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Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie. She had no idea

NEW YORK — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. — “Connie.” She dishes and names names Chung’s career took her from Washington reporting for a fabled CBS News bureau in the 1970s through anchor jobs in Los Angeles and at NBC News and an ill-fated partnership with Dan Rather at the “CBS Evening News” in the …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Kerala HC directs PWD to explain reasons for poor condition of Kundannoor-Thevara bridge

The Hindu

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on August 5 directed the Public Works department to file a statement explaining the reasons for the poor condition of the Kundannoor-Thevara bridge. The Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice A. Muhamed Mustaq and Justice S. Manu, issued the directive during the hearing of a public interest petition filed by Boban Nedumparambil, former …

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9 months ago

Billionaire Trump megadonor is funding "moderate" campaign to defeat progressive lawmaker Summer Lee

Salon

Representing itself as a group of concerned local citizens, the "Moderate PAC" last week began airing a 30-second ad accusing progressive first-term Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., of being disloyal to President Joe Biden. So far this cycle, Moderate PAC has spent $586,000 on a campaign tarring Lee, first elected in 2022, as an "extreme socialist." "Every cycle Republican billionaires find …

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1 year ago

Opinion: By demonizing immigrants, U.S. betrays its ideals — and economic reality

LA Times

Migrants walk along a highway in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico on Monday, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. Extinguish her torch welcoming from other nations “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” And forget the rhapsodizing we’ve long heard, from social-studies teachers and presidents including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

If India killed a Canadian Sikh, Trudeau and other Liberal PMs are at fault

Al Jazeera

Trudeau is playing politics. The answer reveals the history of dithering and hypocrisy of a succession of Liberal prime ministers – who now claim to be deeply offended when Canada’s “sacrosanct” sovereignty is treated, as I said, like a doormat – as well as their shameful complicity in the grievous harm visited upon innocent Canadians by other “friendly” foreign powers. …

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1 year, 10 months ago

'No Guarantees': Double Olympic Champion David Rudisha Thinks it Will be Hard For Neeraj Chopra to Defend Tokyo Gold

News 18

Two-time Olympic Games gold medallist in 800m, Kenya’s David Rudisha, is keen to train Indian sprinters and middle-distance runners when he calls time on his illustrious career. The 34-year-old two-time world champion in 800m, who defended his 2012 London Olympics gold in Rio four years later, also said winning back-to-back gold medals at the quadrennial games is not easy but …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and CND included in police counter-terror document

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A number of peaceful protest organisations including Greenpeace, the Campaign …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Roads in a shambles

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: Prolonged monsoon showers, delay in tendering road works and pipe-laying work by Kerala Water Authority has turned city roads into death traps. The election code-of-conduct imposed at Vattiyoorkavu constituency has come us a huge blow to the residents with the Public Works Department stalling the tendering procedure putting on hold works on around 154 roads. `1 crore worth road …

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5 years, 9 months ago

BBC’s undisguised anti-India bias: From the Leslee Udwin documentary on Nirbhaya to Top Gear and more

Op India

I haven’t watched “Delhi Crime” the Netflix movie on Nirbhaya as I haven’t been able to gather enough courage to revisit the repulsive horror of that terrible event that defied the limits of human depravity. This highly acclaimed and soul-shaking presentation was followed by a documentary made by a BBC filmmaker Leslee Udwin, titled “India’s Daughter.” However, the documentary makers …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Bumpy ride to Padma temple

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: The renovation projects taken up as part of the Central Swadesh Darshan Scheme in the areas surrounding the Sree Padmanabhas-wamy Temple is all set to miss the March 31 deadline with works progressing at a snail’s’ pace. Ahead of the visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi two months back, a slew of finishing works was undertaken in the area. …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Renovation project near temple to miss deadline

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: The renovation projects taken up as part of the Central Swadesh Darshan Scheme in the areas surrounding the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is all set to miss the March 31 deadline with works progressing at a snail's' pace. Ahead of the visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi two months back, a slew of finishing works was undertaken in the area. …

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6 years, 2 months ago

Here's your midterm analysis: America is being held hostage by angry old white guys

Salon

America is being held hostage by older white people — especially older white men. Since pollster Steve Koczela posted that screenshot, the exit polls adjusted slightly, showing that white people ages 30-44 are evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. In the Florida gubernatorial race, Republican Ron DeSantis won with an overtly racist campaign, starting with an ad in which he …

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6 years, 3 months ago

Traffic snarl at Kuthiran Climb

Deccan Chronicle

Thrissur: Kuthiran Climb on Mannuthy-Vadakkumchery NH between Thrissur and Palakkad witnessed a major traffic snarl on Friday with vehicles caught up in long queues in the seven-km stretch from Vaniyambara to Chuvannamannu. The tarring conducted by the NHAI contractor KMC is said to be one reason for the traffic snarl. CPI central committee member Pannyan Raveendran who spoke at a …

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6 years, 4 months ago

Kerala struggles to rein in the river that changed course

Live Mint

Trichur: The Karuvannur river has wreaked havoc in Kerala’s Thrissur district, destroying large tracts of land and washing away a key 2.2km stretch connecting two national highways, NH17 and NH47, near the Arattupuzha temple. “We need to make long-term plan for mitigating the impact of calamities.” The extent of damages caused by the worst floods in over a century and …

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Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie. She had no idea

Kerala HC directs PWD to explain reasons for poor condition of Kundannoor-Thevara bridge

Billionaire Trump megadonor is funding "moderate" campaign to defeat progressive lawmaker Summer Lee

Opinion: By demonizing immigrants, U.S. betrays its ideals — and economic reality

If India killed a Canadian Sikh, Trudeau and other Liberal PMs are at fault

'No Guarantees': Double Olympic Champion David Rudisha Thinks it Will be Hard For Neeraj Chopra to Defend Tokyo Gold

Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and CND included in police counter-terror document

Roads in a shambles

BBC’s undisguised anti-India bias: From the Leslee Udwin documentary on Nirbhaya to Top Gear and more

Bumpy ride to Padma temple

Renovation project near temple to miss deadline

Here's your midterm analysis: America is being held hostage by angry old white guys

Traffic snarl at Kuthiran Climb

Kerala struggles to rein in the river that changed course