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Job Opening: 2022-2024 Litigation Law Fellow
The Fellow would work primarily on property rights issues created by the abuse of eminent domain by oil and gas pipeline companies, and other public interest litigation. The post Job Opening: 2022-2024 Litigation Law Fellow appeared first...
State Capacity: What Is It, How We Lost It, And How To Get It Back
We see growing deficits in state capacity over recent decades as a matter of fundamental importance. At stake is not just the prospect for effective public policy in a wide variety of important domains; at this point, the legitimacy and continued...
Childcare and Pre-K Expansion: Consensus or Polarization?
Democrats in Congress are working to pass federal support for universal pre-kindergarten and highly subsidized childcare without Republican support. But the policies will require bipartisan states to sign on in the first few years and...
Opinion | The Guardian
Getting jabs to the unvaccinated has never been more critical | Andrew Pollard and Brian Angus
With vaccinated people receiving their boosters, the horrors of Covid are now restricted to those who won’t or can’t have a jabCovid patients in ICUs now almost all unvaccinated, says Oxford scientistMore than ever before, we must look...
The NHS is facing the hardest winter in its history, and still the Tories vandalise it | Polly Toynbee
The health and social care bill has been sabotaged by government ideologues still in thrall to privatisationA screeching U-turn to save northern homeowners’ inheritances, or plunging his bulldozer through his own “red wall” seats?...
The Guardian view on social care: ministers plump for unfairness
Reducing the entitlement of poorer homeowners is the wrong way to cut the cost of this long-delayed schemeIn order to reduce the cost of its new social care funding scheme for England by an estimated £900m, the government has opted to reduce...
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Short, no-surprise throne speech expected to recap Liberal election promises
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will outline the agenda for his third Liberal mandate in a speech from the throne today.
Bus crashes, catches fire in Bulgaria; at least 45 dead
A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, authorities and local media said.
Why researchers are analyzing the brains of London cabbies to help dementia diagnosis
In London, England, cab drivers have to go through a gruelling test called the Knowledge to become experts on the city’s tangle of roads without a GPS. Now, researchers are studying their unique brains to see if these cabbies can help shed...
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Dozens of ships stuck in Arctic as ice freezes early in reverse of recent warming winters
Where are the ‘rapidly warming winters’ this time round? It seems global warming is behaving badly, in parts of the Arctic at least. – – – Shipping firms blame the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice...
UK’s largest electrolyser to supply hydrogen storage facility at Scottish windfarm
Here’s the UK government’s latest shot at ‘net zero’ climate virtue signalling. Subsidised wind farms will help produce subsidised hydrogen to fuel subsidised hydrogen vehicles such as buses and bin lorries. This is obviously...
It’s weather wars as the Met Office forecasts mild winter while the BBC predicts a big freeze
Place bets now! Of course there could well be bits of both. The Met Office says its offering is ‘consistent with a warming climate’, but there was a very cold winter spell only 11 years ago, around the time of the last solar minimum. – –...
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Twitter conducting first shopping livestream on November 28
The company said that while watching a Live Shopping stream on Twitter, people can take several actions that make the shopping experience on Twitter seamless.
After Airtel, now Vodafone Idea hikes prepaid tariff with basic plan starting from Rs 99 --See full tariff chart
Vodafone Idea has announced that the new tariffs will come into effect from 25 November 2021.
Sale of illegal items on Amazon continuing; police seized 48 kg marijuana in Visakhapatnam: CAIT
According to CAIT, after being tipped off by the Bhind police, the police in Visakhapatnam have recovered 48 kg marijuana from one of Amazon`s partners. An FIR was registered in this connection on November 20 under the NDPS Act, 1985, CAIT claimed...
Zee News :Sci-Tech
Longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years on November 19, will it be visible from India?
The duration of this 'Chandra Grahan' is said to be 3 hours and 28 minutes.
Are you a real stargazer? Enter NASA's 'Nebula' zone and take on challenge
Keeping its social media game up to the mark, NASA has shared a clip comprising of mesmerising pictures of 6 Nebulas and asked its stargazers to name all.
SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at International Space Station with Crew-3 mission astronauts
It took 21 hours for the flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre to reach the the orbiting lab.
Zee News :World
US issues 'Do Not Travel' warning for Germany, Denmark amid rising COVID-19 cases
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) elevated its travel recommendation to "Level Four: Very High" for the two European countries.
'Get jabbed, cured or dead in few months': German Health Minister tells citizens amid COVID-19 surge
To reduce the risk of serious illness, Health Minister Jens Spahn urged Germans to get vaccinated, including with booster shots if their first round of inoculation occurred more than six months ago.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex tests COVID-19 positive as coronavirus cases surge
One of Castex's daughters tested positive Monday after her father returned from a meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo in Brussels, and Castex himself then took two tests that were both positive, his office said...
Zee News :India National
Cold wave conditions to prevail over north India for next two days: IMD
“Minimum temperatures are likely to dip in Delhi but cold wave is not likely. Cold wave may be recorded in Haryana and Punjab,” said RK Jenamani.
Good news! UK adds India-made Covaxin to its list of approved COVID-19 vaccines
It will benefit more fully vaccinated Indians planning travel to the UK without the need for a pre-departure PCR test or self-isolation at the address declared on their compulsory Passenger Locator Forms...
Serum Institute of India to start Covishield supply to COVAX countries
"The first consignment from the Pune facility of Serum Institute of India was scheduled to leave for Nepal today. However, due to some reason, it has been delayed by two to three days," said SII sources...
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