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3 days ago

Taylor Swift fan faces 20 years in prison for embezzling $1M for concert tickets and lavish vacations

A Maryland woman from Ellicott City has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $1 million from her employer, a real estate agency. Court documents reveal she used the stolen funds to finance a lavish lifestyle, including luxurious purchases, vacations, and attending multiple Taylor Swift concerts. The Swiftie is now facing up to 20 years in prison for “the federal wire fraud …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

VIDEO | Gukesh shouldn’t tinker with his gameplay to break deadlock against Liren: Tania Sachdev

The Hindu

Women’s grandmaster and India chess veteran Tania Sachdev believes that D Gukesh needn’t tinker with his gameplay and continue pushing forward with what he has been doing in a bid to break the deadlock against Ding Liren of China at the World Chess Championship. “For Gukesh he has to continue doing exactly what he is doing, I hope he gets …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Meet child prodigy Manishka, an 11-year-old empowering girls in STEM

India Today

Manishka Dubey, an 11-year-old tech child prodigy, has already carved an inspiring path in the world of innovation and technology, setting a benchmark for young girls everywhere. Her commitment to challenging societal norms is also reflected in her mission to make Tinker Techie a space where girls can access quality STEM education, connect with mentors, and develop skills to pursue …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

28-year-old Odisha engineer Anil Pradhan bags third Rohini Nayyar Prize for outstanding contribution to rural education

Hindustan Times

Anil Pradhan, a 28-year-old engineer from Odisha, was awarded the third Rohini Nayyar Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Rural Development for his work in promoting STEM education among students in rural India. Pradhan, co-founder of the Young Tinker Foundation, came up with the idea of 'Tinker-on-Wheels' — a mobile learning lab that offered hands-on experiences in areas like robotics and …

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2 months ago

Government School Gets Innovative Tinkering Lab for Students

The Hindu

A new facility to foster innovation and kindle scientific temper among students has been opened at Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Thripunithura. The facility, part of the World Bank-aided Centrally-sponsored scheme STARS, will offer training to students on various topics including digital fabrication, three dimensional printing, artificial intelligence, deployment of robots, and sensor technologies.

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

包含单词 system 的固定搭配

China Daily

一分钟英语包含单词 system 的固定搭配内容简介在英语中，说到 “计算机系统” 时，应用名词 “system” 来指 “系统”。名词 “system” 还可以指 “方法、方式” 或 “体系”。常与 “system” 搭配的动词有哪些？看 “一分钟英语” 视频，学习用名词 “system” 表达 “建立系统”、“设计系统” 和 “舍弃系统”。用法总结 “System” 是一个名词，指 “系统；方法；体系”。比如：“a computer system” 一个计算机系统。以下是一些包含 “system” 的常用固定搭配： 1. “Set up a system” 、“design a system” 设计一个系统或方法 Sonia set up a system to help her organise her computer files. “Build a system” 建立一个系统或方法 The …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Drugstores tinker with new looks as their usual way of doing business faces challenges

Associated Press

America’s drugstores are testing smaller locations and more ways to offer care as price-sensitive shoppers look elsewhere. “Everyone looks at health care and says, ‘Oh yeah, it’s a market that’s ripe for disruption,’” said Neil Saunders, managing director of consulting and data analysis firm GlobalData. “But it isn’t easy to disrupt.” Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth said recently that his company …

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5 months, 1 week ago

States cannot tinker with Scheduled Castes List, Supreme Court holds

The Hindu

The Supreme Court has held that States cannot tinker with the Scheduled Castes List notified under Article 341 of the Constitution. The judgment came in a challenge by Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Vichar Manch, Patna, to a July 1, 2015 notification issued by the Bihar government, on the basis of the recommendation of the State Backward Commission to merge the …

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6 months ago

WI vs SA Predicted XI, T20 World Cup 2024: Will South Africa tinker with their winning squad?

India Today

The ever-confident West Indies will face of against an unbeaten South Africa in their final Super 8 clash in the 2024 T20 World Cup on June 24 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, which also sets up as a knockout ahead of the semi-finals stage of the competition. While Rovman Powell-led West Indies have been marching forward in …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

PM: Attempt to tinker with quota for SC/STs

New Indian Express

LUCKNOW/VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the INDIA bloc parties are conniving to snatch the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs guaranteed by the Constitution of India, by altering the provisions and making it religion-based to appease their vote bank. He addressed three back-to-back rallies in Mau, Mirzapur and Deoria to seek support for NDA candidates of …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Tinker belle: A Wknd interview with structural engineer and author Roma Agrawal

Hindustan Times

Roma Agrawal’s most recognisable work is The Shard, a 72-storey tower that has dominated the London skyline since 2013. As a brown woman in the boys’ club of elite architecture in the Aughts, “I stayed quiet a lot,” says Agrawal, 40. In Nuts & Bolts, Agrawal revisits the most complex achievements of engineering, with a focus on the role played …

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1 year ago

Eight of the best spy novels

Hindustan Times

“KIM” published in 1901, may be the first spy novel. But le Carré’s masterpiece is surely “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, published in 1974 at the height of the Cold War. Jackson Lamb, the horses’ minder, may be the least prepossessing spymaster ever devised: his “shoulders dusted with dandruff; green V-neck stained by misjudged mouthfuls of takeaway; frayed shirt cuffs poking …

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1 year, 1 month ago

John Le Carré's author son brings George Smiley back in from the cold in a new book set in the decade between The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Daily Mail

John le Carré's death three years ago left fans thinking they'd seen the last of legendary spook George Smiley. But the character is set to come back in from the cold in a new novel penned by the author's son, Nicholas Cornwell, Penguin Random House confirmed. Cornwell - writing as Nick Harkaway - will set the new installment in the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Jailor, Jawan, Tinker, Spy: A tale of market distortion

Live Mint

Chennai, the city where we live, one price remains the same 365 days a year. Four days before that, for first-day shows and the subsequent weekend, the highest ticket prices across PVR screens in Chennai and Hyderabad, two cities with price caps, were ₹203 and ₹350 respectively. True, even without price caps, the prices for Jawan tickets would have been …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Charlotte Tilbury x Disney 100 make-up collection

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On top of the pretty Disneyfied products, the make-up brand’s signature sexy ten …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Ashes 2023: Pat Cummins aims to tinker strategy for 5th Test after inclement weather ensures urn retention

India TV News

The Pat Cummins-led Australian side breathed a sigh of relief as the weather gods bailed them out of a precarious situation in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford in Manchester. As the rain kept pelting down at Old Trafford on Day 5 of the Manchester Test, England players and their fans waited with bated breath for play to resume …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Yara Shahidi says Black and brown people ‘can see themselves’ in new ‘Peter Pan’

LA Times

Yara Shahidi, Disney’s new Tinker Bell, has been busy in recent days speaking out against the racist backlash to her casting in “Peter Pan & Wendy.” But the “black-ish” and “Grown-ish” star also has taken the time to celebrate the significance of her new role in the latest “Peter Pan” retelling, and what it means for Black and brown people …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Video game company fires employee because she follows conservative Twitter accounts

Daily Mail

A woman fired from a video game company for following conservative accounts on Twitter believes a trans activist complained about her because she voiced excitement over a new Harry Potter game. Blank shared screenshots of accounts followed by Lynne and said she would stop shopping with Limited Run games until Lynne, who was the company's community manager, was fired. Blank …

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1 year, 11 months ago

California storms ‘significantly reduced’ drought intensity, yet still more rain is needed

CNN

CNN — For three years, California has been in desperate need of rain. But the past several weeks of rain and snow have “significantly reduced” the state’s drought intensity, according the US Drought Monitor’s latest report. “But from a reservoir standpoint, we’d rather have it than not have it.” The recent storms have been replenishing the state’s water supply, according …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Nearly all of California exits the worst drought categories in U.S. Drought Monitor

LA Times

The latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor showed an extraordinary sight: Deep splotches of dark red and purple signifying the worst levels of drought have been erased from California’s map almost completely. “We’re definitely looking to be in a better situation than we were last year, where everything shut off for a good three months, and there will be …

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2 years ago

A Spy Among Friends and why we can’t get enough of Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Damian often refers to the relationship between Philby and …

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2 years ago

How I met Sirius Black

The Hindu

I’m wearing my favourite Harry Potter T-shirt at 2 am in the morning. However, I wait to speak to him about his latest success; his smarmy yet wickedly-enjoyable portrayal of Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses, Apple’s adaptation of the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. If your movie fails, then okay, but my book will still be great.’” …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Sheryl Lee Ralph is all about the next generation

LA Times

Sheryl Lee Ralph says that when her “Abbott Elementary” character mixes up actors names, that comes from her real self. When Sheryl Lee Ralph opens her mouth, people listen — whether she’s playing take-no-guff kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard on “Abbott Elementary” or singing her Emmy acceptance speech in September, when she became only the second Black woman to win the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Interest rates & inflation: Why does RBI tinker with the repo rates?

Live Mint

When the general prices of goods and services march northward, the phenomenon is known as ‘inflation’. For this, the central bank adheres to its monetary policy wherein it changes the repo rate to influence the purchasing power of consumers, thus impacting the prices of goods and services. A repo rate is the rate of interest charged by RBI from commercial …

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Taylor Swift fan faces 20 years in prison for embezzling $1M for concert tickets and lavish vacations

VIDEO | Gukesh shouldn’t tinker with his gameplay to break deadlock against Liren: Tania Sachdev

Meet child prodigy Manishka, an 11-year-old empowering girls in STEM

28-year-old Odisha engineer Anil Pradhan bags third Rohini Nayyar Prize for outstanding contribution to rural education

Government School Gets Innovative Tinkering Lab for Students

包含单词 system 的固定搭配

Drugstores tinker with new looks as their usual way of doing business faces challenges

States cannot tinker with Scheduled Castes List, Supreme Court holds

WI vs SA Predicted XI, T20 World Cup 2024: Will South Africa tinker with their winning squad?

PM: Attempt to tinker with quota for SC/STs

Tinker belle: A Wknd interview with structural engineer and author Roma Agrawal

Eight of the best spy novels

John Le Carré's author son brings George Smiley back in from the cold in a new book set in the decade between The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Jailor, Jawan, Tinker, Spy: A tale of market distortion

Charlotte Tilbury x Disney 100 make-up collection

Ashes 2023: Pat Cummins aims to tinker strategy for 5th Test after inclement weather ensures urn retention

Yara Shahidi says Black and brown people ‘can see themselves’ in new ‘Peter Pan’

Video game company fires employee because she follows conservative Twitter accounts

California storms ‘significantly reduced’ drought intensity, yet still more rain is needed

Nearly all of California exits the worst drought categories in U.S. Drought Monitor

A Spy Among Friends and why we can’t get enough of Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies

How I met Sirius Black

Sheryl Lee Ralph is all about the next generation

Interest rates & inflation: Why does RBI tinker with the repo rates?