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Staff shortage, equipment crunch plague state’s forest fire management
Ranchi: Even after 25 years of its formation, Jharkhand, a high-intensity forest fire region, is battling the lack of trained ...
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After long hiatus, Philadelphia Land Bank will begin bidding on vacant properties
Tax sales are the primary way the land bank adds parcels to its inventory of vacant properties. The vast majority of those acquisitions are repurposed to increase the city’s supply of affordable ...
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56% professor positions at IITs, IIMs, NITs, IISERs lying vacant, says parliamentary panel report
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel’s report has flagged that a staggering 56.18 percent of professor positions—the highest academic rank—remain vacant across India’s higher education institutions, ...
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Film academy apologizes to ‘No Other Land’s’ Hamdan Ballal after members decry ‘indefensible’ response
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors has issued an apology to Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” following backlash ...
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Myanmar's Iconic Ava Bridge Collapses After Powerful Earthquakes | Video
The iconic Ava Bridge fell as powerful earthquakes struck Myanmar. The bridge which connects Myanmar’s Ava and Sagaing regions was seen falling in videos widely shared on social media after a strong 7 ...
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Plan would put ‘land bridge’ over half-mile stretch of South Split
“Which means actually building a land bridge starting from Virginia Avenue and going north. So, we are in the process of engaging the community on what would it look like, what would we build on ...
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North Korea building land bridge with Russia to combat international sanctions
Pyongyang and the Kremlin are working together on building a land bridge between North Korea and Russia to increase transnational cooperation. Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora ...
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‘Vacant land is very easy to steal': Scammers are impersonating landowners and selling their properties
‘Vacant land is very easy to steal': Scammers are impersonating landowners to sell properties to unsuspecting buyers — here’s how to protect yourself ...
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Toronto may finally do something about all of its vacant storefronts
Unfortunately, due to the challenging real estate market and rising cost of development, storefronts are remaining vacant for longer periods as developers are sitting on approvals. This creates an ...
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Russia soon to begin to build road bridge to North Korea
MOSCOW, March 27 (Reuters) - Russia and North Korea will soon begin construction of a road bridge over the Tumen river between the two countries, Russia's ambassador to Pyongyang was quoted as ...
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JV completes $865M Florida bridge expansion project
On March 25, a new span of Florida’s Howard Frankland Bridge, which crosses Old Tampa Bay and connects Tampa and St. Petersburg, opened to the public, according to local media reports.