SRINAGAR, India — Indian Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled a loan package for travel agencies and tourist guides to revive the industry. The tourism industry has welcomed the package. “We welcome post-Covid-lockdown schemes by the government to boost the tourism industry,” Rajesh Gupta, the chairperson of the Tourism Federation in Jammu and Kashmir, said “The humanitarian move will provide financial support to more than 11,000 registered tourists, guides, travel, and tourism stakeholders. We have to monitor that the benefits provided by this scheme reach the grass-root level.” “The schemes in the tourism sector will encourage foreign tourists as…
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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has become noticeably thinner in recent weeks and has surprised many experts who study the country. However, North Korea has not officially acknowledged any changes to Kim’s weight or health. But North Korean state television aired an unusual interview on June 25 in which a Pyongyang resident said he and others living in the capital were “heartbroken” to see how much weight their leader had lost. “The people, including myself, were most heartbroken when we saw the respected General Secretary (Kim Jong Un’s official title) looking gaunt — everyone says it brought…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on June 28 passed legislation that would boost scientific research to make the U.S. more competitive than China. The U.S. lawmakers passed two bills on a bipartisan basis to increase funding for the National Science Foundation, establish a new directorate for science and engineering to expand research opportunities, and authorize research funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. “We must significantly boost funding for science,” said House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. “For years, we have allowed millions of dollars of excellent research to go unfunded. We are…
SRINAGAR, — The Jammu and Kashmir administration has been taking significant steps regarding the rearing process of cocoons to boost silk production in the region. Sericulture plays a significant role in generating employment for the locals in the north Indian Union Territory. Experts at the Mirgund seed station are taking constant care to increase the production of mulberry fruit crops. The sericulture department stresses providing good quality leaves, maintaining the required temperature, and changing nets for good results. “Because this is the proper season for cocoon rearing when worm silk needs a specific diet in the shape of mulberry leaves which they eat in…
A hospital in Germany has been ordered to pay compensation to a person who as a schoolboy was left severely disabled after doctors postponed his brain tumor surgery until after the Easter holiday. Following a decision from the Hamburg District Court on June 23, the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Clinic in Germany has been ordered to pay $535,000 compensation due to a doctor’s medical error 10 years ago. The then 13-year-old patient was admitted to the Altona Children’s Hospital in Germany after an MRI scan ordered by a private radiologist showed a seven-centimeter diameter tumor on April 20, 2011. After learning the…
Chinese authorities have turned on two of the world’s first one-gigawatt turbines at the country’s new mega dam. The Baihetan Dam is still under construction on the Jinsha River on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in southwestern China. It is the last large hydropower project in China to be completed and will be the second-largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, in terms of generating capacity, after the Three Gorges Dam, also in China. Upon completion, it will be the third-largest dam in China and the fourth in the world, in terms of dam volume. After an eight-year…
Muggsy Bogues built a career shattering stereotypes. Bogues earned the respect of the entire NBA through his tenacity and no-quit high level of play, while standing only 5-foot-3 inches. To this day, he is the shortest player to ever lace up a pair of sneakers in the league. After enjoying a 14-season career of pro ball, Bogues is now a podcaster, crushing it with fellow former ballers Charles Oakley and Earl Cureton for their “3 League OGs” podcast. Ashley Stroehlein, a sports anchor and reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina, has the task of keeping the trio on track as the…
WASHINGTON — Once located just east of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., was Barry Farm, 400-plus units of public housing, and one of the most violent and impoverished neighborhoods in the nation’s capital. Today, those units are gone, paving the way for a controversial redevelopment plan to create a mixed-use, mixed-income community that has pitted former residents against the District government. Yet in the midst of the rubble and new construction, the George Goodman League — one of the country’s best summer outdoor basketball leagues — remains a neighborhood constant. From mid-June to early September, six days a week, thousands…
Unfortunately, almost every woman on the planet is familiar with the uncomfortable sensation that sometimes accompanies walking alone. It doesn’t matter if it’s in broad daylight or in the middle of the night, right near home or in an unknown area — quite often, the seemingly simple procedure of making our way somewhere leaves us full of trepidation. An Israeli app called SafeUP was developed to combat this situation. It enables women to log on and be virtually or physically accompanied to their desired location by a trained volunteer, feeling secure in the knowledge that there’s safety in numbers. The…
MUMBAI, India — British actress Katrina Kaif, who primarily works in Bollywood, has finally found a male model for her beauty label, “Kay By Katrina.” But, if you think it’s her rumored beau Vicky Kaushal, then you are wrong. Kaif had received a direct request from Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor to cast him as the male model for her beauty brand. This came after Kaif extended birthday wishes to Kapoor on her Instagram story two days ago. “Thank u, and as a gift, I want u to launch a men’s line of @kaybykatrina and make me the face of it (sic),” said Kapoor, who…