Day: November 17, 2018

Institutional delivery increases in Bengal: Mamata

Kolkata :  Institutional delivery in West Bengal has shot up to 96 per cent in the past seven years, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Saturday. Speaking on the occasion of the World Prematurity Day, she said that her government had been working hard for the welfare of the pregnant […]

Four feared dead in landslides in Kodaikanal

Kodaikanal (TN) : Four construction workers were feared dead after they were trapped in landslides at Chinnapallam near here early Saturday, police said. All the four, hailing from Salem, were feared buried following landslides triggered by heavy rains in the district late Friday night. Efforts are on to retrieve […]

Heavy rush at Sabarimala, hartal in Kerala against preventive detention

Pamba/Sannidhanam(Ker) : Thousands of pilgrims offered prayers at Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala early Saturday, the first day of Malayalam month of ‘Vrischikom,’ even as a 12-hour hartal against the preventive detention of a Hindu Aikya Vedi leader began. Pilgrims, including children, queued up in large numbers since the […]

Pelosi claims she has votes, but race for speaker goes on

WASHINGTON — Democrats won the majority. Now they just need a speaker of the House. The standoff over Nancy Pelosi’s bid to regain the gavel intensified Friday as Democrats left Washington for the Thanksgiving holiday, an unsettling finish to an otherwise triumphant week that saw them welcome a […]

Trump: EPA’s acting chief will be named to post permanently

WASHINGTON  — Andrew Wheeler, a former congressional aide and lobbyist who has led the Environmental Protection Agency since his scandal-plagued predecessor resigned earlier this year, has gotten President Donald Trump’s nod for the permanent job. Wheeler’s promotion from acting to permanent EPA chief would keep him as a […]

‘The Führer’s child’: How Hitler came to embrace a girl with Jewish roots

The little girl was portrayed as Adolf Hitler’s favorite. They shared the same birthday, April 20. She called him Uncle Hitler and was known as “the Führer’s child.” At a time when the Nazi leader was being presented to the world as a kindly figure, his personal photographer […]

Photo of Hitler embracing child of Jewish grandmother sold

WASHINGTON  — A photograph showing Adolf Hitler embracing a young girl who had a Jewish grandmother has sold at auction for more than $11,000. The Washington Post reports the black-and-white image taken by Heinrich Hoffmann and inscribed by Hitler in dark blue ink shows him smiling as he embraces […]

Political ‘veteran’ at age 36 eyed for Trump chief of staff

WASHINGTON — Nick Ayers could almost be confused for a college fraternity brother as he flashes a broad grin in a selfie taken with Mike Pence just moments after the Indiana governor was named Donald Trump’s running mate. In fact, the baby-faced campaign strategist in the white undershirt had a […]

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