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Chopped to perfection

New York-based Indian chef Aarthi Sampath on winning a hit TV show and her desire to showcase the versatility of Indian cooking




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Against All Odds: Polio no barrier for Abhay Todkar, who has stepped up water conservation efforts in 60 villages




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Greg Chappel reaches out to Prithvi Shaw, says being dropped can shape career, character




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‘Shame to even appeal’: Ruturaj Gaikwad slams Ranji Trophy umpires, Services team after Maharashtra teammate’s controversial dismissal




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Greg Chappell on how Kohli and Rohit can revive themselves in Australia




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Gambhir heaps confidence on KL Rahul to step in as opener; Bumrah will be skipper if Rohit misses




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FCRA licence of NGOs will be scrapped if...: Govt

FCRA registration will also be cancelled if any NGO is not utilising foreign funding as per the aims and objectives of the NGO or if it has not uploaded the annual returns, the ministry said.




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Nadda, Shah's choppers also checked: EC rebuts Uddhav

Thackeray had on Monday claimed his bag was inspected by the election authorities when he arrived in Maharashtra's Yavatmal to campaign for the November 20 assembly elections.




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When Alia Bhatt clapped back at social-media trolls




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Meet Tamil Nadu’s bodybuilders who dedicate their lives to maintain a ripped physique

Tamil Nadu bodybuilders move to Chennai to pursue their dreams of a ripped physique, medals, fame, and a Government job



  • Life & Style

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Gukesh's 'Karpov-like' style tipped to outclass Ding

Ding will face a stern challenge from the 18-year-old Gukesh, who "doesn't make any mistakes at all" and has had a terrific run in 2024.




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To be fair, Cayla’s daughter hasn’t appeared in this strip in years

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/10/20 Hey, everyone! Were you worried that Buck was going to be inconvenienced, even briefly, […]




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Bank holiday road trippers caught and fined

Cumbria Police caught several would-be day-trippers flouting restrictions over the long weekend, including a driver who attempted to travel from Manchester to Dundee to buy a puppy on Saturday.




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Nurse, 51, who died of coronavirus had previously spoken out about lack of PPE for NHS staff

Onyenachi Obasi (pictured), 51, was a nurse for 20 years and died on May 6 after spending five weeks on a ventilator. Her niece said she had mentioned not being properly protected.




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End of the Ligue 1 season could finally see Kylian Mbappe leave PSG for Real Madrid or Liverpool

With the French season closed for business, Kylian Mbappe has an ideal period of time for reflection on a matter he has been very vocal on in the past - his next move.




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Arsene Wenger names Kylian Mbappe as the heir to Messi and Ronaldo as the world's best player

Messi (centre-right) and Ronaldo (right) have battled between them at the top of the game for more than a decade but are now 32 and 35 respectively, and Wenger named who could be next.




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Air route most effective in procuring PPEs, medicines




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Covid-19: Assam has stepped into most difficult times, says health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma




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6 Easy Tips To Make Short Nails Appear Longer

The first thing that comes into mind when we think ‘beautiful hands' is long and polished nails. But not all of us that lucky. Whether it is because your nails are fragile that they break at the slightest push or want




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Allu Arjun’s Pushpa: Makers Focused On Stylish Star’s Appearance Amid The Lockdown!

Just the other day, we had told you about rumours doing the rounds that makers of Pushpa are spending a whopping amount of Rs 6 crore for a 6-minute action sequence. Well, we must say that even amid the lockdown, the





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Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork

Sara is a journalist who wholeheartedly throws herself into her work as a journalist for a newspaper in Juarez. Mexico however is a country where journalists sometimes do their work under threats to themselves and their families and going to the police is not always a good idea. Sara soon finds that if she wants to pursue this particular story she could be putting the lives of herself, her younger brother Emiiano and their mother in danger.

Emiliano is a soccer star at his high school and in addition to this he is also a member of a school group called Jiparis who do hikes through the desert in order to build character in the young men, some of whom were involved in unsavory activities before joining the group.

One part of the Jipari pledge goes , "I will be honest with myself and others". This is easier said than done especially in a city like Juarez. One of the characters tells Emiliano, "everything is a spiderweb" and the speed with which he is enveloped in said web is astounding. Emiliano tells himself that he wants to help his family and friends out but are those his real reasons? Like any teen he wants to be seen as cool and there is also the small matter of a girl he wants to impress.

The first part of the book is told from each character's viewpoint and the author weaves the tale together in a very credible way showing how circumstances

Make no mistake, Disappeared is not a peaches and cream, hunky dory teen novel. It is a gritty and very realistic novel with a ripped from the headlines quality to it. The city of Juarez and the violence there doesn't dominate the headlines as it did a few years ago, but Stork's novel is a timely reminder that evil still exists and that it takes many people working in tandem to defeat it.



  • Everyone's Got Issues

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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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After Claiming He Would Have Stopped 9/11 Attacks, Twitter Had a Field Day Speculating What Else Trump *Would* Have Prevented on #ThingsTrumpWouldHaveStopped




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Artist Leaves $15K Worth of Coins Along Canal and Live-Tweets What Happens

The guy had to have known how this little social experiment would turn out. At least he used pennies. 




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Raw video shows officer using pepper balls while making an arrest during a protest

Indianapolis police arrested a man on Saturday near the location of the fatal police shooting of Dreasjon "Sean" Reed days earlier.

       




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Demonstrators describe arrest and pepper ball deployment during protest

Demonstrators describe an arrest and pepper ball use by IMPD during a protest over the death of Dreasjon Reed near 62nd Street and Michigan Road.

       




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Police use pepper balls while arresting man during protest of fatal police shooting

Indianapolis police arrested a man on Saturday near the location of the fatal police shooting of Dreasjon "Sean" Reed days earlier.

       




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Richard Stallman Joins Discussion About Changing Emacs' Appearance To Make It More Popular

Emacs "predates Linux, and was once far more popular," writes LWN.net, while adding that the text editor "has fallen into relative obscurity over the years." Then it reports on a "mega-thread" on the emacs-devel mailing list about how to make Emacs more appealing and attractive to users: The discussion started with a post from "ndame" asking why Emacs is "so square"; the appearance of things like buttons could be improved with rounded corners, they said. Richard Stallman, one of the original authors of Emacs, seemed somewhat dismissive in his reply: "Perhaps we should implement a mode that puts cosmetics on Emacs so it will appeal to those who judge by the surface of things." But Stefan Kangas thought there was more to it than that: I think it's unfortunate if we assume that this is all bells and whistles. Graphical design elements can also improve usability. I also don't know that it's helpful to assume that the rest of the world will take the enlightened stance.... He wondered if there was "any reason not to improve the default look". Stallman said that there are some technical barriers in finding someone interested in and capable of doing the work needed, but there is an overarching problem that needs to be addressed first: The code to interface Emacs to X-based GUIs needs rewriting by an expert, and has needed it for decades. Until it gets that rewrite, changes in it are likely to break something. Stallman did agree that the graphical design could improve usability, "but I have a feeling that the changes that would help are deeper issues than the shape of corners". It was a long and interesting discussion, touching on the popularity of both Vim and Visual Studio Code, while another post questioned whether Emacs should even be prioritizing its menu bar and tool bar. One post suggested "starter kits" to make the text editor more friendly to newcomers, another suggested making Cntrl-C cut-and-paste the default key binding, and one asked whether it was Emacs' terminology and keyboard shortcuts that might be confusing to users coming from Microsoft Word. "You are basically making a commitment to being or becoming a power user..." argued another post. "If you just want to do 'casual' text editing emacs is a very weird choice in 2020."

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Sport24.co.za | Lions legend says they need a confrontational skipper against Springboks: 'That is their DNA'

Former captain Paul O'Connell says it will be vital for the British & Irish Lions to pick a leader capable of beating the Springboks at their own game.




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Skipper Butterfly


A Skipper Butterfly, photographed today in my backyard in Bendigo, Victoria.





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Last camper moves out of Oppenheimer Park as cleanup begins

Police and City of Vancouver park rangers escorted the last person living in Oppenheimer Park out of the tent city Saturday afternoon, moments before crews with excavators moved in to clean up the mountains of trash left behind.




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Kruppel-like factor 3 (KLF3) suppresses NF-{kappa}B-driven inflammation in mice [Immunology]

Bacterial products such as lipopolysaccharides (or endotoxin) cause systemic inflammation, resulting in a substantial global health burden. The onset, progression, and resolution of the inflammatory response to endotoxin are usually tightly controlled to avoid chronic inflammation. Members of the NF-κB family of transcription factors are key drivers of inflammation that activate sets of genes in response to inflammatory signals. Such responses are typically short-lived and can be suppressed by proteins that act post-translationally, such as the SOCS (suppressor of cytokine signaling) family. Less is known about direct transcriptional regulation of these responses, however. Here, using a combination of in vitro approaches and in vivo animal models, we show that endotoxin treatment induced expression of the well-characterized transcriptional repressor Krüppel-like factor 3 (KLF3), which, in turn, directly repressed the expression of the NF-κB family member RELA/p65. We also observed that KLF3-deficient mice were hypersensitive to endotoxin and exhibited elevated levels of circulating Ly6C+ monocytes and macrophage-derived inflammatory cytokines. These findings reveal that KLF3 is a fundamental suppressor that operates as a feedback inhibitor of RELA/p65 and may be important in facilitating the resolution of inflammation.




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Comment associer les diasporas au développement: Manuel a l’usage des decideurs et praticiens dans les pays d’origine et d’accueil

Ce manuel pratique et simple d’utilisation à l’usage des décideurs et des praticiens fait le point des mesures les plus récentes prises par les pouvoirs publics en direction des diasporas. La question qui se pose aux responsables politiques n’est pas tant de savoir si les diasporas peuvent être utiles à leur pays d’origine, mais comment elles le sont et quels types de politiques et de programmes publics sont à même de favoriser ces relations.




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[ Polls & Surveys ] Open Question : What happens if you go to a concert just to stand in the corner and stink the place up with your farts?




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Trapped!

OM Philippines meets some of the young girls caught in the rising tide of underage sex tourism.




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'We cannot pretend nothing has happened'

Michel Di Feliciantonio and three other Italian Christians spent a week in Šid, Serbia, helping refugees on their way into Europe.




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Where is God when tragedy happens?

OM Norway Field Leader Willy Andre Meberg expresses condolences and prayer for the people of Norway.




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Discipled, equipped and transformed

A young woman's life is transformed by the love of Jesus shared and displayed through Tabitha Skills Training in Zambia.




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Get wrapped up in Adventure Week

Venturing out for a week of teambuilding and spiritual growth, OM Lifehope training participants leave the base by faith, not knowing what’s in store.




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Coronavirus:Where did it go wrong with testing and PPE?

LEARNING from the problems and delays over PPE and testing will be essential to getting the vaccine strategy right, experts say.




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Italian govt hails release of volunteer kidnapped in Kenya

Officials in Italy say an Italian aid worker who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018 has been freed in Somalia




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Refugee Relief - making it all happen!

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.




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Datsun Go & Go+ CVT review: Added convenience enhances the appeal

The Datsun Go and Go+ CVT claimed mileage is better/almost same as the manual versions and this along with the enhanced features should make them tick.