Month: March 2021

She had just come to collect her things.   It was January 2020. Vera Pekhteleva, a 23-year-old university student, had told her boyfriend their relationship was over. She was living elsewhere and had found somebody new. When the grey metal door in a dingy corridor on Kemerovo’s Leningradsky Proskpekt shut behind her, she would not
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Institute of Technology(NIT), Rourkela have signed an MoU for setting up a Space Technology Incubation Centre(S-TIC). The MoU was signed Thursday after ISRO agreed to set up a Space Technology Incubation Centre(S-TIC) at NIT Rourkela. This collaboration with ISRO will open up new opportunities for research and development
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Sky News can reveal further details contained in a report that found Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament. Holyrood’s harassment committee also concluded that it finds it “hard to believe” she didn’t know of concerns around Alex Salmond’s behaviour before November 2017. And committee members have included a passage in their report to say
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A serial stowaway is back in jail after being arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Marilyn Hartman was subject to a court order forbidding her from going anywhere near the airport. The 69-year-old’s electronic monitor was allegedly activated when she left the facility where she was staying, prompting officers to start tracking her movements. She
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Vaccinations alone are unlikely to contain coronavirus infections in the UK, a new study suggests. However, the research concluded that gradually easing lockdown restrictions and achieving high uptake of COVID-19 jabs can minimise future waves. The University of Warwick’s modelling was performed before early real-world data emerged from studies examining the impact of the vaccine
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Amazon’s new delivery van Amazon Amazon is now testing its electric delivery vans in San Francisco, the company announced Thursday. It’s the latest expansion in California of Amazon’s custom electric vehicles developed in partnership with start-up Rivian Automotive, which has raised about $8 billion since 2019 from investors. Amazon announced last month it had begun
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McDonald’s will expand its investigation into COVID rule-breaking among staff after claims that sales competitions between restaurants are endangering health and safety. Employees across England have contacted Sky News with serious concerns about how the chain has dealt with the winter wave of the pandemic. They have now claimed that competitions, where restaurants try to
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