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The Biden administration is hiking pay for educators in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an effort to retain current employees and attract new ones in the midst of a workforce shortage

Is it pasta-de Nadal — a pasta liked by the tennis maestro? I started reading the phrase 'Pastel de Nata' in a couple of British food columns. I still wasn't paying attention, so I continued to think this PdN was a) Spanish, b) a savoury. Then I read some descriptions that identified it as 'a sweedish item', as my school mess manager used to call desserts and puddings. Finally, I understood that this 'Swedish' item was Portuguese. Last year in Oxford, I saw something called a pasteleria — Portuguese for bakery — had opened, and there was a long queue outside. Walking past it one day, I saw the queue wasn't there so I leapt in. 'Hi, can I please have one of those...?'

‘I am bored’ need not make parents recoil in horror Take, for instance, the Arthshila centres, run by the Takshila Foundation, which is helmed by the father-daughter duo of Sanjiv Kumar and Setika Singh. Envisaged as an immersive platform for artistic expression and creative experiences for people of all age groups, Arthshila has centres in Ahmedabad and Santiniketan, launched in 2021 and 2022, respectively, besides one other in Delhi, which was launched in January. These are open spaces, with curated programmes across disciplines, that hope to democratise art.

Prince Harry urged caution over artificial intelligence and talked of social media as divisive during a panel in Colombia's capital Bogota alongside his wife Meghan and the Andean country's Vice President Francia Marquez. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped away from official royal duties in January 2020 and now live in California, arrived in Colombia on Thursday at the invitation of Marquez and will tour the country. During a panel discussion at Bogota's EAN university on Thursday evening, Harry raised his concerns over the future of AI.

Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation

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Indian politics doesn't even take tea breaks. The latest parliamental drama is a squabble over who sat where at the 15th August bash at Red Fort.

rape and murder of a young doctor at a medical college in Kolkata is that India is unsafe for Indians. And a rattled and well-heeled middle-class once again is mulling the supposedly easy way out: let's send our children abroad to study, so that they can live in a safer country and prosper. This points to a basic weakness of both social media and the chatterati-knee-jerk reactions. It is true that the much-tomtommed assertion that Kolkata and West Bengal are «safe» for women has been conclusively disproved by the countless stories finally coming out about unreported crimes, triggered by the RG Kar incident. Though Bengal had been comforted by data collected by the National Crime Records Bureau (provided by the state police) showing that Kolkata is the safest city, clearly rapes and murders occur there as much as anywhere else in India. But is the alternative to abandon India? And go where? To the US, where this year has already seen the deaths of more than a dozen Indian students? Where there have already been nearly 300 mass shootings in 2024? Where immigration and 'migrants' are a sore issue?

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Flights and trains in the Tokyo area were canceled as warnings were issued for strong winds and heavy rainfall from Typhoon Ampil, expected to reach waters near Tokyo in the evening and then continue north, bringing stormy conditions to the northern Kanto and Tohoku regions on Saturday. It had sustained winds of 162 kph (101 mph) with higher gusts Friday morning and was moving north at 15 kph (9.3 mph), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Ampil was not expected to make landfall and could weaken to a tropical storm by Sunday.

The creator of the Famous Amos cookie empire has died

The family of a South Carolina woman struck and killed by a rotting 70-year-old utility pole will get $30 million in a wrongful death settlement

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Indian Army contingent on Thursday celebrated the 78th Indian Independence Day in joint exercise 'Mitra Shakti' with various activities, including a yoga session with their Sri Lankan counterparts. As part of the Independence Day commemorations, the Army troops participating in the Joint Exercise enthusiastically celebrated the day by practising various asanas led by Yoga instructors from the Indian Army contingent. The troops of the Indian Army contingent also undertook the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign at their camp in the Army Training School in Madurouya, Sri Lanka, according to an official statement. «The Tricolour was proudly displayed by the participants, honouring the national pride of all Indians. The effort reflects the pride the Indian Army attaches to the Tricolour, for which every soldier has proudly made the supreme sacrifice over the years,» the statement said.

Sandro Rosta will join the cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as a cadet in the original series, as per a recent announcement from Paramount+. Rosta recently received his degree from the drama school at Oxford. He recently made his debut at Hampstead Theatre in «The Harmony Test.» He starred in plays at Jermyn Street Theatre while attending school, including «Romeo and Juliet,» «The Cherry Orchard» and «The Watsons.»

HONOLULU (AP) — Wallace “Wally” Amos, the creator of the cookie empire that took his name and made it famous and who went on to become a children’s literacy advocate, has died. He was 88.

Remnants of a Separation. Malhotra, a descendant of ‘Partition refugees’ herself, reiterates that the event's memory does not end with those who lived it, but passes down through generations in many “incarnations." "The house of the past may not even exist anymore, it is entirely conjured up from memory," she adds. “There is a place somewhere that does not belong to us, but we belong to it, and I always wonder, is it waiting for us?" Also read: Partition food memories that travelled Chaitanya Seth, who recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, recalls many conversations with his beloved grandfather. “With every story, he travelled back to Lyallpur, a place which was his entire childhood," he says.

ADHD, which can impact her ability to concentrate. So, she turned to AI. The app Claude helps her decide which contracts made the most sense for her hygienic-wipes business, GetDirty, without having to read them word for word. She also created business plans by telling the generative AI bot what her goals were and having it create steps for her to get there. «It's been just massively instrumental. I probably would not be where I am today,» she said of using AI for about two years.

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A panel has laid out specifics designed to bring numerous North Carolina state government agencies together to improve outcomes for prisoners when they are released, leading to reduced recidivism

Narendra Modi will spearhead the 78th Independence Day celebrations from Delhi's historic Red Fort. He will unfurl the National Flag and deliver the traditional address to the nation from the fort's ramparts. This year’s theme, ‘Viksit Bharat @ 2047’, emphasises the government's commitment to transforming India into a developed nation by the year 2047.