Raegan Bradbury (Misawa, Aomori Prefecture)
The 11-year-old haikuist at Sollars Elementary sketched a peaceful scene of sea turtles returning on the tide to lay eggs on the beach where they were born. His classmate, Aaron Royston, discovered a remarkable stone.
Small ravine
of a stone goddess
Arvinder Kaur alluded to the words of Peggy Willis Lyles (1939-2010), which appeared in a 1980 issue of “Cicada” in Canada: summer night we turn out all the lights to hear the rain.
quarantine
to hear the rain
Noisy Brood X periodical cicadas that remained underground for 17 years are emerging by the trillions now that ground temperatures are soaring over 17 degrees Celsius in North America. Haikuists have to clamor quickly to mark this generation in 17 syllables. Soil warms earlier because of climate change. Before 1950, cicadas used to emerge at the end of May; now they’re already singing. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) experienced both rain and insect songs in Yamagata Prefecture.
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1 2021-04-30 09:29:00Xinhua
Editor : Liu Yimeng
ECNS App Download COVID-19 patients are seen at a care center in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2021. (Photo:Xinhua/Partha Sarkar)
India has been facing a deteriorating COVID-19 situation, as the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that India alone accounted for 38 percent of global case growth last week.
The country also reported a 93 percent week-on-week increase in the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the seven-day period that ended on April 25.
HIGHEST DAILY SURGE
On Thursday, India reported the largest daily increase of 379,275 new cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, and the country has been reporting more than 300,000 new COVID-19 cases each day over the past week.
Project for Purchasing 10 Locomotives: PD punished for ‘good work’
He halted payment to S Korean company after BR committee found non-compliance by the firm Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Railways ministry has changed a project director, who had halted payment to Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) for supplying 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway breaching the contract, and posted him under a junior in his BCS batch.
The move came at a time when a technical committee has been assigned the job of determining whether those engines can be used for railway operations. Two committees have already found that the South Korean company breached the contract.