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Necessary Insurance Plans

Click Here To Find Out More About: Health Insurance Plans For J1 Scholars You need to insure a number of important things in your life. You are required to have insurance for your car and your home in order to legally own and use that kind of property. It is also necessary to have health insurance and life […]

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Indian Railway: all-women crew steers Tippu Express ahead of International Women’s Day

Friday, March 6, 2020 Yesterday, an all-women crew ran the Mysuru–Bengaluru Tippu Express in the Indian state of Karnataka. The state-run Indian Railways launched this event ahead of International Women’s Day, for promoting gender equality at work places. B Shiva Parvathi was running the train as loco pilot (locomotive pilot), and 22-year-old Rangoli Patil was her loco co-pilot. […]

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FEMA official in New Orleans blasts agency’s response

Sunday, October 23, 2005 Marty Bahamonde, the only FEMA emplyee in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, contradicts former FEMA director Michael Brown’s testimony and says Brown ignored his pleas for help. In an August 31 Blackberry email: “Sir, I know you know that this situation is past critical. […]

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Dozens dead in Connecticut school shooting

 Note — August 24, 2015 This article is insufficiently clear on one detail, namely that one victim (the gunman’s mother) was shot and killed in a separate location. The toll of 28 includes her and the gunman.  Friday, December 14, 2012 Before turning the gun on himself, a 20-year-old male opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, […]

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Former WorldCom chief found guilty of all charges

Tuesday, March 15, 2005A federal jury found Bernard Ebbers guilty on all nine counts in an indictment for fraud, conspiracy and false regulatory filings. The verdict was handed down by a New York jury after 8 days of deliberation on the former WorldCom CEO and mastermind behind the accounting scandal that brought down the telcom giant. AP writer […]

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Australia Votes 2007: Labor releases tax plan

Friday, October 19, 2007 Wikinews Australia has in-depth coverage of this issue: Election 2007 Labor has released its tax plan, following the announcement from the Liberal/National coalition that they would provide tax cuts costing AU$34 billion if re-elected. The government has placed pressure on Labor since their announcement on Monday, urging Mr Rudd to release the opposition’s tax […]

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