Even after fears of widespread inundation and extensive damage, Bhasan Char housing and cyclone shelters stood up well against cyclone Yaas, which made its landfall yesterday evening. While the small island off Bangladesh's coast with the Bay of Bengal was not in the cyclone's direct path, residents did experience strong winds and tidal surges about two feet higher than
Sophie Perry
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3:51 PM February 23, 2021
Testing operative Stephen Tetteh with the kit at the new test centre at The Dome in Weedington Road
- Credit: Polly Hancock
A new lateral flow test centre has opened, aiming to help reduce Covid-19 numbers in Queen s Crescent and the Gospel Oak area.
The centre opened on February 15 at youth club and sports centre The Dome in Weedington Road.
It offers free coronavirus testing for adults with no coronavirus symptoms.
Foyezur Miah, CEO of Queen’s Crescent Community Association (QCCA), said: “It’s important to have a lateral flow centre here because Gospel Oak has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 and deaths from Covid-19 in Camden.
Gobindram Watumull and his wife Ellen. | A clipping from St Louis Post Dispatch, October 19, 1947.
In 1865, German botanist William Hillebrand travelled to India with the intention of finding “East Indian” labour for the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where he lived and worked. Instead, he returned with plants and birds of breath-taking variety: crows, finches, the Chinese quail, Mongolian pheasants, the Indian sparrow and common mynah. By 1879, the mynah was a familiar species in Honolulu and soon in the other south-eastern islands of Hawaii.
For the first South Asians who set foot on the Hawaiian Islands around the early 1880s, the birds must have been a comforting sight. They had sailed over 11,000 km from Calcutta to Honolulu, a stopover that was still thousands of kilometres from their destination of mainland US and Canada, where the west coast offered attractive work opportunities. If nothing else, the soundscape in Hawaii must have been resonant to the
Some NYC restaurants argue they should be able to open for indoor dining at 50 percent capacity
Even if NYC returns to indoor dining at 25 percent capacity this winter, some restaurant owners say the allowance is still not enough to make a meaningful impact on business during the pandemic. According to a
New York Postreport, some owners are aghast that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again considering limiting NYC to 25 percent capacity indoors while neighboring areas including Long Island can operate at 50 percent capacity indoors.
Syed Hossain, the owner of Tikka Indian Grill in Williamsburg, tells the
Post that the allowance is “stupid” and the restaurant would be “losing money” at 25 percent capacity. Staten Island restaurateur Vincent Malerba added that the capacity limit was a “joke” and then speculated to the