Update on April 14, 2020: Hart Island is back in the news for the most tragic of reasons: It’s currently being used as a burial ground for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the time since this post was first published, control of Hart Island was transferred to New York City’s Department of Parks and burials are no...

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The Magical World of Web Animation Milly Rowett, Senior Developer REA Group Back when we were kids, we used to have fun browsing the web, it was a magical playground full of colours, moving parts and games. Now we see browsing as a reluctant job to be done; finding a house, searching a recipe. Utilising […]

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JavaScript debugging the hard way Marcin Szczepanski, Principal Developer Atlassian Error on line 1, column 6532112 of bundle.js? Out of memory error trying to load a CPU profile into the Chrome debugger? Two minutes to see wait and see if a change you made fixed a bug? While upgrading our complex web application from Webpack […]

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Making Single Page Apps Accessible Jess Budd, Front End Developer HBF Javascript frameworks get a bad rap when it comes to accessibility. But is it the frameworks creating the barriers, or us as the developers? Follow me on a journey through div soup, past the lost focus and under the unchanged titles. Find out: is […]

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Know Your HTML Chris Lienert, Front End Technical Lead Iress HTML didn’t stop at version 5 and it continues to evolve. Chris Lienert will review a number of HTML elements and attributes that are new and (somewhat!) ready to be used. About Chris Lienert Chris started out as a web developer when Netscape ruled the […]

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The State of the DOM Marcos Caceres, Standards Engineer Mozilla The DOM, while not quite as old as the Web itself, has been with us for the entire professional lifetime of almost every web developer. But its far from fixed in stone. Now the responsibility of the WHATWG it continues to evolve in response to […]

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Evolving Web APIs for everyday developers Michael Mifsud, Senior platforms engineer Redbubble JavaScript is evolving quickly, and with it so the Web APIs. In just a few years it’s grown from humble callbacks to include generators, async iterations, and async functions. With this growth has come fragmentation not just in the availability of APIs but […]

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Tuning web performance with just browser APIs Yaser Adel Mehraban, Lead Consultant Telstra Purple As web applications become more complex, with a corresponding increase in required bandwidth and bundle sizes, to meet users’ expectations the need to consider web performance has never been more important. Yes, there are third-party tools that can help with performance […]

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Web Assembly at the Edge Mark Nottingham, Principal Engineer Fastly Full session details coming soon About Mark Nottingham Mark Nottingham has helped develop the Web and the Internet since the late 90’s. He has written, edited or substantially contributed to more than twenty IETF RFCs and W3C Recommendations about topics like HTTP, caching, linking, Web […]

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At least 40% of premium class foreign tourists visiting Nepal or Bhutan prefer touching Sikkim. Arrival of near 1.5 lakh foreign tourists and around 14 lakh domestic visitors in a year contributes a significant share to near Rs 400 crore worth annual tourism business of Sikkim-Darjeeling hills.

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Kolkata police Thursday seized 206 turtles, belonging to an endangered species, from a bus depot at Sinthi in North Kolkata.

The order has driven the normally abundant Jyoti potato virtually out of currency. Traders say the economics just doesn''t work out.

Speaking to mediapersons, Mamata narrated how she conveyed her decision to the minister.

Cold storages release 5,000 tonne against demand of 12,000 tonne, CPM says crisis fuelled by TMC govt for petty gains.

A truck can carry up to 10 tonnes of potato.

Bengal is the largest supplier of potatoes to Orissa, and everday over 350 to 400 truckloads from the state carry the commodity to Orissa on a regular basis.

West Bengal government Monday relaxed its ban on export of potatoes, albeit with a rider, saying it would help in further stabilisation of prices in the state.

After getting the information a a team of police officials from Manick Chowk police station rushed to the spot.

Those identified spots include Victoria Memorial Hall, Nakhoda Maszid, St Paul''s Church, and Town Hall.

Meanwhile, Subrata Biswas, principal secretary, department of agriculture and marketing, said they were ready for a legal explanation.

The Calcutta High Court Monday stayed a notification issued by the West Bengal government, which banned inter-state trading of potato.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday lifted the ban on potato and vegetable export, allowing their movement from West Bengal to other states.

The year began on a good note for farmers in Uttar Pradesh''s potato belt: they had recorded a bumper crop.

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

It''s no longer serving its purpose only in the household kitchen. High-quality potato produced in the lower region of Himachal Pradesh....

They can be seen vying for attention in the local markets, but consumers eye them warily with sellers barely being able to persuade them to change their preference.

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

The potato seeds, said scientists, will reduce J-K''s dependence on other states.

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

But things may change for one of the largest potato belts of Maharashtra this year.