2000 notes too big to handle for city with no change
People's excitement about the new Rs 2000 currency notes fizzled out soon after the banks started tendering them.
People's excitement about the new Rs 2000 currency notes fizzled out soon after the banks started tendering them.
Wolves star reflects on growth, NBA journey as he joins teammates at milestone age.
Alan Mozes, HealthDay News
A high-tech implant has enabled a paralyzed woman with late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to communicate through brain signaling, researchers say.
Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur are considered by seismologists as the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge in Chicago has sentenced a convicted drug dealer to 35 years in prison for plotting to kill an informant cooperating with federal agents to disrupt a trafficking ring. A U.S. attorney's office statement says a judge sentenced 40-year-old Kelsey Jones on Monday.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Veteran Affairs says Rockford has met the goal the last two years. Rockford has addressed veteran homelessness by improving coordination among housing groups, government agencies, nonprofits and other organizations.
Retail sales and manufacturing rose in October, but at a pace slightly below expectations, as state spending eclipsed the private sector.
New Zealand on Tuesday began a rescue operation involving hundreds of tourists and residents who remain stranded in the coastal town of Kaikoura after a powerful earthquake cut off train and vehicle access.
More than two years after the explosive Ebola epidemic in West Africa, researchers have identified a number of people who were infected with the deadly virus but didn’t report being sick.
The library's board of trustees' president, Michael Watts, says the cases were packed full and the number of comic books was "jaw dropping." The (LaSalle) News Tribune reports once all the comic books are sorted through the collection will make the Peru library a north-central Illinois rarity.
The liquidators for Linc Energy have launched a legal challenge to the Queensland government's environmental protection order on its operation near Chinchilla, claiming liquidated companies should not need to comply.
(AP) — A new plant to be built in southern Illinois is expected to employ 100 workers to turn coal ash into building materials. Dynegy spokesman David Onufer says Nu-Rock's plan to locate at the Baldwin complex was unrelated to the idling of the power unit, but will help Dynegy meets is recycling goals.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office said in a news release Monday that $14.3 million of the money will be used for a new wastewater treatment plan in Monticello. [...] a loan of $975,000 will help supply potable water to some residents of Shelby County in central Illinois and $425,000 will help replace a wastewater treatment plant in Iroquois County in eastern Illinois.
YANGON, Myanmar — The day’s trading is about to begin on the world’s youngest stock exchange, and the MYANPIX index and opening share prices flash across an electronic screen, but barely a footfall or a voice are heard within the cavernous, colonial era building in the bustling heart of Myanmar’s commercial capital.
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Nandini Sundar has been named in a complaint by the wife of Shamnath Baghel, who was killed by Maoists last Friday in his village in Maoist-hit Bastar.
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The European Union has scaled back plans for a military headquarters, as America’s allies scramble to work out what a Donald Trump presidency means for the transatlantic alliance.
EU foreign and defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday signed up to a plan aimed at improving Europe’s response to conflicts and crises on their borders, but downgraded plans for the headquarters.
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Mosquitoes can infect people with Zika and chikungunya viruses at the same time, new research suggests.
The "Australia first" push that has followed the election of Donald Trump is already producing unlikely alliances across party lines, with Nationals MP George Christensen echoing Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's calls for a crackdown on 457 foreign worker visas.
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Pundits are rarely held to account for their reliability.
In this election cycle, the broad consensus was that Trump was an amusing epiphenomenon with little staying power and few prospects. By contrast, since the declaration of her candidacy, there was a pervasive assumption that Hillary Clinton would coast to victory. This cycle seemed to turn conventional wisdom on its head at every turn, but nonetheless, as Americans went to cast their... Читать дальше...
Crisis in the leadership ranks of the RSL in NSW has deepened, with two councillors resigning in disgust at the league's handling of the controversy.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The day's trading is about to begin on the world's youngest stock exchange, and the MYANPIX index and opening share prices flash across an electronic screen, but barely a footfall or a voice are heard within…
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The day's trading is about to begin on the world's youngest stock exchange, and the MYANPIX index and opening share prices flash across an electronic screen, but barely a footfall or a voice are heard within…