Addressing the Assembly on Friday, the CM said that the Government would provide land if the BCCI agreed to build a stadium with international standards

Buyers can take a virtual look at the detailing that they want and customise their plans with a new technology.

We are too slow to catch up with bamboo usage in construction and our government is even slower in clearing policies to facilitate the use of the wonder material, says architect Neelam Manjunath in an interview with Nandhini Sundar

The start-up mentors debated if they could drive the price further down, but feared an even lower price would raise doubts about its quality, as was the case with the Tata Nano, reports Amrita Singh.

Kolkata’s Town Hall, where the swadeshi movement formally began and which had a strong association with the Indian nationalist movement, will be opened to public soon

The event at Women’s Christian College has choirs performing music across genres

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

Anyone interested in architecture should read this book by Stewart Brand. Brand won a National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, and is a co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering "the art of the long view." How Buildings Learn features a lot of illustrations and insights about building and buildings. I especially enjoy the comparison of two structures on the campus of MIT:

The legendary Building 20 (1943) was an artifact of wartime haste. Designed in an afternoon by MIT grad Don Whiston, it was ready for occupancy by radar researchers six months later... In an undertaking similar in scope to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb, the emergency development of radar employed the nation's best physicists in an intense collaboration that changed the nature of science. Unlike Los Alamos, the MIT radar project was not run by the military, and unlike Los Alamos, no secrets got out. The verdict of scientists afterward was, "The atom bomb only ended the war. Radar won it." ... Author Fred Hapgood wrote in 1993 of Building 20, "The edifice is so ugly that it is impossible not to admire it, if that makes sense; it has ten times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus... Although Building 20 was built with the intention to tear it down after... World War II, it has remained... providing a special function... Not assigned to any one school, department, or center, it seems to always have had space for the beginning project, the graduate student's experiment, the interdisciplinary research center.

In a later chapter, Brand describes famous architect I.M. Pei's third MIT building, known informally as the Media Lab and formally as the Wiesner Building:

It may have been my familiarity with MIT's homely, accommodating Building 20 just across the street that made the $45 million pretentiousness, ill-functionality, and non-adaptability of the Media Lab building so shocking to me... Nowhere in the whole building is there a place for casual meetings, except for a tiny, overused kitchen. Corridors are narrow and barren. Getting new cabling through the interior concrete walls - a necessity in such a laboratory - requires bringing in jackhammers. You can't even move office walls around, thanks to the overhead fluorescent lights being at a Pei-signature 45-degree angle to everything else.

The Media Lab building, I discovered, is not unusually bad. Its badness is the norm in new buildings overdesigned by architects...

Brand finishes How Buildings Learn with a list of good books, writing, "They are the texts I would reach for if I was going to work on a building..."

For Immediate Release No. 20-OPA-042

My friend Steve Davee posted this fun project to Instructables. It's a perfect project for shut-in parents and kids to do together.

The main body parts of the bots are keyboard keycaps and Q-tips/cotton swabs. An eccentric weight (pager) motor provides the bouncy movement that makes your vibrobots go.

Dip the swabs in watercolor paints, place the little critter on some paper, and watch your little tabletop Jackson Pollockbot go to town.

Image: YouTube Read the rest

ADVISORY COLUMN: PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVISER QUESTION: I looked through The Gleaner and saw a response you gave to a question. I realise that most of the housing developments around are superexpensive, so my wife and I are thinking of purchasing...

The enactment of President Clinton’s Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Executive Order, issued in 2000, triggered a proliferation of efforts to provide services to individuals who cannot speak, understand, read, or write English fluently. With increased service provision, state and local government agencies have expressed a strong and growing interest in assuring the quality and cost-effectiveness of language access services. This paper attempts to catalog and describe some of those tools and practices.

This report presents an overview of Czech integration policies, with a special focus on economic integration. It focuses on policies designed to support migrants’ incorporation in the Czech labor market, and assesses the extent to which these policies facilitate migrants’ upward mobility into more skilled work.

Testimony of Doris Meissner, Director of MPI's U.S. Immigration Policy Program, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The OM Russia Discipleship Centre opens its doors to 13 new students in September and opens a second OM building on the site.

Russian OMer Alexandra Bykova begins a Quilting Club to bring women closer to each other and to faith in Christ.

OM Russia partners with local churches to respond to the needs of Ukrainian refugees in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

The OM Mozambique team builds a library in Mocuba to support and provide resources for the local community.

“I have always wanted to do more than coach specific sport skills,” Joseph said. “This approach touches all areas of fitness: physical, emotional and spiritual–all aspects of a human being.”

From doing their lessons on the ground to learning at desks in classrooms, the students at Makwati Community School have come a long way.

Teens attending TeenStreet Europe in July will raise money for a project to bring reconciliation to the ethnically divided youth of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

What's up with Apple Wallet?

The custom-build looks very different, in fact, it doesn't have any of the Royal Enfield Himalayan left in it anymore. However, the biggest change here is the addition of a quickshifter.

'Tamraj' means the 'King of Darkness' and the latest custom job around a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 by Neev Motorcycles justifies the name.

What's up with Apple Wallet?

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts

The Covid 19 crisis is an opportunity to redefine tax policy and law. A calibrated approach to balance welfare economics with a vision to pioneer economic activity and national growth is needed.

In 2013, three best friends followed their passion to build a clothing company. Their journey took them in a whole new direction

1 Ugandan Shilling = 0.0005 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

Zoetis recently launched its first-ever national, direct-to-consumer television advertising campaigns in the U.S. since becoming an independent company. Two brand-new Zoetis ads started airing on TVs across the U.S. this week, one featuring the company’s canine allergic itch tablet, Apoquel®, and the other starring Simparica®, a once-monthly chewable parasiticide that helps protect dogs from fleas and ticks.

1 Salvadoran Colon = 0.2051 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Romanian Leu = 0.4031 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Ukrainian Hryvnia = 0.0669 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Tanzanian Shilling = 0.0008 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte = 0.1797 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Yemeni Rial = 0.0072 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Paraguayan Guarani = 0.0003 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Hong Kong Dollar = 0.2311 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Kuwaiti Dinar = 5.8031 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Saudi Riyal = 0.4779 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Tunisian Dinar = 0.6164 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 South African Rand = 0.0978 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Norwegian Krone = 0.1757 Netherlands Antillean Guilder