.

Things happen. So many things. And I don't want to talk about any of them, really, because it would spoil this book, which unspools almost magically. It starts from a very clenched place and almost literally unwinds to a a better stasis.

Read it. Read it to find out what role Aza plays in her own life. To see if she can find her way out of her own head, at least a little. And to find out what the title means: "turtles all the way down."

So yeah - consider this review the equivalent of me standing next to you, shoving this book into your hands, making almost uncomfortable levels of eye contact while imploring you to read it.

But really. Read it.




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Collected Brevity: Anthologies and Short Story Collections

When my friend Christopher Golden announced the forthcoming The Twisted Book of Shadows anthology - which will start accepting submissions in February 2018, so mark your calendars! - I started considering what I could write and submit. That led to thinking about my favorite short stories, which is a pretty short list (no pun intended) as I tend to gravitate towards longer stories, full-length novels and serialized television. I started asking friends, colleagues, and patrons of all ages about their favorite anthologies and short story collections, and here's what we've got!

Jules, who runs the fantastic blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, loves Naomi Shihab Nye's Honeybee, which offers both poems and prose. She calls it "a rewarding read" - "the results are both striking and moving, yet she manages to throw some humor in there, too." Check out her review of the collection, which includes quotes from the text, with the author's permission. (I love this note from the author: "If I see a lone bee hovering in a flower, I wish it well.")

Allison seconds the recommendation for Naomi Shihab Nye, saying her work is "off all charts. I’ve never read anything by her that didn't have at least a touch of honeyed language. One of my other favorite short story/essayists is Bailey White who used to read her short stories and essays on All Things Considered. Her first book was Mama Makes Up Her Mind. Barbara Kingsolver and bell hooks are two others I love."

Author and artist Sarah Jamila Stevenson, whose novels include The Truth Against the World and The Latte Rebellion, enjoyed the anthology Slasher Boys and Monster Girls edited by April Tucholke. "This 2015 anthology featuring some big names in YA literature brings a fresh perspective to classic horror tropes - and it's not for the faint-hearted. I'll never think of the Mad Tea Party in the same way again, that's for sure..."

Rachel's favorite anthology is The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 edited by Terry Carr. "This anthology got me hooked on science fiction and fantasy when I was around 12 or 13, and I have been hooked ever since," she said. It contains two of her favorite short stories, Of Mist, Grass and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin, both of which she considers "still incredibly relevant today." Prompted by our conversation, she looked up the full table of contents and added, "One of the ones I'd forgotten about, that hits me in a completely different way now, is The Women Men Don’t See, written by Alice Bradley Sheldon under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr." 

When I asked the aforementioned Christopher Golden to list some of his favorite anthologies, he included "all of Charles L. Grant's legendary Shadows volumes and Kirby McAuley's Dark Forces, which were all hugely influential on me as a teenager and into my twenties. The horror stories in those books inspired me as a writer and as a reader…and later as an anthologist in my own right."

As for collections, he said, "The easiest and truest answer is that Stephen King set the bar with Night Shift and Different Seasons. If you go back and read those today - the former a collection of short stories and the latter a quartet of novellas - you'll see the master at work. King didn’t realize it at the time, but those were STATEMENTS, establishing the benchmark for weird fiction. Years later, I wrote the introduction for Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and I had no idea of his parentage. I should have known, reading those stories, because that set a bar for a new generation. Others that should absolutely be on your weird or horror fiction collection list include all six volumes of Clive Barker's groundbreaking Books of Blood, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Other Stories, and Robert Shearman's Remember Why You Fear Me. On the fantasy side, Robert Holdstock's The Bone Forest is an overlooked marvel, and Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen is remarkable."

Thanks to Chris for giving us so many recommendations -- and for giving me a segue to share my own! I really enjoyed Golden's fantastic short story collections The Secret Backs of Things and Tell My Sorrows to the Stones. The titles are fantastic and the collections fully deliver. He recently released Don't Go Alone, a collection of collaborations, which includes Joe Golem and the Copper Girl (co-written with Mike Mignola and part of their series of Joe Golem novels and comics), Ghosts of Albion animated films and books), and Wellness Check (co-written with Thomas E. Sniegoski and part of their fantastic dark fantasy series The Menagerie, which I really love).

Looking for books for younger readers and/or more classic fare? As a kid, there were collections of myths and scary stories that I read multiple times. Check out my booklist packed with short story collections and quick reads for elementary through high school readers. Have fun adding titles to your to-read pile, and feel free to leave your short story recommendations in the comments below!




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The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy


From my recent Locus review of The Disappearances, a WW2 era fantasy that includes a curse, a literary mystery, some grave robbing, and the disappearance of the stars:

Initially, Emily Bain Murphy’sThe Disappearances reads as straightforward historical fiction. It’s 1942 and teenage Aila is facing the stark reality of life in the wake of her mother’s recent death. To make matters worse, her father is off to the war in the Pacific and she and her younger brother Miles must go live with their mother’s oldest friend in Sterling, Connecticut, where she grew up. Aila knows very little about her mother’s childhood but is resigned to doing her best to fit in. Readers will feel immediate empathy for these children and their predicament but likely expect little in the way of fantasy from reading the first few pages. Then Aila and Miles arrive in their new home with the Clifton family and, in spite of the pouring rain that greets them, Aila is stunned to notice that Matilda Clifton remains completely dry. Clearly, everything in the seemingly dull town of Sterling is not as it appears. 

Highly recommended for those who like to see how things used to be done (before cell phones which would have made a lot of the clue-following in this book a lot easier!) and as a reminder that sometimes nothing beats hitting the library. (Cue relevant Doctor Who quote here!)




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Black Light Express by Phillip Reeve


From my recent review of Black Light Express for Locus:


Philip Reeve’s absolutely incredible world building again takes center stage in Black Light Express, the sequel to Railhead. The second book picks up soon after the events that brought Railhead to a stunning close, with former thief and unwitting catalyst Zen Starling having fled the Network Empire along with Nova, his android girlfriend. Meanwhile, completely against her will, Threnrody Noon, the Paris Hilton of the empire-controlling Noon family, has assumed the position of Empress. She is only a pawn of more powerful interests however and virtually trapped in the palace attending a haze of pointless engagements while her former fiance, Kobi, is on the other side of the galaxy about to be forced into a corporate approved marriage with someone he has never met. Basically, the fallout from Railhead is reverberating across all the lives of the major characters while, unknown to them, it’s about to get a lot lot worse. 

What Black Light Express (and the first book, Railhead), offers readers is sentient trains, a vapid rich girl who decides she doesn't want to be a pawn anymore, political machinations, alien technology, aliens, dinosaur-descended aliens, human-android romance, the fact that the human-android romance is the best kind of romance, more stupid rich people, the satisfaction of rich people losing because they are stupid, a protagonist who is smart and scrappy and more than willing to walk on the wrong side of the law because playing by the rules gets you only so far (and those rich jerks are the ones who wrote the rules in the first place).

Oh - and a train is killed and that is far more upsetting than you would think. 

As I wrote in my review, I'm really surprised that these books are not more well known. They  are excellent SF (which is not too common in the YA literary world) as well as being excellent political mirrors for much of modern society. Check them out!




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U.S. bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic dies at 43

Former U.S. Olympic bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic died May 3 at the age of 43, USA Bobsled/Skeleton said in a release Saturday.




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Tesla возобновит работу завода в США вопреки запрету властей

Tesla возобновит работу главного завода в США. Речь идет о фабрике во Фримонте, штат Калифорния, на которой собираются электромобили. Компания начала процесс возобновления деятельности, основываясь на «рекомендациях губернатора Калифорнии, подкрепленных наукой и достоверными данными сферы здравоохранения».




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Otevřeno pro jednoho hosta. Pandemie inspirovala vznik svérázných restaurací

Celosvětová pandemie koronaviru, kvůli které nejspíš zkrachují tisíce restaurací, inspirovala koncept švédské restaurace Bord For En (Stůl pro jednoho). Podnik bude servírovat tříchodové menu vždy jen pro jediného hosta. Stolovat se bude venku na louce, s výhledem do zeleně, uvedla ve své reportáži stanice CNN. Restaurace se otevře 10. května a bude v provozu jen přes léto.



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Doplatek cestovce za zrušený zájezd je nemorální, zlobí se Dostálová

Zákon, díky němuž mohou cestovky místo vracení peněz nabízet vouchery, podle ombudsmana Stanislava Křečka nechrání jejich klienty. Poukazuje přitom na případ rodiny, která musí cestovní kanceláři naopak doplácet za dovolenou, která se nejspíš neuskuteční. Podle ministryně Kláry Dostálové může být takové jednání nekalou obchodní praktikou.



  • Ekonomika - Domácí