Suspect in Nashville explosion died in blast: US officials
Warner, who public records show had experience with electronics and alarms and who had also worked as a computer consultant for a Nashville realtor, had been linked to the bombing. December 28, 2020 7:47:33 am
A police car drives past the scene of an explosion Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said.
Investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the man, identified as Anthony Quinn Warner, to the mysterious explosion but said they have not determined a motive.
Karnataka’s first ‘rice ATM’ to soon come up in a Bengaluru slum
According to Karnataka Minister for Food and Civil Supplies K Gopalaiah, the Rice ATMs will be beneficial for BPL carholders, who don’t find time to go to the PDS centre during working hours. Updated: December 29, 2020 8:19:20 am
The machines, expected to check malpractices in the PDS, can dispense two commodities at a speed of 25 kg per 1.3 minutes. (Representational)
Karnataka’s first rice dispensing machine or ‘rice ATM’ will come up in one of the slum areas in Bengaluru in the next few months, state Minister for Food and Civil Supplies K Gopalaiah said. Announced in September, the initiative is part of the Centre’s pilot project ‘Annapurti’, that is being implemented in close partnership with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP).
It was invaluable on several counts. This was India’s first innings after the capitulation in Adelaide. Even though India had scored twice as many runs as they had in the second innings in Adelaide when he walked out to bat at the fall of Shubman Gill, they were 61/2, far from a position of authority. The Australian bowlers were breathing fire, and they could have swallowed the rest of the batting firm in their fury.
India needed someone to fight fire with ice. Rahane was that man. In his initial days, he had the reputation of being a crisis man, before he slipped into a period of confusion. Since the 2018 tour of South Africa, he has been a largely peripheral figure in Test matches abroad. Barring a century against West Indies, he had been mostly unremarkable. In his last tour of Australia, he managed only 217 runs at a meagre average of 31. There was a time when India feared losing him, when he teetered on the verge of being chopped. The fears now seem unwarranted. Rahane is reb
December 28, 1980, Forty Years Ago: Assam agitation
Today was the tenth day of a 13-day state-wide satyagraha the AASU and AAGSP have organised to protest against the central government’s alleged indifference to solving the 15-month-old foreigners’ problem.
By: Editorial | New Delhi | December 28, 2020 3:42:23 am
Nowgong, with Sadiya and Golaghat were earlier scenes of police lathi charges and teargassing in which many people were injured, according to reports received here.
The police fired in Nowgong to disperse a crowd of agitators who had gathered to picket government offices as part of the mass satyagraha on the foreigners’ issue. A bus conductor of the Assam State Transport Corporation, who was injured in the firing, was admitted to hospital. Nowgong, with Sadiya and Golaghat were earlier scenes of police lathi charges and teargassing in which many people were injured, according to reports received here. Today was the tenth day
Five days after rollout, confusion still mars UT civic body’s waste collection system
The vehicles used for collecting and transporting the waste are monitored by a GPS-enabled tracking system. The GPS system is constantly monitored by the monitoring cell. Updated: December 28, 2020 5:15:45 am
Baljinder Singh Bittu, Chairman FOSWAC, took up the issue of door-to-door garbage collection which the Municipal Corporation took over in sectors 1-20 from December 22.
Even AFTER five days of the rollout of the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh’s waste collection system in sectors 1 to 30 in Chandigarh– chaos and confusion still persists with the MC’s waste collecting vehicles and the informal waste collectors both running the errand in some areas. Residents said, there have also been days when none of the two turned up to collect the waste from some areas. As the MC vehicles are stationed at particular spots in some localities, residents said w