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The report of the Delhi government on the JNU controversy says that the Democratic Students' Union, whose members had organized the pro-Afzal Guru event on February 9, had in the past too taken up contentious issues at public programmes. The report lists three events that had drawn protests from ABVP

A Florida-based farm-workers group is waging a First Amendment fight with the town of Palm Beach, Fla., stemming from the organization's effort to pressure fast-food chain Wendy's Co. to pay more for tomatoes.

Rando

If you've ever wanted to play a game of Russian roulette with your iPhone's camera roll: There's an app for that. The app is Rando, a messaging app which will grab a random photo in your phone and automatically blast it out to people in your contact list, or publish it on Facebook or Twitter.

Obviously that's a very dangerous proposition. And it's not clear why anyone would want to do this. 

Perhaps the idea is to reduce "friction" in communications between people. Or perhaps it's an app trying to make a statement ... Читать дальше...

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Researchers who made it possible for monkeys to operate a robotic wheelchair using only the monkey's thoughts say the technology might eventually be used by severely disabled people.

Exclusive: Relegation-bound Villa squad unimpressed with Garde's training sessions and post-match behaviour

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) may be widely detested by his congressional colleagues, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (R-Nev.) says he'd still ...

The US Air Force's unquestioned aerial dominance does not come cheap. For its 10 most expensive planes, operating costs per hour start at $58,059, and it only climbs from there. The following graphic, based upon the Air Force's cost per hour of flight estimations, lists the 10 most expensive planes to operate in descending order:

It will be a historic moment for the Army at Jaisalmer Military Station on March 16 when General Dalbir Singh, the Chief of Army Staff, on behalf of President Pranab Mukherjee, will be presenting the 'President's Standards' to 75 Armoured Regiment and 43 Armoured Regiment.

Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal will meet in the most significant North London derby for years at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

With harsh new sanctions placed on Pyongyang, Sarah Sloan of the ANSWER Coalition talks to Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear to discuss the impact of the move, as well as America’s upcoming war games simulating an invasion of North Korea.

In 2015, after more than 50 years, North Delhi Municipal Corporation revised the rent for around 1,100 shops in 29 markets that were set up after independence to help rehabilitate refugees. However, the traders stopped paying the rent

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to Mitt Romney's searing broadside on Thursday with one of his favorite put downs in the race for the GOP nomination.

Peter Manolio and son Peter Manolio Jr. drove to 122nd Precinct stationhouse after son hit off-duty cop with car.

Call it a compliment gone awry? An airline's promotional description of Oakland as the "wild side of San Francisco" did not go over well with some of its residents, who would rather not be seen as SF's bad-boy cousin to the east.

It might not look much, but without this fossilized Scottish fungus you probably would not exist. The tiny organism was among the first to colonize the land

Natural gas is the cheapest it's been in nearly two decades, and it could get even cheaper, thanks to U.S. shale drillers.

He did the crime, then glided on by.

Even in a "normal" election year, the political calculations surrounding the vacancy on the Supreme Court would be complicated. A president in his final year is facing a Senate opposition that is determined to prevent him from nominating a new justice who would substantially shift the ideological balance of the Court toward its liberal wing. But, as is now clear, this is far from a normal year — and the prospect of Donald Trump being the Republican nominee may significantly change the game.

This letter to President Obama about the Affordable Care Act made me cry. It's also why I get so angry whenever those Republicans talk about repealing the ACA.

A group of technology executives are grappling with one of the most vexing questions in the industry: how to profit off of open-source software that is available free.

The phenomenal growth of vehicles in Pink city in the last few years has forced the civic bodies to take concrete measures to tackle the ever increasing traffic chaos.

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Canada needs to be an economic role model for the rest of the world.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau, however, thinks Canada can be a "leading voice" against austerity policies, but isn't sure Canada needs to be all, well, American, about it.

And this is a mistake.

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Trudeau was asked about Canada's decision to run deficits and act as an example against the austerity tendencies — that is, governments either balancing budgets... Читать дальше...

Not many people would dare climb the massive sea stacks in Tasmania, Australia, but rockclimbers Jorg Verhoeven and Katha Saurwein managed to conquer five of the tallest pillars.

The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius for leave to appeal against his conviction for murder‚ the National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed.