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Postal dept to release spl cover on migrants

The postal department will release a special cover dedicated to the migrant workers of Mumbai in the Bicentennial Hall of General Post Office (GPO), Fort, May 13. In fact five migrants from different sectors of the labour force will unveil the tribute.




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12 rescued, 5 trapped as chawl collapses in Mum

Many people trapped after a ground-plus-two-storey chawl structure collapsed at Dipjyoti Chawl of Lalji Pada in Kandivali West early on Sunday.




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BJP against the creamy layer provision for SC-ST category, says Sushil Modi

The central government headed by Narendra Modi is committed to protect the rights of SCs and STs, he said




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French Open 2020 could be staged behind closed doors: Chief Guidicelli

The spread of the coronavirus has halted all tennis events since mid-March and will not resume until July 13 at the earliest




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Covid-19 put schools in a tight spot but this chain in Lucknow was ready

How Lucknow's City Montessori Schools managed to offer comprehensive online education to its 57,000 students during the Covid-19 crisis




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Here's to a perfect '10

Today is the last day of the first decade of the second millennium. It started with a bug, remember?




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Marx and three idiots

Chance found me, three years ago, at the end of a brilliant summer day in Leeds, seated at dinner next to a distinguished gentleman, vice-chair of a venerable UK bank.




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Adopting Suresh




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A loving relationship

With consciousness we have created very beautiful concepts, and one of them is the idea of relationships.




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Karnataka: Indian grey wolf spotted in Cauvery Sanctuary

In a rare finding, an Indian grey wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) was documented for the first time in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagara district. The wild animal was documented by Sanjay Gubbi of Nature Conservation Foundation, and his team, while camera trapping for studying leopards.




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Mysuru: Childline team stops child marriage, rescues teen

Child rescue team stopped the wedding of a minor girl from Arkalgud village after a whistle-blower dialled the child helpline.




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Parents: Move to hold Class X exam is uninformed

A group of parents have written to the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education as well as to chief minister Pramod Sawant, expressing their anxiety over the decision to conduct the board exams during the Covid-19 pandemic.




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Goa: Cops report 67% drop in crime during lockdown

The coronavirus scare seems to have kept criminals at bay with the police registering on an average three first information report (FIRs) per day across 25 police stations instead of an average of over seven FIRs last year.




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Jessica too mature for party

Actress Jessica Biel has revealed that she cold-shoulders the glitzy celebrity lifestyle.




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Pritam scores in Goal

Now they’re all turning out to be all-rounders.




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Wheels of fire

A touch of vintage.




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Gurugram: 11 more containment zones, total 25




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Woman held for selling e-cigarettes to minors

A woman was arrested from northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar on Friday for allegedly supplying e-cigarettes and other psychotropic substances to the minors during the lockdown .




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JNU: Students likely to return from June 25

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) released its academic calendar and notified that the students will be returning to the campus between June 25 and 30. The varsity stated that the examinations will be completed by July 31.




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Delhi traders worried about return of workforce

With daily-wage earners now rushing back to their villages in special trains, there’s consternation in business circles about a manpower crunch. Assurances of continued salary till work begins in right earnest haven’t kept the migrants back, according to traders. Normally, the migrant population returns to the villages for the harvest period in late summer and comes back soon after, but this year, traumatised by the pandemic standstill, they are likely to think twice before returning to the cities.




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Sex chatroom: Police not happy with Insta reply

Delhi Police claimed to be dissatisfied by the response it got from social media platform Instagram in the case of ‘Bois Locker Room’, where a group of male students made sexual threats to girls and carried on salacious conversations about their female schoolmates. On Saturday, Delhi Commission for Women also sent a second notice to police on the case after a girl student alleged receiving threats.




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Liquor sale: ‘E-token holders to get preference’




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The AEA 2011 schedule is here!

As I’ve said before, speaking at An Event Apart is a wonderful, terrifying experience. Wonderful because of, well, the insane caliber of the speakers—imagine taking some of the most fiercely intelligent designers, developers, and thinkers working today, and giving each of them an hour to talk about whatever most excites them about the web. And it’s terrifying because of, well, see above: standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Nicole, Dan, Aarron, and of course Jeffrey and Eric is, you know, slightly nerve-wracking.

Being part of this year’s road show has been one of the highlights of my career, traveling through five cities with my web heroes: the audience is fantastic, the speakers consistently wonderful, and I’ve learned something new at each show. Naturally, I’m excited and thrilled to be part of AEA’s newly announced 2011 lineup. I’ll be taking the stage in Boston, and then co-leading another installment of A Day Apart alongside Jeremy Keith. Hope to see you there, whether this year or next!




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[LINK] Responsive images

Since striking out on my own, much of my time’s been dedicated to, well, the book. But I’ve also been fortunate enough to collaborate a bit with Filament Group on one of their projects: namely, a large-scale engagement that requires a responsive approach.

Needless to say, I am having the time of my life.

We’re also learning a lot, too. A lot of discussions about approach and execution have come up, largely because processes for a lot of this stuff don’t exist yet. That will, with a bit of hard work and community discussion, change over time. Still, there has been a lot of brilliant stuff created so far.

Here’s just one example:

The goal of this technique is to deliver optimized, contextual image sizes for responsive layouts that utilize dramatically different image sizes at different resolutions. Ideally, this approach will allow developers to start with mobile-optimized images in their HTML and specify a larger size to be used for users with larger screen resolutions — without requesting both image sizes, and without UA sniffing.

Check out the script, download it, and kick the tires a bit—feedback and tweaks are most welcome.

I realize that there are always going to be philosophical differences around responsive web design. But for me, the solutions-driven discussions are always going to be infinitely more interesting to me than the alternative.




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On Presto

These thoughts aren’t especially well-formed, and/as I haven’t had my coffee yet.

So with that disclaimer out of the way, I have to say I’m a bit disappointed to hear Opera’s news: namely, that they’re abandoning their browser’s Presto engine, and adopting WebKit/Chromium instead.

Other folks far, far smarter than I have already weighed in. And don’t get me wrong: I’ve had my fair share of gripes with various bugs in Chromium (especially recently), but it’s a fantastic piece of software; as a friend said recently, ten-years-ago-me would’ve killed to have browsers as fine as we do now.

But right now, what I’m most worried about is the lack of diversity: four rendering engines is not exactly a large number, and going to three is a significant shift, if not an outright loss. Additionally, I worry we’re already facing a rather “well, it works with -webkit, so why worry about anything else?” mentality, which is something we’ll have to work harder to combat. Especially with an engine as fragmented as Webkit.

Of course, since the news is all of, like, minutes old, this is all speculation. Hell, it’s not even that: this is all just a pre-caffeine ramble, and not an especially well-formed one at that. I will say that Bruce’s take leaves me feeling hopeful. And I hope he’s right, and I’m wrong to be a bit disappointed. But right now, I know there’s one less (fantastic) rendering engine in active development, and that makes me a little sad.




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OS X, hidden wireless networks, and me

Having a bit of a problem with my laptop lately, and thought I’d write up the problem in case it’s affecting anyone else:

So my MacBook Air (mid-2009, OS X 10.8.3) When my computer wakes from sleep, it doesn’t immediately reconnect to my wireless network. What’s more, if I open up the wireless menu in OS X’s menu bar, it doesn’t show any networks nearby. Zip. Zero. Zilch. It’ll scan for new networks repeatedly, but won’t see a single one.

But here’s where this gets really, really annoying: if I open the Network panel in System Preferences, all nearby networks are immediately visible without delay.

Given the weird inconsistency between the two menus, and that I can reproduce this issue consistently, I figure this is a bug: either with 10.8.3, or with my aging little laptop. Either way, I’d love to fix it. So if you’ve come across this problem and know how a workaround, suggestions via email or Twitter would be most welcome.

Update: Charles Gaudette suggested on Twitter that it might be a couple , and pointed me toward a page showing how to clear out corrupted plist files. Deleting the com.apple.network.identification.plist and com.apple.airport.preferences.plist files seems to have done the trick—thanks, Charles! And thanks to everyone else who wrote in or twittered suggestions at me.




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As first batch of onions goes to Bangladesh by train, Maharashtra seeks reintroduction of MEIS scheme




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PMC warns Covid centres of action if patients are turned away despite availability of beds




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Covid patient with high BP and pneumonia recovers, discharged




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Pune: Small scale industries hope to restart work from next week




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Pune: Five Covid deaths reported




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Pune: Alert loco-pilot halts train 100 m from 20 labourers




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'Teleayurveda': Revisiting Ayurveda




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Uncommon reasons for high blood pressure




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Teenage obesity, BP may lead to prematurely aged arteries




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Cognitive therapy may treat anxiety in children with autism




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'Inhaling Styrene gas is like lungs getting coat of plastic blocking oxygen'




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Why people are less likely to conceive during COVID-19 pandemic




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Study finds treatment for opioid use disorder is rare in hospitals




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Everyday hygiene reduces need for antibiotics by 30 pc, says new paper




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Triple antiviral drug combo shows promise for treating COVID-19




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'Loss of pleasure' in teen sleep may affect mental health: Study




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Plasma medicine research highlights its antibacterial effects, potential uses




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Study suggests sleep disturbances among infants may lead to altered brain development




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Weather Warnings for New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory - land areas. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology




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Weather Warnings for Australian Capital Territory. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology




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TOI widens gap, leads HT by 2.9L in Delhi-NCR readership

The Times of India remains the dominant market leader among English dailies with its total readership of over 1.73 crore, almost equal to the combined readership of the three biggest dailies outside the Times Group – The Hindu, Hindustan Times and The Indian Express. This has emerged from the just released Indian Readership Survey for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2019.




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Coronavirus latest updates: Delhi govt asks DMs to release 2,446 Tablighi Jamaat members




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NDMA issues guidelines for restarting industrial activities to avoid Vizag-type tragedy

In the wake of the gas leak at a factory in Visakhapatnam, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued detailed guidelines for restarting industries after the lockdown and the precautions to be taken for the safety of the plants as well as the workers.




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Naval ship arrives in Kochi with 698 repatriated Indians from Maldives