July 15: Canada is often thought of as a winter country, but our summers are sometimes brutally hot. The blast of air conditioning is sometimes the only thing that can bring relief, aside from jumping in a body of cold water. But many Canadians are concerned about the effects of climate change brought on by the […]
July 15: Using the Hitomi satellite astronomers find that turbulence in the central region of the Perseus cluster is low, implying that errors in previous measurements of the masses of galaxy clusters using X-ray observations are small. Most galaxies lie in clusters, groupings of a few to many thousands of galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy […]
July 16: A flashmob of Polish nuns performed a choreographed dance routine on a beach to promote the Catholic Church’s upcoming World Youth Day. The video, filmed on a beach beside a lake in Mysliborz, starts with two of the nuns, members of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus, setting up a life-sized poster of Jesus […]
July 16: A group of three women dressed in bikinis upset locals by swimming in a 17th century fountain in Rome. Twitter account TrastevereRM shared photos of the tourists in the Fontana dell’Acqua Paola and criticized them for not respecting the landmark. “It is very hot but the fontanone del Gianicolo cannot become a pool […]
July 15: A woman reunited a photojournalist with the camera he lost in an attack after she fished it out of a lake months later. Shelly Hirst said she was fishing with family members Wednesday at Hesperia Lake when she hooked something that proved difficult to reel in. “My brother-in-law was like you caught the […]
July 15: Firefighters in Massachusetts determined that a concave mirror was responsible for sparking a fire in an outdoor shower. Harwich Fire Department shared photos of the aftermath of the fire, which had burned the exterior wall of a Pleasant Lake home after originating in a shower outside the property. “The fire was still smoldering […]
Kathmandu / July 16: The Grande International Hospital has started kidney transplant service. The Grande International Hospital has become the first private hospital in Kathmandu to begin the kidney transplant service. Organsing a press conference here on Friday, Hospital Director Dr Chakraraj Pandey, said that the Hospital carried out successful kidney transplant with Rabin Lama, […]
Myagdi / July 16: Locals of a remote Malkabang VDC in Myagdi district are elated after getting power service from Wednesday. They got the electricity service after construction task of 42-kilowatt Nandibangkhola Micro Hydropower Project at Malkabang VDC. The hydel project was constructed with financial support of Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Lalitpur, and technical […]
Kathmandu / July 16: The Sajha Publication on Friday has given retirement to 22 employees of upper level as per the amendment to Sajha Publication Employees’ Administration Regulations. The employees, who got retirement, would get salary of three months in a lump sum. All of them have already served for 20 years. The Publication has […]