The Lost City Of The Incas
Click Here To Know More About: Peak Demand Shaving By Jude Limburn Turner Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site in Peru, situated in a mountain ridge above Urumba. Known as ‘The Lost City of the Incas,’ this site has incredible spiritual and mythological symbolism, dating back to ancient IncaContinue Reading
Ozzy Osbourne’s personal possessions fetch $800,000 for charity
Sunday, December 2, 2007 American heavy metal performer Ozzy Osbourne, who became famous as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath and later as a solo act, has raised more than US$800,000 for The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program, founded by his spouse Sharon Osbourne at the Cedars Sinai Hospital, byContinue Reading
2007 Taipei IT Month exposed problems on traffic jams
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Although the 2007 Taipei IT Month closed last Sunday (December 9), it attracted more than 750,000 people to visit the show, but it exposed some problems especially on the traffic factor. Generally on weekdays (December 3-7), the traffic jam at Shi-fu Road often took place inContinue Reading
CARTOSAT-I and HAMSAT satellites launched precisely by PSLV-C6, will have longer life
Saturday, May 7, 2005 India’s recently launched satellites, the 1560 kg Indian Remote Sensing satellite, CARTOSAT-1 for stereoscopic cartographic applications and 42.5 kg HAMSAT will have a longer life as per the Project Director, PSLV, N Narayana Murthy. Murthy told reporters that the additional fuel in the satellites for puttingContinue Reading
To Regulate Or To Ban Online Gambling Games
Click Here To Know More About: Sports Betting Gambling has always been a part of our gaming since times immemorial, needless to remind the Indian epic, the Mahabharatha. Since then it took so many forms and shapes to be an integral part of gaming. Recently, and especially post lockdown, thereContinue Reading
US free speech lawyer defends satire of Glenn Beck
Sunday, October 4, 2009 Massachusetts-based First Amendment rights lawyer Marc Randazza is defending a controversial parody website which satirizes American political commentator Glenn Beck. The website was created in September by a man from Florida named Isaac Eiland-Hall, and it asserts Beck uses questionable tactics “to spread lies and misinformation”.Continue Reading
Uber London to lose operator licence after September
Monday, September 25, 2017 On Friday, Transport for London (TfL) announced US-based taxi booking application Uber would not get a renewed private hire operator license after their current permit expires at the end of the month. The regulatory body released an official statement on their website and stated Uber LondonContinue Reading
News briefs:July 27, 2010
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Tips To Curtail Your Estate Taxes}
Click Here To Know More About: Asena Advisors Tips To Curtail Your Estate Taxes by Kris KoonarIf a person dies possessed of property, the law imposed estate tax if the property has a fair market value above $2 million. Property valued less than that is not subject to estate tax.Continue Reading
SpaceX scrubs Falcon I rocket launch
Monday, November 28, 2005 SpaceX called off the much-delayed inaugural launch of their new Falcon 1 rocket on Saturday from Kwajalein’s Omelek Island launch site. The intent was to launch the U.S. Air Force Academy’s FalconSat 2 satellite, which will monitor plasma interactions with the Earth’s upper atmosphere and magnetosphere.Continue Reading